
Stella Teltschik Taylor |

A horse and buggy such as that used when Stella was a child. c. 1910 |

A boy and girl milking a cow |

Ears of tasseled corn
in a cornfield |

Two-room school of German-Americans in Castell, Texas, c. 1915 |

Stella ( standing left ) with stepbrother Raymond ( seated ) and her adoptive parents, David and Anna Teltschik. Photograph was taken at the Teltschik family homestead near Weimar in 1910. |

Man putting corn into sheller |

Stella Teltschick Taylor, holding canned preserves. |

St. Michael's Catholic Church, built in 1914 and now on the State Historical Register, is where Stella took catechism. |

German-American woman with butter churn, in Medina County, c. 1920 |

An "orphan train" diorama made by students at Zachry Middle School, San Antonio, Texas, for their history project |

John Laymon (left), Stephanie Davis (right), and Joni Caban (right back) did a history fair project on "The Orphan Train: A Frontier in Foster Care." |