Sam Tovrea, along with his wife and 4 children, are listed among the dead in the 1900 Galveston, Texas Hurricane.
I am not related to this family, just passing on this information, which comes from a webpage titled "The Great Galveston Storm" The link for the site is listed below.
Joyce
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~barnette/surnames_t...