A Rose Blooms in Texas: Coming of Age in the Civil War EraShortly after Carlos Hamilton began his medical practice in Houston, he inherited an over sized piano that had belonged to his great grandmother. The difficulty in moving the instrument, even in the 20th century, made him wonder howand whya family in 1857 would move it from North Carolina to a rural east Texas plantation so that a ten year old child could study music. Although Berta Smith Wootters had died many decades before Hamilton was born, her