In their father’s final years, after their mother’s passing, their sire had taken the comely daughter of a candlemaker as mistress.

Born in 1857 in Biloxi, Mississippi, Ohr worked as a blacksmith, candlemaker, and sailor before turning to his attention to clay.

There the candlemaker’s rack, the pan where Pilate’s homemade soap hardened into a yellowish-brown slab.