In December, 1866, six Sisters from the Brownsville community were selected for a new foundation in Victoria, Texas. Mother St Claire Valentine and Sisters Paul Goux, Mary Louise Murray, Mary of the Cross Murray, Mary Louise, Justina and Regis were welcomed by the people with much kindness. Within a few weeks, they successfully opened their first school.

That same year, Mother St. Claire Valentine traveled alone to Europe to look for Sisters there. She succeeded in finding eight French Sisters from Belmont and Lyons and four Irish Sisters who volunteered for the Texas missions: Sisters Antoinette Perolier, Michael, and Lawrence; also, Ann Dillon and Mary Campbell. They were given free passage on a Mexican warship, which stopped at Vera Cruz and Tampico in Mexico. There, three French Sisters and one Irish Sister died of yellow fever. The survivors finally arrived in Brownsville on June 17, 1866, almost five months after their departure from France, and traveled to Victoria in December of that year.

From the Victoria foundation other independent communities were made: Corpus Christi (1871), Houston (1873), Hallettsville (1882), Shiner (1897), San Antonio (1926). In 1939 the houses of Victoria, Shiner and San Antonio united and chose Victoria as the site for the Generalate. The Sisters now serve in the five Texas dioceses of Victoria, Austin, Beaumont, Dallas, and Galveston-Houston. One Sister serves as a nurse in one of the Incarnate Word missions in Kenya, Africa.

• Hallettsville, Texas
  At the request of the Bishop of San Antonio, John Neraz, Mother St. Claire Valentine and three Sisters founded the fifth house of the Order in Hallettsville, Texas in 1882. The Sisters began teaching classes there the day after their arrival. Within a year, there were 180 students.
  
  Though the Sisters moved their Generalate to San Antonio in 1926, they continued to teach in the school of Hallettsville, and later added high school grades. In 1939 the Hallettsville community was united to the Victoria congregation.
  
  Shiner
  The sixth Texas house of the Order in America was established in Shiner, Texas in1897 by four Sisters from Houston and Brownsville. As with the other foundations, the Sisters lived simply, sharing their home with their boarding students. Within five years, the community grew to twenty-two members.
  
  By 1918, the cloister was lifted, and in 1928 a four-year high school was opened, both as a boarding school and a day school. Due to financial problems, the Sisters gave up the administration and ownership of the school in 1990. They continue to help staff the school. In 1939 the Shiner community united with the Victoria congregation. Members of the Shiner community continued to teach in parish and public schools in their area and helped staff a hospital in Cuero.