Magnetism 335 Bourbon Street - Madame Alluard

New Orleans Apple Pie in 1866

The Daily Southern Star - Feb 9, 1866

John Johnnson knocked an applestand into pie. 

Gosset and Johnson Plantation

In searching through Google Newspapers, an article appeared about a plantation that I had never heard of, Gosset Plantation.  The excerpt first found appears at the bottom.   

Search in the BLM GLO records for Gossett does not list an ownership in either, Jefferson, St. James, or  St. John the Baptist Parish.  BLM records for Gossett are in Calcasieu, Terrebonne, Beaurgard, Bossier and Claiborne Parishes from 1840 to 1891.

Standard History of New Orleans 1900

The plantation is also listed here again with much the same information from Jefferson Parish that is listed below from RootsWeb.

WITH THE GRIP OF DEATH; Mysterious Manifestations in an Old..

New York Times - Dec 9, 1894

In 1859 there was a beautiful plantation twenty miles above the City of New- Orleans, as the Mississippi River runs, known to the countryside as the Gossett ...

The Gossett Johnson plantation home was built in 1780 and was a massive two story home with walls of brick some said to be three feet thick.  It was Gossett's grandmother who cursed the home at a fete of  it's second owner.  Mr. Gossett's wife's physician was D. C. Holliday of New Orleans.

The NYT also has this article about D. C. Holliday who was a doctor to children, black and white in New Orleans and is listed as a physician in 1865, 1866 and 1867 in the St. Joseph Cemetery burial records.

This story however proved haunting!

GOSSETT, Johnson &, 60 slaves, page 408B Jefferson Parish Louisiana 1860

Read further at the NYT about what happened in this house.

It is noted in this finding aid to the LSU special collections maps at the  Hill Memorial Library that in 1866 the Mississippi River changed its course in Jefferson Parish and St. Charles Parish near the Gossett and Johnson plantation.

 

Gossett in Google Books in St. James Parish

Runaway slave once belonged to Valcour Aime

Michael Hait has written about the genealogical importance or value of runaway slave advertisements, which is what this post references.  You may read his article here.

You may also find a Plantation diary for Aime Valcour here.  The diary begins in the year 1823 and is magnificent reading about the history of St. James Parish.

Valcour Aime writes a little about slaves:

"June 2, 1833 - Only seven hands hoeing on the 2d; lost three slaves to Cholera."

"A patch of bananas, which when once planted gives every year a new crop from the sprouts, is all
the feeding they require; whilst our slaves are generally, at least as well fed and clothed as laborers are in Europe. " p. 184

However, other websites indicate that a Frenchman, Elisee Recluse, hired as a tutor for the Aime's family around 1850's left Louisiana because of slavery.

"He reportedly left Louisiana because of it (slavery), writing that he "could not continue to earn money by tutoring the children of slave holders and thus steal from the Negroes who have truly earned through their sweat and blood the money that I put in my pocket." 

On the same page of the newspaper was another runaway slave belonging to Mr. Hasfort, a planter on the Amite river.  A BLM GLO search did not discover any surnames with the exact spelling of Hasfort. A search of the Ibiblio Slave Database has records up to 1820 which  returned many for the owner AIME, but NONE for HASFORT. 9 for VALENTIN with none with the name Louis (some listed as missing in the database) . 17 results for ARMSTRONG where Louis was found.  If this is the same Louis as in the article above, which cannot be proven, Louis was born about 1810 and ran away at about age 24. And on about the 15th of May 1824 he was caught and imprisoned.  As the article was written in November 1824, Louis, had been in the Orleans Parish prison for 6 months already.

Louis
Buyer's Name: Armstrong
Seller's Name: Armstrong
Year Document was created: 1814
Origin:
Gender: male
Racial Designation: black
Document Location: St. Mary (1811)

Gender: male
Race: black
Age (when this record was documented): 4.0

Selling Information
Name of the Seller: John Armstrong
Name of the Buyer: Louis Armstrong
Grouping: sold or inventoried as an individual
Selling Currency: D
Selling Value: 200
Selling Value: 200

Document: Information of the document that these records were retrieved.
Document Location: St. Mary (1811)
Document Date: 1814-10-14
Document Number (from the document): 268
Notary Name: Conveyance A-1
Coder (person that encoded this record: Philip McLeod
Type of document:
Any documents involving maroons, including reports of runaways, interrogation of caputred runaways, and testimony by slaves about runaways: no
Language: English
Is this document of linguistic interest?: no
Is this inventory or sale of an estate of a free person of African descent?: no

Skill and Trade Information

Personality

Family Information
Was this slave inventoried with his/her mother?: no
Was this slave sold with his/her mother?: no

Importation Information
Was this slave being emancipated?: no
Slave listed as dead?: no




The BLM GLO record for Aime Valcour was taken on 10 August 1846 and while the BLM GLO website indicates that this is from St. James Parish, the document itself states the Mr. Valcour Amie is of Acadia.  Perhaps this was written so as not to confuse with the Southern most parishes of the German Coast.

The BLM GLO record also lists related materials which are helpful including a map taken in October - November 1829. You can see the Romans living next door. Valcour's diary related a trip to Cuba with a neighbor, Mr. Lapice in 1845. Mr. Lapice does not appear on the map below, but a search of the Ibiblio for Lapise returned one female slave, Victoire,  who was a cook and a laundress of her owner Dorothie Lapise.  Dorothie purchesed Victoire from a deceased owner Descant,  in 1818. A Jospeh Lapice appear in the 1850 census as having been born in St. Domingo, 50 years old, planter, in Concordia Parish along with several other records of war service for that surname LAPICE in 1812, the Civil War and more for the surname LaPice , LaPine, or Lapise. The only record of a female Lapice in 1822 is of a widow shoemaker, "Madame Lapice" , residing at 19th Burgundy corner of Bienville in Orleans Parish.

BLM GLO records indicate a Pierre Michel Lapice and a Joseph Francios Lapice of St. James Parish in 1845, much later than this map below. The related records show that Madame Simoneau sold property about 1842, evidently, to the Lapice family in this tract of land: LA Louisiana Township 12.0S Range 15.0E Section 50.  The map below relates Pierre Simeneaus' property adjacent to Aime below.  The map below is marked 12 S 17 E, curiously close to the Lapice  property in the same township but in Range 15.

Several Google books list the name of Valcour's plantation home:  Valcour Aime and Le Petite Versaille.  Le Petite Versaille was said to be completed in 1846 the same year of the land grant above.  Shortly after Valcour Aime's marriage in 1816 he purchased a home and land that included slaves. Later, it is said that he owned over 200 slaves. Valcour grew his own vegetables to eat, had a zoo which included a kangaroo, and well landscaped gardens including a cave built after the death of his son.

LAGenWeb mentions:
Iberia Parish
St. James Parish
DAR Louisiana Portraits (b. 1797 d. 1867) Valcour, "Francis Gabriel" Aime
Orleans Parish Directory - 146 Conti Street 1852
Orleans Parish Directory - 260 Royal Street 1842

"All his life Jacques Roman had lived in the shadow of his brother-in-law, Valcour Aime. Valcour was richer, more successful, and more powerful. His plantation was bigger and much more magnificent that Jacques' modest home. And Valcour's gardens were known all over the country. Many guests passed by the Roman plantation on their way to visit the Aimes; often they never noticed the smaller house. Throughout Valcour Aime's journals he mentions his brother-in-law, usually to compare himself favorably to Jacques. 'My cane is higher than Jacques'," he would say; or "my oranges are much tastier than his." Louisiana History 101



 

US Navy ships named after Louisiana prior to 1898

Lippincott's pronouncing gazetteer 1850 Louisiana

In 1850 Louisiana had 141,243 white males in the population of Louisiana. 114,248 females; 7, 481 free colored males; 9,981 free colored females; 125,874 male slaves; 118,935 female slaves. 419, 824 representative population in 1850. The free population was divided among 49,101 families, occupying 54,112 dwellings.  One fourth of the free population of foreign birth. 24,266 Ireland
17, 507 Germany
11,552 France
3,500 England
1,244 Scotland
and Wales
499 British America;  7795 other countries.  The death rate at the time was 23 per 1,000. Greater than any other state. At this time Louisiana parishes number 48. And the total noted number of slaves at a little over 244,809.

Lippincott's pronouncing gazetteer:
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It is surprising that the Irish outnumbered the German  in 1850's Louisiana whereas a few would have you think that the German outnumber the Irish! Much less the total population 419,000 and the slave population at over half of this number at 244,809.

Jefferson Davis, Betsy Young, and The New Liberty Bell 1881

1881 Warsaw Daily Times September 6th

Image from URL with more on the bell's history. 

From the newspaper article:

"In the bell is a key that was sent as the key to the great jail of ancient Venice and used in the opening the large doors on the Bridge of Sighs hundreds of years ago.

A negro slave owned by Jefferson Davis sent the key to the door of the old Davis homestead and a money contribution besides.

Wow how interesting!

The inscriptions on the bell are as follows: "Glory to God in the Highest: on Earth Peace Good Will to Men; A New Commandment I Give Unto Thee: That Ye Love One Another Proclaim Liberty Throughout All the Earth and to All the Inhabitants Thereof."

"The bell after the exposition will be taken back to Washington and there rung on the day that Georgia ratified the constitution. Then it will be taken tot he battlefield of New Orleans and then to the City of Mexico, there to be rung on Patriots' day.

It is planned by Carnegie and others, who are working to unite the English speaking race, to ohold a celebration on the battlefield of Rannymede and have the bell rang there. It will go on to Washington, then to Australia and the forth year to South America to start the English speaking people of the world togather in the chorus of liberty. It is being planned to hold the next World's fair in Jerusalem, and there the bell is to ring out the anthem of liberty."

Warsaw Daily Times Sep 6 1893 - Indiana

NOTE: In reading the article 1881 Warsaw Daily Times from September 6th., one should keep in mind that the Director General of the World's Fair was George R. Davis.  See the New York Times article of his acceptance to the position in 1890.  In this article, too, was a report of an error in the Census.  You may visit more fair events and websites on flickr and this recent article about White City, which relates a bit of horror.

After the 1895 Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta, the bell disappeared. This link describes the disappearance of the Columbian Liberty Bell. and also discusses where the bell may be today.

More on Jefferson Davis

This story of Jim Limber Davis - an orphan living in the Davis home - was posted recently to the SUV blog, which I found interesting along with this Museum of the Confederacy reprint in the Civil War Talk Forum. The articles relate that Varina found the little boy Jim being beaten and saved him.  She took him into her home.  There was also this elementary study guide.

The following Google eBook states that former Davis slaves petitioned to have Davis released from prison.

This CNN article too found its way to my lap this morning about another slave of Jefferson Davis who was a Union spy, William Jackson.

Along that line, there is this letter of evidence that a Davis slave named Betsy Nick,  ran away in 1864.   Another Davis slave, named Betsy Young who remained at Brierfield. Coincidentally,  Betsy Young is the name of  a black Union Civil War nurse from Mississippi.  There are at least five records of Nurses who were African-American women.  Is this the same Betsy Young? Hmmm. The dates given in the CWSS record for Betsy Young indicate her service beginning, December 31, 1863. It is so close to 1864 when the Jefferson Davis letters reveal that Betsy Nick ran away. Yes?  Did the two Betsy's communicate?  It would not be surprising to me if this were the same Betsy Young, considering the former Davis slave, William Jackson,  who has been called a spy and then viewing the article above about the New Liberty Bell whose contributor was also a Davis slave, although, unnamed in the article.

The Red Rover was captured by Union forces in 1862.  Betsey or Betsy Young's record indicates her service aboard the Red Rover on December 31, 1863 when it was converted to Union service. If you will read the article below, Betsey or Betsy Young is credited with preventing the Union from burning the Davis plantation house in May of 1863. The plantation home was 20 miles from Vicksburg and burned in 1931.  It is currently a private hunting reserve. See URL

More on Betsy or Betsey Young

 "The logs of the Red Rover's commander indicate that the ship's medical officers provided nurses' training to the most competent of the contraband women --Sarah Bohannon, ellen Campbell, Betsy (Betsey) Young and Georginia Harris, among them.  The Catholic sister and the African-American women were the first women to have official status on board a U.S. naval vessel." Google Book

"During the Vicksburg campaign (May 18-July 4, 1863) the Mississippi Squadron coordinated with Admiral Farragut's ships that had sailed upstream from New Orleans  and though they took heavy casualties they prevailed and Vicksburg fell. The Navy's web site notes that the Mississippi Squadron drew heavily on African-Americans for its crews. -- yesterdaysisland.com

The USS Red Rover, a 625-ton side-wheel river steamer, was built for commercial use in 1859. She served initially as the CSS Red Rover in 1861 and was captured on April, 7 1862 at Island Number Ten (in the Mississippi River) by the USS Mound City.  She served as a hospital ship for the U.S. Army's Western Gunboat Flotilla through the summer of 1862, and was re-commissioned as the USS Red Rover of that year. She was used for the rest of the Civil War as a hospital ship for the Mississippi Squadron and sailed with them during their engagements. " http://southernmostillinoishistory.net/redrover.htm

 The CWSS record for Betsey Young:

Betsey Young

	Personal Information      Place of Birth - Warren Co. Mississippi      Age - 50      Complexion - Mulatto      Occupation -      Height - 5'3"
	Naval Service      Place of Enlistment -      Date of Enlistment -      Term of Enlistment -      Rating - Nurse
	Detailed Muster Records       Date Vessel          December 31, 1863      Red Rover          April 1, 1864      Red Rover          July 1, 1864      Red Rover          October 1, 1864      Red Rover          January 1, 1865      Red Rover

Was Betsey Young both a Davis' slave and a Union nurse?  Don't know.  Haven't found a mountain of evidence in a obvious place yet.

Wouldn't it be odd to find the New Liberty Bell in the Middle East somewhere today?  We've heard it ringing in the news........

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Superior Council Records of the Government of Louisiana being digitized

I submitted my 500th post this week on the Louisiana Genealogy Blog. This blog has been a joy to me. Learning and reading more of Louisiana's diverse and multi-faceted history has been rewarding.

I've fixed a broken link to the Algiers Historical Society. The new URL appears in the Submit your family webpage along with other society links to the far left and right here. The society meets every 3rd Saturday of the month. "Meetings are held 10 a.m. every 3rd Saturday of the month (unless otherwise stated) at the Carriage House behind the Algiers Courthouse."

It appears that yesterday, February 19, 2011, the Algiers Historical Society discussed old records that are being digititized. I believe an index of these records has been published from the Louisiana Historical Quarterly and is online.

Howard MARGOT, from the Historic New Orleans Collection, returns to give a talk on the current project underway at the Mint to digitize all the French and Spanish notarial/judicial records (the “Superior Council Records”). He will also illustrate with shots of some of the digital images that have been completed up to that point (right now they are still in the 1730s of the French docs).

The index on LAGenWeb: Index of Names from Superior Council Records of the Government in Louisiana 1717-1763 Submitted by Darnell Brunner-Beck & Gretchen Kraft-Costanza Transcribed by Merle Mulkely, Charamie Breaux and Darnell Brunner Beck which was transcribed from: Index of Names from Superior Council Records of the Government in Louisiana 1717-1763
As abstracted in Vols I to XXVI, Louisiana Historical Quarterly 1917-1943
by Brother Marion McCarley, S. C. Brother Martin High School 4401 Elysian Fields Avenue New Orleans, La. 70122 in March of 2002.

Back issues of The Algerine, can be purchased for $3.00 OR Past hard copies of "The Algerine" can be purchased at $3 each (limited number available.) Also (from Sept., 2006 [issue No. 24]) available as .pdf files for the same price. Free subscriptions are available to local libraries and schools as a .pdf file.

See previous and updated post highlighting issues from The Algerine.

Louisiana Historical Records Advisory Board

The Louisiana Historical Records Advisory Board was created by executive order in 1998 to coordinate and facilitate the efforts of historical records repositories and other informational agencies within the state of Louisiana in the collection, preservation, and publication of the important historical documents of the state. The Board consists of twelve members who are appointed by the Governor. The State Archivist chairs the Board and serves as the State Historical Records Coordinator.

The Mission of the Louisiana Historical Records Advisory Board (LHRAB) is to assist in, support, coordinate and advocate the identification, collection, preservation, management, use and accessibility of records that document all of Louisiana's people, communities, organizations, businesses, and governments. It is the Vision of the LHRAB that the historical records of all Louisiana's people will be identified, collected, preserved, maintained, made available to and used by Louisianians to increase their knowledge of the history and cultures of this diverse state and to ensure their rights.




Coordinator:
Florent Hardy, Jr., PhD
State Archivist
P. O. Box 94125
Baton Rouge, LA 70804-9125
Phone: 225-922-1200
FAX 225-922-0433
florent.hardy@sos.louisiana.gov

Board Members:
Johnny Crain
P. O. Box 607
Franklinton, LA 70438
985-839-4663
Clerk of Court
Carrie A. Fager
9623 W. Inniswold Road
Baton Rouge, LA 70809
225-925-7552
Records Manager Statewide

Jon A. Gegenheimer
P. O. Box 10
Gretna, LA 70054-0010
504-364-2900
Clerk of Court

Judith F. Gentry
1122 Tolson Road
Lafayette, LA 70508
337-482-6900
Historian, ULL

Jacqueline L. Jones
7521 Kings Hill Avenue
Baton Rouge, LA 70810
225-216-8170
At-Large

Tara Laver
1770 Marshall Drive
Baton Rouge, LA 70808
225-578-6546
Historical Records
LSU Hill Memorial Library

Emilie “Lee” Leumas
418 Topaz Street
New Orleans, LA 70124
504-527-5780
Archivist, Archdiocese of New Orleans

Brenda B. Parsons
475 Regency Boulevard
Shreveport, LA 71106
318-797-3860
At- Large

Virginia F. Phillips
718 Bancroft Way
Baton Rouge, LA 70808
225-578-2217
At-Large

Lester G. Sullivan
5235 Annunciation Street
New Orleans, LA 70115
504-520-7655
Archivist, Xavier University

(Tammy Foster, Clerk of Court Sabine Parish, appointed by Gov. Jindal Feb. 17, 2011)

From April 2010 IMLS

Louisiana

Louisiana State University System - Shreveport, LA
Award Amount: $28,912
Grant Category: Planning Grants

Contact: Dr. Laura McLemore
Archivist
(318)797-5378; laura.mclemore@lsus.edu

Project Title: "Louisiana Libraries Archives and Museums Preservation Project"
The Louisiana Archives and Manuscripts Association, in collaboration with the Louisiana Association of Museums, Le Comité des Archives, and the Louisiana Historical Records Advisory Board, will survey 550 cultural heritage institutions in 64 parishes across a largely rural state. This Web-based survey will provide a broad overview of the preservation status of historical materials and collections statewide. Five workshops will then be held in various regions to assist institutions in performing more in-depth surveys of their own sites. From these results, partners will develop a specific, measurable, attainable, and relevant plan for future collaborative training and ...

Creole and Acadian Furniture

“Furnishing Louisiana” Book Signing & Reception

The Historic New Orleans Collection celebrates the release of its most ambitious publication, Furnishing Louisiana: Creole and Acadian Furniture, 1735–1835, with a book signing and reception.

Wednesday, February 23, 2011 • 6–8 p.m.
The Historic New Orleans Collection
533 Royal St.
Free and open to the public.
In a rare appearance, all five authors—who reside outside of the greater New Orleans area—will be available to sign copies of the book. Joining authors Jack D. Holden, H. Parrott Bacot, Cybèle T. Gontar, Brian J. Costello and Francis J. Puig will be editors Jessica Dorman and Sarah R. Doerries, as well as photographer Jim Zietz and designer Tana Coman.
Featuring more than 1,200 full-color illustrations, Furnishing Louisiana presents a comprehensive catalogue of furniture forms produced in the upper and lower Mississippi River valley. The book also offers essays on cabinetmakers, hardware, woods, the art of inlay, the import trade at the Port of New Orleans and the interior of the early Louisiana home.
Copies of the book are available at The Shop at The Collection for $95; members of The Collection receive a 10 percent discount on all shop purchases.

NOLA Article

Paris educated

African American Genealogy and History Websites

I search twitter and find some of the greatest links to genealogy websites.  The Kentucky Historical Society on twitter just shared the Black Loyalist website with #genealogy.  It was interesting to visit today! I thought I would share it with you. The Black Loyalist website says: Black Loyalist is a repository of historical data about the African American loyalist refugees who left New York between April and November 1783 and whose names are recorded in the Book of Negroes. http://www.blackloyalist.info/

 I would also suggest checking out BlackPast.org.  This website has much to offer. # An online encyclopedia featuring over 3,000 entries which describe people, places and events in global African history written by more than 350 academic, independent and student historians.  Their contributions make BlackPast.org one of the largest online encyclopedias devoted exclusively to the history of people of African ancestry wherever they are found. # The complete text of over 200 major speeches by African Americans from 1789 to today. # Over 100 full text primary documents—court decisions, laws, organizational statements, treaties, government reports and executive orders which help describe the African American past. # Seven major timelines that show the history of people of African ancestry from 5,000 B.C.E. to today. # Three bibliographies listing the more than 3,500 major books on African American history categorized by author, title, subject, and date of publication. # Four “Gateway” Pages with links to 50 digital archive collections, 100 museums and research centers, 12 genealogical research websites and over 600 other website resources on African American history, African American history in the West and Global African History. # Perspectives Online Magazine which features commentary of important, but little known events in black history often written by the individuals who participated in or witnessed them.  Many of these accounts are instant primary sources.

 
Another site I visited today was the Black Belt African American Genealogical & Historical Society -  They have a number of records online for the counties that they are serving. You can visit them on fB too. The Black Belt African American Genealogical & Historical Society, Inc. is a non-profit organization dedicated to the study and exchange of information and ideas among people interested in African American genealogy, family history and historic  preservation in the twelve counties of Alabama's Black Belt Region--Bullock, Choctaw, Dallas, Greene, Hale, Lowndes, Macon, Marengo, Perry, Pickens, Sumter and Wilcox.

Another great resource in research is the Digital Library on American Slavery - Established in 1991, the Race and Slavery Petitions Project was designed to locate, collect, organize, and publish all extant legislative petitions relevant to slavery, and a selected group of county court petitions from the fifteen former slaveholding states and the District of Columbia, during the period from the American Revolution through the Civil War. Between 1991 and 1995, the Project Director and editor Loren Schweninger traveled across the South to photocopy and microfilm petitions meeting that criterion. During the initial three years, he visited fourteen state archives and about one hundred and sixty county courthouses. In subsequent years, he added to the collection: 945 Orleans Parish petitions in 1998; 200 petitions from records of Louisiana Supreme Court (various parishes) in 1999; 53 Boone County, and 149 St. Louis, Missouri, petitions in 2000; 84 Shelby County, Tennessee, petitions in 1998 and 2000; and 71 Noxubee County, Mississippi, petitions in 2001. With the exception of 563 North Carolina county court petitions, selected from five discrete record sets by experienced research assistants, the director chose all of the documents. The Project now holds 2,975 legislative petitions and approximately 14,512 county court petitions. The massive number of surviving relevant county court petitions, estimated to be more than a quarter of a million, is dispersed in state archives and county courthouses across the South.

Train Wreck 1894 2 miles from New Orleans

Manufacturers and Farmers Journal - Oct 15, 1894

2mi from New Orleans
List of Injured below.  Both trains were filled with pleasure seekers bound for the lake coast resorts or the pine lands of St. Tammany Parish. The following is a full list of the injured.

Robert Carey
R. P. Holme
A. C. Whitlow
Mrs. Julia Muir
Andrew Leo
S. C. Courney
Frank Crambat & wife
Ella Sharp
E. J. Evans
Daniel R Fleming
 M. McDonneli
R. T. McKernan
Mr. Lehman
C. S. Younger
Mrs. R. B Cora
Mrs. L Spiro
Son of Gen. A. S. Badger and a small boy

Train Fare 1858

Wikipedia Ponchartrain Railroad  and see also The Smoky Mary
Click on image to view larger size. Ponchartrain Summer Arrangement Reduced fare 25 cents, children 10 cents from 1st March, 1844 Milneburg and Lake Ponchartrain.

The facts of life from 1858

Hospital Street

September 10, 1847 Marie Louise Larousinni was born to Urban or Urbaine Larousinni and Louise Appolline Lameuse.

September 7, 1849 birth of a boy, Urbaine to Urbaine and Louise Apollina Lameuse Larousinni. At 24 yo Urbaine married Julia Fleury who was 19 yo on June 15, 1874.

June 29, 1851  Appoline was born.

A dry good store, Larousinni & Co. was located at the corner of Hospital and Royal St. as well as a dwelling on 251 Treme.  The transcription lists, "Red Stores".

September 26, 1857 Emily was born.



In 1863 a civil action in the Sixth District Court sold all of the furniture and movable effects from the home on 130 Hospital Street New Orleans, LA.

December 29, 1875 Julia Fleury and Urban Larousinni gave birth to another boy, Renee.

February 7, 1878 Julia Fleury and Urbane Larousinni gave birth to a little girl named Mary Alice.

A death record for Louise Lemaneuse Larousinni exits in 1892 on March 13th at age 65.

A death record for Urbane Larousinni is found in the year 1899, March 2 at 84 years of age.

James M. Cass Connecticut New Orleans Greys

The newspaper article indicates two dates 1832 or 1833. At first glance I thought the dates were 1832 or 1835.  Note the reply to this article for James M. Cass is being requested to Connecticut.


E. Cass, James Cass, and John M. Cass are listed in the 1851 N.O. City directory as drayman, and butcher for the latter two and working  Dryades Market.

There is also a BLM GLO record under the name James Montgomery Cass in 1876 in Acadia Parish.

LA - Louisiana

007S - 001W

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Acadia

You will have to research exact parish locations of the time to be certain.  Neighbors at the time to Mr. James Montgomery Cass were John Halloway.

HOLLOWAY, JOHN     6/30/1876     200     LA     Louisiana     007S - 001W     E½NW¼     7     Acadia
            007S - 001W     W½NE¼     7     Acadia

It appears that a James M. Cass died in 1898 in Orleans Parish, Louisiana at the age of 62 on October 4th.  Nevermind the James M. Cass of the New Orleans Greys who died too in 1836 in Mexico. Another James M. Cass who presumably was married to Marie Brady is listed as the father of Ann Cass born August 10, 1901. 

This title by Stuart Reid, The Secret War for Texas, suggests that James M. Cass did not die at the battle of Goliad but lived on through Argue Duce.  Read more about the annexation of Texas, Cass County Texas and the New Orleans Grey's. (Muster Roll)



Not much has changed since 1887. We're still looking for James M. Cass after 175 years.....

TXGenWeb has him severely wounded at Bexar in December 1835. And here owning land in Haskell County Texas (no date of source). Here is a Confederate Pension application for JAMES MADISON CASS from Haskell county Texas which states his wife's name was Betty.

Judge B. S. Crawford and A. H. Harris murdered Franklin Parish 1873

The LAGenWeb transcription notes the assassination of Judge T. S. Crawford not B. S. Crawford as is seen in the above article. I see alot of common spelling errors in newspapers. The LAGenWeb transcription did not note its source, except for "library clipping".

BLM GLO RECORD CALDWELL PARISH 1861
Indicates that T. S. Crawford of Caldwell Parish fought in the Mexican War. The LAGenWeb archives note a memorial tribute written for Judge Edward Berry by T. S. Crawford, President.

Franklin Parish Murder 1887

In reading this story this morning you would think that the woman was murdered by her own sisters. 






















Don't come to any conclusions yet! If you search the LAGenWeb archives you will find another story written which makes the determination that the woman, Amanda Henderson, was the "other woman" not their sister.  Read the other part of the story here. The LAGENWEB story is written in a Georgia paper which indicates that Ed turned out his wife and another woman had moved into his home.  This made ED's sisters, Catharine, Lothe, Viola and Louisa, very angry where the four went to Ed's home and attempted to get the "other woman" to leave.  A fight ensued and ED killed his sister, Louisa, while defending Amanda,  ED's mistress. The mistress, Mandy or Amanda, was stabbed to death by ED's sister Catherine. Thomas escaped. Two women died, both ED's sisters.  The transcription concludes with, "Thomas succeeded in making good his escape."

The ducks sleeping place

Cabaha-noce St James Parish

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Missing soldiers, Blog Talk Radio, and Bousillage

I spent a good time this morning watching and listening to both YouTube and Blog Talk Radio. Megan Smolenyak gave an interview on Blog Talk Radio and discussed her work with missing soldiers. I am looking forward to the Blog Talk Radio episode about Louisiana's slave revolt on March 8th, 2011.

It all took place on January 8, 1811 a group of determined enslaved African was determined to rise up against slavery and take their own freedom and destiny into their own hands. Please join longtime activist and historian Professor Leon Waters, who has led tours of the area where the revolt took place for years. Water is also a founding member of the Louisiana Museum of African American History located in New Orleans, Louisiana. Water's great great grandfather, Hanniball Waters was an enslaved African on the James Brown plantation in St. Charles Parish escaped from the plantation and later served in the 1st Heavy Artillery Corps d'Afrique of the Union Army in the Civil War. Please join us for this very informative discussion. Also join us is Linda Hill, Curator at Southern University, New Orleans, (SUNO) Center of African American-Studies

I also visited Nurturing Our Roots on You Tube and NCPTT's video on Bousillage. What is Bousillage? Walls made of mud! You better watch the video and see how spanish moss is used. They are working at Oakland Plantation and will give you the run down on how to build a mud wall. Of course this is historical restoration work, and may not pertain to everyone, but in case you've got the urge to build a mud wall....
Well, here it is :) I thought it was kewl.

Ok ya'll - where my at?

Oh geeze. I mistyped the URL to get to my blog today and yah'll this is whatta i got for my trouble. The first one is innocent. The second....I don't want to go there. The company profile is using something similiar to my blog url and that is a bit disconcerting. Did I make 'em mad? Ha ha. Too bad! You don't like the fact I'm Catholic, either do ya?

This isn't the Louisiana Genealogy Blog.

This ain't the Louisiana Genealogy Blog, either.

Yah'll know dat duh.

Slaves in the Report of cases argued Supreme Court Louisiana 1843

Succession of Guillamue Dazet Senac - J. M. Duperu, and others Appellants
"It has further been urged that if the will be declared void, the bequests of freedom to the slaves Rose and Mathilda, are valid and should be carried into effect...." May 1842.







West Feleciana Parish


Jefferson Parish


Orleans Parish

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Gallatin Street - The Red Light District - New Orleans

1845 New Orleans - Norman Map

"Prostitutes from every nation gathered there (Gallatin Street), living a life of boisterous lawlessness and open vice." - Storyville (Music)

"One of the areas of town that had more than its share of this activity
was Gallatin Street with its numerous saloons, dance halls and
brothels, a place the Daily Picayune described as “filled with low
groggeries, and is the resort of the worst and most abandoned of both
sexes.  Thieves, murderers, prostitutes and drunkards congregate
there.”  It was so rough the police wouldn’t even venture forth.  With
all the nightly brawls and pistol fire, it was considered a miracle if a
patron could make it out alive from this lair of nefarious criminals.
Male habitués were almost surely relieved of the contents of their
wallets after visiting one of Gallatin Street’s bordellos.  John Chase
wrote that for thirty years, “beginning in 1840, these were the
bawdiest, filthiest, wickedest two blocks in any community anywhere.” 

 From Gallatin Street, New Orleans Bar Association PDF

Needless to say.....I don't think I share any genealogy with the women who lived on Gallatin Street! You may enjoy reading further at the Storyville website on this Valentines Day about the Red Light District of New Orleans. The map above came from this URL, by Norm Hellmers,  explaining where Gallatin likely exists today adding that it has since been renamed, Isbell.

Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of Louisiana and in the Superior Court of the Territory of Louisiana:annotated edition, unabridged, with notes and references by the editorial corps of the National reporter system, Volume 5; Volume 36 (Google eBook)

Louisiana (State) Supreme Court

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I must admit my house isn't the most organized, but ......you won't be fining me $50.00 either.  I wonder what he did exactly to be brought into court?







I wonder who the police matrons of New Orleans were in 1890?  Are there any records of police matrons in New Orleans left? Certainly, it appears that there were NO Police Matrons in New Orleans on Gallatin Street in the 1850's......


There were very few articles on LAGenWeb pertaining to brothels.  My favorite:

"....She was sent on a police raid of a French Quarter house of dubious reputation. When she returned to the office, she told colleagues she was amazed that, in the early afternoon, the women in the house "were all wearing kimonos and they all had red hair...." - Obituary - Marjorie Roehl, 78, Author, Award-Winning N.O. Reporter, Submitted by N.O.V.A. July 2005 Times Picayune     11-4-1997

See also African American Obituary for 

Haynes - Helen Ceola Haynes

Attempted conversion of a brothel on St.  Louis Street

for the city's indigent.

Police Matrons 1890

Good housekeeping, Volume 10 (Google eBook) 1890

 

"The members of the Woman's League of Louisiana are interesing themselves actively in securing police matrons for the jail and prison, and the several important stations in New Orleans."

From the National Law Enforcement Museum blog website:

"The position of the police matron began in the 1890s and quickly became the trend for major cities in America. Right before the turn of the 20th century, law enforcement in America found themselves in desperate need of assistance with social problems they were expected to handle, in addition to crime. As cities urbanized, more and more young women lived without the protection and support of families and in jeopardy of descending into the sway of prostitution in local brothels. Prior to police matrons, male officers handled arresting women and were confounded by the abandoned children, elderly, and homeless people on the streets who all needed the basic necessities of life, such as food, clean water, and shelter. These individuals did not break the law, and people argued that they did not belong in jail with law breakers because of their unfortunate circumstances. The “Police Matron” became the chosen solution to these problems. These women first dealt with female prisoners, but they soon extended out to serve as social worker, counselor, and welfare officer as needed."

American Law Register Volume 11 1872

The encyclopedia of social reform provides a description in 1897.


Records and briefs US Superior Court 1899

Loves Windows

Good Housekeeping Vol 26 1897

Howcott - Texas, Mississippi, Louisiana Goodhousekeeping

Page 257
Good housekeeping
, Volume 11 (Google eBook)
Front Cover
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Hearst Corp., 1890 - House & Home

From URL -William Hill Howcott (1847-1927)

The above url, which supplies the photo of Mrs. Mary Edith Watt Howcott, also has a photo of a granite obelisk monument made to Willis Howcott, who died as a body servant during the civil war. The inscription reads: “A tribute to my faithful servant and friend, Willis Howcott, a colored boy of rare loyalty and faithfulness, whose memory I cherish with deep gratitude”. The website further reads that Elizabeth Howcott shared her servants quarters after her home was burned at Canton, during the Civil War.


Succession of Harriet L. Watt (Edith Howcott, Gladys Howcott, and William H. Howcott, Jr. - minors)
Southern reporter
, Volume 36 (Google eBook)
Front Cover
Alabama. Supreme Court, Florida. Supreme Court, Louisiana. Supreme Court, Mississippi. Supreme Court, Alabama. Court of Appeals, Louisiana. Courts of Appeal, West Publishing Company
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Includes the decisions of the Supreme Courts of Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi, the Appellate Courts of Alabama and, Sept. 1928/Jan. 1929-Jan./Mar. 1941, the Courts of Appeal of Louisiana.

Upon searching for HOWCOTT at the BLM GLO records website, NO records for HOWCOTT appear in any instance for any state.  However,  there are numerous BLM GLO records for John Watt dating from 1849 to 1875 in Louisiana.  NO instance of WATT appear in TEXAS. Additionally, related documents are from the State of Louisiana in 1930 for WATT in Louisiana.

In searching the USGenWeb LAGenWeb archives there are records that show HOWCOTT, W. H. owning land in Louisiana. The source information follows:

The following entries are taken from an old Tremont Lumber Company ledger.
Tremont was a major, Chicago based, corporation that operated several mills
in Lincoln, Jackson, Winn, and Grant parishes from the early 1900s until 1973.

Certainly, the Goodhousekeeping article written in 1890 is of some value in the description of the amount of land belonging to Mrs. Howcott in the states of Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. It appears in her husbands name.  The website, Papers Past, in-accurately described the same article as MISS HOWCOTT instead of Mrs. Howcott. We know from the wedding photo that she was married in 1875 and the the Howcott website declares W. H. Howcott dead in 1927. The Hill Memorial Library offers more information from its Special Collections in the form of a  letter .

W. H. Howcott, a lumber dealer in New Orleans, making an offer to quit a claim to 320 acres of contested land owned jointly by Mrs. C. L. Stokes and Mrs. Stricklin (November 27, 1891).