Sisters

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1948-Loris, Sylvia, Betty, and Alma Bucklin

Loris, Sylvia, Betty Lou, and Alma Bucklin circa 1948

I’ve been thinking about posting this one for a while. Since this week started with siblings day and my sister Jamie just reminded me about it being time for my weekly project, I thought I’d have the theme be sisters.

This is my mom and her sisters around 1948 in Hathaway, Louisiana. That’s Loris, Sylvia, Betty Lou, and Alma posing for the photo. Nobody is smiling big, nobody is frowning, yet they all seem to be paying attention to the photographer. For some reason it captures my attention and makes me wonder what is going on.

For some reason I think it was a hot summer day that was coming to a close. They have agreed to taking the photo and were waiting for the photographer to get ready to take the photo. And the photographer captured them waiting. Smiling, yet not smiling. Posed, yet not posed. Ready to get this over with and get ready for bed.
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For my sisters – Jodie, Karen, and Jamie.
For my dad’s (Bob) sisters – Marie, Wana, Germaine, and Frances.

Elizabeth Wilkins

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Elizabeth WilkinsElizabeth Wilkins
Born 19 OCT 1863 in Berlin, Germany
Died 28 DEC 1925 in Newport, Campbell, Kentucky, USA

This is my great great grandmother on my dad’s side. Most of the old photos I have been posting for Throwback Thursday are on my mom’s side because I have more scanned photos of them.

Elizabeth came to the US with a married aunt around 1877. Her first husband died early (possibly heart attack). She married Joseph Schiefer in 1884. Their daughter Valley Johanna Schiefer [Fox] is Charlotte “Rita” Fox [Connors]’s mother.

Her children were:
Charles Schiefer (1888–1952)
Valley Johanna Schiefer (1892–1966)
(Austina Flora) Marie Schiefer (1894–1980)

According to her granddaughter, Rita, she had diabetes and it contributed to her death.

I Googled to see when the first treatments were available. I don’t know what type she had, but on January 11, 1922 insulin was first successfully used in the treatment of Type 1 diabetes. Before that, it was exceptional for people with Type 1 diabetes to live more than a year or two after diagnosis.

The Bujol Connection

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1915-Amelie Bujol Landry Babin

Marie Amelie “Belite” Bujol Landry Babin circa 1915

My paternal grandmother’s maternal grandmother was born Marie Amelie Bujol in 1843 in Brusly, Louisiana. Her parents were Joseph Hubert “Amedee” Bujol (b. 1815) and Anna Adele Landry (b. 1817). At some point she started going by the nickname Belite (rhymes with petite). In 1867 she was married to Confederate Civil War hero Trasimond Landry, who was her mother’s half first cousin.

Trasimond and Belite had five children together in their first nine years of marriage. I descend from their first born child Marie Therese.  Trasimond died of yellow fever in 1879. Belite then married Magloire Babin in 1880 and they had three daughters together.  The first daughter was born in 1880 (according to 1880 Census) and must not have lived very long.

They lived in Plaquemine and then moved to Lafayette some time before 1910.  She lived close to her daughter Clemence and her family.  A few years later her deceased daughter Marie Therese Landry Patureau’s family moved nearby as well.  Family seemed important to her.  She looks like a hard, no nonsense woman. Some of that could be that she experienced the death of both of her husbands and also went through the deaths of six of her eight children. So let’s give Belite a nod of respect. I think she earned it.

Dec. 2020 Update – adjusted the number of children that she had with Magloire Babin.

Bucklin Gathering 1948

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A Bucklin gathering like this was probably for Addie Hine Bucklin’s birthday on September 23.  Looks like about 1948.  I found three photos of the group (posted with and without numbers).  Apparently Vernon Keys (numbers 4 and 25) ran from the front to the back of the group between shots.  Any guesses what happened to Herbert (12) in the third shot?

After posting these, Van reminded me that he had posted two different photos from this scene. Our year estimates are only off by one so should be pretty close.  Lots of relatives on Facebook worked together to name everyone on his post which was really helpful to me since he had most of the names already figured out.  Mine photos have a bit larger of a group though so there are a few blanks to fill in.

Bucklin Group 1b Bucklin Group 2b Bucklin Group 3b
Bucklin Group 1
Bucklin Group 2
Bucklin Group 3
1. Frank Keys
2. Alma Bucklin
3. Arlene Keys
4. Vernon Keys*
5. Stanley Keys
6. Austin Bucklin
7. Loris Bucklin
8. Laurence Bruchhaus
9. Jeannette Bucklin
10. Roy Bucklin
11. Effie Hetzel Bucklin
12. Herbert Bucklin
13. Louise Bucklin
14. Dora Koll Bucklin
15. Mary Bucklin Phenice
16. Addie Hine Bucklin
17. Ronnie Taylor
18. Helen Bucklin Taylor
19. W.C. Bruchhaus
20. Ollie Hine
21. Lenora Bailey Hine
22. Betty Lou Bucklin
23. Fred Bucklin
24. Melvin Keys
25. Vernon Keys*
26.
27. Sylvan Phenice
28. Harley Bruchhaus
29. Edna Bucklin Keys
30.
31. Ralph Bucklin
32. Guy Havenar
33. Edessa Welton Havenar

Farming 1965

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Combine cutting rice and Ray Bucklin muddy from water leveling, taken by Louise on her Kodak Brownie in 1965.

Ray says the photo of the International Harvester combine is of he or his dad, Herbert Bucklin, driving the combine into the edge of a field to cut a sample of rice to test the moisture content to see if it was ready to harvest. “Daddy always knew whether or not the rice was ready to cut without using the moisture meter and I never remember having to wait and cut a second sample, but he always checked anyway. That is why the combine cut a short curved path just a little way into the field and then stopped. I think I see someone standing up by the hopper to get a sample of rice to test.”

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More Hine Havenar Twentieth Annual Double Birthday Celebration

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Susan G. Stanbrough Hine (75) and Mrs. W. E. Havenar (60)’s Twentieth Annual Double Birthday Celebration October 3, 1926. Taken at William E. Havenar’s home.

I found a package of five negatives from the celebration. This includes a third version of the large group photo and smaller groups with Addie Hine Bucklin who missed the big group photo. Van also found a print from another photographer of this smaller group.

You can see the other versions of the group shot, read the newspaper article, and find many of the names here.

1926 negatives Addie, Susan, Ralph
Addie, Susan Hine, Ralph, Helen in front
Hine Bucklin Group
Bucklins and Hines
Hine Havenar Birthday 1926
Large group photo
Hine Bucklin Group
Found another print
____ Bucklin
___ Bucklin (Herbert didn’t have bow tie)
Henry Phenice
____ and Henry Phenice

A Pitcher from the Past

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1915-03 - Robert Joseph Landry Sr. Baseball team

March 1915 – tryouts for the Texas League Beaumont Oilers.

It’s a picture pun. This photo is from 101 years ago. My grandfather Robert Joseph Landry, Sr. was a baseball player in his younger days. I’ve always heard that he was a semi-pro player. This photo (according to the information on the back of it) was taken at the tryouts for Beaumont in the Texas League in March 1915.

When I was working on this photo, I mistakenly picked out the wrong person to be my grandfather. (I wasn’t around back then, you see. And evidently I can’t read names very well, either) When I got to the guy I thought was my grandfather, I cleared up scratches and such, but I didn’t get any visions of cousins like I usually do when working on photos of my grandparents. The only way I knew I had the wrong guy is that when I started working on the right guy, I had visions of Uncle Hubert, Uncle AJ, Douglas Winn, Mark Reeves, Kenny Landry, Al Landry, Rob Landry, Dennis Landry, Bob Landry, Gregory Raley, Micha Duffy.

BTW the right guy is the one standing on the far right.  From the little research that I did, the name of the semi-professional team was the Beaumont Oilers. The team rosters for 1914 and 1915 showed many of the same names from this photo.

1915-03 - Robert Joseph Landry Sr. Baseball team back IDs

Back of the photo showing names of players in the photo; 1914 and 1915 rosters for Beaumont Oilers

1915-03 - Robert Joseph Landry Sr.

Robert Joseph Landry, Sr. in March of 1915

 

In case anybody is still unsure of which one was my grandfather, here is a crop of the photo above.  You can see more details in it.

McGrath and Mooney: My Irish Roots

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1880s - Mary McGrath Bucklin

Mary Ann McGrath Bucklin sometime in the 1880s

This is my great great grandmother Mary Ann McGrath Bucklin and even though she was born in England, she was all Irish. I knew about her ever since I was young. I didn’t have much information on her and assumed that she was Irish. But she was supposedly born in England. So I searched for her parents’ names. I found her father’s name on the marriage registration when she married James A. Bucklin in 1854. I wanted more.

I wanted the name of my great great great grandmother and Mary Ann wasn’t talking! But her DNA was. My mom had a strong DNA match at 23andMe named Matt G. and the only common surname that we had with him was McGrath. Normally that wouldn’t be enough to go with since McGrath is a common Irish name, but since there was so much common DNA, I pursued it a bit more vigorously.

I sent him her birthdate and birthplace, but the thing that revealed the connection was when I told him that she had settled in Palmer, Massachusetts. That was where his McGrath Irish roots were from also! And the best thing about it was that his grandfather and great grandmother had gathered information about the family and written it all down for the rest of the family.  (For someone who does genealogical research, this is a very exciting thing to hear.)

So I prodded him to find that written information and see if he could find the clear connection. And sure enough he finally found the name of a certain Mary Ann who had married a James Bucklin in Massachusetts in 1854.  Mary Ann and James later moved to Louisiana and over time they lost touch with the rest of the family back in New England.

And here’s the best part. (Wait, didn’t I already say something else was the best thing? Oh, well.) I told you earlier that I wanted the name of Mary Ann’s mother.  She was the last unknown great great great grandparent of mine.  And they had her name! And the name of all of Mary Ann’s siblings -Arthur, Margaret, James, Catherine, John, and Daniel.  They had lived in Roscommon, Ireland and the last sibling was born in Ireland in 1838. So the family moved to Massachusetts some time between 1838 and 1854.

And everyone knows what happened in Ireland during that time, right? The Great Irish Potato Famine.  I’ve heard about it all of my life, but never thought that it had any direct effect on my family. Boy was I wrong! Mary Ann’s parents found a way to move themselves and their seven children to the United States at a time when over 1 million people starved to death in Ireland.  They were among the million people who left to find a better life.

So this St. Patrick’s Day I’m going to celebrate my Irish roots. And I’ll be glad to tell everyone that I am the great great great grandson of Maria Ettadosia Mooney McGrath!

1893 - I was an Irishman

Part of a journal by Mary McGrath Bucklin’s son Louis Charles Bucklin in 1893. He refers to himself as an Irishman. (see green print)

Erie Patureau

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1913 - Germaine Erie Patureau BWPreviously I have posted about my paternal grandmother, who we all called Mee Maw. Everybody still fights over who was her favorite and it’s a good kind of fight. And even though I posted a photo of her as a young girl a while back, I still think of her a matronly woman who loved to travel and visit with her children and grandchildren. But lately I’ve been getting to know her as just Erie Patureau. A girl who grew up in Plaquemine with six sisters and two brothers. The family ran a shop and there was lots of family around.

Things changed when her mother died in 1909 when Erie was just a teenager. The shop was closed, she graduated from Crescent Graded School around 1911, and the family moved to Lafayette in 1912. I’m not sure of all of the dates of those events, but I found a little clue in an article about her graduating class from SLI from March of 1915. It states that “The following January (1912) after all danger of finals was over Erie showed up. Modest and retiring, she was hard to make friends with, but we were determined and now she’s ours.”

So now I too feel like I have gotten to know her a bit and she is mine. But I’m willing to share her with the rest of the family.

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