Nora Daisy Harris--tough to follow, need help, please!
1881-1913
Born: Grand Prairie, Plaquemines, Louisiana, USA
Died: prob, Plaquemines, LA, USA
1881-1913
Born: Grand Prairie, Plaquemines, Louisiana, USA
Died: prob, Plaquemines, LA, USA
"<strong>Subject:</strong> GEORGIANA ELIZABETH MAYER letter<!-- Date --> <div><strong>Date:</strong> Apr 6, 2012 11:25 PM</div><!-- Attachment --> <div><strong>Attachments:</strong> Georgia E Mayer letter.jpg </div><!-- Message Body --> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Wendy and Vicki,</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"> I was going thru some pictures that Vicki had given me and this letter fell out. It is a letter that Aunt Joyce gave Vicki when she was in the Nursing Home at Ochsner, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. She had the beginnings of Alzheimer. In the beginning, she remembered more of the past than the present. Her husband had died a couple of years before, and she started mentally slipping then. </font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">The letter describes her early life as a 6 year old and when her Mother was dying requesting the girls be sent to an Orphanage. It also gives the address of the Orphanage-<strong><u>Protestant Episcopal Children's Home, 609 Jackson Ave, New Orleans. </u></strong>We now know the year of death of her Mother, Nora Daisy Harris (Vay's Wife) -1913. Earnest would have been 3, Adolph I think would have been 5, and Leona 10. Vicki told me that Aunt Joyce had Yellow Fever while in the orphanage. </font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">http://files.usgwarchives.net/la/orleans/history/directory/1930hosp.txt</font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"> I am still trying to figure out "boy(s) stayed who stayed with 'the old man'. Earnest was taken care of by a kind old Aunt and she was happy"</font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Figuring out the Aunt could be just a matter of elimination, but I think that was short-lived and both Earnest (Ernest) and Adolph went to a orphange home for boys. I don't know why, but "Bay St. Louis" keeps coming up, possibly the boy's orphanage? </font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Wendy, Your thoughts on how to place this. .</font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Joe"</font></div><font face="Arial" size="2"> <div><br></div></font>
<div> "My father Ned Daigle and his brother Bob were put in an orphanage during the depression, he never said a word about it to me. Different times. </div><div>The depression, I think. Most of the family at one time or another. Emile did it, Vay did it , Ned sr did it. What's odd is that Leona, Ned's wife was put in when Vay's wife died and didn't come out until she was 18. Part of it was the life, you see where they lived. I also get the sense (you saw Helen Hunts story on NBC ancestry.com's television series) that it was the drinking at that period. </div><div>Ned sr, in order to make ends meet drove a cab and ran moonshine from the trunk, got caught, Vicki [Joe's sister] is looking for the arrest papers, in some box. It's not easy to put values on people when you didn't live in those times. I think we ought to tell it like it is, and not judge too harshly. </div> <div> </div> <div>Joe"</div>