Carbondale
Love Letters from Prairie du Rocher: Epilogue
1. Joseph Perry Micheau and Edna Julia Lewis were married on 27 November 1913, at St. Francis Xavier Church, in Carbondale, Illinois. They were married for 62 years before Joe died in 1975. On their 50th wedding anniversary in 1963, they received a special telegram from Pope John XXIII. 2. She was, at the end of the day, a practical …
February 14, 2010 Sunday at 10:31 am
Valentines Day: Love Letters from Prairie du Rocher
Joseph Perry Micheau (born 23 Feb 1888, Prairie du Rocher, Illinois; died 15 Nov 1975, St Louis, Missouri) was a descendant of the French Negroes of Illinois–originally slaves from Jamaica brought to Upper Louisiana by French entrepeneur Phillipe Renault in the 1720′s. The Micheau family represent well the social and cultural lives of the descendants of the French Negroes of …
February 13, 2010 Saturday at 2:49 pm
Some of the Photographic Stash
You recall that last summer I cane into a windfall of literally thousands of photographs. Well, we’ve spent some time on photo-triage, so every now and then I display some of the pictures most compelling or most in need of rehabilitation. This is another of such posts. We start with a good one. These portraits are of John Henry Phillip …
November 8, 2008 Saturday at 8:48 pm
