Love Letters
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
Should Newspaper Be Publishing “Love Letters”?
We’ve been discussing the publication of a number of “love letters” from a World War II sailor to his wife back home in San Francisco. The letters from Claude Everett Dawson to his wife Nadine Henry Dawson were discovered in a trash bin in Grass Valley, Nevada County, California, a Sierra foothills community. The local newspaper, The Union, has published …
September 4, 2008 Thursday at 10:29 pm
Update: An Attempted Act of Genealogical Kindness
The Union, a newspaper published in Grass Valley, Nevada County, California (about 48.6 miles north of the GeneaBloggcast Center, according to Google Maps) continues its series on the World War II letters from a sailor to his wife back home. A number of folks have volunteered to try to find an appropriate relative to whom the letters might be given. …
September 2, 2008 Tuesday at 8:32 pm
An Attempted Act of Genealogical Kindness
On Wednesday, Randy Seaver posted this item about the discovery of some love letters between a Navy man and his wife during World War II. Seems the letters were found in a trash can at a thrift store in Grass Valley, California, about 50 miles north of my location. The letters came from Claude Dawson in the South Pacific to …
August 29, 2008 Friday at 8:05 pm
