KEN JENKINS TO BETTY CHARBONNET REID SOSKIN

October 17 , 2000

Betty:

Great thrill to help someone out!  Just got back from lunch and read your messages.  By the way - I too am an architect.  I work in Baton Rouge and just had lunch at the State Capitol.  I noted your address and it seems y you too may work in government ... small world - again.

Digest what you have and I will gladly answer any questions if I can.  I am happy to find a researcher on the African-American side --- it is so interesting, at least in these modern times.  (Actually, I am glad to find ANY researcher - ha!)  I can imagine the problems on the ‘color-barrier’[ and I too think that it makes research harder.  Let me send you what I have on your line and some unidentified.  Let me know if there are errors or if you know whom the unidentified are:

8 .......                          Louis CHARBONNET - Carpenter
                                    b. May 1868
                                    d. (living 1900 - New Orleans, Louisiana)
                                    m: 3 Dec 1887- Nw Orleans, Louisiana
                                    Victoria (MORALEZ) CHARBONNET
                                                b. Feb 1867 (1900 census)
                                                d. (living 1900 census) New Orleans, Louisiana
                                                            her f: Frafus MORALES
                                                            her m:  Estel (-----) MORALES
                                    note:  both parents were “Islenos” from St. Bernard Parish, LA

Lived with mother-in-law 1711 Derbeguz  (Derbigny?) Street - New Orleans, Louisiana, 1900,
Lived 2027 Lapeyrouse Street, New Orleans, Louisiana - 1920 - 1921 - 1924
Engineer
Lived 2027 Lapeyrouse Street, New Orleans, Louisiana - 1925 - 1931
Carpenter

Since Louis Charbonnet died in 1924, I’m assuming that the Louis referred t o here is his son, Louis Charbonnet  (later undertaker)., who may have lived at the Lapeyrouse Street address until 1931.

                        ch (nine total - six surviving, in 1900)

eleven total lived to adulthood

9 ........            Clement CHARBONNET, Sr.
                        b. Jun 1889 (1900 census)
                        d. 29 Mar 1913 (aged 23) - New Orleans death notice

                        m: Irene/Irma (BARTHE) CHARBONNET
                        b:
                        d. 13 Jan 1953, New Orleans death notice
                        bur: Mt. Olive Cemetery
                        her siblings:
                                    Hilrie BARTHE
                                    Clement BARTHE
                                    Octave BARTHE
                                    Antoine BARTHE
                                    Lionel BARTHE

                                                ch:  Clement CHARBONNET, JR.
                                                b: 5 May 1911
                                                d: Sep 1974

Irma lived at 1620 N. Villere Street, New Orleans, Louisiana - 1920 and was a dressmaker.
She lived 1620 N. Villere Street, New Orleans, Louisiana - 1924 - clerk , L. Feibleman & Co.
She lived at 1354 St. Anthony, New Orleans, Louisiana - 1925 - Clerk
She (“widow” Clement”) lived at 1527 N. Roman Street, New Orleans, Louisiana 1931 - Seamstress.

Ken Jenkins