Sunday, March 16, 2008

More About Louretta



Here's an earlier shot of Louretta. Her story is mysterious and heartbreaking. She was born in January of 1900, to Rena Paul and Louis Dufresne. The 1900 census shows Louretta living with her parents and Rena's family. Rena Paul was only 15 years old; Louis was 20. Story goes that Louis died a couple of years later - don't know how (I'm still digging at that story but no luck yet) and Louis' parents took Louretta away from Rena. So Louretta was raised by her paternal grandparents and didn't re-connect with her mother until she was an adult. And I understand that they were very close after that.

Incidentally, here's somthing interesting about Rena's mother, Ida (b.1862): Her maiden name was Fox and I have been able to trace as far back as her grandfather, Joseph B. Fox, born in 1805 in Camden, New Jersey. Woo-hoo - we belong to the founding fathers of Camden!

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