Descendants of Jean * Francois Auguste BARON

Generation No. 1

1. JEAN * FRANCOIS AUGUSTE¹ BARON was born Abt. 1758 in France, and died Bef. April 1829. He married FRANCOIS * PERRINE LOUISE FIERVILLE DE LA VIGNE. She was born Abt. 1760 in France; left France AFTER death of husband, and died Aft. 1829 in Probably New Orleans?.

Children of JEAN BARON and FRANCOIS DE LA VIGNE are:

i. JEAN AIME AUGUSTE² BARON, b. October 23, 1779, Caen, Normandy, France; d. April 11, 1829, New Orleans, LA; he never married.

ii. MARIE JACQUELINE JEANNE ROSALIE BARON, b. November 9, 1780.

2. iii. NOEL * AUGUSTE BARON, b. March 23, 1782, Caen, Calvados, Normandy, France; see PgDn; d. June 10, 1833, New Orleans, LA; St.Louis Cem.#2,NewOrlean.

iv. FRANCOISE ROSALIE BARON, b. August 4, 1783.

Generation No. 2

2. NOEL * AUGUSTE² BARON (JEAN * FRANCOIS AUGUSTE¹) was born March 23, 1782 in Caen, Calvados, Normandy, France; see PgDn, and died June 10, 1833 in New Orleans, LA; St.Louis Cem.#2,NewOrlean. He married FRANCOISE * LAURE BRINGIER May 12, 1810 in White Hall Plantation, St.James Parish, LA, daughter of EMMANUEL BRINGIER and MARIE DURAND. She was born July 23, 1792 in White Hall Plantation, St.James Parish, LA, and died December 27, 1859 in New Orleans; St.Louis Cem#2, New Orleans.

Notes for NOEL * AUGUSTE BARON:

Lydia Consiglio has supplied me with all the information I as yet have on the BARONs in France. She states the Birth records for Noel & his 3 sibs are in the Parish of Notre Dame de Caen, Calvados, Normandy, France. Noel & his Brother Jean Aime were merchants & dealt with the manufacturing & sales of soap & candles. They lived in the suburb of Lacourse (Louisiana, I presume or back in France?) when he married Fancois Laure BRINGIER May 12, 1810. After marriage they lived @ the corner of St. Charles & Commons Sts. (@ time he wrote his will in 1831. At the time of his death, from cholera in 1832/33 he left the following children at home: Adele 14, Jules 10, & Marius * 7. His two eldest daughters Laura & Rose Elizabeth were already married. After Adele married F.R. Lubbock, Laure and her 2 sons moved in with them until the Lubbocks moved to Texas. The 2 sons, Jules & *Marius, eventually followed them to Texas, as they were in Texas in 1858.

Children of NOEL BARON and FRANCOISE BRINGIER are:

3. i. LAURA LOUISE³ BARON, b. September 5, 1811, New Orleans, LA; Poss.1st husb.=J.RICHARDS; d. May 6, 1885, New Orleans, St.Louis Cem..

4. ii. ROSE ELIZABETH BARON, b. August 29, 1813, New Orleans, LA.

5. iii. FRANCOISE ADELE BARON, b. October 6, 1817, St James, LA; poss. 1819; d. December 1, 1882, Austin, TX.

6. iv. JULES LOUIS AUGUSTE BARON, b. May 11, 1820; d. September 28, 1896, Galveston, TX; hit by street car.

7. v. JEAN * ARMAND MARIUS BARON, b. September 19, 1826, Caen, Calvados, Normandy, France; d. October 14, 1877, Texas (went by Marius, Sr) see NOTES.

Generation No. 3

3. LAURA LOUISE³ BARON (NOEL * AUGUSTE², JEAN * FRANCOIS AUGUSTE¹) was born September 5, 1811 in New Orleans, LA; Poss.1st husb.=J.RICHARDS, and died May 6, 1885 in New Orleans, St.Louis Cem.. She married JOHN BENTHAM LEEFE June 13, 1831 in St.Louis Cathedral, New Orleans,LA. He was born January 23, 1803 in Chaleston, SC, and died May 22, 1876 in New Orleans, LA; St.Louis Cem.;Cotton Brok.

Children of LAURA BARON and JOHN LEEFE are:

i. WILLIAM T.⁴ LEEFE, b. 1841.

8. ii. LAURA LOUISE LEEFE, b. October 20, 1847; d. September 19, 1899, New Orleans, LA; St.Louis Cem..

4. ROSE ELIZABETH³ BARON (NOEL * AUGUSTE², JEAN * FRANCOIS AUGUSTE¹) was born August 29, 1813 in New Orleans, LA. She married (1) THOMAS EUBANK LEEFE in This is Rose's 2nd husband. He was born Abt. 1813 in North Yorkshire, England. She married (2) JOHN STUARD RICHARDS January 16, 1830 in St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans, LA. He was born Abt. 1811.

Children of ROSE BARON and JOHN RICHARDS are:

i. JOHN WATSON MCMILLAN⁴ RICHARDS, b. December 1831.

ii. ELIZABETH AUGUSTINE RICHARDS, b. Abt. 1833; m. JOHN FRANCIS NEWMAN; b. Abt. 1830; d. (son of Marie Solis & Francis Newman.

5. FRANCOISE ADELE³ BARON (NOEL * AUGUSTE², JEAN * FRANCOIS AUGUSTE¹) was born October 6, 1817 in St James, LA; poss. 1819, and died December 1, 1882 in Austin, TX. She married FRANCIS RICHARD LUBBOCK February 5, 1835 in adopted son Theodore. He was born October 16, 1815 in Beaufort, SC, Beaufort County, and died June 22, 1905 in Austin, TX; State Cem. Austin;Governor1861.

Child of FRANCOISE BARON and FRANCIS LUBBOCK is:

i. THEODORE U.⁴ LUBBOCK, b. 1842.

6. JULES LOUIS AUGUSTE³ BARON (NOEL * AUGUSTE², JEAN * FRANCOIS AUGUSTE¹) was born May 11, 1820, and died September 28, 1896 in Galveston, TX; hit by street car. He married MARIE AUGUSTINE RIEFFEL October 1, 1851 in Annunciation Church, New Orleans, LA. She was born Abt. 1822.

Children of JULES BARON and MARIE RIEFFEL are:

i. FRANCIS AUGUSTE⁴ BARON, b. November 1, 1852; m. MARGARET M. HANSON, January 17, 1885; b. Abt. 1855.

ii. LAURE CECILE BARON, SISTER, b. May 1, 1854.

iii. FRANK LUBBOCK BARON, b. Abt. 1857.

7. JEAN * ARMAND MARIUS³ BARON (NOEL * AUGUSTE², JEAN * FRANCOIS AUGUSTE¹) was born September 19, 1826 in Caen, Calvados, Normandy, France, and died October 14, 1877 in Texas (went by Marius, Sr) see NOTES. He married LYDIA * EUPHRASIE NEWMAN September 29, 1847 in Annunciation Church, New Orleans, LA; App.9-25, daughter of JEAN NEWMAN and MARIE SOLIS. She was born March 13, 1828 in New Orleans, LA;, and died April 28, 1874 in Baron's Island, San Jacinto R., Texas, near Lynchburg.

Notes for JEAN * ARMAND MARIUS BARON:

There are 3 BARON s listed in the 1860 Harris Co. Census: J.A. Baron page 349, M. Baron =page 372 & M. Baron =page 352; all these are at Lynchburg P.O., & SNDX=B650, none of those Barons were in the 1870 Texas census, except a Marion BARON (I suspect is actually Marius) still at Lynchburg, page 509 in the 1870 census. I believe this Marius left their Island near Lynchburg after his wife Lydia died in 1874, but must have left before 1877 when he died in Galveston. Lydia Consiglio says "J. Marius' brother Jules purchased the Island of about 200 acres in the bay portion of the San Jacinto river near Lynchburg, & the San Jacinto Battlegrounds. The island was known for many years as Baron's Island. In the 1875 hurricane, their home was destroyed and the family moved to Galveston to live. Marius' brother Jules was killed in a street car accident in Galveston in 1896. At the time of Jules' death, Jules was living with his nephew, H.L. Baron. Marius BARON & Lydia NEWMAN had 4 children born in New Orleans before they moved to Texas to join his older brother Jules & family & F.R. & Adele LUBBOCK; The youngest child (Harry * Louis) at the time of the move from LA. was an infant of less than one year old & the eldest Marie Laure (or Augustine as she was later called after her baptism). Marius (Jr.), the oldest son was 8 & Louise Octavia Mae died at the age of 2 months, allegedly from whooping cough & was buried in New Orleans. Stories handed down tell that they raised goats on Baron Island. In 1860, Marius is listed as "overseer" for F.R. Lubbock, his brother-in-law. In 1870 the census shows him as a farmer with real estate valued @ $3,500. The family ties were close between the 2 brothers and their brother-in-law, when, in 1858, Mr. Lubbock took the job of caring for about 40 camels on his 400 acre ranch on Sims' Bayou (almost certainly no connection to our Sims surname). Mr. Lubbock tells an ancecdote about his in-laws and the camels in a book he wrote, and in it implied that Jules had just recently moved to Texas. Three more children were born to Lydia & Marius after they moved to Texas: Lydia Alice 1860-1864 (died of "Brain Fever" ....meningitis?) she was buried at the odd fellows cemetary in Houston, Frances Isabel B:1862 & Mollie B. B:1868. Lydia died of pneumonia @ age 56 & was buried in the Lynchburg Cem. which is now under water in the Houston ship channel as are portions of the San Jacinto Battlegrounds. When Lydia died in 1874, Augustine and her husband Lane took charge of the younger children Fannie & Mollie & were like sisters to Lydia Buck. The 2 sons, Marius Jr. & Harry * Louis remained with their Father to help him until he died in 1877. At the time they moved in 1875, Galveston was much bigger than Houston or Harrisburg. After the death of Marius Sr. the boys also lived @ times in Houston where Lydia & Buck were living. For further notes see MORE notes for Harry L. BARON.

More About JEAN * ARMAND MARIUS BARON:

Burial: uncertain where he died or is buried

More About LYDIA * EUPHRASIE NEWMAN:

Event 1: One source says born Feb13, 1930

Children of JEAN BARON and LYDIA NEWMAN are:

9. i. MARIE LAURE "AUGUSTINE"⁴ BARON, b. September 1, 1848, New Orleans, LA; d. June 10, 1899, Houston, TX, Washington Cem..

10. ii. EMMANUEL NOEL AUGUSTE "MARIUS" BARON, b. June 27, 1850, New Orleans, LA; d. December 1918, He was a cooper for Texas Star Flour Mill.

11. iii. HARRY * LOUIS BARON, b. August 30, 1857, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA (or 1859?); d. June 8, 1912, Galveston, TX, ; also is seen as Henri - See NOTES.

iv. LYDIA ALICE BARON, b. July 9, 1860.

12. v. FRANCES "FANNIE" ISABEL BARON, b. December 16, 1862, Lynchburg, Harris Co.TX; d. May 2, 1913, Houston, TX; Washington Cem..

vi. MOLLIE B. BARON, b. August 17, 1868; d. February 9, 1892; m. WILLIAM H. BROWN, April 29, 1889, double wedding with Sister Frances Isabel; b. Abt. 1865.

Generation No. 4

8. LAURA LOUISE⁴ LEEFE (LAURA LOUISE³ BARON, NOEL * AUGUSTE², JEAN * FRANCOIS AUGUSTE¹) was born October 20, 1847, and died September 19, 1899 in New Orleans, LA; St.Louis Cem.. She married JOHN ALBERT LAFAYE June 13, 1866. He was born September 19, 1841 in New Orleans, LA, and died August 15, 1918 in New Orleans.

Children of LAURA LEEFE and JOHN LAFAYE are:

i. JOHN ALBERT⁵ LAFAYE, JR., b. December 1874.

ii. ANNA LAURA (LAFAYE) FORWOOD, b. November 1, 1877.

iii. EDWARD EMORY LAFAYE, b. June 27, 1880.

9. MARIE LAURE "AUGUSTINE"⁴ BARON (JEAN * ARMAND MARIUS³, NOEL * AUGUSTE², JEAN * FRANCOIS AUGUSTE¹) was born September 1, 1848 in New Orleans, LA, and died June 10, 1899 in Houston, TX, Washington Cem.. She married SAMUEL "LANE" BUCK October 18, 1869. He was born October 18, 1840 in @ home on Baron's Island near Lynchburg,TX, and died July 27, 1890 in Houston, TX, Washington Cem., Houston.

Child of MARIE BARON and SAMUEL BUCK is:

i. LYDIA ELIZABETH⁵ BUCK, b. November 18, 1872; d. June 29, 1951; m. JAMES ALBERT PAINTER, December 14, 1893; b. Abt. 1870.

10. EMMANUEL NOEL AUGUSTE "MARIUS"⁴ BARON (JEAN * ARMAND MARIUS³, NOEL * AUGUSTE², JEAN * FRANCOIS AUGUSTE¹) was born June 27, 1850 in New Orleans, LA, and died December 1918 in He was a cooper for Texas Star Flour Mill. He married WILHELMINA "MINNIE" LOUISE STRICKHAUSEN September 21, 1892 in Galveston TX. She was born February 14, 1873 in Galveston TX, and died September 18, 1941 in Galveston TX; lived @ 719 Ave F(film#5-282.

Children of EMMANUEL BARON and WILHELMINA STRICKHAUSEN are:

i. MARIOUS GEORGE⁵ BARON, b. July 2, 1893, Galveston TX; d. November 26, 1943, Galveston; courthouse film # 9-83; m. AMELIA "NUCKSIE" JANE BYRNES, December 30, 1914, Galveston TX; b. February 19, 1894, Galveston TX; d. Aft. 1943.

ii. EDWARD RICHARD BARON, b. January 1, 1895; d. July 31, 1969, Galveston TX; courthouse film # 27-258; m. MARGEURITE MCKENNA, No children; b. Abt. 1896.

11. HARRY * LOUIS⁴ BARON (JEAN * ARMAND MARIUS³, NOEL * AUGUSTE², JEAN * FRANCOIS AUGUSTE¹) was born August 30, 1857 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA (or 1859?), and died June 8, 1912 in Galveston, TX, ; also is seen as Henri - See NOTES. He married JENNIE * LOUISE FOGERTY May 25, 1881 in St. Mary's Cathedral, Galveston, Texas, daughter of EDMOND FOGERTY and MARY MCGINNIS. She was born May 21, 1864 in Texas, Both parents from Ireland - see NOTES, and died December 11, 1907 in Galveston, TX, age 43, Poss mother; McGinnis.

Notes for HARRY * LOUIS BARON:

H. BARON is listed as a 3 year old male in the 1860 census @ Lynchburg, Harris County, Texas, living with M. Baron 34 overseer, L.N. BARON 30 female, L. BARON 7 female, M. Jr. 10 male, & A.L. BARON 11 female. All these Baron's show state of birth as Louisiana. It appears from this census that they were living with F.R. LUBBOCK 45 stockraiser born in S.C., A.B.Lubbock 42 female from Louisiana & T.U. LUBBOCK 18 male student from Texas. See NOTES on Harry's Father Marius. In 1877-78, the Houston City Directory listed "Harry Baron, cooper, Rohde & Hoencke, boarding with Lane Buck (Lane was also a Cooper, and thus probably taught Harry his trade). At the time Lane Buck was residing on the north side of Chenovert, between Clay & Bill Sts. in Houston. By 1880-81, Harry was not listed; He had apparently returned to Galveston where he was married May 25, 1882 to Jennie Louise Foggarty. In 1887-1888 Marius Baron was working for Lane Buck and living in his home. He and Jennie BARON are buried in the Calvary Cemetery on 61st.

His marriage certificate lists him as Louis Henri BARON - and born Aug. 30, 1857. His cemetery stone shows him as Harry L. Baron and born Aug. 30, 1859. On the other side of that stone I know that Arthur SIMS, Sr.'s BD is one year in error however. See Harry & Jennie's stone under My Mother, Marion Griffith's scrapbook.

More About HARRY * LOUIS BARON:

Burial: Calvary Cem., Galveston, TX

Event 1: He was a barrel maker (Cooperidge) in

Event 2: Galveston, TX

Notes for JENNIE * LOUISE FOGERTY:

Very frustrating finding out much about Jennie. She is listed in the 1880 census as FOGHARTY (Page 081 - SNDX=F263) of Galveston as a servant. The census shows both of Jennie's parents as being from Ireland. We are fairly certain she was an orphan and lived at least her early teenage years in a Catholic orphanage - presumably, but never proven to be the one in Galveston, TX. Some of Nora's presently living sister's children (Zinia Hardy -Jennies oldest Grandchild) recall their Aunt Stelle talking about Jennie falling out of a horse carriage as a young adult when the horse became frightened. This caused her a serious leg & back injury which left her permanently disabled. She died at age 43 or 44 of unknown causes. Attempts to find her listed anyplace prior to the 1880 census has resulted in nothing. Some in the family thought they remembered hearing her Grandmother was named McGINNIS and that the Grandmother took care of Jennie in her youngest years, but this is as yet unproven. Also it has been mentioned that her Father was a river boatman on the Brazos River in Texas (hence, the title I've written here of Captain ? Fogerty). Allegedly all the orphanage records from St.Mary's church and hospital in Galveston were never found after the great hurricane of 1900, which devastated most of the Island. We are not even certain this was the orphanage she was at but has been presumed to be the correct one. Another interesting note is found in the 1860 tax assessment records (Pg.16 or 18?) in Galveston County showing a Charles FOGERTY owning some land in the county. Unfortunately there is nothing associated with this to show a connection to Jennie and the writing is next to illegible. I found 2 FOGARTY names in the 1860, Texas census index: 1.) Thomas @ Maverick Co, Fort Duncan, Pg.515. 2.) M. FOGARTY @ Harris Co., Town of Harris, Pg.350. Also there was a vague note in some book that I poorly documented because I only thought it might be important after I left Texas, that I found at the Houston genealogical library....the best I can now recall about this was mention of an infant dying in about 1864 named Fogerty, I believe in Galveston County. I wondered if this was a younger sib of Jennie - and may in fact have resulted in the death of her mother ?; obviously I should try to find this resource again and also attempt a more in-depth search for Charles Fogerty. Also my Aunt Phoebe May Sims recalls a story that Jennie had a Brother who was never heard of after the 1900 storm and was presumed dead, but no one can recall his name! Evelyn DePHILLIPI says that Jennie had a close relative in Ireland who was a Bishop (Bishop FOGERTY), but no further details. The various spellings that I have come across are: Foggarty, Fogharty, Fogerty, & Fogarty. Another possible lead is the GRS CD-ROM Mortality records 1850-1880 lists a Michael P. FOGERTY (sndx=F263) born in Ireland, died when shot as a 24 y.o. army soldier in Medina Co., Texas, July (1850) .... the year is confusing as there is no information about the record except says Texas mortuary school? and it lists only decade dates 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, so I suspect could have died anywhere from 1850 to +/- 10 years? I also bet that Jennie never new the actual year she was born if she was an orphan as we assume. So it is possible that this was her father, as are all the others mentioned here.

On her daughter's baptism statement she is listed as Fannie instead of Jennie. Probably clerical error?

March 2001. Trip to Galveston/Houston-I failed totally in finding any photos of Jennie or Harry in my going through every closet and attic space I could find at 723 Ave. F. However, I've learned a possibly important perspective on the history of the St. Mary's Orphanage in Galveston. In the summer of 1867 a Yellow Fever Epidemic caused over 1,200 deaths in Galveston in only about 2 months. Many health care workers were called upon to help out at the new St. Mary's Hospital (Charity Hospital then) - By the time the disease abated by October, there were many extra catholic nuns suddenly not needed, but there also were many parent-less children suddenly. This apparently was the main impetus for initiating the orphanage. Now, I've not yet proven that either of Jennie's parents died in the epidemic, but the dates fit nicely with that theory. At the recommendation of Linda Macdonald, I then visited the Villa de Matel in Houston - this is a beautiful site that houses retired nuns and one of their nuns who has died wrote a book that included much of the history of the early Catholic Galveston hospital & orphanage. Unfortunately there were so many deaths in such a short period of time that documentation of the deaths was a low priority then. A person at the Galveston Cathedral suggested phoning Lisa May at the Galveston-Houston Diocese in Houston. Lisa is an archivist for the Diocese, who still insists there are absolutely NO records from the orphanage remaining since the 1900 storm. However she has found documentation of several Fogerty children born to a couple, Edmond Fogerty & Mary Ann McGinnis - none named Jennie - but one born 1862 named Jane ! - ?? - There is also one child born to C.P. Fogerty. I suspect this latter man is the same one mentioned in the first paragraph above, as Charles who owned property in Galveston on tax records of 1860. Lisa is mailing me as much information that she can find on all Fogerty & McGinnis names after further research.

--- See notes on daughter, Nora & Father, Edmond also.

April, 2001 - records from the Galveston-Houston Diocese arrive from Lisa May. She has sent copies she typed - but not photo-copies of original documents. I've recorded the entire contents of the marriage of the couple that I presume to be Jennie's parents under Edmond Fogerty, the man I believe to be Jennie's Father. It lists all 4 of those presumed to be Grandparents of Jennie and the Parish & County origins in Ireland of both those I presume to be parents of Jennie - that is Edmond Charles FOGERTY & Mary Ann McGINNIS. Jennie is not listed among the 4 of their children the dioceses have baptism records of. - but Lisa May, the Diocese archivist who sent the records to me after her research, believes it is possible the latest child, listed as Jane Margaret FOUGHARTY, daughter of E.C. FOUGHARTY and Mary Ann McGENNIS (this is the spellings shown) - and born May 22, 1862. Now this is obviously still speculation that this is Jennie Louise. The difference in date doesn't bother me as much as the name - especially the middle name - Jane could easily be altered by the orphanage as Jennie might be considered a nickname for Jane - but Margaret instead of Louise ? - the May 22nd date is actually only ONE day off the one of May 21st listed on Jennie's gravestone. But of course the years are off by two - 1862 instead of the 1864 (both in the middle of the Civil War) date shown on Jennie's gravestone. I can still accept this just on the basis of records changing in the process of both parents dying and the orphanage would be presumed to not be too concerned about the middle names of their younger orphans, who themselves probably didn't even know their middle names. Of course I would think the orphanage could have found their baptism records, since they were all presumed to be in the Catholic church of Galveston at the time Jennie's parents died. However if this occurred during the yellow fever epidemic, it would be also presumed that no one cared too much about bothering to search and look up those kind of details in stored records with over 1,200 people dying and probably about 6 times that number very ill - a high percentage of the total population of the island involved over only 2 months. I can also imagine that birth & baptismal records may not have been kept on Jennie & others born during the middle of the Civil War - as Galveston did change hands twice during this period. So that may account for there not being records for Jennie and this Jane therefore would really be her sister - not really Jennie - but still Jennie would likely be a child of Edmond and Mary Ann. There were no records for any other Fogerty at the diocese of that era and the finding of the McGinnis name as the mother seems the real clincher as that was the name Nora and her sisters all handed down as somehow connected to the Fogerty line of Jennie's.

More About JENNIE * LOUISE FOGERTY:

Burial: Calvary Cem.-see nearly all her children on Nora's photo

Comment 1: Jennie's Mother died early & Jennie was

Comment 2: raised? by a Grandmother. Her Father was a

Comment 3: sea Captain & brought a boat up the Brazos

Comment 4: River. All Records lost in the 1900 Storm

Event 1: Last Name may have been Foggarty

Event 2: see next page.

Children of HARRY BARON and JENNIE FOGERTY are:

i. ESTELLE MAUDE⁵ BARON, b. June 10, 1883, Galveston, TX; called Stelle; d. June 30, 1977, Houston, TX; m. MARTIN LEWIS TROST, December 12, 1900; b. 1879, Galveston TX; d. August 1949, Houston, TX.

More About ESTELLE MAUDE BARON:

Burial: Forest Hill Cem - Houston, TX

More About MARTIN LEWIS TROST:

Burial: Forest Hill Cem - Houston

ii. JENNIE LOUISE BARON, b. March 26, 1885, Galveston, Tx; d. January 29, 1959, Galveston; m. HAROLD EDWIN VIVIAN HARDY, June 3, 1902, Galveston TX; b. May 21, 1874, Near Cheshire, England; d. August 13, 1946, Galveston.

iii. NORA MAY * BARON, b. February 22, 1887, Galveston, TX; @ 723 Ave. F- see siblings on her photo; d. January 16, 1978, Galveston, TX; Both Buried @ Calvary Cem.; m. ARTHUR * MACPHERSON SIMS, SR., July 8, 1909, Galveston, TX; b. October 9, 1878, Liverpool,Nova Scotia,Canada;or?10-10-1879; d. May 19, 1952, Galveston, TX in St. Mary's Hospital (NOTE).

Notes for NORA MAY * BARON:

I remember my Grandmother Nora Sims - although most of my cousins in Galveston called her "Nana". I wish I had asked Nora many questions when I was young, but by the time I had an interest in genealogy she was dead and for a few years before she seemed to not be very clear in mind and retrospectively probably had some degree of Alzheimers at least in her last few years. I never had the chance to ask her husband, my Grandfather Arthur as I was only 5 years old when he died. -- See notes on him also. Nora was born on the same property she lived at for all of her life - as did her daughter Phoebe at 723 Ave F or Church St. - BUT it was not the same house as the one Nora and her siblings were born in was totally destroyed by the 1900 storm. The story goes that her parents Jennie & Harry BARON waded through waist deep water to reach the safety of the Rosenberg School which apparently still stands as of year 2000. I've also be told a story that Harry moved the family to another section of the school during the storm because they were under some sort of chimney structure - and later that period during the storm that section of the building collapsed killing many people who were in the same area that our Baron family was initially at.

Nora was baptized Nov. 13, 1887, about 9 months after Birth. Her sponsor was Cora Murphy - a name I have never heard of. The minister was Rev. John O'Shannon, S.J. - Vol #1, Pg. 53 - her mother's name is listed as Joanna Fogerty, but Nora's siblings were listed with mother's name as Jennie and Jeannie, the Mother's name we are more familiar with.

More About NORA MAY * BARON:

Burial: Calvary Cem. w. Arthur and next to her parents

Notes for ARTHUR * MACPHERSON SIMS, SR.:

My maternal GrandFather, Captain Arthur M. SIMS apparently left his home in Liverpool, Nova Scotia as a young fishing boatman as early as age 13 with one of his Uncles. He apparently left Canada for Texas in his late teens or early 20s and wrote back to his sister Phoebe that he had found the prettiest girl (Nora BARON) he had ever seen and was going to figure out a way to get her to marry him. He later became a Captain of a boat in the Gulf Fisheries Company. In 1900 he was listed as living at 912 Church St. (which was Nora Baron's sister Stelle's home). One boat we know that he was on for the Gulf Fisheries was the schooner MENDICINO. He was apparently on a boat in the 1900 hurricane when he apparently missed the hurricane but the coastal city of Galveston was severly hit by it. We believe He made several trips back to Nova Scotia, but he & Nora left little recorded historical information about their lives. His nieces Dora PAGE & Phoebe McCLEAN of Nova Scotia have supplied most of the information that is included here on the Canadian SIMS ancestry.

He died of post-op complications of prostate surgery, while in St. Mary's Hospital at Galveston. It is odd and mysterious that the Hospital is very secretive about the records and I have been unable to get his hospital summary and autopsy records. This makes me suspect that there might have been some concern the hospital has about their care of him but this remains entirely unproven. My assumption is he died of a Pulmonary embolus.

My Mother Marion says her Dad was called "Captain","Cap" or "Cappy" by his friends, she doesn't recall him being called by his actual names. A Galveston newspaper clipping from October 22, 1920: "A cargo of 20,000 pounds of red snapper was brought in the holds of the Gulf Fisheries schooner FORTUNA, Capt. Sims which completed a 25 day trip to the banks off Campeche, Yucatan." His children tell me that he was often gone for long periods on routine fishing expeditions in the Gulf of Mexico.

July 1995, Nova Scotia trip to visit Dora & Paul Page: His birth record was hard to find because it was not in the Trinity Anglican Church records as we had thought they would be, but was in the microfilmed files of the Liverpool Zion United (formerly Methodist Church) Reel #1. and adds confusion because it clearly shows the date of birth as Oct 9, 1878 (instead of Oct 10, 1879 as his gravestone shows) and the baptism on Dec 27th, 1878 !...but more mysterious is the first name of JAMES? = James Arthur McPherson SIMS? It must be the correct person..lists parents as William & Eunice Sims. of Liverpool. His Children insist they never heard the name James before - but that was the given name of his Maternal GrandFather, James PLUMMER. Interestingly when I was traipsing through Liverpool graveyards I came upon a grave bearing the name of James MacPherson, who died in 1910 and was then 78 years old. This would put him at the prime of his life at the time Arthur was born, thus I think it likely this was a good friend of William Sims and therefore likely named our Arthur after his friend. It is possible the recorder at the church added an erroneous name, or Arthur just dropped the original first name when he came to the U.S.

Apparently he was out to sea during the 1900 storm. I doubt that he had been in Galveston long, but we cannot determine the ship name in that era or who he worked for, etc. That was 7 years before he married Nora. See notes on her about the 1900 storm also.

More About ARTHUR * MACPHERSON SIMS, SR.:

Burial: Calvary Cem., Galveston, TX

Event 1: Died after a T.U.R.P.

Event 2: Probably had a Pulmonary Embolus

iv. GERTRUDE FRANCES BARON, b. August 30, 1889, Galveston, TX; d. April 20, 1972, Texas City, TX; buried in Hitchcock; m. EDWARD BLAKE ALLAN, July 14, 1910, Galveston TX; b. September 13, 1880, Buffalo, TX; d. July 2, 1938, Texas City, Buried in Hitchcock.

More About GERTRUDE FRANCES BARON:

Burial: Galveston Cem, Hitchcock

v. AUGUSTINE "TINNIE" BARON, b. August 26, 1890, Galveston, TX; d. August 1980, Galveston, TX; Buried @ Calvary Cem.; m. OSWALD "OSCAR" KILLI, JR., April 24, 1912, Galveston, TX; b. December 25, 1877, Palestine, TX; d. September 17, 1944, Galveston, TX.

vi. CLARK JAMES BARON, b. May 4, 1892, Galveston, TX, baptized in 1893; d. August 20, 1965, Beaumont, TX; RR insurance investigator; m. ALLIE JANE HANCOCK, November 24, 1915; b. August 13, 1892, Palestine TX; d. August 13, 1986, Beaumont, TX; buried there.

vii. GARY ALOISIOUS BARON, b. April 26, 1896, Galveston, TX; Alzheimer's started abt1943; d. September 1956, Waco,TX; buried in Galveston, TX(Broadway); m. ETHEL VAUGHT, Abt. 1940, No Children, married late in life; b. November 1898; d. August 27, 1992, lived @ 3706 Ave Q; Galveston, TX.

12. FRANCES "FANNIE" ISABEL⁴ BARON (JEAN * ARMAND MARIUS³, NOEL * AUGUSTE², JEAN * FRANCOIS AUGUSTE¹) was born December 16, 1862 in Lynchburg, Harris Co.TX, and died May 2, 1913 in Houston, TX; Washington Cem.. She married ISAAC ARTHUR HOMER April 29, 1889 in Brenham, Washington Co. TX. He was born Abt. 1860 in Poss. Alabama; Father Was Col. in Confed., and died November 1910.

Child of FRANCES BARON and ISAAC HOMER is:

i. ARLEIGH "PEARL"⁵ HOMER, b. April 14, 1890, Brenham TX (Washington Co.); d. January 31, 1968, Friendswood TX,; m. ARTHUR GEORGE LARSEN; b. Abt. 1890; d. December 23, 1955, Gov't Merchant Marine Hospital, Washing.DC.