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"Yesterday"- The Beatles
Images of Golden Meadow
Norma Cheramie(Mom), her first communion
This is the only school picture I have of Mom. Her family could never afford to buy them, so the photographer would dump his trash in the Bayou. This picture was found on the side of the Bayou and given to my grandma. That is how we got the picture.
Mom
Thomas Esponge -first Esponge to comehere from Italy
Beauregarde and Euseide Vizier at their home on Highway 308 in Golden Meadow. Her maiden name is listed as LaBauve in the census records of Cheniere Caminada in the late 1800's. The family has always thought it was Laborde. The Labordes/LaBauves originally came to Jefferson parish from the Attakapas Region of Louisiana.
My grandmother, Sevia Esponge(known as Dod), on her wedding day
The children of Adras Esponge and Ernestine Dantin--top row:Dorcelia(Married Eber Hunter), Forrest(married to Anecia Cheramie), Ellisia(she died as a young woman--some say she was either pregnant and had complications or some woman poisoned her because she was engaged to marry a man the other woman wanted), Sevia, bottom row:Grace(Nan)(married to Victor Vizier and later to Loveless Kiffe), Dorcelie(married to Henriette Galliano)The only one not pictured is Ellis Esponge, the eldest son. The original Esponge ancestor came to Louisiana from Italy. His name was Tomas Esponge. Not much is known of him. In Jefferson Parish census records, his name is spelled either "Spongia" OR "Sponzia".
Dorcelia Esponge
Images of Grand Isle
One of the children of Bernard and "P'tit Soeur"(little Sister) Santiny from Santiny Lane.
Aunt Vern(Vernice Vizier
Mom(Norma Vizier)washing dishes(and pregnant) in 1952. Mamere Dod(Sevia) is in the background. I used to love that house, and wanted to own it one day. The upstairs had only bright airy bedrooms, one of which had a door leading onto a long screened in porch. I slept there a few times as a child--it was always a treat. At night I clould hear the gulf waves crashing against the shore. She had a long livingroom/diningroom area with platform rockers and a mirror with flamingos on it. She was one of the first on Santiny Lane to have a flushing toilet. My grandpa was so excited that he pulled passers by off the street, took them to the bathroom and flushed the toilet for them. The little bathroom was so quaint with a cast iron tub and cabinets painted white with all kinds of good smelling things in them. I really loved that house-I had such nice memories== until a stranger bought it and died in the bathtub. I don't want it anymore, but I still dream of it at night.
Vernice Vizier posing in front of the old Grand Isle school on Cott Lane. The building was later used as a public health office(I remember getting a painful shot there when I was little). It was destroyed by Hurricane Betsy in 1965. Aunt Vern married Richard Brunies from Bucktown and they had one son, Gary. They all still live on the island.
Pa Pere DoDo's boat, Grand Isle
Forrest and Anecia Esponge in their front yard on Santiny Lane in Grand Isle,1960.
Grand Isle school children(1940's)--In the background(right) is the coast guard station(now the town hall). In the background on the left is the back of the old Catholic church.
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