Descendant of French Nobility Dies in Home on Euclid Street
Funeral services for Mrs. Laura Blanche Adams, 63, whose lineage goes back through the nobility of France and England into the eighth century, and who died yesterday in her home 1202 Euclid street, will be held this afternoon at 3 o'clock in the Calvary Baptist Church.
Rev. W. D. Wyatt, pastor, will officiate, and burial will be in Magnolia cemetery under direction of Pipkin and Brulin .
Pallbearers will be Thomas A. Manning, Henry Jouett, Robert Estselle, J.T. Morris, Dewey Hall and Ross Maxwell.
Mrs. Adams, whose maiden name was Laura Blanche Rene d'Estaing de Villeneuve, was born in Paris, France, April 17, 1876, the daughter of Count Albert Rene d'Estaing de Villeneuve, and Aosa Ada Allen, member of prominent English families.
With her parents she came to the United States and settled in Beaumont in 1886. Her parents died here.
An insight into her lineage is given by the fact that her great great-grandfather, Count d'estaign [sic], was sent with 14 ships to America to aid Lafayette in the Revolutionary war here.
As the descendant of this man, Mrs. Adams as a child viewed a part of the Statute [sic] of Liberty during a ceremony before it was sent to the United States from France. Part of the statute [sic] had been completed and was being shown in this country the year of her birth.
One of the outstanding men on the English side of her family was a grandfather who was a colonel in the twenty-fifth (second batallion, [sic]) of the king's Own Bordermen, stationed at Castle Edinburgh, Scotland.
Mrs. Adams is survived by her husband, Joseph Dark Adams, whom she married here in 1897; three sons, O.D., Gilbert and John Adams; a daughter, Mrs. Alice McCorkle; and a sister, Mrs. Harry Harvey, all of Beaumont; three brothers, Guy Rene d'estaing de Villeneuve of Houston, Andrew Rene d'estaing de Villeneuve of Beaumont, and Louis Rene d'estaing de Villeneuve of New Mexico.
Five grandchildren, Mrs. Reed Gooch of Beaumont, Mrs. Donald Blanchard of Port Arthur, O.D. Adams, Jr. and Joan Marie McCorkle and Mancy Ann Adams of Beaumont.
(Published: Beaumont Enterprise (Beaumont, TX) Thu, 3 Aug 1939, page 2, col 7)
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Funeral services for Mrs. Laura Blanche Adams, 63, whose lineage goes back through the nobility of France and England into the eighth century, and who died yesterday in her home 1202 Euclid street, will be held this afternoon at 3 o'clock in the Calvary Baptist Church.
Rev. W. D. Wyatt, pastor, will officiate, and burial will be in Magnolia cemetery under direction of Pipkin and Brulin .
Pallbearers will be Thomas A. Manning, Henry Jouett, Robert Estselle, J.T. Morris, Dewey Hall and Ross Maxwell.
Mrs. Adams, whose maiden name was Laura Blanche Rene d'Estaing de Villeneuve, was born in Paris, France, April 17, 1876, the daughter of Count Albert Rene d'Estaing de Villeneuve, and Aosa Ada Allen, member of prominent English families.
With her parents she came to the United States and settled in Beaumont in 1886. Her parents died here.
An insight into her lineage is given by the fact that her great great-grandfather, Count d'estaign [sic], was sent with 14 ships to America to aid Lafayette in the Revolutionary war here.
As the descendant of this man, Mrs. Adams as a child viewed a part of the Statute [sic] of Liberty during a ceremony before it was sent to the United States from France. Part of the statute [sic] had been completed and was being shown in this country the year of her birth.
One of the outstanding men on the English side of her family was a grandfather who was a colonel in the twenty-fifth (second batallion, [sic]) of the king's Own Bordermen, stationed at Castle Edinburgh, Scotland.
Mrs. Adams is survived by her husband, Joseph Dark Adams, whom she married here in 1897; three sons, O.D., Gilbert and John Adams; a daughter, Mrs. Alice McCorkle; and a sister, Mrs. Harry Harvey, all of Beaumont; three brothers, Guy Rene d'estaing de Villeneuve of Houston, Andrew Rene d'estaing de Villeneuve of Beaumont, and Louis Rene d'estaing de Villeneuve of New Mexico.
Five grandchildren, Mrs. Reed Gooch of Beaumont, Mrs. Donald Blanchard of Port Arthur, O.D. Adams, Jr. and Joan Marie McCorkle and Mancy Ann Adams of Beaumont.
(Published: Beaumont Enterprise (Beaumont, TX) Thu, 3 Aug 1939, page 2, col 7)
Thanks to Contributor #48365905 for this Bio.
Descendant of French Nobility Dies in Home on Euclid Street
Funeral services for Mrs. Laura Blanche Adams, 63, whose lineage goes back through the nobility of France and England into the eighth century, and who died yesterday in her home 1202 Euclid street, will be held this afternoon at 3 o'clock in the Calvary Baptist Church.
Rev. W. D. Wyatt, pastor, will officiate, and burial will be in Magnolia cemetery under direction of Pipkin and Brulin .
Pallbearers will be Thomas A. Manning, Henry Jouett, Robert Estselle, J.T. Morris, Dewey Hall and Ross Maxwell.
Mrs. Adams, whose maiden name was Laura Blanche Rene d'Estaing de Villeneuve, was born in Paris, France, April 17, 1876, the daughter of Count Albert Rene d'Estaing de Villeneuve, and Aosa Ada Allen, member of prominent English families.
With her parents she came to the United States and settled in Beaumont in 1886. Her parents died here.
An insight into her lineage is given by the fact that her great great-grandfather, Count d'estaign [sic], was sent with 14 ships to America to aid Lafayette in the Revolutionary war here.
As the descendant of this man, Mrs. Adams as a child viewed a part of the Statute [sic] of Liberty during a ceremony before it was sent to the United States from France. Part of the statute [sic] had been completed and was being shown in this country the year of her birth.
One of the outstanding men on the English side of her family was a grandfather who was a colonel in the twenty-fifth (second batallion, [sic]) of the king's Own Bordermen, stationed at Castle Edinburgh, Scotland.
Mrs. Adams is survived by her husband, Joseph Dark Adams, whom she married here in 1897; three sons, O.D., Gilbert and John Adams; a daughter, Mrs. Alice McCorkle; and a sister, Mrs. Harry Harvey, all of Beaumont; three brothers, Guy Rene d'estaing de Villeneuve of Houston, Andrew Rene d'estaing de Villeneuve of Beaumont, and Louis Rene d'estaing de Villeneuve of New Mexico.
Five grandchildren, Mrs. Reed Gooch of Beaumont, Mrs. Donald Blanchard of Port Arthur, O.D. Adams, Jr. and Joan Marie McCorkle and Mancy Ann Adams of Beaumont.
(Published: Beaumont Enterprise (Beaumont, TX) Thu, 3 Aug 1939, page 2, col 7)
Thanks to Contributor #48365905 for this Bio.
Funeral services for Mrs. Laura Blanche Adams, 63, whose lineage goes back through the nobility of France and England into the eighth century, and who died yesterday in her home 1202 Euclid street, will be held this afternoon at 3 o'clock in the Calvary Baptist Church.
Rev. W. D. Wyatt, pastor, will officiate, and burial will be in Magnolia cemetery under direction of Pipkin and Brulin .
Pallbearers will be Thomas A. Manning, Henry Jouett, Robert Estselle, J.T. Morris, Dewey Hall and Ross Maxwell.
Mrs. Adams, whose maiden name was Laura Blanche Rene d'Estaing de Villeneuve, was born in Paris, France, April 17, 1876, the daughter of Count Albert Rene d'Estaing de Villeneuve, and Aosa Ada Allen, member of prominent English families.
With her parents she came to the United States and settled in Beaumont in 1886. Her parents died here.
An insight into her lineage is given by the fact that her great great-grandfather, Count d'estaign [sic], was sent with 14 ships to America to aid Lafayette in the Revolutionary war here.
As the descendant of this man, Mrs. Adams as a child viewed a part of the Statute [sic] of Liberty during a ceremony before it was sent to the United States from France. Part of the statute [sic] had been completed and was being shown in this country the year of her birth.
One of the outstanding men on the English side of her family was a grandfather who was a colonel in the twenty-fifth (second batallion, [sic]) of the king's Own Bordermen, stationed at Castle Edinburgh, Scotland.
Mrs. Adams is survived by her husband, Joseph Dark Adams, whom she married here in 1897; three sons, O.D., Gilbert and John Adams; a daughter, Mrs. Alice McCorkle; and a sister, Mrs. Harry Harvey, all of Beaumont; three brothers, Guy Rene d'estaing de Villeneuve of Houston, Andrew Rene d'estaing de Villeneuve of Beaumont, and Louis Rene d'estaing de Villeneuve of New Mexico.
Five grandchildren, Mrs. Reed Gooch of Beaumont, Mrs. Donald Blanchard of Port Arthur, O.D. Adams, Jr. and Joan Marie McCorkle and Mancy Ann Adams of Beaumont.
(Published: Beaumont Enterprise (Beaumont, TX) Thu, 3 Aug 1939, page 2, col 7)
Thanks to Contributor #48365905 for this Bio.
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