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Subject: Re: [LACADDO] Re: Mordecai/Clarence Carter
Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 12:27:58 -0400
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Thanks that might explain it, Grandpa was born in Indiana and was raised in the Quaker faith. Although, by the time he had married my grandmother I am sure he was disowned because the Goff side I have not found any evidence that they were Quaker so Grandpa would have been disowned. I uncle was born in 1922 also but we have not been able to find any birth certificate. Do you still live in the are and be able to maybe do some look-ups for city directories or birth records.
Thanks again for this info
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Subject: Re: [LACADDO] Re: Mordecai/Clarence Carter
This may explain some things. Don't know if it helps or not. Cedar Grove was
a small village south of Shreveport. My family is from Cedar Grove. It has
been absorbed by Shreveport and is now just a part of Shreveport. A new
freeway system was built right through Cedar Grove, so most of it is gone now.
Back
in the '20s, Cedar Grove was a very small place. My father was born in 1922.
He told me stories of life in Cedar Grove. It was very "rural". Most people
used horse and wagon, and the streets were dirt. People had horses, cows, and
other farm animals. My grandfather came to Cedar Grove to work at the glass
factory, too. He was from Pennsylvania originally, but had lived in Cleveland
Illinois before moving to Cedar Grove. He was a glass blower. He was never
accepted by my family as he was a "yankee"! He had married my grandmother in
1921. They had to run off to the next parish to get married. They were
divorced in 1922 just before my father was born. I read the divorce papers at
the
court house and it seems someone had spotted my grandfather at a street fair
keeping company with some woman named "Blondie"! My grandmothers' brothers
found out about it and beat him up and ran him out of town! I found this very
amusing, but I'm sure he didn't. Cedar Grove was a very tight knit village. Just
about everyone there was related in some way. Yankees were not appreciated
and when I was a child in the '60s people in Cedar Grove still frowned on
people from the north. This may shed some light about your family if they were
northerners. The Klan was very active and they did not like northerners. It
didn't take much to get on their bad side. My grandfather (the yankee) was a
Scanlon and my grandmother was a Dowden. By the way... my family always
referred
to my grandfather as "that yankee"! LOL!!
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