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Margaret Gaffney Haughery (pronounced as HAW -a- ree) was a beloved historical figure in New Orleans, Louisiana the 1880s. Widely known as "Our Margaret," “The Bread Woman of New Orleans" and "Mother of Orphans," [1] Margaret devoted her life's work to the care and feeding of the poor and hungry, and to fund and build orphanages throughout ...
Her mother Marguerite D'Arcantel was a free woman of African, European, and Native American ancestry. [4] Because Laveau's mother was not married at the time of her birth, her father was not identified on her 1801 baptismal record. A possible candidate is Charles Laveau, the son of Charles Laveau Trudeau, a white Louisiana creole and politician ...
Marie Thérèse Coincoin, [a] born as Coincoin (with no surname), [1] also known as Marie Thérèse dite Coincoin, [2] and Marie Thérèse Métoyer, [3] [4] (August 1742 – 1816) was a planter, slave owner, [1] and businesswoman at the colonial Louisiana outpost of Natchitoches (later known as Natchitoches Parish).
Mae Louise Miller (born Mae Louise Wall; August 24, 1943 – 2014) was an American woman who was kept in modern-day slavery, known as peonage, near Gillsburg, Mississippi and Kentwood, Louisiana until her family achieved freedom in early 1961.
The portrait was historically known as Portrait of Marie Laveau as it was presumed to depict Louisiana Voodoo priestess Marie Laveau. Long thought to be lost, the painting resurfaced in 2022 when it was sold at auction for US$984,000. The three-quarter painting shows an unknown free Creole of color woman wearing a multicolor tignon and a
After reporting appearances of a tall woman in black who vanishes, and her teacher recommending that she was not herself, her mother took her to a physician. [5] As a result, only two weeks before her death she was diagnosed with acute lymphatic leukemia and hospitalized at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Lafayette, Louisiana.
Nancy Davis and the father of her children, Sedrick Cole, are now at the center of Louisiana's newest abortion exception battle. "This was a planned pregnancy that we were definitely looking ...
St. Helena Parish, Louisiana, named for Saint Helena of Constantinople, the mother of Constantine the Great. St. Lucie County, Florida, named for the Spanish-era Ais town of Santa Lucea, presumed to have been named by the Spanish for Saint Lucie of Syracuse. Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, named after Sainte Genevieve, the patron saint of Paris.