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The old Albert Duflot family farm is on the Shreveport Highway alittle ways out of Texarkana, Arkansas. As of 1994, the home is stillthere.
NOTE: Desire Duflot is listed on the 1870 Census Records, Pg. 17,Precinct 3, McCracken Co., Post Office: Paducah, Kentucky, line 33. Hewas born in France, was 33 yrs. old and a gardener. His wife was Mattie,age 29 born in Georgia. Catherine, age 63, born in France was listed asliving with them. Catherine must be Desire's mother. Desire is AlbertDuflot's uncle who raised him, and Albert and Ed's parents were born inFrance. Albert and Ed were not on this Census record - Albert would havebeen 14 yrs. old in 1870.
Albert was shown on the 1860 Census Record for McCracken Co.,Paducah, KY living with his grandparents, Dennis and Pauline Duflot. (Ibelieve Dennis and Pauline are the paternal grandparents.) Albert was5. Also shown was a young boy, age3, named Stephen "Burrus". (Bullis)This Stephen was "Ed" Duflot. Albert and Ed were two year's apart inage. Albert's dad died before Ed* was born and his mother died whenAlbert was 4 and Ed was 2. They reportedly died from typhoid fever.Albert's father was born about 1835 in Paris, France and his Uncle Billy(William Desire Duflot), their father's brother, was born about 1833 inFrance. William Desire Duflot died in 1888 and is buried in Oak GroveCemetery, Paducah, KY. (I havea picture of his monument...taken 1997).
Film #1,374,070 - 1910 Census Record, Miller Co., Texarkana, AR,Albert was a farmer and gardener. He was 52 yrs. old.
*NOTE: Philomene Duflot married John R. Bullis in 1856 - two yearsbefore Ed (aka Stephen) was born. Therefore, Ed's father was JohnBullis. Ed later took the name Duflot. His death certificate lists hisfather as "Stephen Duflow" and mother"Matilda". More research needed onparents' names. (See Ed Duflot for more).
Albert and Ed lived with their maternal grandparents during theirchildhood according to the written Duflot family history by Joseph LeoDuflot. (Note, however, that 1860 Census shows an "Albert Duflot" livingwith Dennis and Pauline Duflot). The maternal grandparents last name andfirst names are not known. (Note: "Philomene" was their daughter'sfirst name. She was Albert and Ed's mother. Albert remembered livingwith his maternal grandparents and his maternal grandfatherdied of"delirium tremens" (alcoholism) about the age of 70. Ed Duflot reportedthat his mother won a beauty contest in McCracken County in the 1850's.Their maternal grandparent's farm was located on the Hinkleville Roadabout 5 miles from Paducah. The family burial ground is located on thisfarm. Supposedly Albert and Ed's parents and maternal grandparents areburied there. After the grandparents died, the farm was sold to the cityand "pesthouses for smallpox patients" was builtonthe property.
Since William Desire Duflot was born in France in 1833, maybe theDuflot's all came over from France after 1835 (Albert's father was bornabout 1835 in Paris, France).
Albert said he remembered hearing his Uncle Billy Duflot (DesireDuflot) say something to the effect that his paternal grandparents andparents migrated to Paducah from one of the Carolinas. This is a vaguesource of information, however.
NOTE: Edward Duflot's (Ed) death certificate lists his father as"Stephen Duflot" and mother "Matilda". This is a lead as to theirnames. His father was listed as born in Paris, France. No other info onMatilda. (Remember Ed's real birth father is John R. Bullis!)
NOTE: Joseph Leo Duflot did not know the names of parents of Albert andEd and that Ed Duflot was really the half-brother of Albert, so hiswritten history of the family does not reflect these facts.
NOTE: Found: Another "Albert Duflot" on 1880 Census, Hayes Precinct,McCracken Co., KY.
Albert age 30 Gardener b. KY Parents born in France
Emma (wife) age 25 b. KY Parents born in Germany
Abigail (D) age 3 b. KY
Albert (S) age 1 b. KY
I do not know if they are kin, but it sure appears that they are somehowrelated since they lived in the same area...maybe cousins???? ThisAlbert would have been born in 1850 in KY.
I also discovered on Film #350,229, Nat'l Archives, NY Passenger Index1820 - 1846:
* "Henry Duflot" age 27, merchant from France who sailed to NY on theship "Albany" arriving April 18, 1844. (AB2846).
* "Peter Duflo" age 52, farm from FR - ship "Rhone" April 1841 (AB393).
* Port of NY - "Charles Duflot", age 6 accompanied by "Maria Duflot",age 42 (AB655) from FR (France) to NY on the ship "Sabina" May, 1841.Also N. Duflot age 46. On the 1860 Census of Utica, NY, 5th Ward, OneidaCounty, is a John Duflot, 68,wife Mary, 60, son Charles 26, daughterMary 13. I think this is the same family on the passenger list. Johnwas probably already in NY when they came over.
More research needed for these.
Paducah, the seat of McCracken County, KY is located just below theconfluence of the Ohio and Tennessee Rivers. The site was chosen byGeorge Rogers Clark during the Revolution and the first settlers probablyarrived around 1821. In 1827 the town was laid out by Merriwether Lewis.The original settlement was known as Pekin, but Lewis called his townPaducah. It is said to be named after a legendary Chickasaw leader, ChiefPaduke, but it may have been named for a group of ComancheIndians knownas the Padoucas. Paducah became the county seat in 1832 when it was movedfrom Wilmington. The first post office here opened in 1828. Thepopulation in 1990 was 27,256.
From "Genealogy of the Duflot Family 1856 - 1956 by Joseph Leo Duflot":
"The authentic history of the Duflot family begins with the lives ofAlbert and his brother, Ed Duflot. Scarcely anything is known of theirparents and grandparents. This genealogy is divided into two parts,namely, the Albert Duflot family and the Ed Duflot family. Since Albertis the older, we shall begin with a study of his family.
Albert Duflot was born in Paducah, KY, on the 25th day of February,1856. He died in Texarkana, AR on the 9th day of February, 1930 from theeffects of a concussion of the brain due to an automobile accident. Helived to be 73 years, 11 months and 13 days old. He was buried in *StateLine Cemetery in Texarkana. His occupation was truck gardening at whichhe may be considered an expert in his day. He had to be good forcompetition in the production of early and lush vegetablesand berriesfor the market was very keen. He kept himself informed on gardeningliterature. I recall his having a few books on how to grow vegetables aswell as having pamphlets and bulletins secured from seed houses and thegovernment.
He had no formal education. He told me that he went to school justone day and he ran off on the afternoon of that day about an hour beforeit was dismissed. He never learned to read or write until after he was21 years of age. His wifeassisted him to master his letters. In time,my father became an excellent reader. After the evening meal, he wouldoften read aloud chapters from the Bible, news items of special interest,and articles from religious magazines.
His father died before Ed was born and his mother died when he wasabout 4 and Ed about 2. Both are reported to have died from typhoidfever. The children lived with their maternal grandparents during theirchildhood. After the death oftheir grandparents, they became the wardsof their uncle, William Desire Duflot. When Albert was about 16 hebecame self-supporting. He was married to Marie Antoinette Flieth on the19th day of September, 1876, in Paducah, KY. The ceremony wasperformedby Father Finn and witnessed by Theresa Woltz and his brother Ed.Theresa was Marie's first cousin and they came together on the same shipto America.
Albert Duflot was baptized in the Catholic Church and he remainedone until he was 34 years of age when he joined the Presbyterian Churchin Mayfield, KY. He was influenced in this decision by the Reverend P.M.Fitzgerald. After his conversion to Protestantism, he became an earnestand diligent student of the Bible and developed into quite an independentand unorthodox thinker on religious subjects.
Around the turn of the Century (1900) he lost interest in thePresbyterian Church as a religious institution although he held theoffice of deacon at the time. He did not care to be bound by its creedwhich in the process of time he beganto question. The Bible ceased tobe to him a religious source book justifying the existence of variousdenominations. He found no fault with the church as a social institutioncomparable to fraternity orders in the promotion of good fellowshipandwholesome associations, but he did not feel that it had any specialdivine authority to formulate a boy of doctrines as the way ofsalvation. He maintained that he had a faith but that it was a flexiblesystem of knowledge which changes withthe growth of religiousexperiences. As a matter of fact, he would tell us that the bible is abook relating the religious experiences and Christian living of godlymen. He did not consider the Bible as a book of fixed and rigid systemsof rules for religious life and salvation. He said that he discoveredthat its meaning to him changed from time to time with the widening anddeepening of spiritual insights derived from meditation upon thescriptures and from their translation intoaction in one's dealings withhis fellow man. The 13th Chapter of First Corinthians was one of hisfavorite selections. It inspired him to make a deduction long rememberedby his children, namely, "A professor of Christianity must not beconfused with a possessor of it. The former displays itself in piouswords and in a show of good works; the latter manifests itself inunpretentious love for man and devotion to truth. The truly religiousman is really not conscious of being religious."
In later life, he joined the Congregational Church in Texarkanabecause its minister, Reverend F.E. Maddox, emphasized the spirit ofliberalism in religious thought and conduct. Although he did notsubscribe to the doctrines of the Methodist Church yet so long as helived in the Mt. Pleasant neighborhood (1903-1925) he took an activeinterest in church work and in the building of Few Chapel. His name ison the corner stone as a member of the building committee. After Dr.Maddoxretired from the ministry, Albert found fellowship with the FirstPresbyterian Church (South) at 6th and Pecan St., Texarkana and remaineda member until his death. Rev. J. S. Sleeper, the Pastor, and Dr. Maddoxassisting, officiated at the funeral services held in the family home.He was a Mason and the burial ceremony was conducted under the ScottishRite of Freemasonry. Circumstances prevented my attending the funeralservices of my father. So on February 9, 1930, I wrote my mother. (Seeletter under "Marie Antoinette Flieth Duflot")
Places of Residence: Up to 1903, the time he bought the Paulk Farmof 100 acres located five miles southeast of Texarkana on the old LynnFerry Road, now Highway 71, Albert never owned a place of his own. Hehad always leased land for gardening and light farming. Hence, he movedaround quite frequently seeking to provide better living quarters and ahigher income for his enlarging family.
We are not sure of the first home where he took his bride to live.We believe it was on what was known then as the "Old Dow Husband Place"of approximately 25 acres located on the outskirts of the Mechanicburgsection of Paducah and on theBreckenridge Road. It was on this placethat I was born in 1881. Since Albertine and six other children wereborn on this place, it is reasonable to assume that our parents made ittheir first home. After living here 11 years, in the fall of1887 hemoved his family to what was known as the Ed Farley Place just across theroad from the Husband Place and about four or five hundred yards from theHusband house which set back from the road about that distance. Iremember that we movedfrom an "old house" to a "brand-new house" wherethe smell of new lumber and fresh paint quickened in us a sense of homepride which prompted a warning from mother and Albertine to keep it cleanand tidy. Here Bertha was born in April 1888.
But the gardening business in Paducah must not have beensufficiently profitable for him to support his rapidly growing family.So he made a trip to Mayfield, KY, in the summer of 1889 in search of abetter market for the fruits of his labor. He leased the Ridgway placeof about 20 acres bordering the Illinois Central R.R. and on thePryorsburg Road just off the city limits. It was in every respect a newplace--a new house, new stables, new fences, and new land. I recall thethrilling experience we had in moving our household furniture fromPaducah to Mayfield in November 1889. A neighbor, Charlie Grace,assisted us with his wagon and team. It was an all day trip over roughdirt roads. I can now hear those old wagonbeds creaking and wheelsclucking under heaped up loads of household goods, garden tools, andchildren. I sat next to the hindgate nestling a pet leghorn rooster. Itgrew dark and still we had not arrived at our destination. I fell asleepunder the spell of the jolting wagon rolling from one chughole toanother. When we reached the edge of the city near the Houseman placeour wagons stuck in a deep, heavy mire. The teams had to be doubled topull each vehicle on to solid ground.Itwas then I was awakened by thewagoners shouting at tired horses as they tightened their traces andtugged their heavy loads from the stubborn, sticky, axle-deep bog.
We lived on the Ridgway place from 1889 to 1894. then we moved tothe Crouch place where we lived until the fall of 1896 when we moved tothe Milburn place south of town on a road that may now be regarded as anextension of 3rd or 4th St.In the fall of 1897 we went to the Creasonplace east of town and lived there three years. In November, 1900, wetook up our abode at the Coulter place on north 5th St. and gardened andfarmed it until the fall of 1903. These were lean years,and he found itnecessary to raise about 20 acres of tobacco each year, operate a smalldairy, and do general farming in addition to gardening. There were timeswhen all members of the family were compelled to do field work. Theproducts of farm and garden sold at extremely low prices and we had toincrease our volume in order to secure enough margin to meet theessential needs of the family. Again, my father began to look wistfullyfor greener pastures.
On the 23rd day of November 1903, Albert and his two sons, Gus andGeorge, left Mayfield in a covered new Hickory wagon loaded with bedding,food, camping utensils, and about 500 pounds of cured tobacco and headedfor parts unknown in the "far west", perhaps Texas. He was seeking apermanent home on a piece of land "he could call his own". He peddledthe tobacco along the way to help pay traveling expenses. His teamconsisted of a horse and mule -- Ben and Kate. According to the accountgiven by Gus, they first drove to Hickman, KY and from there followed thegeneral course of the Mississippi River, passing Reelfoot Lake on thewest thence to Tiptonville, Tennessee where they crossed the Mississippion a raft horse-powered by a winch-like contrivance over to the Missouriside. The roads through the southwestern corner of Missouri weremiserably poor, according to George. They were ungraded, muddy, narrow,winding trails through rich timbered forests. A number of sawmillsettlements were passed along this route which indicated to thesetravelers that the mills were located first in the richest timbersections and the roads constructed afterwards out of the trails made bythe ox-drawn logwagons.
Leaving Missouri, they trekked in a southwesterly direction over thesame type roads through northeast Arkansas following somewhat the currenthighway 67 which passes through Paragould, Jonesboro, Newport and Beebeon to Little Rock. The roads leading into and out of Little Rock weregraveled--the first they struck in their long, weary travel. The team,too, seemed to have sensed the difference and stepped along at a liveliergait as though they had at last found eureka. Georgesaid that was theonly comfortable ride they had since leaving Mayfield. But these"Pullman" accommodations were of short duration. Traveling was likejumping from the frying pan into the fire when the roads of northeasternArkansas are compared with those of the southwestern part of the state.Instead of literally dragging the load through deep mud...in many areasbefore reaching the hard-surfaced road, the poor team struggled withoutletup through heavy resisting sands the remainder of the way. It wasduring this long haul that Kate developed a fistula on her shoulder whichtook many months to heal. they passed through Benton, Arkadelphia, Hopeand thence to Texarkana. My father would stop for a day or so in thelargercommunities along the way to explore possibilities for settlement.
When near Fulton, Arkansas they decided to pitch camp for the nightin an abandoned loghouse. Ben and Kate were hitched to the house. Inthe night, my father was awakened by the frightened horses tugging attheir halters and the yelping of Shep seeking shelter inside. He seizeda rifle and with Gus following close behind ventured out to discover thesource of all the excitement. Gus quickly built a fire for the two-foldpurpose of lighting up the surroundings, or scaring awaywhatever beastthat might be invading the camp. Nothing more developed, and they spentthe remainder of the night in peace. That was the only frighteningepisode they experience in their westward journey. They reachedTexarkana about 4 P.M. Dec. 3, 1903, and camped three or four days nearthe waterworks. My father was favorably impressed with the growing cityand expressed a desire to settle there. As was his custom in hisprospective tours of a community, he would make contact withrealtors infarm land and explore possibilities. Just as he was about to give up indespair of finding anything to fit his purse and was consideringadventuring into Texas, he discovered and purchased the Paulk farm for$700.00.
I was attending West Kentucky College in Mayfield when my motherreceived a letter from my father instructing her to ship by freight ourhousehold furniture and garden tools. Gus had drawn a floor plan of thehouse and a diagram of the 100acre plot. He gave the location and sizeof all outbuildings and indicated the boundaries and terrain of the landarea. It was a rosy picture and it filled our hearts with joy. Withina week or ten days, the family, with the exception of Albertine andmyself, entrained for their new home. I was left with theresponsibility, in addition to my school duties, of supervising thestripping of 20,000 lbs of tobacco as well as selling and delivering it.It brought 4 cents per lb. for thegood leaf and 2 cents for the lugswhich netted my father just about $700.00, enough to pay for the newfarm.
In the summer of 1917, he negotiated a loan of $500.00 from thegovernment and reconditioned the whole house which was in dire need ofrepairs. By 1924, my father was getting too old to farm. The childrenwith the exception of Albertine and Mary Janet had married and movedaway. It was necessary to depend upon hired help to do the farm work.He found this very unsatisfactory, and in December 1924 he sold the homeplace and bought a residence at 2324 Garland Avenue where he andmotherlived until their deaths. Albertine and Mary Janet continued to livethere until Albertine's death in December 1951. In 1953, the place wassold and the proceeds divided among the heirs. Mary Janet secured theadjoining lot from the heirs and built a house on it for herself.
Albert never held any position of public trust except that of schooltrustee and supervisor of a country road. It was the custom in thosedays for the County Judge to appoint a supervisor &dubbed a "road boss")to act a day in the spring and fall on which to repair the road withincertain limits, and to notify all farmers living on this road to appearat a certain place with teams, plows, scrappers, hoes, and shovels "towork the road as prescribed by law."
He was an active member of the Masonic Lodge and of the OddFellows. Mr. Orlando Cagle, a long time resident of the Mt. PleasantCommunity, volunteered this tribute to my father at a reunion held in May1954 at the Few Chapel: "Your father was a natural community leader.During the twenty-one years he lived here, he did more for the schools,the church, and the community than any other man within that period oftime. He had a way of organizing and crystallizing public sentimentfora community project without a show of authority or leadership. That'sthe reason I think of him as a natural leader. In addition to hisunobtrusive leadership", Mr. Cagle went on to say, "he was quite alert tosee that everybody had a goodtime at community affairs. I remember thatquite frequently there would be a number of little children present whodid not have the money to buy ice cream or candy that was for sale. Yourfather would come to these meetings with a pocket fullof nickels, andmake a point of slipping unobservedly into the hand of everyunderprivileged child some money with which to purchase the temptingsweets on display."
It is in order to raise the question, "From whence did the Duflotscome?" the answer to that question is a subject for research. Familytradition throws no light on it. When the curtain rose on the beginningsof this family as we know it, we found its immediate ancestors living inthe vicinity of Paducah, KY. Albert had little to say about hisprogenitors perhaps because they disappeared from the scene during hisearly childhood period. He did say that he had a faint recollection ofthe death of his mother. He and his brother Ed were playing in the yardand they were called into the house to be at her bedside just before shepassed away. He remembered living with his maternal grandparents andrecalled that while living with his grandmother he learned that hisgrandfather died of delirium tremens about the age of 70. We knownothing of his paternal grandparents.
I recall his telling me an interesting story of a guerilla nightattack upon his grandfather's home. His grandfather was a truckgardener. During the Civil War he sold all the vegetables and farmproducts he could raise to the Federal troops located near Paducah. Hebrought the cash home and concealed it in a number of spots about theplace. When Albert was about six or seven years of age, one midnightwhile he and his brother were asleep in the same bed with hisgrandparents,his grandfather was awakened by a noise which sounded likea horse kicking a wall or stall to extricate a foot that might have beencaught under a sill as sometimes happened. He partially dressed andrushed to the aid of the supposed distressedanimal. As he passed thesmokehouse on his way to the barn he was sandbagged and leftunconscious. the guerillas, presumed to be members of the Quantrill bandthen raiding that section of the country, entered the house and demandedthe grandmother to disclose the treasured cache. She refused to tellthem anything and they beat her unmercifully. They stripped the bed,searched the straw mattress and ransacked the place. All the whileAlbert slept on and never learned what had happened until told about itthe next morning. during the melee, the grandmother, too, had beenknocked unconscious. When she came to and discovered that the maraudershad gone she limped in a dazed search for her husband. When she foundhim he wasstill prone but regaining consciousness. However, thedesperadoes went away unrewarded for their night of pillage and violence.
Albert said he remembered hearing his Uncle Billy Duflot sayingsomething to the effect that his paternal grandparents and parentsmigrated to Paducah from one of the Carolinas. It is needless to saythat little reliance can be placed uponthis vague source of information,but it is as far back as I have been able to trace is paternal ancestry.I don't recall his ever mentioning the given names of any of hisgrandparents on either side of the ancestral line.
Nevertheless, members of our family have speculated on its origin inAmerica. If there is anything to the lead indicated by my father's unclethat his paternal grandparents came from the Carolinas, it may be well toexplore such possibilities trusting that some Duflot descendant may pushthis inquiry to more fruitful ends.
The tragic story of the deportation and dispersion of the Acadiansby the English from Nova Scotia on the fatal morning of December 10, 1755may have involved some of Albert's ancestors. As stated above, this ispure speculation and must be kept in that category in our review of thisbit of history. But if there were among these unhappy victims of Britishcruelty, it is quite possible that Albert's paternal grandparents mayhave come from the Carolinas.
Historians relate that the French Acadians were scattered to theends of the earth--to Boston, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania,Maryland, Virginia, the Carolinas, the West Indies, England and France.Some went by ship to New Orleans from the New England and Atlanticseaboard colonies. One authority states that the majority came overlandfrom Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia by trail across the mountainsand by flatboats down the Tennessee, the Ohio, and Mississippi rivers.
Hence, it is quite possible from this account that our greatpaternal grandfather, or his ancestors may have followed the Tennessee orOhio courses and settled at Paducah. On the other hand, they may havecome directly from France around the turn of the 19th Century, settled inCarolina for a time and then moved westward. One way of endingspeculation on this matter is to find the answer to the question, "Fromwhence did the early French settlers come who established themselvesinand around Paducah decades prior to the Civil War?" Perhaps in searchingfor the answer to this major question, we may find some clue to the placeof origin in America of the paternal ancestral line of the Albert Duflotfamily".
*State Line Cemetery has four sections: (1) Masonic Cemetery whereAlbert and Marie are buried as well as their daughter, Bertha and husband. (2) Woodlawn (3) State Line; and (4) the Jewish Cemetery.
Aunt Ruble Duflot George at one time told her nephew, FannonThompson, that "Albert Duflot was born on the boat....coming toAmerica". Fannon said Aunt Ruble was always teasing and he wasn't forsure if she joked about this or if it was atrue statement. Fannonnoticed from the copy of Albert's Baptismal Record (No. 199) at St.Francis de Sales Catholic Church in Paducah, KY, that Albert was 2 yrs.old when baptized. He thought this was unusual because most infants werebaptizedsoon after birth.
On Albert and Marie's Record of Marriage from St. Francis, it showsAlbert was from "France". Perhaps what Aunt Ruble said could be true andthat Albert was born in France or on the boat as the family was on itsway to America, thus the reason for the late age of his baptism. Fromthe Record of Marriage of Albert and Marie in the Record Book of 1850 -1863, page 11, St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church, it states: "AlbertDuflot of France, child of Benjamin and Philomena Duflotto Anna Fliethof Germany, child of Joseph and Marie Flieth". This is the first placethat lists Albert's father's name as "Benjamin Duflot" and tells us thatMarie Antoinette's mother's name was "Marie".
Copy of Confirmation Record: On May 2, 1869, being the Sunday afterEaster, Confirmation was administered in St. Francis de Sales CatholicChurch by R. R. Wm. McCloskey of Louisville to "Albert Duflow and StephenDuflow". (Marriage and Confirmation Record Copies in book). (StephenDuflow is Ed Duflot)
Copy of Confirmation Record from Mt Carmel Catholic Church, St.John's KY (Film #321,358): Page 102, "Confirmation in Paducah, KY May1869, Albert Duflow and Stephen Duflow by William George McCloskey, DD -Bishop of Louisville 1868". Some others were Charles Simon, John andFerdinand Munier.
On the 1860 Census a neighbor of Dennis Duflot was Louis CharlesMenard. Charles was listed as confirmed in church records on the 9th ofNovember 1891 by Rt. Rev. W. G. McCloskey at Mt Carmel Catholic Church,St. John's near Paducah. Louis Charles Menard was a farmer from France.He must have known the Duflots since they had land adjoining each other.
St. John's is 7 miles south of Lone Oak on Highway 45 (the roadbetween Paducah and Mayfield). In general, the St. John's Catholics weredifferent than the Catholics who settled Fancy Farm, KY near Paducah.The Fancy Farmers were mostly ofEnglish descent, who came from Marylandto central Kentucky and later to western Kentucky. Most of the St. JohnCatholics seem to be German ancestry, and came to America much later thanthe English emigrants. Of course, some of the Fancy FarmCatholics movedto McCracken County in the 20th Century, and are buried at either St.John's or Mt Carmel on Old Mayfield Road just outside Paducah.
From Dorothy Sue Patterson April 16, 2000: "Albert and Marie werehighly thought of in Texarkana and entertained all the time. On Sunday'sthere were always friends visiting at their home. Marie was alwayscooking big dinners to feed everyone."
Roland
Flickinger
