Donna Friebel-Storz, (FFDNA-GJM-2-4)

Leroy married Susan Agnes Gallier on 17 Feb 1941 in Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas. Susan (daughter of Jacob John Gallier and Theresa Ursula Babin) was born on 21 Jun 1917 in Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas; died on 31 Oct 1989 in San Mateo, San Mateo Co, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The Story of Susan A. Friebel's Life: The Early Years
By her sister, Eloise Gallier

Susan Agnes Friebel (nee Gallier) was born to Theresa Ursula and Jacob John Gallier on June 21, 1917 in Beaumont, TX. I was 8 years old at this time. My brothers and I were sent to spend the night with Aunt Catherine and Uncle Presto Gallier. He was our father?s uncle and they lived about a mile from us. They had 2 boys, Albert and Ray. Presto owned a grocery store and of course most of our groceries were bought from him. One of us kids was usually sent to pay the bill and he would always give us a big bag of candy and other goodies (lagniappe it was called) as was the custom at that time.
[Editor's note: Lagniappe is defined at dictionary.com as:
Chiefly Southern Louisiana and Southeast Texas: a small gift given with a purchase to a customer, by way of compliment or for good measure; bonus.]

The next morning when we were walking home one of our neighbors called out to us ?I hear you have a little girl at your house.? I must have been awfully stupid. I didn't even know mama was expecting and wondered who the little girl was. Was I surprised--- a baby girl and it was ours. I don't remember my brother's reaction, but I was overjoyed. I had always wished for a sister.

By the time she was two years old she was pretty spoiled. Mom always made me take care of her when I got home from school. There were several girls about my age in the neighborhood, but who wanted to play with someone who always had a bratty sister tagging along. I didn't have very many close friends. Mom, many years later used to tell people that I couldn't wait to get home and play with my little sister. I almost called her down on it several times, but I didn't. It made a good story and that's probably the way she remembered it.

As you know, Sue and I did become very close later. She was never called anything but Susan until we came to California. Alice [Lee] Lacour still calls her Susan when she writes. Paper would not allow it. That was his mother's name, although hers was spelled Suzan.

Mom did quite a lot of sewing in those days and when Susan started school she was well dressed. Two dresses I remember: One was solid pink with a pink check yoke and the other the pink check was gathered into a solid pink yoke. When she got a little older she made us outfits alike-- culottes, knee high divided skirts with wide legs and suspended shoulder straps. Girls didn't wear long trousers then? Heaven's NO!

Since I was 8 years older than she and in high school in another building when she started school, I asked two of her close friends to fill in that period and they graciously did.
(originally shared by dmfstorz Friebel Gallier Tree
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/38853484/storyx/9be999e5-0d82-40a7-9bc5-c1e8f9d3c606

Jacob married Theresa Ursula Babin. Theresa (daughter of Francois Babin and Anne Victorine Navarre) was born in 1883 in Houma, Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana; died in 1973 in Menlo Park, San Mateo Co, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 20 Jul 1860, Beaumont (District 4), Jefferson Co, Texas
• Census: 07 Jul 1870, Taylor Bayou, Jefferson Co, Texas
• Census: 1880, Jefferson Co (Dist 41), Texas

Notes:

Enlisted Civil War at age 16. Quit school at Sabine Pass, served under Capt George W O'Brien and Dick Dowling, stationed at Grigsby Bluff and Sabine Pass, was in Battle of Sabine Pass.
Member of South Park Bapt Church.
According to front-page obit in the Beaumont paper: Enlisted Civil War at age 16. Quit school at Sabine Pass, served under Capt George W O'Brien and Dick Dowling, stationed at Grigsby Bluff and Sabine Pass, was in Battle of Sabine Pass. r of South Park Bapt Church. Requested to be buried in Southern uniform. Had been ill for 11 months prior to death. Survivors include ten grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Burial in LaBelle Cemetery.
Their children were J.J. Gallier (His father Jacob died at his home at 800 Harriott Street on 6/22/1931); Mary Gallier; and Aldine Gallier.

Census:
Beaumont (District 4), Jefferson Co, Texas
20 Jul 1860
Precinct 4 (Taylor's Bayou)

Residence 473/473
Leonard Hayes 41 1809 shoe maker LA
Felisita 39 1811 LA
Polly 18 1832 spinster TX
Aseauh 16 1834 Laborer TX (Oscar)
Joannah 14 1836 TX
Veannah 11 1839 TX
Leonard 5 1845 TX
Ambrous 3 1847 TX
Felisita 4/12 Mar 1850 TX
(only Hayes family in the community this census)


Residence 476/476
George Burrel 37 1813 stock keeper, 300 4300 LA
Nancy 35 1815 New York
Robert 15 1835 Texas
John J 14 1836 Texas
George 11 1839 Texas
William 9 1841 Texas
Sarah 6 1846 Texas
Frances 3 1847 Texas
Charles 6/12 Jan 1850 Texas

(only Hayes family in the community this census)


residence 477/477
Joseph Gallier (sr.) 44 1846 Louisiana
Catherine 39 1811 Louisiana
Elisabeth 19 1821 spinster Louisiana
Jacob 15 1835 laborer Texas
William 10 1840 Texas
Ufema 6 1844 Texas
Martin 3 1847 Texas

residence 478/478
Joseph Gallier (jr.) 21 1829 farmer 320 700 farmer Louisiana
Serina 19 1831 Texas
married within the year


Census:
Gallier Jacob 25 1845 farmer 125 TX
Susan 25LA
Levi 4 TX
Mary 1 TX

next door:
Joseph Gallier 54 1816 (no wife)farmer 300 710 LA
Ufema 16 1854 TX
Marton 14 TX
Artemisia 25 LA
Amele 5 1865 TX
Jenny 4 1866 TX
Phillip 10/12 1869 TX
Washington S, 40, 1830 male black LA stock rider
Ashworth WM 19 1851 white Texas stock rider


Carr William 75 1795 stock raising, 1,000 10,034 LA
Charlotte 47 1823 Prussia
Lucy Ann 5 1865 Texas

next door to Wm Barton 47 tailor Eng
Louisa 30 Prussia
Rebecka 10 TX
Edward TX
Asher 6 TX
Charles 1 TX

next door:
Holst Elizabeth 67 Prussia
Alexander Nancy 16 boarding white TX

Next door:
Taylor, Elvira 43 LA
Walter 30 stock rider LA
Harvey 17 TX
Charles 13 TX TX
Ramond 15 1855 TX
Elvira 10 1860 TX

next door:
Holst A 36 Prussia farmer
Adalin 21 TX
Bruse Tilly 3 TX Female
Hunt Elizabeth 16 TX housekeeper


Census:
Jacob, 35, TX farmer, LA LA posted
Susan, wife, 24, TX TX TX
Levy son, 14, TX
Mary dau 12 TX
Jacob son 9, TX
Sidney son 7, TX
Adaline, dau 3 TX

Jacob married Susan Frugia on 30 May 1865 in Jefferson Co, Texas. Susan (daughter of Virgil Pierre Frugee (Frugia) and Marie Louise Carville (or Courville)) was born on 10 Sep 1845 in Louisiana; died on 7 Nov 1910 in Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas; was buried in Burrell Cem, Taylor Bayou, Labelle/Fannett, Jefferson Co, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

not sure she's a sister to Artemeas Freza. Other spelling for her name might be Susan Frugia.

From LV Hayes:
Hello, Courts people!

I've been chatting with a Fruge (also Frugia inter al.) descendant who is
probably also a Johnson descendant via Mary (Johnson)(Hayes) Gallier, a
sister of the Annie who married Thomas Court II. I asked her if she could
connect the Pierre Frugia who married Julia Ann Courts to her family, but
she can't. Her Frugia ancestor was a Pierre V. who had a son named Pierre
"Peter", and she thought maybe it was the younger Pierre who married Julia
Ann, but I think it unlikely since Julia was born circa 1856 and he circa
1876. But who knows when the chemistry is right, as they say?

Does anyone have any info that might tell us who Julia Ann's Pierre
belonged to? All I have on them right now is that they were married ... no
dates, places, or kiddies.
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Fruge (actually Fruge' with an acute accent on the e) is the original
French surname which is pronounced roughly "froo-zhay". It appears in LA
and TX records as Fregia, Frezia, Frugia, Frusha, Frugea, and probably
other variants.

The Denise Frugea who married Jacob Stampley Cole Sr belongs to the same
Fruge family to which belongs the Pierre Virgile Frugia who settled in
Jefferson Co, TX. I don't know the names of the parents of the Susan Fruge
who married Jacob Gallier. Pierre Virgile had a sister named Arthemise,
but I don't know who she married.

Pierre Virgile married a daughter of Munson Bowes in Jefferson Co, in case
anybody is chasing Boweses.
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Died:
death cert: residence 570 Harriot, Beaumont
father Virgil Frugia birthplace France
mother Susan Frugia, b Louisiana
informant Mary Foster of Venton, LA

Francois married Anne Victorine Navarre about 1866. Anne was born on 4 May 1844 in Thibodaux, Laforche Parish, Louisiana; died on 31 Jul 1925 in Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]