Nolbert Meguess

Other Events and Attributes:

• Property: 27 Mar 1893, Jefferson Co, Texas
• Census: 26 Jun 1900, Beaumont (District 4), Jefferson Co, Texas
• Census: 22 Apr 1910, Beaumont (District 4), Jefferson Co, Texas
• Census: 1920, Beaumont (District 4), Jefferson Co, Texas
• Other-Begin: 10 Mar 1920, Jefferson Co, Texas
• Property: 7 Dec 1945, Port Arthur, Jefferson Co, Texas

Notes:

Property:
From: L Campbell Uncle_Satan@att.net
Date: 11/11/2015 10:23:40 AM
To: lumoto1@gmail.com
Subject: Proposed Change: Josephine Dobouis (I21606)


On 27 Mar 1893, her son Nolbert was buying up his siblings' share of their mother's land, indicating that she had died around that time. The deed was granted from J P Landrum and Ozia Meguess Landrum to "Nolbert Meguess Riggs.


Census:
Miguess Nolbert Feb 1870 30 m 5 yrs 1895 TX LA LA
Mary Oct 1877 22 TX AL AL
Earl Jan 1896 4 TX
Pearl son 1896 1 TX
Miguess Albert Brother 1872 27 single TX LA LA



Census:
Meguess, Nolbert head 38 1872 TX m 10 yrs United States Louisiana
Mary 30 1880 TX 6 births 3 living, TX AL TX
Pearl son 9 1901 TX
Ethel dau 1907 TX
Ray son 11/12 1909 TX

Census:
Beaumont Broussard Road
Meguess, Nalbert self 49 1871 TX TX TX
Mary wife TX Alabama TX 42
Pearl son TX 19 TX
Ethel dau 12 TX
Ray son 10 TX
Nolas dau 8 TX
Fenger Walter white Boarder 23 1897 TX LA LA
Basset Albert Mulatto boarder 26 1894 LA LA LA
Basset Mary Mulatto boarder 36 1884 LA MS United States

Property:
Port Arthur News,
December 7, 1945
Yead Marble to N Meguess, undivided interest in Marguarite Dugat home place $160.

Died:
d.c., 78 yrs-old, married, farmer, retired,
father, John Meguess, TX, mother, unk
died of pneumonia, hypertension, and heart disease
informant, Ray Meguess.

Nolbert married Mary Etta Howard about 1900 in Fannett, Jefferson Co, Texas. Mary was born on 30 Oct 1878 in Texas; died on 15 Sep 1966 in Fannett, Jefferson Co, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Pearl Meguess was born in 1901 in Fannett, Jefferson Co, Texas; died in Oct 1978 in Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas.
2. Ethel Mary Meguess was born on 23 Feb 1907 in Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas; died on 17 Dec 1986 in Port Acres, Jefferson Co, Texas.
3. Ray Lee Meguess, Sr. was born about 1912 in of, Fannett, Jefferson Co, Texas; died on 23 May 1997 in Jefferson Co, Texas.
4. Nola Margerett Meguess was born on 09 Feb 1911 in of, Fannett, Jefferson Co, Texas; died on 17 Feb 1997 in Fannett, Jefferson Co, Texas; was buried in Landrum Cem, Fannett, Jefferson Co, Texas.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Other-Begin: 10 Mar 1920, Jefferson Co, Texas

John married Josephine Dubois (or Dobouis) about 1867 in Jefferson Co, Texas. Josephine (daughter of Marcellin Dubois and Marie Elise Mire) was born in Mar 1838 in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana; died before 27 Mar 1893 in Jefferson Co, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Other-Begin: 1864, Louisiana
• Census: 1870, Taylor Bayou, Jefferson Co, Texas
• Census: 1880, Jefferson Co, Texas
• Property: 18 Oct 1884, Jefferson Co, Texas
• Other-Begin: 10 Mar 1920, Jefferson Co, Texas
• Research Notes: 11 Nov 2015

Notes:

parents Marcellin Dubois and Elise Mire

Other-Begin:
From: L Campbell Uncle_Satan@att.net
Date: 11/11/2015 10:23:40 AM
To: lumoto1@gmail.com

Subject: Proposed Change: Josephine Dobouis (I21606) In 1864, Josephine Dubois, his widow, petitioned the court for a family meeting, or succession, to determine the custody of the children of Theo Babineaux, as preparatory to her intention to marry Joseph Thomas Riggs. This petition was granted.

Census:
1870 Taylor Bayou, Jefferson Co, Texas
John Regg 35 1835 Louisiana
Josephine Regg 35 1835 Louisiana
Margaret Regg 8 1862 Texas
Osrah Regg 2 1868 Texas


Census:
1880 Jefferson Co, Texas
Josephine Migesse 41 1839 widow Louisiana Louisiana Louisiana
Margaret Migesse 17 1863 Louisiana
Osea Migesse 12 1868 Texas
Norbert Migesse 10 1870 Texas
Albert Migesse 8 1872 Texas
Usirde Migesse 5 1875 Texas

lives next door to Dugat family; son Giles Dugat later married Margaret Babineaux Miguess.


Property:
Texas Land Title Abstract
Grantee: Mrs. Josephine Migues
Patentee: Mrs. Josephine Migues
Patent Date: 18 Oct 1884
Acres: 160
District: Jefferson
County: Jefferson
File: 92
Patent #: 341
Patent Volume: 16
Class: Jeff. Pre.


Research Notes:
1870 census for some reason shows head of household as John Reggs - but this a mistake. Her husband's name was John Meguess.

Perhaps it got confused in that Josephine Dubois had married a Joseph Thomas Riggs (not John); 9 May 1864, St. Martin, Louisiana.

After Josephine's death, land settlements were being handled among the children, and on 27 Mar 1893, Nolbert was granted deed from J.P. Landrum and Ozia Meguess Landrum (his sister). The deed was granted to Nolbert Meguess Riggs.

To clear this up, in 1920 Nolbert submitted an affidavit that his name was Nolbert Meguess, not Riggs and surmised where the name Riggs came from. He went into detail of his siblings and his father John Meguess, and included Margaret Babineaux, his half sister by his mother's 1st marriage. The death certs of all of John Meguess' children each list their father as John Meguess, which verifies this.

Josephine is shown as Miguess in 1880 census and living next door to the Dugets, a son of which her daughter Margaret Babino was to marry after that census was taken.

The same Josephine did marry Joseph Riggs/Reggs in 1864. Babineaux had died in 1862. Her first child with Meguess, Ozia, was born 1869. So, it looks like her marriage with Riggs had ended by about 1867. It is also looks like her children did not know of this marriage or Nolbert would have had an idea where the name Riggs came from. Somehow something got confused when the census was being recorded in 1870, and the census taker entering Riggs by mistake instead of Meguess.

The genealogy for Josephine's children would be the Meguess line, not Riggs.

Marcellin married Marie Elise Mire on 8 Feb 1825 in St. John, Lafayette Parish, Louisiana. Marie (daughter of Joseph Zephirin Mire and Emelie Guilbeaux (or Guilbeau)) was born on 27 Feb 1808 in St. Martinville, St. Martin Parish, Louisiana; died in Nov 1846 in Lafayette, Lafayette Parish, Louisiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joseph married Emelie Guilbeaux (or Guilbeau) on 16 Aug 1796 in St. Martinville, St. Martin Parish, Louisiana. Emelie was born on 20 Dec 1773 in St. Martinville, St. Martin Parish, Louisiana; died on 30 Jul 1842 in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]