Ida Nugent Mayeux 1895-1986
My great-grandmother’s sister.
Eldest daughter of eleven children from parents Levy and Florida Nugent of Bayou Jack, Louisiana in Avoyelles Parish.
Ida stayed home, putting off marriage and starting her own family, so that she could help her mother raise her ten younger siblings.
She married later in life to an older widower, about 20 years her senior, Henry Mayeux. She had no children.
Grandma Beauvais and Dorothy Beauvais
Pictured are my great-great grandmother, Alice Ortego Beauvais, and her granddaughter (my grandmother), Dorothy Marie Beauvais.
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“Great, Great Grandpa Beauvais” my grandmother had me write on the back of this old photo.
It is, indeed, Oscar Ernest Beauvais, son of Antoine and Emelise Mercier Beauvais of Morganza, Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana - he preferred to be called Ernest. He was born on my birthday, November 6, in the year 1860.
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The first four are Promotional Photos taken for my family’s general store in Maringouin, Louisiana (check out some of the products that we still use today - photos were taken sometime in the early 1950s).
The Beauvais and Prestenback families ran the town’s general store from the late 1930’s until 1983, when it was sold to the current owners and became BobBen’s. It was first called Beauvais and Prestenback General Store and was later re-named to IGA Supermarket, when the family joined up with the Independent Grocers Alliance, and moved into the Gwen Theatre.
The original store was purchased from a Mr. Carbo in the late 1930’s when my great-grandparents moved from Bayou Jack in Avoyelles Parish to Maringouin in Iberville Parish. The building later built to replace it is now Maringouin’s Town Hall (2nd store shot).
The family later moved the store over to Gwen Theatre, and rebuilt it into present-day Bobbens after a fire gutted and destroyed the back of the building. The Bobbens store burnt after vandalism and was re-built by the present owners, for the first time since my family constructed the original building, in 2009.
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Florida (née Charrier) Nugent with three of her sons. This is my great-great grandmother. The boys are, from L-R, Antoine Nugent, Adam Nugent (in Florida’s lap), and John Nugent.
Florida and her family spoke Cajun-French and her name is pronounced Fla-ree-DAH, not “florida” like the state. My great-grandmother, Melina Nugent, was the seventh of eleven children born to Florida and Levy Nugent. She was named after her own grandmother, Melina Guillory (daughter of Belizaire & Joachine Juneau Guillory), who married Zenon Gerand Charrier (son of Julien and Helite Ferret Charrier).
I have traced my great-great grandmother’s Charrier line back to 1765 in Nion, Poitu, France and a Louis Charrier. I do not know when exactly he came to the New World, but he is recorded marrying here on 1 Dec 1785 to Marie Haché (also originally from France, daughter of Pierre and Anna Dumond Haché) in New Orleans, Louisiana at St. Louis Cathedral.
Photo taken circa 1916
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Nugent Family
Back Row (L-R)
Daughters: Clara Nugent, Ida Nugent, and Alida Nugent
Front Row (L-R)
Mother Florida Charrier Nugent and Father Levy Nugent holding son John Nugent
Photo taken circa 1906
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This photo, along with the following caption, appeared in the State Times newspaper, now The Advocate), published in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, year unknown.
The yellowed newspaper clipping I found in another photo album from my grandmother’s collection:
SHADY GROVE CARNIVAL BALLHorace Beauvais of Maringouin and Miss Dorothy Beauvais, his daughter, reigned as king and queen at the Shady Grove carnival ball held at the Shady Grove gymnasium Monday, Feb. 20. The floor show consisted of dance numbers by Brenda Gayle and Donna Marie Martin, Kathy and Kay Sexton, Beryl Marionneaux, Kay Marionneaux and Betty Row, and Janie Sexton and Beverly Blanchard. Following the floor show was the royal dance after which the court was entertained at an informal reception by the PTA.
This photo was taken on the stairwell of the family home where I was raised in Maringouin, Louisiana (Iberville Parish), first built and lived-in by my great-grandfather (pictured) Horace Joseph Beauvais. The queen of the ball is my grandmother, his daughter, Dorothy “Dot” Marie (nee Beauvais) Prestenback.
27 May 2011