Following is a chronology of Emanuel and Fanny Phillips' family . . . .
1853 - George Kreeger, Fanny's father died in New Orleans, August 28.
1855-1862 - Samuel, Fanny's brother, married Isabell Harby (born in Louisiana). They had daughter, Sara, ~ 1867.
1859 - Emanuel arrived at New Orleans aboard the ship, S.S. Donato on October 17, from Kingston, Jamaica.
The
passenger list shows he was "Age 19" and references "Custom House room
219, 2nd floor." Jessie Phillips, a female, was also on the same ship to New Orleans. (Was she a cousin? She married Wilford Aarons White) The passengers of the ship were: Miss
Jessie Phillips, 16; Emanuel A. Phillips, 19; Henry Montfort, 2; Isaac
Delgado, 20; Alexander Delgado, 18; I.B. Adams, 40; and Aaron Aaron, 50.
Note: the above Isaac Delgado
is probably the New Orleans philanthropist, born November 23, 1839,
Kingston; he is found in the 1856 City Directory as "clerk, 95 Gravier
St."
1860 - U.S. Census for the City of New Orleans, Wards "2 and 10", on the 22nd day of June, lists Emanuel livingwith his sister, Sophia and her husband, W. A. Aarons.
1861 - January 26, Louisiana seceded from the Union.
From the New Orleans City Directory: Emanuel was a Clerk, at 126 Canal Street.
1862 - May 1, The Union occupied New Orleans.
1866 - New Orleans City Directory showed Emanuel as a Clerk, at 303 St. Charles Street and, Samuel Kreeger,
brother of Fanny, at Kreeger and Selegman, dry goods, 607 Magazine Street. Jessie Phillips, born ~ 1843 in Jamaica ( was on the boat to New Orleans with Emanuel), married Wilford Aarons White, October 13. 1867 - Emanuel moved to Opelousas, La. late in 1867 or 1868 (?).
1868 - Emanuel and Fanny signed a marriage contract April 29, keeping separate Fanny's $5,180.
They
were married May 6, 1868, in New Orleans at her mother's house, and
left that day at 5 pm on their wedding cruise aboard the Annie Wagley
from New Orleans to Washington. A newspaper society column, describing
the wedding, referred to Emanuel as the "popular Opelousas merchant."
He brought his new wife (and her mother!) to his home in Opelousas: "Cajun country." 1869 - Grace, their first child, was born March 25, in Opelousas.
1870 - U.S. Census for St. Landry Parish, Opelousas, taken on June 3, shows Emanuel with his wife, Fanny,
child Grace, and his mother-in-law, Emma Barnett. 1873 - George was born May 1, in Opelousas.
1874 - Elinor was born in Opelousas, September 17.
1876 - Sylvia was born October 22, in Opelousas.
1877 - Union withdrew troops from New Orleans.
1878 - Emanuel was in business in Opelousas, & his daughter Madeleine was born there March 20.
1880 - The family moved to Lafayette, La., and Mercedes was born April 3.
The 1880 census index taken on June 2,
1880, in Ward 3, Washington Street, Vermilionville, Lafayette Parish,
La.: Emanuel age 39; Birthplace: England; Birthplace of Father and
Mother: London, England. Living with him were Fanny, 35; children:
Gracie, 11; David, 9; George, 7; Eleanor, 5; Sylvia, 4; Madeleine, 2;
Mercedes, 2/12 (2 months old). Then, Emma Kreeger, 67
("Mother-in-law"); and, Odila Laurence, 19; and Alice Dugas, 13 (two
Black Servants).
The 1880 census also has Hyman
Liberman, Lafayette, Ward 3, Vermillionville Town, Lafayette Street.
Hyman was the husband of Lina Kreeger, Fanny's sister. It has him 51
years old and born in Poland.
So, the two sisters, their mother and their families had made their way to Lafayette together.
Note: Fanny's brother Samuel is in New Orleans with his wife Isabelle and their children Sara, S.G. Jr., & M.M.
1881 - The Phillips family moved back to New Orleans.
1882 - Henry was born in New Orleans, September 1.
1883 - Sydney V. was born at home at 356 St. Mary Street, New Orleans.
Sydney's birth certificate states that
Emanuel's occupation was "traveler" and that he was "a native of
Jamaica", and Fanny was "a native of Germany."
The New Orleans City Directories show Emanuel as an Agent at P. Pfeiffer and Co. at 3 Chartres Street in 1884, and in 1885 and 1886 as an Agent, living at 356 St. Mary Street. 1886 - Emma
Kreeger, Fanny's mother, died at her home at the corner of Carondelet
and Constantinople Streets, New Orleans, October 24.
1887 - Times Picayune, January 20, page 4:
"PHILLIPS - On Wednesday, Jan 19, 1887,
at 12:15 o'clock a.m., Emanuel Phillips, aged 45 years, a native of
Kingston, Jamaica. The funeral from his residence: 356 St. Mary Street
this morning." He was a member of the Ivanhoe Lodge No. 22, K of P. ,
who met at the Castle Hall, corner of Natchez and Camp Streets for the
funeral.
So, Fanny was left with her nine
children: Grace, 17; David, 15; George, 13; Elinor, 12; Silvia, 10;
Madeleine, 8; Mercedes, 6; Henry, 4; and Sydney, 3 years old.
Grace didn't leave to marry James
Kaiser until five years later (October, 1892) at the age of 23; he was
31 years old. Jim died in 1902 of pneumonia. She later married Henry
Agat, from South Africa, January, 1915.
Further, in this same year, 1887,
Isabelle, Fanny's sister-in-law, died September 26. She was living at
the corner of Peniston and Perrier Streets in New Orleans.
1890 - Fanny K. Phillips is living at 356 St. Mary Street, New Orleans, La.
Samuel Kreeger married Katherine Andrews (born in New York).
1897- Fanny now is at 4621 Prytania Street
1898 - David, at age 26, married Viola White, and lived in New Orleans until he died, August 8, 1936.
1900 - Census, New Orleans, taken June 5, shows the "Fannie K Phillips" household at 4621 Prytania Street, New Orleans.
Living in her house were Grace E. and
James N. Kaiser, David E., George K., Eleanor, Sylvia, Madeleine,
Mercedes, Henry, Sidney V., and Lina Liberman (Fanny's older sister),
and Ernest A. White, Viola's older brother.
This report States the following: Lina
(one "n") had nine children of which 7 are presently living; born in
Russia, October of 1836; she immigrated to the US in 1855; and is
Fanny's sister. It also states about Fanny: that she had ten children,
of which nine are now living; born in Russia, November of 1844. She
immigrated to the US in 1851, and that she owned her home, and had been
married 32 years.
This Census shows the "David E.
Phillips" household at 4828 Prytania Street, where he and Viola lived
with daughter Sara Madeleine and Viola's little brother Bertrand.
The same Census report shows at 5005
Prytania Street, the household of "Michael Ber," including his wife Irene,
daughters Leonie and Emma, son Leon, mother in law Sophia Phillips
Aarons, brothers-in-law Soloman Levi and Elias Aarons, etc.
Elinor married Simon Gonsenheim, December 18.
Finally, also in 1900, Samuel and his
second wife Katherine lived at 490 Audubon Street in New Orleans, with
his son Frank, 19, and uncle Morris.
1902 - Jim Kaiser dies of pneumonia.
Sylvia married Jonas Weil, September 9.
1903 - Mercedes marries Morris B. Sontheimer, of New Orleans, April 28.
1904 - Elinor died February 5, age 29, leaving husband Simon and little Harold (later changed his surname to Phillips).
1908 - Samuel Kreeger moved from New Orleans to Hastings-on-Hudson, NY (just north of New York City).
1910 - Federal Census, Orleans Parish, shows Fanny, 65, living at 1203 Valence Street, with her son, David, 39,and
wife Viola, 32; Sara, 10; Emanuel H., 7; and Dr. E.A. White, 36. . .
David's brother-in-law, born in La, & parents born "Jamaica." The report states that Fanny was born "Russia/Germany" & her parents, "same."
It also shows the family of Michael
Ber; it says he and Irene have been married 23 years, and live at 5066
Prytania Street, New Orleans.
Emanuel's sister Sophia Aarons is 75, and living with them with her daughter-in-law, &her grand-daughter Leonie and husband M. David Haspel. 1915 - Grace married the South African (from Johannasburg) Henry Agat in January.
1916 - Sophia Aarons, Emanuel's sister, died at 5005 Prytania Street, New Orleans: Michael Ber's house, on December 19.
The
newspaper account says that she was the "widow of Henry Aarons, native
of Kingston, Jamaica, died of Mitrial insufficiency general arterial
sclerosis" at age "82 and 3 months." New Orleans certificate is vol.
167, number 1100. 1920 - Fanny died November 24, in Baton Rouge, and was buried the next day at Dispersed of Judah, in New Orleans.1923 - Samuel Kreeger died in Hastings-on-Hudson, May 5, and is buried in New Orleans.
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