re: Your random but interesting family history

My uncle was a fairly popular rock and roll star back in the seventies. He's 81 now,retired, living on the beach. He has been rolling fat boys every day for at least the past 60 years, all the evidence I need that MJ is not very harmful.

I did a family tree for my Dad one year and found a bunch of interesting and disturbing facts. Pretty cool to be able to take a small glimpse into the life of the people we came from. Never knew that about Knight, I’ll make sure to pass the info along to Pops, he loves that stuff.

Another strange one is my Dad’s grandmother’s brother, Dock Jackson, was arrested for allegedly killing a Wildlife and Fishery agent in Honey Island Swamp. He was then lynched from jail and hung from the Bogue Chitto Bridge.. The weirdest part of it is.. the man he was accused of murdering had the same name as his sister’s (dad’s grandmother) husband.

HoneyIsland

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When word reached Picayune of Jackson’s capture and confinement, a mob of about one hundred men, infuriated at Favre’s not being lynched, stormed the jail. Using acetylene torches to burn through the bars, they took Jackson prisoner. A caravan of about twenty-five cars drove southward toward Honey Island Swamp and Pearl River with the taunting intent to lynch Jackson at the bridge where the murders had taken place. However, the mob was to be disappointed. Along the way the riotous caravan was stopped at the Bogue Chitto Creek bridge by a local farmer who informed them that authorities were in close pursuit. Not to be dissuaded from their mission, one of the mobsters yelled, “Let’s do it here. Right from the Bogue Chitto Creek Bridge.”

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My great-great grandfather was a POW in the Civil War. He fought for CSA.

Got a Cousin who was a semi famous NASCAR racer
One of my ancestors was an "Outlaw Queen"

Long ago, my family made all the gas streetlights in the French Quarter.

I'll keep going I guess.

My distant relatives on my dad's side came over with the French and stayed after the Louisiana Purchase. Bought The Cottage (Conrad Point) property on River Road by LSU and we still own it. I was married there.

Also, my cousin in New Orleans married into the Hubig Pie's family and they stayed with us after Katrina and evacuated a fully stocked Hubig Pie delivery truck to our house

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What was your ancestors name?

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He was a Browning, yes a part of the firearms lineage but a distant part, not the moneyed ones. He was orphaned around Corsicana, TX.

His father who could not do math was the local scale master for the farmers determining the pay for their crops. He just knew that say 135 tons of cotton @$0.03 was $x after taxes, fees, etc. (the fees and taxes make it a more complicated thing than straight add/subtract).

My maternal great grandmother used to tell us an interesting story about our family tree. Her grandmother lived in New Orleans during the civil war and her husband left her and their infant daughter to go fight.
Apparently he was not so happy in the marriage and faked his own war death and used it as an opportunity to go all over the country sowing his wild oats. Some 8 or so years later he was broke and came home to New Orleans to finally settle down in New Orleans with the Wife and child he had abandoned.
GGG grandma was obviously surprised to see him since she had been told of his death on the battle field. She had since taken up with another veteran who had come home from war. Old boy wanted the new guy out of the home and ggg grandma didn’t want him back but tecnically they were married and catholic divorce in NO back in 1870 wasn’t really a thing.

This is where it turns a bit unbelievable. Supposedly a judge decided that the two men should fist fight in the streets of New Orleans and the loser would leave town. New guy wins the fight and is able to go into a common law arraingement with ggg grandma. Good thing for me because their first child was my great grandma’s momma.

What book were you referring to?