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Politics : War
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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (32)12/29/2000 9:11:44 AM
From: PatiBob  Read Replies (1) of 23908
 
My family got caught up in that little brawl. They fled the Irish potato famine in 1854 and came to the US.

My grandmother and her family were from County Limerick. They way I heard it from my great-grandmother (she was an O'Coughlin-Cole) she married a fine Cajun boy (he was a Thibodeaux-Arceneaux ), went back to Ireland for the birth of her two daughters because she and my great-grandfather weren't too sure how stable the Americas were going to be. Plus, they said that the American's were very untrusting of the Irish people and treated them with contempt. Cajuns weren't looked upon in too great of favor by the rest of America either. A good lot of her family were indentured servants and the prospects of them ever leaving their bondage was fighting on the Confederate side.

On Memorial Day, we decorate the graves of our family members in The Old Confederate Cemetery in Alvin (where my mothers people are buried) and Broussard Cemetery in Louisiana where my fathers family is.

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