Morris Simon Sr.
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Morris Andrew Simon Sr. (1898 - 1944)

Morris Andrew Simon Sr.
Born in Vacherie, Louisianamap
Ancestors ancestors
Husband of — married 13 Nov 1916 in Garyville, Louisianamap
Descendants descendants
Died at age 46 in Tuscaloosa, Alabamamap
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Biography

Morris' birth name was "Maurice Andre Simon". It was anglicized as "Morris Andrew Simon" when he started working in a cypress lumber mill near Lutcher, Louisiana. His wife Cecile remembered his courting her by boating across the Mississippi River from his father's farm at Vacherie to her home on the east bank at Paulina. Cecile's father was a cook at a cypress lumber camp at the time, and Morris took a job at the same lumber mill. When the cypress lumber industry began to fail, Morris moved downriver to Braithwaite, working in a large paper mill. Morris and Cecile's five children were born in the laborer's village at Braithwaite. In 1928 a major flood threatened the city of New Orleans, just upriver from the paper mill. The levees below the city were dynamited to steer the floodwater southward, and destroyed the paper mill. The Westerveldt Paper Company relocated their entire operation to Tuscaloosa, Alabama, renaming itself Gulf States Paper Corporation. Several of the mill families, including the Simon family, made the move to Alabama as the founding workers and supervisors of the new Tuscaloosa factory. Morris and his three sons (Morris Jr., Allen, and Minor) all worked at the new mill, where Morris Sr. became one the first shift supervisors.

Sources

  • Private family sources
  • Marriage license, St. John the Baptist Parish, Edgard, Louisiana
  • Alabama Deaths, 1908-74, Vol 22, No. 10547, Roll 4
  • 1900 Federal Census, Louisiana, St. James Parish, Police Jury Ward 7, District 58, roll 580, p. 24B, hh 523, lines 75-80
  • 1910 Federal Census, Louisiana, St. James Parish, Ward 7, E.D. 75.
  • 1930 Federal Census, Louisiana, Plaquemines Parish, Braithwaite, Police Jury Ward 1, District 1, Roll 815, p 2B, hh 35/36, ls 71-77
  • 1940 Federal Census, Alabama, Tuscaloosa County, Precinct 16, Alberta City, ED 63-37A, Sheet 12A, lines 17-22, hh 283




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