Marie Julie (Deloye) Merola (1842 - 1901)

Born 8 Jan 1842 in Frahier, Haute-Saône, Franche-Comté, France

Ancestors

Wife of Barthelemy Antoni — married 9 Jul 1860 in New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, United States

Wife of Davide Merola — married 29 Jun 1882 in New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, United States

Descendants

Died 18 Dec 1901 at age 59 in Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee, United States

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Biography

Marie Julie was born on 8 Jan 1842 in Frahier, Canton Champagney, Haute Saone, France, the daughter of Francois Auguste and Marie Therese Lucienne (Despoire) Deloye. ^{[1] [2]} Her sister Hortense was living with her husband and year old child in New Orleans in the 1850 census, therefore Hortense would have been married sometime before 1849, thus placing the Deloye family in New Orleans by 1849.

Marie Julie married Barthelemy Antoni (name also given as Antony) at St. Ann's Church in New Orleans on 9 Jul 1860. ^{[3] [4]} Together they had the following children: Juliette Mathilde, Marie Antoinette, Bernard Auguste, Marie Victoire Catherine, Jean Andre, Joseph Auguste, Francois Maurice and Julie Marie

Barthelemy died in May of 1881, and on 29 Jun 1882, Marie Julie married Davide Merola in New Orleans.^[5] By Davide she had two daughters: Rosa and Lillian C.

By 1888, they were living in Birmingham, AL ^[6] Sometime before 1900 they had moved to Memphis, Tennessee ^[7] where Davide operated a restaurant and business with his stepdaughter Julie's husband (Charles Candler Wooten). Davide died in Memphis on 17 Mar 1900 ^{[8] [9]}

Either Marie Julie moved immediately back to Birmingham, or she and Davide had been splitting their time between there and Memphis, as she is listed in the 1900 Birmingham City directory as operating a grocery in 1900. ^[10] Her daughter Julie Marie (Antony) Wooten died on Christmas Day 1901. In the wake of her daughter's death, Marie Julie travelled to Memphis to help care for her five grandchildren, and died (probably of a stroke) on arrival at the railroad station in Memphis on 28 Dec. The cause of death was given as paralysis. ^[11] Her son-in-law originally planned to bury her with her second husband, Davide, but he was overruled by her children in Louisiana.^[12] However, they did not bury her with her first husband, but in the Pizzini family tomb of her eldest daughter, Juliette Mathilde (Antoni) Pizzini on 29 Dec 1901.^[13] A visit to the family tombsite in Greenwood Cemetery, New Orleans, reveals that Mathilde never inscribed her mother's name or information on the tomb, though her father-in-law's information is included on the stone.

Mathilde never forgave her mother for remarrying after her father's death, to the point that she and her husband sued for custody of her brothers (their father's heirs, Barthelemy having died intestate). Oddly, Mathilde did not sue for custody of her youngest sibling, Julie Marie, who remained with her mother and Davide Merola. Davide was, by all accounts, a good father, as his stepdaughter named her second son after him. Mathilde's animus was reflected in her daughter Adele's account of Marie Julie's remarriage, as she says in a letter to a cousin that her grandmother "forgot our grandfather too soon" and remarried six months after his death. ^[14] The truth is that Marie Julie married over a year after.

Sources

1. ↑ Marianne Doyle, private researcher, Beavercreek, Ohio, to Anneliese L. Kennedy, correspondence, 1842, Deloy Marie Julie Birth Record.; Deloye, Francois Auguste; Antoni/Antony and related families, Deloy Research Files; privately held by Anneliese l. Kennedy. Photocopy and translation of microfilm of birth record, Frahier, Haute-Saone, France.
2. ↑ "Genealogie des Vosges Saonoises Haute-Saone 70," database, Serv@ncnaute, Serv@ncnaute (http://www.servancnaute.fr/actes3/index.php?vue=T&xtyp=D: accessed 28 September 2017), birth record of Marie Julie Deloye; citing Depouillement de tables et actes d etat-civil ou de registres paroissiaux.
3. ↑ Marriage, Baptism and Burial Records, marriage, 9 Jul 1860, Archdiocese of New Orleans (Louisiana) Marriage, Baptism and Burial Records, Certificate of Marriage of Barthelemy Antony and Marie Julie DeLoy; Archdiocese of New Orleans Archives, New Orleans, Louisiana 70116.
4. ↑ Barthelemy Antony and Julie Deloy marriage, 9 July 1860, Saint Ann Church, New Orleans (Saint Ann), Louisiana. supplied 23 November 1999 by Anthony G. Tassin, Archives of Archdiocese of New Orleans, Vol 1859-70, Act 32; held in 2019 by Anneliese L. Kennedy ([address for private use], Lincoln, NE).
5. ↑ Louisiana, Secretary of State, Marriage Registers, Book 45: folio 298, Davide Merola and Julia Deloy widow of Barthelemy Antoni, 29 Jun 1882, registered 1 Jul 1882;Division of Archives, Records Management, and History, Baton Rouge.
6. ↑ "Re: David Merola & Julie Marie," 17 September 1999, Department of Archives and History State of Alabama ([address for private use] Montgomery, AL 36130-0100) to Anneliese L. Kennedy ([address for private use], Washington, DC 20521), 1888 Birmingham AL City Directory, p. 382; photocopy held by Anneliese L. Kennedy, [address for private use], Lincoln, Nebraska
7. ↑ Ancestry.com Operations Inc., "U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995," database with images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 10 March 2017), entries for David Merola and Merola and Son; This database is a collection of directories for U.S. cities and counties in various years; 1900 Memphis Directory.
8. ↑ Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee Memphis Library, History and Travel Department, "Memphis Death Registers 1848-1901," database, Memphis Library (http://www.memphislibrary.lib.tn.us/history : accessed ), David Merola, 17 Mar 1900.
9. ↑ Betty Blaylock, Memphis/Shelby County Archives, Memphis, Tennessee, to Anneliese L. Kennedy, letter, 20 December 1999, Death Record Davide Merola; Davide Merola; Antoni and related families, Anneliese L. Kennedy Family Archives; privately held by Anneliese L. Kennedy, [address for private use], Lincoln, Nebraska. 1999 - Anneliese L. Kennedy.
10. ↑ "Re: David Merola & Julie Marie," 17 September 1999, Department of Archives and History State of Alabama ([address for private use] Montgomery, AL 36130-0100) to Anneliese L. Kennedy ([address for private use], Washington, DC 20521), n.p.; photocopy held by Anneliese L. Kennedy, [address for private use], Lincoln, Nebraska.
11. ↑ Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee Memphis Library, History and Travel Department, "Memphis Death Registers 1848-1901," database, Memphis Library (http://www.memphislibrary.lib.tn.us/history : accessed ), Julia Merola, 28 Dec 1901.
12. ↑ Obituary; Merola, Mrs. Julia, Times-Picayune, New Orleans, Louisiana, 29 December 1901, p. 4, col. 6. printed from microfilm.
13. ↑ Fireman's Charitable and Benevolent Association, sponsor, "GW&CG Cemetery," database, GW&CG Cemetery (http://www.fcbacms.greenwoodnola.com : downloaded by funeral home staff 28 April 2019), Pizzini/Merola burial records, plot: 26 Myrtle, Greenwood Cemetery.
14. ↑ Adele Pizzini Murrell, (Texas) to Rose Martile Wooten, letter, 1959; Anneliese L. Kennedy Family Archive, privately held by Julia Wooten DeRooy. [address for private use], Crossville, TN. Transcript in possession of Anneliese L. Kennedy. Letter in family files of Julia deRooy, niece of Rose Wooten. Transcript given to Anneliese Kennedy in 1990s.