STATUS: REUNITED WITH FAMILY
PHOTOGRAPH INFORMATION
NAME(S): Alice
Cromiller
PHOTOGRAPH: #
1207
OTHER
INFO: Bay
St.
Louis, Mississippi
died
about 1907 in New Orleans, Louisiana at the hospital
PHOTOGRAPHER: Butler,
Bay
St. Louis, Mississippi
CARD
SIZE: 15
cm
x 20.25
WHERE
PURCHASED: Winnie,
Texas
WHEN
PURCHESED: April
27,
2007
RESEARCHED INFORMATION
Probably:
NO INFO
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Died:
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Mother:
Married:
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NOTES
From
Peg
Blask
In
our
family, the story of Alice is always a heartbreaker.
None of us ever knew her except through the memories
of my grandfather, Alice's son Clarence.
Alice
Rosa
is the daughter of William C. Miller of Germany and
Caroline Löb (Loeb) of New Orleans. She first
married August Gerhard Ehrhardt, my ggrandfather in
New Orleans in the year 1895. They had one son,
Clarence August, born in 1897. When Clarence was
only 2 years old, Alice fled from her domicile with
her son and went to live with her sister Josephine
and Josephine's husband, Forest Bangard in Bay St.
Louis, MS. Alice and Josephine's mother, Caroline,
lived with them also. For the next eight years they
all lived together, modestly, but happily as there
were many family around. According to Clarence's
tales, the adults in the household delighted in
their children and a rather up-beat attitude
prevailed. In 1906, Alice second married the brother
of Forest, John Bangard.
In
October
1907, only a few months after acting as witness to
her sister Rose's marriage to Luther Miles Butts,
Alice was rushed to Hotel Dieu in New Orleans to
have an emergency abdominal hysterectomy. She lost
much blood and died of complications. She was 29
years old at her death.
Clarence
was
called upon by his father, August, to live with him
in New Orleans on Carrollton Ave & Clarence left
Bay St. Louis behind forever. August was an angry
man, so Forest and Josephine, themselves childless,
followed Clarence to New Orleans and lived just a
few blocks from his house, so that he could continue
to reap the benefits of their love and guardianship.
After Clarence came of age, Forest and Josephine
moved to Beaumont, Texas where Alice's mother
Caroline died.
Alice's
remains
are buried in Bay St. Louis in the Bangard family
plot at Cedar Rest cemetery. She lies beside her
mother. Also buried there are the remains of
Josephine, Forest and John Bangard as well as those
of other Bangard family. My mother, Mary Alice
Ehrhardt, named for Alice Cromiller, remembers
visiting Beaumont, Texas with her father Clarence to
see Josephine and Forest. She has no memory of John
Bangard.
Note:
I
have not yet discovered the circumstances
surrounding the change of the name from "Miller" to
"Cromiller", but have found several documents with
both names, signatures matching.
SOURCES
Peg Blask