Eugene "Jim" Morris Schoenfeld, Jr.

Notes:

Eugene Schoenfeld Jr. rites Friday

Fueneral services for Eugene Morris Schoenfeld Jr. will be held Friday at 11 a.m. at the House of Bultman, 338 St. Charles Ave., followed by a Mass at Most Holy Name of Jesus Catholic Church, 6363 St. Charles. Interment will be in Metairie Cemetery. Mr. Schoenfeld died of a heart attack Monday in Austin, Texas. He was 42. Mr. Schoenfeld, a native of New Orleans, was a graduate of De La Salle High School. He received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Southwestern Louisiana in Lafayette in 1968. He worked for General Electric Co. in Houston and San Antonio, Texas for 11 years before becoming electrical engineer at the physical plant of the University of Texas at Austin. Mr. Schoenfeld was a registered professional engineer, a member of Tau Beta Pi engineering fraternity and Eta Kappa Nu Association. He was a Navy veteran. He is survived by his wife, Adelia Satterfield Schoenfeld; his mother and father, Vivian Morlas Schoenfeld and Eugene M. Schoenfeld Sr.; two sisters, Kathleen S. Casey of Daytona Beach, Fla. and Vivian S. Solares of Harahan; two brothers, Robert M. Schoenfeld and Noel D. Schoenfeld, both of New Orleans; a stepdaughter, Deborah Brockman of Austin; and two grandchildren.

(Obituary courtesy of Keith McGuire)

Eugene married Adelia Jean Satterfield on 23 Jun 1972 in Fort Bend County, Texas. Adelia was born on 20 Dec 1929 in Comanche, Comanche County, Texas; died on 12 Feb 2002 in Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Eugene Morris Schoenfeld, Sr., on Tuesday, June 8, 1993 at 6:00 AM. Husband of Vivian Morlas Schoenfeld. Father of Robert Morlas Schoenfeld, Noel Douglas Schoenfeld, Kathleen S. Casey, Vivian S. Solares, and the late Eugene Morris Schoenfeld Jr. Son of the late Otto B. Schoenfeld Sr. and Clara Walet Schoenfeld. Brother of Mrs. Clara Watters, Lawrence Schoenfeld and the late Otto B. Schoenfeld Jr. Also survived by 14 grandchildren and 7 great grandchildren. Age 85 years, a native of New Orleans, LA and a resident of Metairie, LA for the past 21 years.

Relatives, friends officers and member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers No. 130 are invited to attend a Funeral Mass at LAKE LAWN METAIRIE FUNERAL HOME CHAPEL, 5100 Pontchartrain Blve (in Metairie Cemetery) on Thursday, June 10, 1993 at 12:00 noon. Interment in Metairie Cemetery. Visitation from 6:00 PM until 10 PM on Wednesday and after 10:00 AM until service time on Thursday.

Undated, unfererenced clipping from Keith McGuire Jr.

Eugene married Vivian Anna Morlas on 11 Apr 1936 in Gretna, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. Vivian (daughter of John Dominic Morlas and Lucine Roquevert) was born on 22 Mar 1909 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana; died on 29 May 2000 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana; was buried in Metairie Cemetery (Lake Lawn Metairie), New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Vivian Morlas Schoenfeld, a homemaker, died Monday of a stroke at Life Care Hospital, Memorial Baptist Campus on Monday, May 29, 2000 At 7:30 P.M. She was 91.

Mrs. Schoenfeld was born in New Orleans and lived In either New Orleans or Metairie all her life. She was the daughter of the late John Dominic and Lucine (Roquevert) Morlas and was preceded In death by four brothers and eight sisters.

She was the beloved wife of the late Eugene Morris Schoenfeld, Sr. and the mother of Kathleen S. Casey, of Daytona Beach, Fl; Vivian S. Solares, of Harahan; Robert Morlas Schoenfeld and Noel Douglas Schoenfeld both of New Orleans, and the Late Eugene Morris Schoenfeld, Jr., of Austin, Tx. She is also survived by 13 grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren. Relatives and friends are Invited to attend the Funeral Mass at Lake Lawn Metairie Funeral Home Chapel, 5100 Pontchartrain Blvd. (In Metairie Cemetery) on Thursday, June 1, 2000 at 11:00 A.M. Interment will follow in Metairie Cemetery. Visitation on Wednesday from 6:00 P.M.until 9:00 P.M. And on Thursday after 9:00 A.M. until Service Time. In lieu of flowers, the family prefers donations to Sisters Of Mercy, Holy Name Of Jesus Convent, 6028 Freret St., New Orleans 70118.

Obituary Source:

(1) two undated unreferenced clippings provided by Keith McGuire Jr.

(2) http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/orleans/obits/1/s-06.txt



E U L O G Y VIVIAN MORLAS SCHOENFELD 1909 - 2000
WRITTEN BY: KATHLEEN S. CASEY--June 1, 2000


This is indeed the end of an era. Mama is the last of her immediate Morlas family. Eight sisters and four brothers have gone before her. And I have lost the best friend I ever had.

For Mama, life was a long journey, and in her 91 years she had many side trips and outings along the way. She loved reminiscing about them.

With great relish she used to tell about her first plane ride. She was not quite 14, and her father, who died in 1923, was still alive. Someone was selling plane rides over New Orleans for about $15 apiece. Mama's mother arranged for Mama and some of her sisters to take a ride. While they were flying overhead, Mama's parents were sitting in their yard. When Mama's father saw the plane, he said to Grandma, "I wonder what fools are in that plane." Grandma spared him the truth.

In 1926 and 1929, Mama, her mother and unmarried sisters toured Europe. Mama got more mileage out of those trips than anybody else, I know. She loved telling how she was followed after an evening out in Amsterdam by a big crowd because the people thought she, in her long evening gown, was a movie star. She regaled us with stories of officers and college students on the ships who were madly in love with her. I never doubted her for a moment.

Then there was the flight to Detroit in 193l with Grandma and Aunt Eleanor to buy the Hupmobile and drive it home. In 1938 there was the sad journey by train from Corpus Christi, Texas, to New Orleans when Mama learned her sister Clothilde was dying.

Mama's family and friends meant more to her than anything else. I was brought up in a home where I felt secure and loved. Vivian, Jim, Bob, Noel and I knew we were blessed.

We and other family members have talked a lot lately about things we did together, places we went: a trip to Sturgis, Mississippi, when I was about 15 to visit Aunt Lucille and family, weekend excursions to Mississippi in a car loaded with cement and tools so Daddy could work on his swimming pool. Mama and Daddy named their place at Beneshewaah KAVIJIBONO, using the first two letters of each of their five children's names. We enjoyed many happy gatherings there with family and friends.

Mama and Aunt Eleanor went by train to California to see Jim who was there in the Navy. They also visited Uncle John. Aunt Leontine had sent Mama and Aunt Eleanor off with a big box lunch. The travelers laughed all the way to California and back.

Mama and Daddy went to Colorado in 1972 with Jim and Dee and Aunt Dora and Uncle Larry. Just recently in the hospital Mama said they had a "wonderful time." Noel reminded me night before last that on that trip after eating at a roadside park, Mama threw a paper cup over her shoulder and it landed in a trash receptacle. Jim said, "I bet you can't do that again." He gave her another cup and once again she made a goal. Mama was always on target no matter what she was doing.

When Mama and Daddy stayed at a dude ranch once with Bob and Genie and their children, Mama got to ride horseback again for the first time in many years since she had ridden regularly along the levee. She took great pleasure telling how as a young woman, she was thrown over a horse's head and had to lead the horse to a lamp post and climb up the post to remount and gallop away uninjured.

On trips to St. Martinville, Mama and Daddy relaxed and enjoyed "happy hour" on Bob and Genie's front porch.

There were trips with Vivian and Sig and their children to Austin and to Daytona Beach and later with Vivian to Daytona Beach, Disney, World and Key West.

And, Mama never missed a grandchild's wedding even if it meant traveling to Daytona Beach and later to San Antonio while nursing a broken pelvis.

Over the years, Mama and I reminisced about life when Vivian, Jim, Bob, Noel and I were children. Visiting was a big part of our entertainment. I remember a family reunion at Grandma's on South Tonti Street. On Sundays we went to see Uncles Louis, Leon and Paul and Aunts Leontine, Stella, Lucille, Jennie, Juliet and Eleanor. When Aunt Josephine came to town from Oklahoma, we had get-togethers on a large scale.

When I was a child, my brothers, Vivian and I took rides to the lakefront and Audubon Park where we'd run up and down Monkey Hill, look at the seals and visit the zoo. Daddy would take us swimming.

Every Easter we'd pick clover in the park for our baskets, and at Christmastime we'd take rides to see the lights and then go to Canal Street to see Santa Claus waving from the balcony at D. H. Holmes.

Noel tells about going downtown with Mama to shop and eat at Kress or McCrory's. On one occasion when he was about five, Mama bought him a little rubber mouse which he left on the streetcar. When they discovered his loss, he was heartbroken. Mama, carrying him, ran after the streetcar but couldn't get it to stop. She even called NOPSI to see if anyone had turned in Noel's lost treasure. No such luck. On their next trip downtown, Mama bought Noel another rubber mouse. Life was simple, and it was good.

For years Vivian was Mama's wheels-running her errands and taking her to her doctors and to visit family and friends.

In recent years, Mama didn't go out much, but her radios and telephone took her where she wanted to go. She looked forward to talking to her children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, cousins and friends. They were very good to her, and Mama was good to everybody. She was thrifty and generous, a happy combination which benefited many of us.

Family and friends played a vital part in Mama's life to the end, and they kept dropping in and phoning her at the hospital. One day I counted 20 visitors. She seemed happy being surrounded by those who love her. Mama knew she was dying, and she accepted death with prayers and peace. And there was laughter, too. Only a few days before she died Noel had Mama smiling over a hilarious story about Linda's dog Promise.

I owe all that I am and all that I have to my parents, and my life will be very different without Mama.

It is awfully hard to say goodbye, and I won't. Instead, for Mama-our dear, sweet Mangie-on her final journey, I wish her Godspeed.

Notes:

Married:
They were remarried in a religious ceremony on 13 Sep 1936 at St. John Church in Thibodaux, LA.

Notes:

Owner of La Bella Creole Dairy. Bennie Zahn wrote, in the January 9, 2000 issue of THE TIMES-PICAYUNE (Living, Section E, page 7), that "The property was originally acquired in the late 1800s by John Morlas who made the purchase with silver dollar coins collected from wealthy customers on his milk route. The family legend is, that whenever he was given a silver dollar in payment for milk and cream, he tossed it onto the top of the armoire in his bedroom. When this property which adjoined the Tulane (University) tract was put on the market, he gathered all of the silver coins, counted them and found that he had $8,000, enough to buy the property. After his death in 1923, his wife, Lucine Roquevert Morlas, sold part of the tract, about 3,800 feet long with a depth varying from 100 to 140 feet, for $100,000 for the then proposed St. Vincent Infant Asylum. Within a year, the property was resold for $165,000 to men who had successful experience in local developement and who started immediately to beautify the ground. Today the property is called Versailles Boulevard and extends from Claiborne Avenue to Fontainebleau Drive."

John married Lucine Roquevert on 28 May 1888 in St. Stephen's Church, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana. Lucine (daughter of Jean Louis Roquevert and Blazine Pene) was born on 28 Jan 1869 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana; died on 16 Feb 1946 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana; was buried in Metairie Cemetery (Lake Lawn Metairie), New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

(Research):An mtDNA sample supplied a direct female descendant of Lucine (a child of Pat McGuire, the daughter of Josephine Morlas), was analyzed by FamilyTreeDNA in Houston. Their analysis showed the following Haplogroup assignment, along with the following differences from the Cambridge Reference Sequence.

HVR1 Haplogroup
K
HVR1 differences
from ?u?CRS?/u?
16224C
16519C

The mitochondrial super-haplogroup U encompasses haplogroups U1-U7 and haplogroup K. Haplogroup K is found through Europe, and contains multiple closely related lineages indicating a recent population expansion. The origin of haplogroup K dates to approximately 16,000 years ago, and it has been suggested that individuals with this haplogroup took part in the pre-Neolithic expansion following the Last Glacial Maximum. William Hurst, on his Haplogroup K Website, writes that "Katrine," the founding mother of mitochondrial DNA haplogroup K, was one of the "Seven Daughters of Eve" as listed in the 2001 book of that title by Bryan Sykes. A lot of happened since 2001, but the book is still valuable.

Katrine lived about 16,000 years ago. Perhaps the oldest known K descendant was Oetzi the Iceman whose frozen body was discovered in the Alps in 1991. Estimated at 5000 years old, the Iceman proved to have the basic mutations for a K: 16224C and 16320C. Every K is a cousin of Oetzi.

Notes:

Bennie Zahn wrote that "Jean-Marie Morlas was born at 7:00 p.m. on Saturday, 14 May 1846 au Capule with Joseph GORDAY, farmer, age 36, and Pierre BIAMOURET, 48, as witnesses." She went on to note that the dates of his immigration, marriage and death are unknown. As daughter Marie Morlas was shown on the 1870 census to be born circa 1862 in New Orleans, his immigration and marriage were sometime prior to that date.

There appears to be discrepency between Jean/John's date of birth as reported by Bennie Zahn, and as shown on the 1870 Louisiana census. If his age on the above referenced census was accurate, then he would have been born circa 1838. If the birth date of May, 1846 is accurate, then he should have instead been listed on the 1870 census as age 24. Being born in the year 1846 would also mean that he was just 16 when he married Caroline and when his first daughter born, with his wife being five years his senior. Perhaps the original French records were misread or mistranscribed?

Jean-Marie abandoned his family. It is assumed he vanished sometime in 1878, as according to Bennie Zahn, his sons Bertrand and John Dominic were admitted to St. Mary's Catholic Orphan Boys's Home on 17 Jan 1879, and discharged in February 1880. The city directory of 1888 listed his wife as the widow of John Morlas. Her residence at the time was Tonti between Poydras and Julia Street.

(Research):
Census Information:

1870 census

Lousiana, Orleans Parish, New Orleans, Ward 3
1155-2378
Morlas, John 32 Butcher France
Morlas, Caroline 29 Keeps house New York
Morlas, Mary 8 At School Louisiana
Morlas, John 5 Louisiana
Morlas, Bertrand 1 Lousiana

Jean-Marie married Caroline Maria Holmes before 1862. Caroline (daughter of James Holmes and Mary McKnight) was born in Jan 1841 in New York; died on 7 Jun 1901 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana; was buried in Cypress Grove Cemetery, Orleans Parish, Louisiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

When Maria was eight years old, her mother died of Cholera, and she was placed in the Poydras Orphan Asylum for Females by order of the court recorder on August 19, 1849. Her father was still living, but presumable unable to care for his children. She was Protestant. On May 19, 1856, she was placed with a Mrs. Randall.

In 1900, she was living with her youngest son and his wife. When she died in 1901, the funeral services were held at their residence on 2518 Poydras Street. She was buried in Cypress Grove 2 Cemetery, which was later excavated during the 1930's for construction of Canal Boulevard. Her remains were not relocated to another burial place.

Notes:

He was known as Louis, and he was the only one of his family to emigrate to the United States. Bennie Zahn writes that he returned to France for a visit with his parents in 1878 at which time the birth of his eighth child was imminent. On 10 June 1878 he wrote to his wife, Blazine Pene, citing the great joy he felt embracing his family; both of his parents still living. While the sights of France filled him with admiration and while he rejoiced at being in his homeland and with his family once again, his thoughts were of his wife and children, and the joy he anticipated upon his reunion with them. His handwriting was neat and precise and his throughts were beautifully and sentimentally expressed, all of which tends to indicate that he was a well-schooled person.

He died of stomach cancer when he was 45 year old; the youngest of his 13 children being just three years old. He spent the last months of his life at his summer home in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, where it was hoped that his condition would improve.

On his Find A Grave memorial page, he is shown as being born in Deyme, France, not in Cazeneuve-Montaut. He is also shown as buried at the Evergreen Cemetery in Ocean Springs. No photo of a tombstone is posted, however. (# 77856016).

Jean married Blazine Pene about 1866 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana. Blazine (daughter of Pierre Pene and Marie Cecile Lacassagne) was born on 1 Feb 1843 in Oueilloux, Hautes-Pyr?n?es, France; died on 14 Jan 1916 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Blazine sailed from Bordeaux in September 1866 aboard the windjammer "Jupiter" and arrived in New Orleans 5 December 1866. The passenger list of 109 names listed her occupation as a "seamstress." She married Louis Roquevert and together they owned and operated a dairy on Peters Avenue at Long Street (now Jefferson Avenue at Freret). They had a summer home in Ocean Springs, Mississippi where Louis died in 1890. Nine of their 13 children lived to adulthood; 7 resided in or near New Orleans. (Bennie Jay Zahn).

In early 1901, George D. Bland (1853-1915), who managed the Beach Hotel at Ocean Springs...purchased the Louis Roquevert (1845-1890) place, an approximately eighteen-acre tract on Old Fort Bayou from New Orleanian, Blazine Penne Roquefort Barthe (1843-1916), the widow of Louis Roquevert. This was the former site of Bradford's Landing.(Jackson County, Ms. Land Deed Book 24, pp. 77-79) Here George D. Bland, established a truck farm and poultry business. The Roquevert place was located today in the vicinity of Bayou Cove and Ray Street east of Vermont in Section 19, T7S-R8W.

http://www.oceanspringsarchives.com/people.htm

(Research):An mtDNA sample supplied a direct female descendant of Blazine (a child of Pat McGuire, the daughter of Josephine Morlas), was analyzed by FamilyTreeDNA in Houston. Their analysis showed the following Haplogroup assignment, along with the following differences from the Cambridge Reference Sequence.

HVR1 Haplogroup
K
HVR1 differences
from ?u?CRS?/u?
16224C
16519C

The mitochondrial super-haplogroup U encompasses haplogroups U1-U7 and haplogroup K. Haplogroup K is found through Europe, and contains multiple closely related lineages indicating a recent population expansion. The origin of haplogroup K dates to approximately 16,000 years ago, and it has been suggested that individuals with this haplogroup took part in the pre-Neolithic expansion following the Last Glacial Maximum. William Hurst, on his Haplogroup K Website, writes that "Katrine," the founding mother of mitochondrial DNA haplogroup K, was one of the "Seven Daughters of Eve" as listed in the 2001 book of that title by Bryan Sykes. A lot of happened since 2001, but the book is still valuable.

Katrine lived about 16,000 years ago. Perhaps the oldest known K descendant was Oetzi the Iceman whose frozen body was discovered in the Alps in 1991. Estimated at 5000 years old, the Iceman proved to have the basic mutations for a K: 16224C and 16320C. Every K is a cousin of Oetzi.