{"id":1150,"date":"2008-10-02T17:52:29","date_gmt":"2008-10-03T00:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/evermore.imagedjinn.com\/blg\/?p=1150"},"modified":"2013-02-12T16:40:31","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T16:40:31","slug":"zoe-hennesy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evermore.imagedjinn.com\/blg\/1150\/zoe-hennesy\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo and census info for Zoe Hennesy"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is Zoe Hennesy b. 1905 in Washington Parish, Louisiana to James Leon Hennesy and Lucy Virginia Myles. She died in 1989? So, I don’t really know. And if you do maybe you could drop me a line. She married a man named Ray Middleton and I’ve no marriage date for that.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This retouching was done when I first started working with Photoshop a number of years ago. I wanted to bring the image of Zoe to life and went bright with the colors as I had become weary of always using browns and blues. I thought I’d put her in bright red and chartreuse, which I view now as quite a mistake, no matter how tired I was of browns and blues.<\/p>\n

When was the photo taken? The style reminds me of Natalie Wood in the movie “Inside Daisy Clover” which was supposed to occur in the early 30s I believe. We’ve a photo as well of her in 1924 when Ethel Simmons married Esmond Hennesy, Zoe’s brother, and she is definitely younger in that one and her hair style is different, shorter and she has bangs. I know my first impression when I saw this photo, before finding the 1930 census which gives Zoe as living in a rooming house and working as a clerk, is that it was of an independent, working woman. I don’t know what about her gave me that read, but I’d be inclined to think this was from that time period…except for the fact she appears to be wearing a wedding band. So this would have to be subsequent 1930.<\/p>\n

My grandmother died shortly after the birth of their fifth child, a little girl, Zeda, who died as an infant…Zoe, the youngest surviving daughter, was raised by Lucy’s mother and father, Edward and Rene Myles. Before they would agree to take her, they made my grandfather promise that he would never try to take her back, that she would be their child, even though they never legally adopted her.<\/p>\n

MY PERSONAL PROFILE AND FAMILY OF ORIGIN, by Jean (Hennesy) Kearns, November 20, 1991\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Edward Myles was about 62 and Rene was about 60 when they took Zoe in. Edward died in 1920 so Zoe would have been 15. Rene died in 1924 when Zoe was 19. Which I imagine would have been tough, losing one’s mother and then losing Edward and Rene while she was a teenager, though her father lived to 1938. The 1920 census shows Edward and Rene’s daughter, Lillie, in the household so she must have been a help.<\/p>\n

In 1930 Zoe was self-supporting as a clerk in Bogalusa while in 1930 Lillie was living in the household of William J. Carpenter, the widowed husband of Lillie’s sister, Effie, who had died some time between 1920 and 1930. No doubt she was likely helping to raise the remaining children in the household. The 1920 census showed her as 40. As did the 1930.<\/p>\n

Source Citation: Year: 1910; Census Place: Police Jury Ward 1, Washington, Louisiana; Roll T624_534; Page: 10A; Enumeration District: 124; Image: 21.<\/p>\n

Franklinton and Covington Road<\/p>\n

120\/129 MYLES Edward 66 md. 44 years, b. LA parents b. LA, general farming
\nSarena A. wife 62, 8 of 12 children surviving
\nLillie daughter 23
\nZoa A. daughter 15 [sic]
\n121\/129 MYLES John D. 24 md. 6 years, general farming
\nMichele wife 23, 2 children
\nSarena daughter 4
\nEdward son 2
\n122\/129 CARPENTER Willie J. 30, md. 6 years, general farming
\nEffie J. 25, 3 children
\nBessie daughter 5
\nEdith daughter 3
\nLeo son 1<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Source Citation: Year: 1920;Census Place: Police Jury Ward 9, Washington, Louisiana; Roll 31109_4300990; Page: 5A; Enumeration District: 148; Image: 514.<\/p>\n

75 WELCH George 18 b. LA parents b. LA farm laborer
\nLillie wife 18
\n76 CARPENTER Will 50 farmer on rural farm
\nEffie wife 33
\nBessie daughter 15
\nEdith daughter 12
\nLeo son 11
\nDallas son 7
\nAllie son 1 and 1\/12
\n80 MYLES Edward 75 farmer parish
\nRena wife 74 b. MS parents b. MS
\nLillie daughter 40 b. LA father b. LA mother b. MS
\nHENNESY Zoe granddaughter 14 b. LA parents b. LA<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Source Citation: Year: 1930; Census Place: Police Jury Ward 9, Washington, Louisiana; Roll 825; Page: 1B; Enumeration District: 22; Image: 96.0.
\nFranklinton-Amite Highway
\n8\/10 CARPENTER William J. 57 widowed, married at 25 b. LA parents b. LA farmer
\nBessie daughter 24 nurse at hospital
\nEdith daughter 22 nurse at hospital
\nLeo son 21 laborer on highway
\nDalas son 17 laborer on farm
\nRay son 14
\nAllan son 11
\nMYLES Lillie sister-in-law 40\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Source Citation: Year: 1930; Census Place: Bogalusa, Washington, Louisiana; Roll 824; Page: 8A; Enumeration District: 7; Image: 765.0.
\n301 Mississippi Ave. 166.
\n174 SPORL M. J. $4000 50 49 md at 49 b. LA parents b. LA steward on steamship line
\nBlanche wife 38 md at 37 b. LA
\nBANKSTON May E. roomer 33 operator at telephone co
\nHUEY Velma roomer 23 b. MS parents b. MS operator at telephone co
\nARA Alma roomer 25 b. LA parents b. LA operator at telephone co
\nSIMMONS Thurmon roomer 38 automobile salesman
\nSCOTT Evelyn roomer 17 b. AR parents b. AR waitress at hotel
\nSMITH Harriet roomer 19 b. MS parents b. MS waitress at hotel
\nHENNESSEY Zoe roomer 26 b. LA parents b. LA clerk at cafe
\nHENRY Walter roomer 35 salesman of carbon lights<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

301 Mississippi Avenue is somewhere there below.<\/p>\n