Surnames

"My father, as is often the case in our sojourns through life, was not contented with the monotonous life of the humble plotter of this life, and he extended his visions in the vast infinite that separated his family from the immensity separating him from the great State of Texas; therefore in August, 1858, we wended our way to New Iberia, then a small hamlet. Took passage on the steam-boat S.M. Darby and landed at Morgan City, just twelve hours before the steam-ship Orizaba steamed in Indianola, Texas. Our family took passage aboard here, and twenty four hours later, we were at Indianola. Texas. Here, father put me and Shelby, one of our negro boys, in charge of his buggy."

From my great-grandfather Gilbert LaBauve's diary/journal "My father, as is often the case in our sojourns through life, was not contented with the monotonous life of the humble plotter of this life, and he extended his visions in the vast infinite that separated his family from the immensity separating him from the great State of Texas; therefore in August, 1858, we wended our way to New Iberia, then a small hamlet. Took passage on the steam-boat S.M. Darby and landed at Morgan City, just twelve hours before the steam-ship Orizaba steamed in Indianola, Texas. Our family took passage aboard here, and twenty four hours later, we were at Indianola. Texas. Here, father put me and Shelby, one of our negro boys, in charge of his buggy."

From the journal of Gilbert LaBauve (b.1840), my great-grandfather

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