Revisiting New Orleans Connections

 

New Orleans City Directory, 1908.

Yesterday I looked back at the address where my great-grandfather Harry O'Brien lived when he was in New Orleans between 1906 and 1911. The 1908 City Directory had his name misspelled as Bryant instead of O'Brien. A closer look at the marriage record for Harry and Marguerite Barba revealed some names that I missed previously but now recognize as closely associated with the Barba family. Their marriage was witnessed by E. J. Barba, O. E. Soderstrom, and Mrs. F. L. Fuller. I'm not sure yet who E. J. Barba was, but Mrs. F. L. Fuller was Marguerite's sister Leonora. O. E. Soderstrom was Oscar Soderstrom, son of Adolph Soderstrom of Pascagoula, Mississippi. Marguerite's mother Margaret visited the Soderstrom family in 1920.