This blog is for all of us who are related to the members of the Dupont-Ory-Edler families that lived at 2726 Dumaine Street, New Orleans, La., from 1903 to 1945.
I have been working on this aspect of the family history since I first asked a few questions of Aunt Nanan and Cousin Norma in 1965, when I was 16 years old.
When the 2005 floods hit my house, I thought I had lost everything in the toxic waters. Fortunately, an ice chest with all of the original documents in it survived, having floated around in the water for some three weeks until coming to rest on a chair in the dining room! So, since 2007 and my return home, I have been rebuilding documentation and transcribing stories -- recently finding stories that take one branch of the family back to the time of the Crusades!
Right now I am looking to replace certain photographs: (1) Ottomar Edler and Louise Ory, taken by photographers here in New Orleans, 1887 through 1903. They are greyish, and are set in a frame shaped like an arch. (2) Sepia photos of Rene, Ida, and Lucie from New Orleans photographers in the 1880s and 1890s. If you have something like this, could you send JPEG scans of any of it to me on Facebook?
About 2726 Dumaine Street: In severe storms earlier this year, 2010, tornado-like winds blew through Mid-City. The house itself, which had already been subjected to demolition by neglect and vandalism, collapsed (and I know who and where they live and I could say something terrible but what good would it do). The property now belongs to the Louisiana Recovery Association, and the lot will be put up for sale.
Fortunately, most of the pictures of all the houses from the family that were lost in the flood waters have been replaced, incredibly, with street views found through Google maps from 2007.
Let us pull together to make this an exceptional blog, and a great history of our family. Love to all!
