The
photo on the left is of John Frederick Vuagniaux when he was a young man. He
had a stroke on July 3rd, 1898 and lived with some impairment from the stroke until 1963
when he died in his 90's.He married a girl named Abbie Pache, in Laramie
Wyoming on November 29,1905. A letter found in the spring of 2001,
written by a daughter-in-law of his Aunt Isaline Bartholemy in December 1925,
who was living in Ingleside, CA,. mentioned the divorce and that Abbie and the three girls got all the property. John left a short note in which
he said he left Ingleside in October 1925 and went to Boone, Iowa where his
brother Emile lived with his family. John
supposedly worked for the Union Pacific Railroad. John returned home to
Council Bluffs, Iowa and remained there until he died.
I remember great uncle John as a tall thin man with a quiet nature. He
lived in a nursing home just down the street from my family home where I lived
in the 1940's, in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
Four
of the Vuagniaux brothers, as adults, are from your left, Alfred Emile,
Ulysses, John, and in back, Paul Louis.
Ulysses served in France in WWI. It was said by his brother
John that he was a
telegrapher with the U.S. Army. In his sister Emily's letter from the
front in WWI, while there as a battlefield nurse, she mentioned she had seen
Ulysses on two occasions at different locations.
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