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Author: clairi81
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Are you related through the Calhoun or the Kuntz family?
Fanny & Henry married on July 18, 1882 in Grand Chenier, Cameron, Louisiana. Henry
appeared in the 1880 census living with William & Julia McShaw family in Cameron
parish, Louisiana. Then Fanny & Henry appeared in the 1900 census in Cameron parish,
LA; and the 1920 census together in Lake Arthur, Jefferson Davis parish, Louisiana. Since
Fanny died in 1929, Henry appeared alone in the 1930 census, in Lake Charles, living with
his stepdaughter, Alice McCall (Fanny's daughter from her first marriage).
Henry is supposedly the son of Michael Kuntz (b. GA) & Sophie Weber (B. LA) but I do
not have any other information on them. henry died sometime after 1930. Fanny's
obituary appeared in a Crowley, Arcadia, Louisiana newspaper but I do not know where she
was buried. She was not buried next to her first husband, Albert.
Fanny & Henry had at three children together:
#1) Ida Alice Kuntz b. APR 1877 in LA
#2) George Bryant Kuntz (b. 11 FEB 1887 in Grand Chenier Married Beulah U. --- and d. 23
AUG 1968 in Jennings, Louisiana.
#3) Mary A. Kuntz (b. circa 1891 in Louisiana
#4) Charles Ira Kuntz (b. 12 MAR 1892 in Grand Chenier Married Freda Wilhelmina Walters
on 23 DEC 1915 and d. 18 SEP 1980 in Kinder, Allen, Louisiana. He is buried in Carter
Memorial Cemetery.
I have an excerpt regarding Fanny & Henry, taken from a book written by my Hollister
cousins, Archie Stine Hollister & Bernice Hollister Denny.
REF: "Where the Wild Goose Goes" Page 24
CHENIER SCHOOLS OF 1895
"The unpainted, one-room building was at the east end of the present SWEENEY farm.
It had been built as a parsonage for the Rev. Frank SWEENEY when he became a widower.
Mother [Susan Aby McCall STINE] thinks that he never occuplied it, however.
The interior was rudely finished. Unfinished, perhaps, is a more accurate descriptive
term. Along the north wall a shelf, slightly sloped, called the writing desk, was built.
Before it was a backless bench on which the pupils sat during penmanshipo period. Plank
benches were built against other walls, the walls themselves serving as backs.
The teacher sat in a homemade chair with a rawhide bottom. She had no desk except for a
part of the one for the pupils' writing.
A small shelf attached to the south wall near the door held a big zinc bucket of drinking
water. In it was a customary long-handled dipper. Individual drinking cups and germs
were still strangers to the Chenier folk. No well on the school ground necessitated the
carrying of water by the larger boys from homes of neighboring families.
Mother's first school session lasted three months. About thirty children were
enrolled.
Her first teacher was Mrs. Henry KUNTZ, the former Fannie CALHOUN, whose first husband,
the late Albert McCALL, was a brother to my own great-grandfather, William. Mr. KUNTZ, a
trader, took Aunt Fannie back and forth to school in a hack. My mother considered herself
a lucky little person because she was privileged to ride each day with her teacher. .
."
Later, a new school was built on the west end of Mr. George MAYNE's property, the
present Canik estate. A Mr. Sam DURSAN of Mansfield served as the first teacher."
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