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Notes from David Ladner c/o Lawrence Guyot
The Mobile reference where I saw the Piernas record is called ?Loves Legacy: The Mobile Marriages recorded in French, Transcribed, with Annotated Abstracts in English, 1724 -1786?, by Jacqueline Olivier Vidrine, 1985.
The New Orleans reference for Jean Baptiste Rafael, the Piernas ancestor from Martinque was in ?Gulf Coast Colonials: A Compendium of French Families in Early Eighteenth Century Louisiana? by Winston Deville, 1968.
He also published 4 volumes in 1962, called ?Colonial Louisiana Marriage Contracts?, which should be very informative -1 have never been able to locate these in my travels to the New Orleans area libraries and archives in the 1960s.
Note: Jean Baptiste Raphael is also mentioned in the official transcriptions of the St. Louis Cathedral Sacramental records done by Brother Jerome Lepre (a Ladner descendant), but without the reference to ?Free Negro? of Martinque as in DeVille?s book
-	this may possibly be the other way around, but nevertheless it is omitted in one of the references, my recollection being the Ladner (Lepre) one.........
I have also attached a short history of International Paper written in 1924 and an Aug 22, 1932 Time Magazine article which referenced the black Republican Mississippi attendees, including Mary Booze, who was Isaiah T Montgomery?s daughter.
From Bilbo?s Wikipedia page:
?His second term was filled with controversy involving his plan to move the University of Mississippi from Oxford to Jackson. That idea was eventually defeated. During the presidential election, Bilbo help A1 Smith carry the state despite an overwhelming anti-Catholicism sentiment, by claiming that Herbert Hoover had met with a black member of the Republican National Committee and dances with her. In a speech in Memphis on October 17, Bilbo asserted that during a visit to Mississippi in 1927, ?Hoover insisted that his train be routed through Mount Bayou... in order that he might visit Mrs. Mary Booze, negress, socially,? and added, ?Mary Booze is as Black as the ace of spades. And Hoover danced with her.? Though widely reported, and although an anonymous political flyer featuring a doctored photo supposedly showing Hoover and Mrs. Booze dancing together was circulated throughout the South, the odd story did not prevent Hoover from being elected President of the United States the following month.?
?Hoover Danced With Negro,? Oelwein Daily Register (Oelwein, Iowa), October 18, 1928. pi