Ramcharan-Crowley

Louis, who once lived at the home of one Monsieur Gerbaurg, rue du List, Mulhouse, but migrated to St. Louis, MO. Father Seemann found M. Henri Gerbaut a businessman, requested a passport on August 29, 1855 for a trip to Brussels and Cologne. Louis wore a large moustache and Van Dyck goatee like Louis Napoleon, and was always called "Uncle Louie" in proper French. Like Grandpa, he lived to be 87, but had lost one eye while serving in the French army "in the bush," possibly in Africa, or Father Seemann suggests it was the Battle of Solferino in 1859 against the Austrians. He was also said to have had experience smuggling people across the Rhine, the frontier between France and Germany. He had at least two sons, Paul who lived in a beautiful brick rowhouse on Arsenal St. opposite Tower Park in St. Louis, and another son who fathered the Louis I met in 1940 plus several other children. Paul married an Irishwoman named Mulloy and had two children, Lucille, who was a crack accountant and C.P.A. for Price Waterhouse, a lover of music and the arts, a great friend of mine who died young about 1959; and Richard "Dick," who served in the Navy, married a woman who had a child by a previous marriage, was a mailman, and was still listed in the St. Louis telephone directory in 1975. The line was disconnected, so perhaps he retired elsewhere, or died. A family who spell their name Schnebelen, much more frequently found in Alsace today, may or may not be related to us in St. Louis, and the others probably descend from Paul's brother.

Louis, who once lived at...rue du List, Mulhouse... Could this be rue de l'Est? There is a street by that name in Mulhouse.