Begin forwarded message: From: Ellen <Wellann2@nc.rr.com> Date: February 22, 2006 1:06:45 PM EST To: DAVENPORT-L-@rootsweb.com Subject: Selena Davenport? Thanks to Rootsweb, I have made an amazing breakthrough , Thanks to someone who answered a long ago posted query on my part, I have found in the 1850 census,my GGrandmother , Rose Collins, who married my GGrandfather, Isaac Crane Davenport in 1854 in New Orleans. .I kept looking in LA for her. She was living in Hancock, Co, MS at the time of the census. Hancock Co, MS is a place where New Orleans people went to to escape the heat or the various disease epidemics which plague New Orleans. Still do, or did before Katrina. She is in the household of Louis Garnier. This Louis Garnier later gave his consent ( as her Guardian as she was under 18 years of age ) for Rose's sister, Ellen Collins to marry Wm. Root in New Orleans. Besides Louis's wife, Josephine, in the 1850 census at that address, were Wm.M.Mathieu born in IN ( Clark CO.) and his apparent wife, SELENA Mathieu, born in MO in 1835. With the Garnier/Collins connection, this has to be the Wm.M.Mathieu who married Sally ( Sarah A. Davenport) in 1856 in New Orleans. She was his second wife. On the birth certificate of one of their children, Wm.'s birthplace was listed as IN. Selena (?) Mathieu died in 1850 after delivering twins. One survived, William Martin Mathieu, Jr. At least Wm. Mathieu's first wife died in 1850 after delivering twins. In 1850, Selena would have been 15 and Wm 17. Rather young for marriage. As Sally's birthplace according to her death certificate was Mo in 1834 and Selena's given as Mo in 1835, I wonder if Selena was a Davenport. Without access to New Orleans records at present, I can't say much more about Louis Garnier and his connections to these young people, He may have been their Guardian, too. Rose Collins was 19 in 1850 and may have been a servant, but was not listed as such. By 1860, his wife , Josephine Garnier , is listed as a widow in New Orleans. My correspondent has done a lot of research and proved Wm.Mathieu's family. His first son's children have all the names given in my Davenport family. The rest with his marriage to Sally all have the same names in one form for or another. Does anyone on this list have a Selena Davenport in any of their family trees , who was born in MO in 1835 , died in LA or MS? Just a guess on my part She does not seem to have been a Mathieu except by marriage. Google does not recognize the name. Thanks for any attention you might give to this query, Ellen Eanes Bethel