Gene His obit appeared in the newspaper "The Daily Picayune" on 10/19/1885 and reads: "Seely - In this city, at 10:45 P. M., Sunday, Oct. 18, 1885, JOHN SEELY, Sr., aged 56 years, 2 months and 14 days, a native of Alsheim, Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, and for 32 years a resident of this city. The friends of the family and members of Louisiana Mechanics' Society, Louisiana Draymen's Association and Eagle Steam Fire Company No. 7, are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, which will take place from his late residence, corner of Marais and Toulouse streets, at 4 o'clock, This (Monday) evening. THE WIDOW AND FOUR CHILDREN." I already checked with the Germans. The folks in Germany have told me this is not one of their uniforms. They identified the helmet has having a "peace eagle" on it, which is American. See this web site: http://www.pickelhauben.net/articles/AmericanPickelhaube.htm Barney -----Original Message----- From: laorlean-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:laorlean-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Gene Hullinghorst Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 2:48 PM To: laorlean@rootsweb.com Subject: [LAORLEAN] Uniform Barney - When did Johannes come to the U.S. and at what age? Could he have brought with a uniform if he was in military in Germany? Also, was he a member of the Masons or similar type group? I have a picture of my grandfather (much later than your picture) in a uniform that a Mason has identified to me as a uniform of the Knights of that organization. Also when were the Knights of Columbus of the Catholic church started? Could it be a Knights Templar uniform? Gene ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LAORLEAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________

Since it has an eagle on the front and the members of the Eagle Steam Fire Company maybe it is a fireman's uniform Penny ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barney Seely" <BSeely@pointeightpower.com> To: <laorlean@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 4:08 PM Subject: Re: [LAORLEAN] Uniform Gene His obit appeared in the newspaper "The Daily Picayune" on 10/19/1885 and reads: "Seely - In this city, at 10:45 P. M., Sunday, Oct. 18, 1885, JOHN SEELY, Sr., aged 56 years, 2 months and 14 days, a native of Alsheim, Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, and for 32 years a resident of this city. The friends of the family and members of Louisiana Mechanics' Society, Louisiana Draymen's Association and Eagle Steam Fire Company No. 7, are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, which will take place from his late residence, corner of Marais and Toulouse streets, at 4 o'clock, This (Monday) evening. THE WIDOW AND FOUR CHILDREN." I already checked with the Germans. The folks in Germany have told me this is not one of their uniforms. They identified the helmet has having a "peace eagle" on it, which is American. See this web site: http://www.pickelhauben.net/articles/AmericanPickelhaube.htm Barney -----Original Message----- From: laorlean-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:laorlean-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Gene Hullinghorst Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 2:48 PM To: laorlean@rootsweb.com Subject: [LAORLEAN] Uniform Barney - When did Johannes come to the U.S. and at what age? Could he have brought with a uniform if he was in military in Germany? Also, was he a member of the Masons or similar type group? I have a picture of my grandfather (much later than your picture) in a uniform that a Mason has identified to me as a uniform of the Knights of that organization. Also when were the Knights of Columbus of the Catholic church started? Could it be a Knights Templar uniform? Gene ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LAORLEAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LAORLEAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.6/1407 - Release Date: 4/30/2008 11:35 AM

>I'm thinking maybe Prussian because of the spiked helmet with eagle? >If you go to google and put in "prussian+eagle helmet" and look both >in "web" and in "images", a lot of helmets that are similar come up. Cat Donnow http://www.ambiancestudio.com mailto:ambicat@charter.net

>go to google images and put in "Pickelhaube" without the >quotes. Apparently that's what the "eagle helmet" is called Cat Donnow http://www.ambiancestudio.com mailto:ambicat@charter.net