There used to be a Catholic Girl's Academy in Cape Girardeau, but it is long closed and I have never seen or heard of any records they might have had. ----Bill Eddleman >Date: 17 Apr 2004 08:13:15 -0600 >From: kdawson10@yahoo.com >To: MOCAPEGI-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Boarding Schools 1880 Cape Girardeau > > >Message Board Post: > >My great grandmother is listed in the 1880 census Cape Girardeau as 16 years > old, Sister Margaret McCauley is listed as guardian type. Is there or was > there a Conservatory Music type or boarding school located here? I know when > she was 5 she traveled from Southeastern Illinois to this boarding school after > her father William Absher died in the civil war I was lead to believe. I am > trying to find information on her father, her mother was Nancy Walker before > she married William, Nancy later remarried. Winnie was only child of this > union. Winnie born 1864. Any information onthis school will help. thank you. >