Photographer lives in Ocean Springs, MS. I am not sure where this photo was taken. * Some Rodney folks migrated to Ocean Springs...Germans in Rodney- George E. Arndt (1857-1945) was a native of Rodney, Jefferson County, Mississippi. His parents, George E. Arndt (1827-1882) and Caroline Russi (1832-1880), were German immigrants from Alsace-Lorraine and Heidelberg respectively. They arrived at Rodney in 1852, probably coming up river from New Orleans. T George E. Arndt came to Ocean Springs on May 17, 1881, from Rodney, Mississippi to be with his sister, Lena Engbarth. At Rodney, Mr. Arndt had been in the confectionery business since the age of sixteen. The Engbarths had arrived at Ocean Springs in February 1881, from Rodney. They were there in Jefferson County, Mississippi for the 1880 US Federal Census. (History of JXCO, Ms., 1989, p. 111, Along The Gulf, 1895 and The Pascagoula Democrat-Star, February 4, 1881, p. 3) Lena Arndt’s spouse, Emile Engbarth (1855-ca 1905), was the postmaster at Ocean Springs from 1885 to 1889. As Emile and Lena A. Engbarth were again residents of Rodney in 1900, it seems they must have moved back to Jefferson County after April 1889, when Emiles position as postmaster terminated. The Pascagoula Democrat-Star of August 31, 1900, announced that well-known Republican, Emile Engbarth, is in Ocean Springs and rumored to be the new postmaster. This did not come to fruition as Thomas I. Keys (1861-1931), a local Black merchant, remained at this post until March 1911. In September 1900, Emile Engbarth applied for the position of postmaster at Pascagoula. It appears that he was unsuccessful in attaining this opportunity, as the local journal reported that “Mr. E. Engbarth… returned to Rodney, Miss”. (The Pascagoula Democrat-Star, October 5, 1900, p. 3) oceanspringsarchives.net/book/export/html/40
Posted on: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 17:57:05 +0000
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