♂Sam Delahunt

Sam Delahunt (13 October 1874 – 22 December 1959), known in later records as Samuel George Delahunt, was a Louisiana man who lived at Shreveport, Caddo Parish, from at least 1918 until his death. He was a son of Augustin Delahunt (1845–1915) and his first wife, Mary Christoffel (1850–1924), and so a half-brother of Jeffrey Delahorne (1899–1929), the father of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014).

Early life

He was the third child and only son born in the family’s first decade, and in the census of 1880 he was a boy of seven in his parents’ household in Avoyelles Parish, recorded, like everyone in it, by his initial. His draft registration of 1917–1918 gives his birth as 13 October 1874; the census of 1880 implies about 1873.

Shreveport

He married Angela Novo, born 19 July 1878; his sister Angeline had married a Novo too, Jean Baptiste Novo of Alexandria. A family history posted online by a descendant of Augustin’s first marriage calls Angela Novo “J. B. Novo’s sister”, which would make the two couples’ children double first cousins; no record consulted here confirms the relationship. Their son Ben Joseph was born on 23 October 1898. By 1917–1918 Samuel George Delahunt was registered for the draft at Shreveport, naming Angela Delahunt as his nearest relative, and the census of 1940 finds the couple in the fourth ward of Caddo Parish at Shreveport with their son, then forty-one. That census records his birthplace as Texas, which no other record supports.

Angela died on 1 May 1942 and was buried in St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery at Shreveport. In 1950 Samuel was a widower living in his son’s household and working in battery work.

Death

He died at Shreveport on 22 December 1959. His death record names his parents as August Delahunt and Mary Christopher, which is what ties the Shreveport man to the Avoyelles boy of 1880. He was buried in St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery at Shreveport; his Find a Grave memorial gives his birth year as 1879. His son Ben died in Caddo Parish in November 1975, according to the Social Security Death Index.