The Delahorne/Curtis Family History

Delahunt

♂Walter James Delahunt

Born 1886, Cottonport A, Louisiana, United States. Died 1960.

Walter James Delahunt (12 October 1886 – 18 May 1960) was a Louisiana-born carpenter, car builder and railroad switchman who spent his working life at Marshall, Texas. He was the youngest child of Augustin Delahunt (1845–1915) and his first wife, Mary Christoffel (1850–1924), and a half-brother of Jeffrey Delahorne (1899–1929), the father of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014).

Early life

Delahunt was born on 12 October 1886 at Cottonport, Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana, the last of his parents’ eight children. His father farmed in the parish. A family history posted online by a descendant of the first marriage states that about 1894, when Walter was seven or eight, his father left his wife and children and went to St. Martin Parish, where he married again; Jeffrey was a son of that second marriage. The same account says Augustin later took up contact with his first family again. At the census of 1900 Walter, then thirteen, was living with his mother in Ward 8 of Avoyelles Parish and was listed as a student. In 1903 his father entered the Confederate Soldiers’ Home in New Orleans, where he died in 1915.

Marshall

The family history says that early in the twentieth century his elder brother Terry, a railroad man, moved most of the family from Avoyelles Parish to Marshall, Texas, then a major railroad center. Walter settled there for the rest of his life. On 1 May 1907, in Harrison County, he married Jessie Eugenia Philmon (1887–1960). The couple had four children, born between 1908 and 1913; the youngest, a son named Walter after his father, died in infancy in 1913, and their daughter Elsie died in 1949.

The records trace his working life. The census of 1910 lists him as a carpenter, a city directory of 1912 as a car builder, and the census of 1920 as a car repairer. By 1930 he had become a switchman, and he was still one in 1940. He was living at Marshall at the census of 1950.

A Find a Grave memorial gives Delahunt’s death as 18 May 1960, in the same year as his wife, and places his burial at Marshall.

Family time line

○ Walter James Delahunt 1886–1960
Jessie Eugenia Philmon 1887–1960
Married 1 May 1907, Harrison, Texas, United States, Harrison, Texas
○ James Lee Delahunt 1908–1987
○ Charles A. Delahunt abt 1911–1970
○ Elsie Delahunt 1911–1949
○ Walter J. Delahunt Jr 1913–1913 ✧

Recorded events

EventWhenWhereEvidence ?on record - the record itself, its image, or a transcript or printed copy of it has been read
from a compiled source - an index, a printed genealogy or a memorial page says so
not yet documented - in the family record, no source attached yet
Birth 12 Oct 1886 Cottonport A, Louisiana, United States on record
Living at
Occupation: Student; Single; in the household as Son
 1900 Police Jury Ward 8, Avoyelles, Louisiana, United States on record
Living at
Occupation: Carpenter; Married; in the household as Head
 1910 Marshall Ward 1, Harrison, Texas, United States on record
Living at
Occupation: Carbldr
 1912 Marshall, Texas, United States on record
Living at
Married
 1917–1918 Harrison, Texas, United States on record
Living at
Occupation: Car Repairer; Married; in the household as Head
 1920 Marshall, Harrison, Texas, United States on record
Living at
Married; in the household as Head; Occupation: Switchman
 1930 Marshall, Harrison, Texas, United States on record
Living at 1935 Marshall, Harrison, Texas, United States on record
Living at
Occupation: Switchman; Married; in the household as Head
 1940 J P 3, Marshall, Harrison, Texas, United States on record
Living at
in the household as Head; Married
 1950 Marshall, Harrison, Texas, United States on record
Death 18 May 1960 from a compiled source
Burial Marshall, Harrison, Texas, United States from a compiled source
Living at
in the household as Head
 Marshall, Texas, United States on record
18861960 190019101920193019401950

Sources

  • 1900 United States Federal Census — Birth, Living at, name
  • 1940 United States Federal Census — Birth, Living at, name
  • U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 — Birth, name
  • 1950 United States Federal Census — Birth, Living at, name
  • 1930 United States Federal Census — Birth, Living at, name
  • 1920 United States Federal Census — Birth, Living at, name
  • 1910 United States Federal Census — Birth, Living at, name
  • Texas, U.S., Death Certificates, 1903-1982 — Birth, name
  • U.S., Find a Grave® Index, 1600s-Current — Birth, Death, Burial, name
  • U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942 — Birth, Living at, name
  • U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 — Birth, Living at, name
  • U.S., City Directories, 1822-1995 — Living at, name
  • Texas, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1817-1965 — name, Marriage (Jessie Eugenia Philmon)
  • Texas, U.S., Select County Marriage Index, 1837-1965 — name, Marriage (Jessie Eugenia Philmon)

Borders as they stood about 1890 (they follow the event under the mouse), from the historical-basemaps project, the Newberry Library's Atlas of Historical County Boundaries (states and territories, 1783 on) and Natural Earth; the colonies and provinces are drawn along today's lines.

Line of descent

  1. Augustin Delahunt 1845–1915 ⚔⚭
    1. Samuel Dillahunt 1815–1860
      1. John Dillahunty bef 1780–bef 1830 ⛓
        1. John Dillahunty Jr. 1750–1797 ⚭⛓
          1. John Dillahunty Sr 1728–1816 ✝
            1. Daniel De La Haunte –bef 1748
            2. Mary O'Hara
          2. Hannah Rachel Neal 1732–1816
            1. Francis Wingfield Neal Jr abt 1680–1745
              1. Francis Neal –1716
              2. Ann (surname unknown)
            2. Ann (surname unknown)
        2. Baber/Baker 1751–1791
      2. Elizabeth Martin 1785–bef 1844 ▦
    2. Delphine Marcotte 1824–1900 ⚭
      1. Augustin Marcotte 1796–1839 ⚔
        1. Jean Baptiste Marcotte 1738–bef 1808
          1. Jean Baptiste Marcotte abt 1700–1777
            1. Jacques Marcotte 1673–1737
              1. Jacques Marcot abt 1644–bef 1717 ⚓
              2. Elisabeth Salée abt 1651–1722 ⚓⚜
            2. Louise Baudet abt 1679–1760
              1. Jean Baudet abt 1650–1714
              2. Marie Grandin abt 1651–1715 ⚜⚓
          2. Marie Marguerite Hardy dit Chatillon 1701–1754
            1. Pierre Hardy 1672–1728
              1. Jean Hardy 1640–1715 ⚓
              2. Marie Poiré –1715 ⚓⚜
            2. Charlotte Lefebvre 1679–1755
              1. Simon Lefebvre abt 1643–
              2. Marie Charlotte de Poitiers abt 1641– ⚭
        2. Marguerite Tregle 1754–bef 1816
          1. Simon Tregle
            1. Andre Dreger abt 1687–
              1. Jean Träger –bef 1720
              2. Anne Marie Ulrich
            2. Catherine Kalender
          2. Marguerite Foltz ▦
            1. Jacques Foltz 1697–1746
              1. Johann Adam Foltz abt 1667–
              2. Anna Elisabeth (surname unknown) abt 1678–
            2. Anne Catherine Benich –1748
              1. Joseph Benich
              2. Magdelaine Seiler
      2. Celeste Aimee Joffrion –aft 1850
        1. Joseph Joffrion 1770–
          1. Joseph Joffrion 1708–aft 1791 ⚭
            1. Jean Joffrion 1671–1740
              1. Pierre Joffrion abt 1638–1704
              2. Marie Briau 1649–1699 ⚜⚓
            2. Catherine Milot dit Laval bef 1665–1708 ⚭
              1. Jacques Milot dit Laval abt 1632–1699
              2. Jeanne Hebert 1647–bef 1687
          2. Marie Jeanne Rabalais 1733–bef 1772 ⚭
            1. Jean Baptiste Rabalais –1759 ⛓
              1. Jean Baptiste Rabalais
              2. Marie Magdelaine (surname unknown)
            2. Marguerite Belanger –1761 ⚭⛓
              1. Jacques Belanger
              2. Catherine Garboise
        2. Magdelaine Bizet 1769– ⚭
          1. Francois Bizette –1780 ⚔
            1. Paul Bizet
            2. Marie Françoise (surname unknown)
          2. Marie Claude Louis –1779
            1. Étienne Louis
            2. Marie Jeanne Delleblet
  2. Mary Christoffel 1850–1924
    1. George Christoffel Sr 1818–1901
    2. Angelia Kamis 1828–1883

Descendants

  1. James Lee Delahunt 1908–1987
  2. Charles A. Delahunt abt 1911–1970
  3. Elsie Delahunt 1911–1949
  4. Walter J. Delahunt Jr 1913–1913 ✧