Vilmont and Julianne Schexnayder

Photograph of

Vilmont and Julianne Schexnayder

Name(s)

Vilmont and Julianne Schexnayder

Date of photograph

~1800s

Location of photograph

Unknown

Description

Portrait of Vilmont and Julianna Schexnayder from Patterson, Saint Mary's Parish, Lousiana, United States. Photograph taken by unknown photographer in the 1800s.

Julianne and her parents, Paul and Harriet, were enslaved by the brothers Octave and Numa Cornay of the Calumet Plantation. The plantation was in Patterson, St. Mary's Parish, Louisiana and was a large sugar mill. During the Civil War, Julianne went with the Cornays to Lafayette, Louisiana, where she had one son by a man she was not married to but had a "shacking" relationship to breed children. After the Civil war, Julianne returned to Patterson, St. Mary's Parish, Louisiana and was a laundress. She met and married Vilmont Schexnayder on 4 January 1883 in St. Mary's Parish, Louisiana, United States. Julianne had at least 15 children, 14 of them with Vilmont Schexnayder.

Type

Photograph

Format

JPG

Rights

Public Domain | All records should be cited as coming from the Center Family History at the International African American Museum in Charleston, South Carolina, United States.

Donated By

Stephani Juleeanna Miller