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.
Regiment: 3rd Alabama Colored Infantry; 111th United States Colored Troops
Company: D
Rank: Private
Mustered-in date and place: Not listed
Mustered-out date and place: 14 August 1864 in Sulphur Trestle, Elkmont, Alabama, United States
Regiment: 62nd United States Colored Troops
Company: G
Rank: Private
Mustered-in date and place: 7 December 1863
Mustered-out date and place: 31 March 1866 at Brownsville, Texas, United States
Regiment: 90th New York Volunteer Infantry
Company: B
Rank: Under Cook
Mustered-in date and place: 5 January 1863
Mustered-out date and place: 20 January 1866 at Savannah, Georgia, United States
Regiment: 34th United States Colored Troops
Company: F
Rank: Private
Mustered-in date and place: 9 October 1863 at Hilton Head, South Carolina, United States
Mustered-out date and place: 28 February 1866 at Jacksonville, Florida, United States
Regiment: 22nd United States Colored Troops Infantry
Company: G
Rank: Private
Mustered-in date and place: 30 December 1863
Mustered-out date and place: 16 October 1865
Regiment: 16th United States Colored Troops Infantry
Company: A
Rank: Private
Mustered-in date and place: 19 November 1865
Veteran's death date and place: 21 January 1864 in Clarksville, Tennessee, United States
Regiment: 34th United States Colored Troops
Company: F
Rank: Corporal
Mustered-in date and place: 20 April 1863 in Beaufort County, South Carolina, United States
Mustered-out date and place: 28 February 1866 at Jacksonville, Florida, United States
Regiment: 3rd United States Colored Troops Cavalry
Company: L
Rank: Private
Mustered-in date and place: 1 March 1864
Mustered-out date and place: 26 January 1866 at Memphis, Tennessee, United States
Regiment: 8th United Stated Colored Troops Heavy Artillery
Company: Not listed
Rank: Private
Enrollment date and place: 20 August 1864 in Paducah, Kentucky, United States
Veteran's death date and place: March 6, 1866 on a steamship on the Ohio River
Regiment: 107th United States Colored Troops Infantry
Company: D
Rank: Private
Enrollment date and place: 26 July 1864 in Lebanon, Kentucky, United States
Veteran's death date and place: 1 February 1865 at Point of Rocks, Virginia, United States