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
