Eugenia de Planque

Interment source:
Bay View Cemetery Map, ca 1940
Map states: "Mr. and Mrs. de Planque are two of the wooden markers."

Photo Credit: Rosa G. Gonzales

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1.  Obituary

Mrs. Eugenie DePlanque
Corpus Christi, Tex., Dec. 27—A gloom was thrown over this city this morning by the sudden and unexpected death of Mrs. Eugenie DePlanque, wife of the old time photographer, Don Luis DePlanque, well known to all old settlers along the Texas coast.
Mrs. DePlanque was in her ordinary good health last night. This morning she was not feeling so well and this afternoon about 3 o'clock she was a corpse, death resulting from paralysis of the heart.
The DePlanques were natives of France, but migrated to Texas during war times. They were survivors of the great Indianola storm of 1875 and narrowly escaped with their lives, being out for three days in a small sailing vessel on which they sought refuge, and arriving in Corpus Christi in a half famished condition. The funeral will take place tomorrow morning.

Quoted from the Corpus Christi paper in the Victoria Advocate, 30 December 1893, page 2 column 2.
Research and transcription: Michael A. Howell

 

2.  News item

De Planque Weddings

Records indicate that Louis DePlanque first married in Harris County to Bertha Cramer on May 24, 1863 (Harris County Marriage Records, vol. D #358).  However, an article in the Ranchero explains his suit for divorce because he has found his wife keeping inappropriate company with another man, John Mathys (Daily Ranchero of Brownsville, March 12, 1868 page 3, col. 3).  It was while in the Brownsville-Matamoros area that Louis met and married "Eugenie Jenny Robert" (a native of France) on August 29, 1868 (IGI Records).  Their son Louis B. who died relatively young (December 17, 1902) was born in Mexico while they were working in the Matamoros area presumably.  However, their daughter Marie was born in Texas in May of 1871 (see Nueces County 1870 census p. 153 and Nueces County 1880 census p. 013).  Marie married Fred A. LeLaurin and settled in San Antonio where a girl—Eugenie—was born in April of 1890.  Marie and Fred subsequently divorced and both remarried.  In the 1900 federal census Eugenia LeLaurin is living with her mother and step-father, Efford McClanahan (Bexar County 1900 census, E.D. 103, sheet 11).

Research and transcription: Michael A. Howell