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To: Quilla

I couldn't remember how many sisters there were - I thought it might be two, but couldn't ascertain from Google. Was it three once?


274 posted on 03/03/2005 8:27:47 AM PST by Xenalyte (Your mother sells hot dogs.)
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To: Xenalyte

From their website at http://www.courtofthetwosisters.com :

The two sisters, Emma and Bertha Camors, born 1858 and 1860 respectively, belonged to a proud and aristocratic Creole family. Their "rabais", or notions, outfitted many of the city's finest women with formal gowns, lace and perfumes imported from Paris. Marriage, reversals of fortune, widowhood - nothing could separate the sisters. Indeed, as the Picayune was to report, the sisters died within two months of each other in the winter of 1944. United in death as in life, the sisters lie side by side at St. Louis Cemetery #3.

Xena, my father grew up in Louisiana and attended Loyola in N.O. Until his death nine years ago, we would visit several times each year. He would drive through the French Quarter like he owned the place, speeding down those one way streets, taking short cuts, and dropping us off at the door of our destination. We had a blast! It's just not the same without him.


276 posted on 03/03/2005 8:35:21 AM PST by Quilla
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