Sellwood, Oregon, Carrara and Bernardon Residence and Neighborhood.

 At the time of this posting, the Black Cat Tavern is no longer around in Sellwood, Portland, Oregon at the intersection of SE Umatilla St., and SE 13th Ave.  

This was George Albert Carrara's "watering hole" - where he would go enjoy a drink after work.  At the time he could take my mother, his youngest daughter, Arlene Francis Carrara with him to enjoy a Shirley Temple drink at the bar next to him. 

 

 

Here is a webpage from the "Bee" newspaper regarding the tearing down of the Black Cat Tavern in 2013 and a bit of its history (Hopefully the link is intact after being posted as of the date of this entry). 

 

This is the residence of George Albert and Juliette Bernardon Carrara at 1325 SE Sherrett Street, in Sellwood, Portland, Oregon.  Both photographs were taken circa 2012.

 

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James Thomas and Malvina Ann Millican Hembree Photograph

Headline: Coming to Oregon by Ox Teams in 1843, Five of 600 Pioneers of That Year Are in Yamhill County; Article Type: News/Opinion

Paper: Oregonian, published as Morning Oregonian; Date: 11-02-1913; Volume: XXXII; Issue: 44; Page: 8; Location: Portland, Oregon

Here's their headstone from the Masonic Cemetery, Lafayette, Yamhill, Oregon.

Interestingly he not only outlived his wife, he was considerably older than her too, by a stretch on either side!

George Albert Carrara (Georgio Alberto Carrara) & Juliette Bernardon circa 1919.

This is a photo of my grandparents, right after World War I in France circa 1919 (according to my mother), George Albert & Juliette Berenardon Carrara.  In this photo she is about 18 and he is about 31 years old.

STURZENEGGERS!

Been working on the children of John Sturzenegger and Rosina Zopfe from Switzerland but in California. They had 12 children.

John Sturzenegger was born about 1820 in Switzerland, died about 1810, but I don't have a whole lot of info on Rosina other than she was born about 1832 in Switzerland. Their children are as follows as best as I can determine from the 1870, 1880 censuses from San Antonio, Monterey, California:

William Francis 11 Mar 1871
Fredrick 1854
Elizabeth ~1859
John J ~1862
Jacob J ~1868
Emma ~May 1870
Carolina ~1876
Rosa ~1857
Louisa (Luisa) ~1862
Amia ~1853
And Predeline (?) or Piery Ann (?) - ~1864.

Fredrick's wife, Rachel, is reported that her family came from Missouri, and some were involved in the Mountain Meadow Massacre, but she was born the year after, and I understand only a few children survived from that, so I don't know it would have been her family directly.


These were obtained off Ancestry.com - but here we go!  Some faces to the names.  I'm currently researching Lizzy, her husband, William (?) Orr, died in a buggy accident leaving her a widow but she died when her oldest was 11 but I don't know why or how.  Anyways, these are the photos I have for now.

Rachel Fancher Sturzenegger - wife of Fredrick Sturzenegger, buried at Mountain View cemetery, Kingman Arizona

And Fredrick

Fredrick Sturzenegger - San Francisco ~1880-ish

Elizabeth "Lizzy" Sturzenegger (Later Orr)

William & Jacob

Rosa