Family/Spouse: Gloria Cahill. Gloria was born on 16 Sep 1922 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA; died on 10 Apr 2014 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Joan D'Antoni
2. John D'Antoni
3. Edward D'Antoni
4. Blaise D'Antoni

Blaise married Edna Josephine Fabacher about 1922, and was divorced. Edna (daughter of Lawrence Fabacher and Antoinette Louise Wagner) was born on 15 Feb 1895 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA; died in 0Oct 1985 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Take a monumental tour
Posted by Keith I. Marszalek July 26, 2007 11:32PM
For a short course in names that figure prominently in the city's culinary history, take a drive through Metairie Cemetery
By Judy WalkerFood editor
She wears a crown with a star, and a pair of wings. One hand holds a corner of her overskirt, which is filled with flowers. Her other hand gracefully holds out a small blossom.

She is frozen in time, an angelic statue atop the Grunewald tomb in Metairie Cemetery. Imagine her skirt filled with fruit -- or maybe bananas and coffee and sugar cane -- and she could well stand as an emblem for a new cemetery tour organized to educate the local culinary and hospitality community.
A century ago, Louis Grunewald's hotel in downtown New Orleans had a basement "cave," complete with stalactites on the ceiling, which is thought to be the city's first nightclub. His Grunewald Hotel became the Roosevelt Hotel, then the Fairmont. Grunewald was interred in his beautiful tomb in 1915.
The Grunewald tomb is one of about 30 stops on the Culinary History Tour, which on Aug. 5 will take hospitality industry workers past tombs and monuments chiseled with well-known local food-related names -- Arnaud, Brennan, Broussard, Brocato, Copeland, Fertel, Schwegmann, Zuppardo -- as well as earlier names less known now, but of people who helped put New Orleans on the culinary world map.
Right now, the tour of Metairie Cemetery is scheduled one time only, and only for those in the culinary and hospitality industry, but it might be offered to the public later, depending on the response, said Louise Saenz, executive director of Save Our Cemeteries, which developed the tour.
"We don't want to build (the tour) and just put it in a file," Saenz said.
The tour came about when Saenz met Ann Rogers, founder of Tales of the Cocktail, the annual shindig centered on cocktail culture that is produced by the nonprofit New Orleans Culinary and Cultural Preservation Society, which raises funds to benefit hospitality industry members.
"We thought, 'What can we do together?' " Saenz said. Rogers' idea was the culinary tour, which is being sponsored by the Culinary and Cultural Preservation Society. "What better way to educate the culinary and hospitality industry about their history?" Saenz asked.
The tour was researched and put together by Joyce Cole, a fifth generation New Orleanian and Save Our Cemeteries tour guide since 2003. Cole, who spent hours driving up and down each of the cemetery's streets, is still tracking down details. She invites anyone with information about relatives interred in Metairie Cemetery who were in the food business to call Save Our Cemeteries.
The tour may be the first of its kind for the local cemetery.
"We do tours, and are known for historical tours, but I don't know if anybody has really thought about the food connection or the restaurant-entertainment type connection," said Denise Westerfield, media relations manager for Stewart Enterprises, the company that owns Lake Lawn Metairie Funeral Home and Cemeteries, which includes Metairie Cemetery.
"I think it's a great idea. How important is food in New Orleans?" she added. "It's an interesting tie."
Some of the discoveries made as the culinary tour was researched might be included this fall in the guided walking tour of the cemetery S.O.C. offers after its annual fundraising 5-K race around the cemetery, a former racetrack. This year's race is scheduled for Nov. 4, and attendees pay $5 for the tour.
In the meantime, here's a sampling of stops on the culinary history tour, which you can use to create your own tour:
Grunewald's tomb is next to the miniature Gothic chapel marked A. Monteleone, for Anthony Monteleone, who started with a shoe store on the corner of Royal and Bienville streets. Monteleone's other memorial is, of course, the hotel that still bears his name.
Equally elaborate is the Pizzati tomb. Capt. Salvatore Pizzati became a leading importer of tropical fruit and the principal benefactor of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart. According to Henri A. Gandolfo's "Metairie Cemetery: An Historical Memoir," Pizzati's favorite rocking chair is said to be in the receptacle below the crypt containing his casket.
Other tombs commemorate other kinds of culinary enterprises. Pascal Almerico, for example, owned Old Reliable Distributing Co. and Almerico Wine into the 1930s. Isaac Delgado, whose name lives on via the college that bears it, was a sugar factor, or sugar broker.
Margaret Porpora and her husband, Charlie, owned the Gumbo Shop from 1948 to 1977. Anthony LaFranca acquired Delmonico's in 1911, and the restaurant was in the family until 1997. Diamond Jim Moran (whose tomb is behind Louis Prima's) owned Moran's restaurant and Absinthe House.
Restaurateurs are widely represented. The Broussard family tomb is near the tomb of colorful "Count" Arnaud Cazenave, who founded Arnaud's and drank Champagne for breakfast every day. He rests in peace with his daughter, Germaine Leontine Cazenave Wells, who ran Arnaud's for 30 years after he died, and whose Carnival costumes remain at the restaurant.
The tour is also a study in diversity. The tomb of husband and wife Lee Bing and Yip Shee, founders of the fondly remembered House of Lee on Veterans Boulevard (and parents of, yes, Jefferson Parish Sheriff Harry Lee), is one of several memorials in Metairie Cemetery engraved with Chinese characters as well as English names and dates.
Other tombs illustrate the entwining of brewing history and German heritage. Fritz Jahncke was on the initial board of directors for Jax Brewery. Valentine Merz, who died in 1929, ran a popular boardinghouse, similar to a bed and breakfast, and sold his place to Conrad Kolb, who built Kolb's restaurant at the location. Merz was also in the brewery business.
One of the most beautiful tombs on the tour is that of restaurateur and Jackson Brewing Co. president Lawrence Fabacher, who was buried in 1923 in the uniform of the Knights of St. Gregory, an honor conferred on him by Pope Pius X. He made his money in the restaurant business and lived in a showplace on St. Charles Avenue. Fabacher's obituary noted that his restaurant at Royal and Iberville streets "meant New Orleans wherever gourmets and epicures gathered."
One of the newer culinary tombs is near the fountain entrance and is marked "Copeland," a name familiar to contemporary restaurant-goers. Another large tomb built in modern times is the Fertel-Duke tomb, which is surrounded by immaculate landscaping and is the resting place of Ruth Fertel of Ruth's Chris Steak House fame.
"It's beautifully kept," Saenz said. "I remember when this was built. They put up a big white tent and invited their friends and the priests and had a party."
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Lawrence married Antoinette Louise Wagner on 17 Nov 1885 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA. Antoinette (daughter of Martin Wagner and Luise Hess) was born on 20 Jun 1863 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA; died on 13 Jan 1930 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Name: J. Fabacher Home in 1880: New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana Age: 51 Estimated birth year: abt 1829 Birthplace: Germany Relation to head-of-household: Self (Head) Spouse's name: Lena Father's birthplace: Ger Mother's birthplace: Ger Neighbors: View others on page Occupation: Saloon Keeper Marital Status: Married Race: White Gender: Male

Fabacher, Magdelena Birth : 14 JUL 1888 Death : 13 FEB 1966 Gender: FemaleFamily:
Marriage: 9 JAN 1908 in Crowley Courthouse, LA Spouse:
Daigle, Gilbert Birth : 12 MAY 1889 Church Point, LADeath : 21 MAY 1962 Mowater, LAGender: MaleParents:
Father: Daigle, Louis Mother: Daigle, Terese
Children:
Daigle, Joseph Alton Daigle, Alton Daigle, Dora Daigle, Lillie May Daigle, Alberta Daigle, Henry Daigle, Albert Woodrow Daigle, Barbara Daigle, Hubert

http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?friend=nytimes&court=us&vol=176&invol=350U.S. Supreme Court
THORMANN v. FRAME, 176 U.S. 350 (1900)
176 U.S. 350
ANTOINETTE THORMANN, Plff. in Err., v. ANDREW J. FRAME and Magdalena Fabacher and Jacob Fabacher, Minors, by D.S. Tullar, Their Guardian ad litem. No. 341. Submitted January 22, 1900. Decided February 26, 1900.
[176 U.S. 350, 351] Joseph Fabacher died March 3, 1897, in the city of New Orleans, leaving a last will and testament dated October 29, 1896, in which he described himself as of Waukesha, Wisconsin, where the will was executed, and where he had a residence and a considerable amount of personal property. His widow and ten of his children were named as legatees and devisees. On March 27, 1897, A. J. Frame, appointed executor, presented the will for probate in the county court of Waukesha county, Wisconsin, alleging that it had been duly executed under the laws of Wisconsin, and that Joseph Fabacher was at the time of his decease 'an inhabitant of the said county of Waukesha.' Publication of the application was made according to law and the matter set for hearing May 4, 1897. On that day Antoinette Thormann, daughter of Fabacher by a prior marriage, appeared and objected to the admission of the instrument to probate, alleging herself to be, under the law of Louisiana, the sole heir of the deceased, and also setting forth matters which, it was contended, would by the law of that state disqualify the beneficiaries named in the will from taking under it, and averring, as to Joseph Fabacher, that 'continuously ever since 1843 up to and at the time of his death he, the said deceased, was domiciliated in the city of New Orleans, in the state of Louisiana, and an inhabitant and resident thereof, and that this court has no jurisdiction in the probate of said alleged last will and testament and in the settlement and distribution of said estate of said deceased.' She further charged that any attempt on the part of Fabacher to acquire or create a domicil at Waukesha was in fraud of her rights; that the will was procured by undue influence; and that it was not duly executed in the manner and form required by law. It was conceded that Fabacher's adult children resided in New Orleans, but insisted that the domicil of the minor children was in Wisconsin, and a guardian ad litem was appointed as to them. Trial was had in the county court, which held the will in all respects valid; that at the time of his death and some time prior thereto, Joseph Fabacher was domiciled in the county of Waukesha, state of Wisconsin; and that the will was entitled to probate.
The case was then carried to the circuit court of Waukesha [176 U.S. 350, 352] county, and there tried before a jury, who returned a verdict sustaining the will and finding the domicil of Joseph Fabacher at the time of his death, March 3, 1897, to have been at the city of Waukesha, whereupon the circuit court made findings of fact and conclusions of law, and entered judgment admitting the will to probate and affirming the judgment to that effect of the county court. A large amount of testimony was introduced on these trials, and, among other things, it appeared that on March 29, 1897, Antoinette Thormann petitioned the civil district court for the parish of Orleans, Louisiana, to be appointed administratrix of the succession of Joseph Fabacher, her father, asserting that he 'was at the time of his death and many years before a citizen of Louisiana, domiciled and residing in the city of New Orleans; that said deceased left property in this city, and within the jurisdiction of this honorable court,' and 'that your petitioner is the sole surviving heir and legitimate child of said deceased, issue of his marriage with petitioner's mother. . . .' Letters of administration were granted by the court April 30, 1897
The inventory stated the property of deceased as 'one marble tomb in lot situated in St. Joseph cemetery, No. 2, bearing the inscription, 'Family of Joseph Fabacher;' also two (2) galvanized iron sofas and five ( 5) vases, valued by said appraisers at the sum of thirty-five hundred dollars ($3,500).' An attempt was made to inventory some household effects, which, however, were claimed as the property of one of the sons.
From the judgment of the circuit court of Waukesha county an appeal was taken to the supreme court of Wisconsin, the judgment affirmed, and the record remanded to the circuit court. 102 Wis. 653, 79 N. W. 39. A writ of error having been sued out from this court, motions to dismiss or affirm were submitted.

Robert's Cove has become known throughout Acadian as the home place of a substantial German settlement. But the first German settlement in Acadia Parish was begun by Joseph Fabacher and Zen Huber on Prairie Faquetaïque between Bayou des Cannes an Bayou Mallet.
Joseph Fabacher, born in 1830 in Bavaria, came to America as a small boy. By the time of the Civil War, he had amassed a fortune operating a distillery in New Orleans and later founded the Jackson Brewing Co., which made Jax Beer.
The war interrupted Fabacher's distillery business, and it was then that he persuaded his friend, Huber, also a native of Germany, to help him found a German colony in southwest Louisiana.
Fabacher and Huber came to Prairie Faquetaïque in 1870, and the first group of colonists from Germany had arrived by January 1871. A few months later, there were 60 persons in the colony.
The Fabacher post office was established June 11, 1873, with Joseph Fabacher as postmaster. It was closed about the turn of the century. The place also became known as German Settlement, and later became known as Ritchie.

Franz married Madeleine Frey on 27 Jul 1874 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA. Madeleine (daughter of André Frey and Françoise Diemert) was born on 17 Mar 1840 in Rosenwiller, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France; died on 31 Aug 1914 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA; was buried in Lafayette Cemetery #2, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Martin married Luise Hess. Luise was born in in Deutschland; died in in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]