* Ca 1870 Napoleonville, La.
† Ca 1924

As a brass band musician he played with: Onward, Pickwick Brass Band

He was an early member of the Onward Brass Band, 1890 and so was enlisted at time of Spanish-American War, with the band.16

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16 New Orleans Jazz, family album by Al Rose and Edmond Souchon