Charles Morgan, who established Morganza Plantation, was my great-great grandfather. My other great-great grandfather, Maurice Abrams, married Charles’ youngest daughter Julie, who was James Alfred Morgan’s sister. Maurice Abrams was a Jewish English immigrant. He worked as a consignment merchant, stock broker and estate manager in New Orleans. He may have met Julie while conducting a court-ordered inventory of Morganza Plantation property after Charles’ death on February, 17, 1848. (Charles died without leaving a will, and the Ponte Coupee District Court ordered the inventory so that portions of the plantation could be partitioned and sold to benefit Charles’ heirs. The inheritance issue finally wound up before the Louisiana Supreme Court.) I wonder if you know anything about the circumstance surrounding Julie Morgan’s marriage to Maurice Abrams. The marriage took place in New Orleans, rather than at St. Francis Church in Pointe Coupee, the traditional wedding place for Morgan daughters. It seems odd that Julie would have married outside her faith and outside the planter class. I think there’s a chance Maurice and Julie eloped because her family opposed the marriage. However, it might be they were married in New Orleans because the St. Francis Catholic Church refused to sanction an interfaith marriage.
Blair Case