Mary Antoinette Silbernagel

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      Sex: F

AKA: Nettie

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Individual Information

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     Birth Date: 28 Nov 1896 - New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA
    Christening: 
          Death: 1 Dec 1929 - New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA
         Burial: 2 Dec 1929 - St Vincent de Paul Cemetery, New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA
 Cause of Death: Murdered - see story in the Times Picayune

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Parents

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         Father: George Silbernagel {FGID: 135876207}
         Mother: Margaret Seiter {FGID: 135876696}

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Notes

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General:

Per Orleans birth index:
Silbernagel, Mary Antoinette F W 11/28/1896 Volume 108 Page 627
Father: George
Mother: Margaret Seiter

Per 1900 US Census:
Head of household at rental house 1043 Louisa in New Orleans, LA is George Silbernagel, a 33 year old white male born June 1867 in Lousisana, parents born in Germany. Married 14 years, he works as a grocer.
His wife is Margarette, a 33 year old born November 1867 in Louisiana as was her father, mother born in Germany. She and George both speak English, and can read and write.
The have had 7 children, all living:
Son - George 12 years old born November 1887 and is at school
Daughter - Annie 11 years old born April 1888 and is at school
Daughter - Caroline 9 years old born June 1890 ?
Son - Henry 7 years old born September 1892
Daughter - Barbara 5 years old born October 1894
Daughter - Antoinette 3 years old born November 1896
Daughter - Amelia (Mary) 1 year old born December 1898?

Per 1910 US Census:
Living at 1301 Clouet St, New Orleans, LA a rental house, head of household is George Silbernagel, a 42 year old white male married 24 years to Margaret. He is employed as a warehouseman for a wholesale grocery. They have had 10 children, and 9 are still living.
Children are:
George, Jr 23 laborer for railroad
Carolina (sp) 19 Mater at a Knitting Mill
Henry 17 Painter - House
Barbara 15 Looper at a Knitting Mill
Nettie [Antoinette] 13
Mimmie 11
Pauline 9
William 7
Clarence 5
and Niece - Mary 17

Per 1920 US Census Series T625 Roll 622 Page 252, 208 Clouet St, 9th Ward 11th Precinct, New Orleans, LA:
Head of household is Steven Paretti, 23 year old white male who rents the house. Born in Louisiana as were his parents, he can read and write and is employed as a boiler maker for the government. His wife, Amelia, is 20 and can also read and write. Their daughter, Dorothy, is 3 months old, and was born in Louisiana.
Also living with them is Amelia's mother, Margaret, a widow aged 53. She and her parents were born in Louisiana. Some of Margaret's children live with them too:
Henry, 27 and single, born in Louisiana, employed painting houses.
Barbara, 25 and single, born in Louisiana, employed as a looper in a stocking mill.
Nettie, 22 and single, born in Louisiana does house work at home.
Willie, 17 and single, born in Louisiana, is unable to work.
Clarence, 15 and single, is office boy in a coffin factory.

Per ancestry.com death index 1804-1949
Antoinette Silbernagel died at age 33 on December 1, 1929. Volume 1052, page 199.

DECEMBER 2, 1929 Issue of THE TIMES-PICAYUNE
HUSBAND ACCUSED OF KILLING WIFE'S SISTER IN HOME
Miss Antoinette Silbernagel Dies in Hospital With Fractured Skull
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HE ONLY 'PUSHED HER FACE '
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John Guzman Is Charged With Manslaughter in Family Row
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John Avariste Guzman, 35 years old, was charged with manslaughter at the Fifth Precinct police station Sunday, after the death of his sister-in-law, Miss Antoinette Silbernagel, 33, 3153 Urquhart street.

Guzmun is alleged to have struck Miss Silbernagel with his fist, knocking her against an iron stove. Guzman said he pushed her in the face. Miss Silbernagel died at Charity hospital at 11 a. m. Coroner George F. Roeling pronounced death due to hemorrhage and shock following a fracture of the skull.

Three weeks ago, police learned, Guzman and his wife separated, and Mrs. Guzman [Barbara Silbernagel Guzman], with her three children, John, Jr., 7, Calvin, 6, and Charles, 3, went to 3153 Urquhart street to live with Miss Antoinette Silbernagel [Barbara's sister] and her brother Henry, 36, a meter reader employed by the sewerage and water board.

Guzman Intoxicated
Guzman, it was learned, visited the house frequently during the last three weeks for meals and to get changes of clothing. Sunday at 9 a. m. he is alleged to have entered the home in an intoxicated condition. His wife remonstrated with him for drinking.

"I'm tired of being bossed around," Guzman is alleged to have told his wife. "Nettie may boss you but you can't get away with that sort of stuff with me."

Miss Silbernagel is said to have entered the argument at this juncture and Guzman, according to witnesses, struck her between the eyes with his fist. Miss Silbernagel is said to have screamed as Guzman raised his arm, "Don't you hit me!"

Next door, at 3151 Urquhart street, Steven J. Paretti, 33, a file clerk employed by the sewerage and water board, and his wife, Amelia, a sister of Miss Silbernagel, heard Miss Antoinette Silbernagel's scream. Joseph Silbernagel, Sr., an uncle, was with Mr. and Mrs. Paretti.

Seen by Witnesses
Paretti and his wife ran out the front door of their house and entered the house where the argument was being contested. Joseph Silbernagel, Sr., ran in the back door of the house. As Paretti and his wife entered the kitchen Miss Antoinette Silbernagel was seen to stagger toward a woodbox, fall against a stove and collapse, unconscious. Her sister, Amelia, tried to revive her with smelling salts.

Paretti ran to the corner of Clouet and Urquhart street and met Henry Silbernagel [Antoinette's brother]. Both returned to the house to find Joseph Silbernagel, Sr. holding Guzman. As they entered Joseph Silbernagel released Guzman, who is alleged to have struck Henry Silbernagel. Henry procured a piece of stove wood and is said to have struck Guzman on the head. Guzman fell to the floor. Recovering, he ran to Clouet and Urquhart streets and entered an automobile with friends, who drove him to Charity hospital, where his head was bandaged.

Taken to Hospital
An ambulance took Miss Antoinette Silbernagel to Charity hospital, where she was placed in a ward.

When Guzman returned to the house he is said to have picked up three brickbets and threatened to knock down the doors of the dwelling if he was not permitted to get his coat and hat. Joseph Silbernagel, Jr., said he followed Guzman and asked him not to throw the bricks and said that he would get his coat and hat for him.

Police arrived at this juncture and arrested Guzman. At the Fifth Precinct station he was charged with assault, beating and wounding. When Miss Silbernagel died at 11 a. m. the charge was changed to murder.

Assistant District Attorney J. Bernard Cocke, with Detectives Alfred Malone and James Daniels, investigated the affray. Guzman told the investigators that during the argument in the kitchen he was attacked by one of the Silbernagels, who wielded a lead pipe. Guzman said he thought the shock of seeing him beaten caused the death of Miss Silbernagel. Guzman denied striking her with his fist.

After questioning Guzman, Mr. Cocke ordered the murder charges reduced to manslaughter.

Guzman admitted that eight years ago he stabbed a brother-in-law, Cleveland Thomason, with a pen-knife during a fight. He said Thomason was beating him and that he cut Thomason across the stomach with the knife, causing a slight wound.

Per Times-Picayune 1/23/1930
MAN IS SENTENCED FOR KILLING WOMAN
John E. Guzman, 29 years old, Wednesday was sentenced to serve from one to three years in prison after he had pleaded guilty to Judge Alexander C. O'Donnell in the criminal district court to a manslaughter charge growing out of an attack and death of Gusman's sister-in-law December 1.


Per Obituary in the Times-Picayune 12/2/1929
SILBERNAGEL -- On Sunday, December 1, 1929, at 11:35 o'clock a. m., ANTOINETTE SILBERNAGEL, daughter of the late George Silbernagel and Margaret Seither and sister of Mrs. Frank Perschall, Mrs. L. Prudhomme, Mrs. Stephen Paretti, Mrs G. Guzmann, Henry, George and Clarence Silbernagel, aged 33 years, a native of New Orleans, La.

The relatives, friends and acquaintances of the family, also the officers and members of Dixie Council No. 13, J.O.U.M.A., McDonough Council No. 2, D. of A., employees of sewerage and water board and Ninth Ward Regular Democratic Association and employees of Perry & Buckley are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, which will take place Monday, December 2, 1929, at 4 o'clock p. m., from the late residence of the deceased, 3153 Urquhart street.

Interment in St. Vincent de Paul cemetery. Arrangements by Jacob Schoen & Son.

Medical:

DECEMBER 2, 1929 Issue of THE TIMES-PICAYUNE
HUSBAND ACCUSED OF KILLING WIFE'S SISTER IN HOME
Miss Antoinette Silbernagel Dies in Hospital With Fractured Skull
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HE ONLY 'PUSHED HER FACE '
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John Guzman Is Charged With Manslaughter in Family Row
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John Avariste Guzman, 35 years old, was charged with manslaughter at the Fifth Precinct police station Sunday, after the death of his sister-in-law, Miss Antoinette Silbernagel, 33, 3153 Urquhart street.

Guzmun is alleged to have struck Miss Silbernagel with his fist, knocking her against an iron stove. Guzman said he pushed her in the face. Miss Silbernagel died at Charity hospital at 11 a. m. Coroner George F. Roeling pronounced death due to hemorrhage and shock following a fracture of the skull.

Three weeks ago, police learned, Guzman and his wife separated, and Mrs. Guzman [Barbara Silbernagel Guzman], with her three children, John, Jr., 7, Calvin, 6, and Charles, 3, went to 3153 Urquhart street to live with Miss Antoinette Silbernagel [Barbara's sister] and her brother Henry, 36, a meter reader employed by the sewerage and water board.

Guzman Intoxicated
Guzman, it was learned, visited the house frequently during the last three weeks for meals and to get changes of clothing. Sunday at 9 a. m. he is alleged to have entered the home in an intoxicated condition. His wife remonstrated with him for drinking.

"I'm tired of being bossed around," Guzman is alleged to have told his wife. "Nettie may boss you but you can't get away with that sort of stuff with me."

Miss Silbernagel is said to have entered the argument at this juncture and Guzman, according to witnesses, struck her between the eyes with his fist. Miss Silbernagel is said to have screamed as Guzman raised his arm, "Don't you hit me!"

Next door, at 3151 Urquhart street, Steven J. Paretti, 33, a file clerk employed by the sewerage and water board, and his wife, Amelia, a sister of Miss Silbernagel, heard Miss Antoinette Silbernagel's scream. Joseph Silbernagel, Sr., an uncle, was with Mr. and Mrs. Paretti.

Seen by Witnesses
Paretti and his wife ran out the front door of their house and entered the house where the argument was being contested. Joseph Silbernagel, Sr., ran in the back door of the house. As Paretti and his wife entered the kitchen Miss Antoinette Silbernagel was seen to stagger toward a woodbox, fall against a stove and collapse, unconscious. Her sister, Amelia, tried to revive her with smelling salts.

Paretti ran to the corner of Clouet and Urquhart street and met Henry Silbernagel [Antoinette's brother]. Both returned to the house to find Joseph Silbernagel, Sr. holding Guzman. As they entered Joseph Silbernagel released Guzman, who is alleged to have struck Henry Silbernagel. Henry procured a piece of stove wood and is said to have struck Guzman on the head. Guzman fell to the floor. Recovering, he ran to Clouet and Urquhart streets and entered an automobile with friends, who drove him to Charity hospital, where his head was bandaged.

Taken to Hospital
An ambulance took Miss Antoinette Silbernagel to Charity hospital, where she was placed in a ward.

When Guzman returned to the house he is said to have picked up three brickbets and threatened to knock down the doors of the dwelling if he was not permitted to get his coat and hat. Joseph Silbernagel, Jr., said he followed Guzman and asked him not to throw the bricks and said that he would get his coat and hat for him.

Police arrived at this juncture and arrested Guzman. At the Fifth Precinct station he was charged with assault, beating and wounding. When Miss Silbernagel died at 11 a. m. the charge was changed to murder.

Assistant District Attorney J. Bernard Cocke, with Detectives Alfred Malone and James Daniels, investigated the affray. Guzman told the investigators that during the argument in the kitchen he was attacked by one of the Silbernagels, who wielded a lead pipe. Guzman said he thought the shock of seeing him beaten caused the death of Miss Silbernagel. Guzman denied striking her with his fist.

After questioning Guzman, Mr. Cocke ordered the murder charges reduced to manslaughter.

Guzman admitted that eight years ago he stabbed a brother-in-law, Cleveland Thomason, with a pen-knife during a fight. He said Thomason was beating him and that he cut Thomason across the stomach with the knife, causing a slight wound.