Alton James Stieffel
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth Date: 20 Dec 1904 - New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Christening:
Death: 23 Jan 1978 - Waveland, Hancock, Mississippi, USA
Burial: in Favre-Fayard Cemetery, Waveland, Hancock, Mississippi, USA
Cause of Death:
Find A Grave ID: 192508931
Events
• Soc Sec Num: 422-09-7057.
• Residence: 30 Apr 1952, Waveland, Hancock, Mississippi, USA.
Parents
Father: Emile Laurant Stieffel
Mother: Arthelia Jane Fayard
Spouses and Children
1. *Margaret Louise Zitzmann {FGID: 139074517}
Marriage:
Children:
1. Robert D. Stieffel
2. Agatha Stieffel {FGID: 201670828}
3. Catherine Nell Stieffel {FGID: 8368952}
4. Kenneth J. Stieffel
5. Jane Marie Stieffel {FGID: 100340178}
6. James Johnston Stieffel
2. Anna Louise Loustalot
Marriage: Jul 1924 - St. John the Baptist, New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Children:
1. Anna Mae Stieffel
2. Emile Laurent Stieffel II
Notes
General:
Per New Orleans birth index:Research:
December 20, 1904
STIEFFEL , ALTON JAMES
Mother: FAYARD, ARTHELIA J
Father: STIEFFEL , EMILE L
Orleans parish Page: 784 Volume: 129
Per 1910 US Census 4/1/1910 1824 Terpsichore New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana
Edward Stieffel is the 38 year old white male married head of household, born in Louisiana, his parents in French speaking Alsace, Germany. He works as a clerk for the railroad, and rents his home. His wife is Arthelia Stieffel, 29 years old, born in Mississippi as were her parents. She has had 9 children, 4 still living and at home. All four were born in Louisiana: 7 year old son, Fayard Stieffel; 5 year old son Alton Stieffel; 2 year old daughter Arthelia Stieffel; and 2 month old daughter [?] Ray Stieffel.
Per Times-Picayune 5/18/1913 Page 24
A COMMUNION PARTY
On Monday, May 12, a communion party was given at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Stieffel, 1824 Terpsichore Street, in honor of their two sons, Fayard and Alton. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Stieffel, Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. W. Henecko, Mr. and Mrs. C. Steiffel (sp), Mr. and Mrs. L. Woodworth, Mr. and Mrs. Dan Bourgeois, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Schulz, Sr., Messrs. Dan Fayard, H. Strouder, F. P. Deck, A. Deck, J. L. Schulz, Jr., I. F. Schulz, C. Morel, A. Goldenberg, C. Hardt, H. Dupuis, Joseph Jure, J. M. Penucheau, W. Hiemel, L. Kline, E. L. Bourgeois, Z. A. Bourgeois, E. F. Stieffel, A. J. Stieffel, Alfred Autz, Ray H. Stieffel, James J. Stieffel, C. Lejuerme, O. Aragon, Mrs. F. C. Deck, Misses S. Mullen, A. Coignard, E. Deck, M. Goldenberg, A. Deck, V. Fayard, L. Buerkle, L. Morel, I. Recknagle, D. Aragon, N. Esposito, N. Condren, T. Aragon, A. Woodworth, M. Woodworth, A. Stieffel, C. Drell, N. Bourgeois, T. Bourgeois, C. Carrio, M. Becke, A. schulz, G. Bertucci, Doris Levy, H. Flanagan, D. Thompson, E. Donahue, G. Stieffel.
Per 1920 US Census: 1/7/1920 1703 Carondelet St, Ward 1, New Orleans, Orleans, LA
Emile L. Stieffel is the 44 year old white male head of household, who rents his home. He was born in Louisiana, his parents in French speaking Alsace-Lorraine. He is a clerk for the Railroad. His wife is 39 year old Arthelia Stieffel, born in Mississippi, as were her parents. They have 5 children, all born in Louisiana: 17 year old son, Emile F. Stieffel, attends school and is a stenographer for an insurance company; 15 year old son, Alton J. Stieffel, attends school and is an office boy for a lawyer; 12 year old daughter, Arthelia Stieffel, attends school; 9 year old son, Ray H. Stieffel, attends school; 6 year old son, James J. Stieffel, attends school.
Per New Orleans States 9/18/1920 Page 15
Mrs. E. L. Stieffel and children spent the summer at Coal Creek, Colorado, with her niece, Mrs. R. C. Ranson, where they were later joined by Mr. Stieffel and son, Alton. They also visited Salt Lake City before returning home.
Per Times-Picayune 9/18/1921 Page 48 with Photo
A. Stieffel is showing wonderful form in the high jump and pole vault, two events he won in the Kingssley House efficiency test. Stieffel won the unlimited event with a jump of five feet six inches and is now doing around seven consistently.
This youngster has already won about ten medals in different meets around the South. He was second to Tony Pizzotola in total amount of points scored for Mrs. Lucien Lyon's loving cup. Stieffel is going in for the Kingsley House basketball team, which he should make with ease, because of his willingness and stick-to-it-iveness.
Per New Orleans Item 6/11/1922 Page 68
College Grads Have To Start As Office Boys Also, Writes Stieffel
_______________________________________________
I stand with Frank Herbert on the office boy question.
I think Frank is right in his statement about office boys, for the following reasons:
A boy does not have to discontinue school after he has started working. The city of New Orleans has provided night schools for them and there are numerous business colleges in which a young boy can learn the business methods used in the business worlds.
Boys who have graduated from high school and college have started to work as office boys while a boy who had quit school and worked from office boy up to mail clerk, attending high school at night has a position paying him a hundred and twenty-two dollars in a New Orleans railroad office. While J. T., I. H., W. W. and H. N., all graduated of Boys' High school and the latter, a graduate of Loyola university, are working as office boys for the small pay of eight to ten dollars a week. As for myself I quit school to go to work, and if I had to live my life over again I would stick in school, not because it was better for me but because of the pleasure you derive from attending.
At night school you have no pleasures at all. You must work until you have finished the course you are studying. You learn more in the business world in one week than you learn at school in a whole session. You learn the business methods that are not taught at school. You learn the art of self-respect, which is not taught in most schools.
I know of a boy who started working when 13 years of age as an office boy in a railroad office. He put aside all of his money and worked hard and attended night college, learning stenography. At the age of 17 he was a first class stenographer for one of the best rail roads in America. Why? Because he was experienced in the railroad line and it was a cinch for him to hold down the stenographer's position when she quit and so this proves that a boy does not have to attend school. He is a man before starting to work. The boy's salary is now one hundred and forty dollars a month, where as if a high school graduate was to try to hold down a position he would not be able to because he is "green" in the business methods.
ALTON STIEFFEL, Reporter Dixie Stars Chapter
Per Times-Picayune 12/31/1960 Page 23
Hijacking Loss Increased to $5150
GULFPORT, Miss. -- the loss in the hijacking of a truckload of whiskey owned by the Hancock wholesale house Dec. 23 has now been upped to $5150.
Herbert Stieffel, operator of a wholesale liquor house at Waveland, said further checks showed Friday an additional $2200 in receipts was stolen in the holdup.
He said a more detailed check of collections made prior to the hijacking resulted in the increased figure. He said receipts were stolen from the locked glove department of the panel truck.
Four armed, masked men halted the panel truck on state Hwy. 603 near the Kiln community.
Stieffel's uncle, A. J. Stieffel, 55, and Donald Dorn, 28, an employe, were left tied and gagged by the roadside in near freezing weather.
A light plane used in a search located the panel truck, emptied of its whiskey cargo, two miles east of the Sellers community later in the day.
Sheriff Gerald Price retained a private investigator to push an investigation of the case. An agent of the state tax collector's office also is taking part in the investigation.
Stieffel said liquor was enroute to a customer in another country when it was hijacked
Per Obituary in The Sun Herald (Biloxi, Mississippi)
Alton James Stieffel
Alton James Stieffel, 73, Waveland, a retired part owner of Stieffel Brothers Beverage Co. of Bay St. Louis. died Monday at 4:10 p.m. He was pronounced dead on arrival at Hancock General Hospital.
Mr. Stieffel, a resident of 414 Roberts St., was a native of New Orleans, born on Dec. 20, 1904. but had lived for most of his life in Waveland.
He was a member of St. Clare's Catholic Church in Waveland.
Mr. Stieffel is survived by his wife, Mrs. Margaret Zitzmann Stieffel, Waveland; four sons, Emile Lavrent
Stieffel II, Jackson, Miss, Kenneth J. Stieffel, Harahan, La., Robert D. Stieffel, Jefferson, La., and Thomas F.
Stieffel, New Orleans: seven daughters, Mrs. Anna Mae Silbernagel, Metairie, La., Mrs. Ann Bateman, New
Orleans, Mrs. Catherine Bourgeois, Kenner, La., Mrs. Jane Olivier, Harahan, Mrs. Ida DeAgano and Mrs. Aggie Anderson, River Ridge, La., and Miss Myra Stieffel, Waveland; one sister, Mrs. Althea Snyder, Houston, Texas: and 17 grandchildren.
Friends may call Monday from 6 to 11 p.m. at the Edmond Fahey Funeral Home in Bay St. Louis. Recitation of the Rosary will be at 7:30 p.m.
The funeral will be held Wednesday at 10 a.m. at the funeral home chapel with the Rev. John Scanlon, pastor of St. Clare's Catholic Church, officiating. Burial will be in the Fayard Cemetery in Waveland.
Per Findagrave
Alton James Stieffel
BIRTH20 Dec 1904 New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA
DEATH23 Jan 1978 (aged 73) Waveland, Hancock County, Mississippi, USA
BURIALFavre-Fayard Cemetery Waveland, Hancock County, Mississippi, USA
MEMORIAL ID192508931
Spouse
Margaret Louise Zitman Stieffel 1912\endash 1978
Children
Catherine Nell Stieffel Bourgeois 1939\endash 2002
Jane Stieffel Olivier 1943\endash 1992
Agatha Stieffel Anderson 1953\endash 2019
Per Social Security death index:
STIEFFEL, ALTON
Date of birth: 20 Dec 1904
Date of death: Jan 1978at age 73
Last address of record: 39576 (Waveland, Hancock, MS)
Issued in AlabamaSSN: 422-09-7057
Per Hancock County Historical Society
# Last Name First NameBirth Death Comment
39 StieffelAlton J. 1904 1978
ALTON STIEFFELMarriage Notes (Anna Louise Loustalot)20 Dec 1904 Jan 1978 39576 (Waveland, Hancock, MS) (none specified) 422-09-7057 Alabama
Per Times-Picayune 7/15/1924 Page 21
RECORDS OF THE DAY - VITAL STATISTICS
Marriages
Alton James Stieffel and Anna Louise Loustalot
Per New Orleans, Louisiana, Marriage Records Index, 1831-1964
Name:Alton James Stieffel
Gender:Male
Marriage Date:Jul 1924
Marriage Place:New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Spouse:Anna Louise Loutalot