Pat: This is information I found in an old history of St. Joe.:The area of French
Bottoms, at the time of the settling of
Buchanan County, at
Robidoux Landing was a peninsula in the
Missouri River bordered by water on 3 of its 4 sides. The southeast corner of this area would have been where
MacArthur Drive is today, near the location of
Robidoux Trading Post. The
Missouri River went almost straight west and southwest. After the flood of 1952 the river's channel was relocated by the
Corps of U.S. Army Engineers, creating an island of approximately five square miles of area, the majority of this area was on the
Kansas side of the River. The early settlerssz in this area were farmers with French and
Swiss ancestry. The following names are those who can be considered to be the earliest settlers: Beattie; Brown: Calame: Chance: Sam Creal: Nicholas Didlo; Alfred Duprey; Fisher; Freeman; Hill; Frank; King; Laderoute; LaJoie; Lavette; Panigot; Perry; Pickett; Rounds; Weeney; Sollars; Tison;
Welsch.
I just looked up the 1930 census for St. Joe and Found Joseph
Robertson, Cattaline Ann
Creal and listed as mother-in-law Eugenie
Creal. My records list her as Eugenie Panigot although I have seen her listed as Mary Eugenie Panigot. I was particularly interested in finding the 1930's census for Creals because my Mother and Dad visited a family of her
Creal relatives there in 1930 and I wanted to see who it was. My Mother said that they spoke French in the home, and that they were Catholics. My Mother and Dad were impressed by their hospitality and graciousness. They said even though it was Fri. and the family was not eating meat, they served ham to them. Cattaline
Creal Robertson was probably named after my Great-grandmother Cattalina
Creal Stewart. She was a daughter of
Absalom and Nancy
Ward Creal and a sister of Samuel H. Creal.