Stories by author "Kallie R. Johnston": 3
Stories
Peddler to Pioneer: A Slovakian Immigrant's Journey to Church Point Wholesale – Supplying Church Point and the South with almost anything, 112 years and counting.
Ján Hvorecký was born to Andrej Hvorecký and Anne Pastorek on January 3, 1868. They resided in Bytča, Slovakia, an organized Jewish community with a population of 750 in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. At 18 years old, in 1885, Ján immigrated to the…
Chocolate Soldier Chronicles: From Church Point to Hanley's Bottling Works – Supplying Church Point with delicious refreshments, from 1906 to 1978.
Our story starts off once more with the Daigle family of Church Point. In 1902, Ernestine Daigle, daughter of Joseph Ernest and Maria Madeleine Breaux Daigle, married Pierre Guidry, son of Thelismar and Marie Hermina Daigle Guidry. Marie…
Beyond Hammers and Nails: The Long Legacy of Theo. Daigle & Bros. Hardware Store – Supplying Church Point with the tools to build a town, 114 years and counting.
Our story starts with Joseph Ernest Daigle and his wife, Maria Madeleine Breaux Daigle, whose 12 children nearly had a monopoly over Church Point. One son, Theodore Daigle, was born in 1875, and after receiving his education in town, dabbled…