00:00:30 - Plantations; She went with her husband Sam to visit the plantation; Sam wanted to restore the plantation; During the 1930s before the war;
00:04:45 - Other sugar plantations were indebted to the banks; Foreclosures; The Burguieres still owned their plantation;
00:05:55 - When they would visit, Uncle Jules would have them over for dinner and they would visit; They would take a Greyhound bus to get there because they didn't have a car;
00:07:40 - Jules Burguieres II graduated with her father from Tulane; He was in his 50s when she knew him; He wasn't friendly; He wasn't married;
00:09:10 - In the old days, he had a lot more help: cooks, maids, yard workers, chauffeurs, etc.; They couldn't pay black workers in the 1930s during the depression;
00:11:00 - Black workers lived on the plantation; Credit accounts with the company store; Black and white children played together; Patout's children; Jules lived in the main house;
00:14:00 - Dennis, Philip's grandfather, built the big house; Some of the family moved to New Orleans and were interested in "fancy social life"; The other brothers stayed in the country and weren't interested in that;
00:15:40 - She had an old black women who worked for her family; She tells a story about this lady;
00:18:50 - Donna mentions Leroy Yiggins;
00:20:00 - Jules II lived at Cypremort; Sam lived at North Bend; In 1911, Pat and Henry both got married and bought North Bend and Midway plantations; Florence and Inez where other plantations; Mr. Brown lived in a house at Florence and ran it;
00:22:00 - Pat and Henry were overseers;
00:23:00 - They might have had slaves before but not after they started the business in 1877; She never heard anything about the Burguieres in relation to slavery but she assumes they had slaves back in the day;
00:24:45 - Florence was Jules' daughter; Nobody knows what happened to her; She was in an institution up north; She was buried with the rest of the family; The family never discussed it;
00:26:10 - Joseph Eugene; He died in 1911; He was very smart; He was in charge of Pat and Henry when their father died; He married a girl who died in childbirth and he died a few weeks later of a ruptured appendix;
00:28:00 - Charles Patout (They called him Patout); Joseph was in charge until they came of age; The company became incorporated so people could have shares; After Henry and Patout graduated high school, they went to Europe; Book keeping school; They invested some of their money in their brother's sugar company;
00:33:10 - Jules came back from Florida and took over; Troubles with their stocks belonging to Whitney Bank;
00:34:20 - Board meetings; Sam gave her stock in exchange for taking notes at the board meetings;
00:35:50 - Lawsuit with Gregory; Letters;
00:38:30 - Gregory worked offshore and wrote letters to the company every night; 7 suits; Donald Doyle was the lawyer;
00:40:40 - The files went to J.K. Burns; He was the auditor and on the board; The transcription from the lawsuit contains the whole company history;
00:42:50 - Mrs. Pollaine (?) took over for Gregory; Always voted against things;
00:44:00 - Lee Lakey (?); Doc Pollaine;
00:45:40 - Patout's granddaughter is married to Leefe who was on the board;
00:46:50 - Ida Broussard was the sister or cousin of Dennis' wife, Elise Broussard; They called her Cousin Ida;
00:48:15 - They stayed at a hotel called White Castle for their honeymoon; Her father was an accountant; His father was a doctor; He worked for the Cypress Lumber Company and met her mother; She was one of the pioneer stenographers in New Orleans; Worked for a company that made printing machines for newspapers; He had a heart attack but he went back to work after;