Beloved Mother to four children and adored Mama to 11 grandchildren, Edna raised her children with husband Thomas Walter Yarborough (1886-1953) in McComb, MS: Julia Felma, Addie Caroline, T. Walter, and Ted Leon. She moved to Houston, TX after her husband's death, and later to Kingsville, TX to be near her daughter Julia (Pep) Yarborough Banner.
"Mama," as her family called her, was born and raised in Moreauville, Louisiana, on a farm on the Bayou des Glaises established by the Tassin family of her mother Caroline Tassin Dufour Segrue. Caroline's second husband (and father of the last four of her 12 children) was Stephen Edward Segrue, born in New Orleans in 1858, the first generation son of immigrant Irish parents. Caroline became a widow for the second time in 1901, when her daughter Edna was not quite four years old. She stayed on the farm, eventually working it with Edna's older brother Thomas Arthur Segrue (1894-1966), until the great Mississippi River flood of 1927. Edna was educated at Moreauville High School, after which she went to Pineville, LA to work as a nurse's assistant at the state hospital there, where she met Thomas Walter Yarborough, who had left his own family's farm near Liverpool LA to take the job of barber at the hospital. Because of the white coat he wore, Edna at first thought he was a doctor. They fell in love and "eloped," marrying at the courthouse in nearby Alexandria in March of 1917. She was 21 and he 29.
In their early married years, they lived two households down from Edna's widowed mother on the Bayou des Glaises in Borodino (adjacent to Moreauville), LA. Eventually they moved first to Kentwood, LA, and then to McComb, MS, where they spent the rest of their married years until "Papa" died in 1953. Edna moved to Houston after her husband's death, to be near the family of her daughter Addie. Her son Ted lived with her in the early Houston years in the later 1950s and 1960s. She was a talented cook whose specialities derived from her French mother's teaching. She cooked "by heart and hand," never using measuring utensils; her gumbo and her pies were especially memorable. In her last years "Mama" lived with her daughter Julia Felma Yarborough Banner in Kingsville, Texas, where she is buried in Chamberlain Cemetery.
"Mama," as her family called her, was born and raised in Moreauville, Louisiana, on a farm on the Bayou des Glaises established by the Tassin family of her mother Caroline Tassin Dufour Segrue. Caroline's second husband (and father of the last four of her 12 children) was Stephen Edward Segrue, born in New Orleans in 1858, the first generation son of immigrant Irish parents. Caroline became a widow for the second time in 1901, when her daughter Edna was not quite four years old. She stayed on the farm, eventually working it with Edna's older brother Thomas Arthur Segrue (1894-1966), until the great Mississippi River flood of 1927. Edna was educated at Moreauville High School, after which she went to Pineville, LA to work as a nurse's assistant at the state hospital there, where she met Thomas Walter Yarborough, who had left his own family's farm near Liverpool LA to take the job of barber at the hospital. Because of the white coat he wore, Edna at first thought he was a doctor. They fell in love and "eloped," marrying at the courthouse in nearby Alexandria in March of 1917. She was 21 and he 29.
In their early married years, they lived two households down from Edna's widowed mother on the Bayou des Glaises in Borodino (adjacent to Moreauville), LA. Eventually they moved first to Kentwood, LA, and then to McComb, MS, where they spent the rest of their married years until "Papa" died in 1953. Edna moved to Houston after her husband's death, to be near the family of her daughter Addie. Her son Ted lived with her in the early Houston years in the later 1950s and 1960s. She was a talented cook whose specialities derived from her French mother's teaching. She cooked "by heart and hand," never using measuring utensils; her gumbo and her pies were especially memorable. In her last years "Mama" lived with her daughter Julia Felma Yarborough Banner in Kingsville, Texas, where she is buried in Chamberlain Cemetery.
Beloved Mother to four children and adored Mama to 11 grandchildren, Edna raised her children with husband Thomas Walter Yarborough (1886-1953) in McComb, MS: Julia Felma, Addie Caroline, T. Walter, and Ted Leon. She moved to Houston, TX after her husband's death, and later to Kingsville, TX to be near her daughter Julia (Pep) Yarborough Banner.
"Mama," as her family called her, was born and raised in Moreauville, Louisiana, on a farm on the Bayou des Glaises established by the Tassin family of her mother Caroline Tassin Dufour Segrue. Caroline's second husband (and father of the last four of her 12 children) was Stephen Edward Segrue, born in New Orleans in 1858, the first generation son of immigrant Irish parents. Caroline became a widow for the second time in 1901, when her daughter Edna was not quite four years old. She stayed on the farm, eventually working it with Edna's older brother Thomas Arthur Segrue (1894-1966), until the great Mississippi River flood of 1927. Edna was educated at Moreauville High School, after which she went to Pineville, LA to work as a nurse's assistant at the state hospital there, where she met Thomas Walter Yarborough, who had left his own family's farm near Liverpool LA to take the job of barber at the hospital. Because of the white coat he wore, Edna at first thought he was a doctor. They fell in love and "eloped," marrying at the courthouse in nearby Alexandria in March of 1917. She was 21 and he 29.
In their early married years, they lived two households down from Edna's widowed mother on the Bayou des Glaises in Borodino (adjacent to Moreauville), LA. Eventually they moved first to Kentwood, LA, and then to McComb, MS, where they spent the rest of their married years until "Papa" died in 1953. Edna moved to Houston after her husband's death, to be near the family of her daughter Addie. Her son Ted lived with her in the early Houston years in the later 1950s and 1960s. She was a talented cook whose specialities derived from her French mother's teaching. She cooked "by heart and hand," never using measuring utensils; her gumbo and her pies were especially memorable. In her last years "Mama" lived with her daughter Julia Felma Yarborough Banner in Kingsville, Texas, where she is buried in Chamberlain Cemetery.
"Mama," as her family called her, was born and raised in Moreauville, Louisiana, on a farm on the Bayou des Glaises established by the Tassin family of her mother Caroline Tassin Dufour Segrue. Caroline's second husband (and father of the last four of her 12 children) was Stephen Edward Segrue, born in New Orleans in 1858, the first generation son of immigrant Irish parents. Caroline became a widow for the second time in 1901, when her daughter Edna was not quite four years old. She stayed on the farm, eventually working it with Edna's older brother Thomas Arthur Segrue (1894-1966), until the great Mississippi River flood of 1927. Edna was educated at Moreauville High School, after which she went to Pineville, LA to work as a nurse's assistant at the state hospital there, where she met Thomas Walter Yarborough, who had left his own family's farm near Liverpool LA to take the job of barber at the hospital. Because of the white coat he wore, Edna at first thought he was a doctor. They fell in love and "eloped," marrying at the courthouse in nearby Alexandria in March of 1917. She was 21 and he 29.
In their early married years, they lived two households down from Edna's widowed mother on the Bayou des Glaises in Borodino (adjacent to Moreauville), LA. Eventually they moved first to Kentwood, LA, and then to McComb, MS, where they spent the rest of their married years until "Papa" died in 1953. Edna moved to Houston after her husband's death, to be near the family of her daughter Addie. Her son Ted lived with her in the early Houston years in the later 1950s and 1960s. She was a talented cook whose specialities derived from her French mother's teaching. She cooked "by heart and hand," never using measuring utensils; her gumbo and her pies were especially memorable. In her last years "Mama" lived with her daughter Julia Felma Yarborough Banner in Kingsville, Texas, where she is buried in Chamberlain Cemetery.
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