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I	read in your article that a lady came calling to the Carroll House in Hancock County, in 1938, saying that she was the sister of the wife of the governor. That would be my greatgrandmother Cecile's sister, only I have no knowledge that Cecile had a sister. I think she only had two brothers, but will look into it further. Perhaps it was a sister in law, I am guessing though that the lady who stopped by, was not Cecile Parker's sister, but her daughter, Virginia Saussy (my grandmother). Virginia lived in Pass Christian in the summer and was born in 1906. In 1938 when this took place, Virginia would have been 32 years old. and spending her summers in the Pass. Virginia Carroll (whose wedding date appears to have been scratched on a window in the home) would be the grandmother of the lady who knocked on the door. That would make more sense since you do mention the room was her grandmother's room. Had it been Cecile's sister (??), their mother was Miss Virginia Carroll, not their grandmother.
In looking over the text I was trying to following it and added in some facts to try and make it reflect correctly, although I don't know I have it totally correct.
"Shortly after they [new owners] had purchased the home in 1938 a lady stopped one day who introduced herself to [the owner] as the sister of the wife of Governor Parker [CECILE AIREY] of Louisiana and immediately gave proof that she knew more about the house than its new owners.
"She pointed out the double French lock on one of the outside shutters and asked to be allowed to see her grandmother's room where, she informed [that there] was a pane of glass in the window with the date October 6,1872 scratched on it by a diamond engagement ring. Sure enough, the date was still there just as she said it would be, and is still there today carefully treasured.
"The grandmother of the lady who called, and whose room contained the date on the window had been Miss Virginia Carroll who married Thomas Lee Airey in 1860. She was one of several Carroll sisters and undoubtedly the date on the window was significant to one of her sisters because she had been married 12 years when it was scratched. It was her daughter, Cecile Airey, and sister to the lady caller, [??? mother of the lady caller ???] who in 1888 married John M. Parker who was running mate with Theodore Roosevelt on the Bull Moose Ticket in 1916 and Governor of Louisiana from 1920 to 1924.