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Annie told us her Grandma, Mary ?Elisabeth? Zengerling Stanga, was living with her family until she died (April 16, 1903). The family also has a nice, large photograph of the Grandmother, Elisabeth Stanga. Her Grandma Stanga told her many things from the past. She said it took ?6 months? to cross the ocean from Germany. They had two small children that died on the voyage, and how hard it was for them to put their small bodies overboard. She thought that the rest of the children were all bom in this country. Annie?s mother told her about an ?Uncle Varderber? that lived in Mississippi, and that they had Zengerling cousins there also. She also said her grandparents lived in the ?Bohemian Swamp? in Tangipahoa Parish, LA, and her Grandfather, Andrew Stanga, is buried in an unmarked grave next to where their old home once stood. Her grandmother is buried in the old Stanga Cemetery in Bedico, LA without a headstone. Many other family members are also buried there. The Stanga family is listed in the 1850 census of Hancock County, MS, and in the 1860 census, they are found in rural ?P.O. Box Covington, LA.? They spell their name ?Strainger.? Andrew is age 55 (1805), Elisabeth 49 (1811), John 22 (1838), Frank 19 (1841), Caroline 18 (1842), Mary 15 (1845), and Andrew 10 (1850).
The death of ?Marian Elisabeth Stanga,? died April 16, 1903 at age 96 years and
2	months is recorded in the Catholic Church in Madisonville, LA. Andrew died between his appearance in the 1870 census and June 23, 1879 when his ?heirs? sold some of his property. The children of John ?Andrew? Stanga and Mary ?Elisabeth? Zengerling are:
A.	First name unknown Stanga - bom around 1831 in Gehrden, Germany and died around 1836 on the ship while coming to America.
B.	First name unknown Stanga - born around 1833 in Gehrden, Germany and died around 1836 on the ship while coming to America.
C.	John Alexander Stanga - bom on September 18, 1837 (actually 1839), and died February 18, 1914 according to his headstone in the Stanga Cemetery in Bedico, LA. He was baptized by a priest from the St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans on February 2, 1840 as ?Jean Alexandre Estangue? son of ?Andre Estangue and Elisabeth Estangue? (SLC Bapt. Bk. 17, page 131). Priests often came to Hancock County, MS prior to 1847 and baptized the children there. The record even states that the baptism took place at the ?Bay of St. Louis.? We find this same place of birth on various census records. We also find him using the middle name ?Adam? instead of his baptismal name, Alexander.
John A. Stanga is age 11 (1839) in the 1850 Hancock census, 22 (1838) in the 1860 St. Tammany Parish census, 31 (1839) in the 1870 St. Tammany census, 41 (1839) in the 1880 Tangipahoa census, and in the 1900 Tangipahoa census, he says he was born in ?Sept. 1839 in Mississippi.? With this, we are inclined to put his correct date of birth as September 18, 1839. He married Mary Madora ?Dora? Perrilloux on December 5, 1861. She apparently was previously married to Antoine Albase (Albis) in 1850 as listed in St. Tammany Civil marriage records. John and Dora lived last in St. Tammany Parish, LA. John and Mary had:
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