Amelia Neville

Biography

From https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Landry-3235

Amelia was born about 1914. Her parents were Jack and Mary (Meloncon) Landry. Her brother was George "Big Chief Jolly" Landry, head of the Wild Tchoupitoulas.

From “How political cowboys beget black Indians” Jul 14, 2005

The heritage of African, American Indian, French, Spanish and Caribbean music and sensibility began with the Neville's mother, Amelia Landry. She and her brother George formed a dance team called Landry & Landry. After Amelia married Arthur Lanon Neville, George Landry and his brother-in-law joined the merchant marine, the two would bring home records from the foreign ports they visited, and tell the kids tall tales.

Sources

• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VYPT-RN4 : accessed 29 April 2018), Arthur Neville, Ward 13, New Orleans, New Orleans City, Orleans, Louisiana, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 36-357, sheet 8A, line 6, family 166, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 1432.
• "Louisiana, Parish Marriages, 1837-1957," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKJC-1TGZ : 13 March 2018), Arthur Neville and Amelia Landry, 03 Jul 1934; citing Orleans, Louisiana, United States, various parish courthouses, Louisiana; FHL microfilm 2,320,121.
• From behind the ancestry.com subscription wall:
• US Census, 1930 (New Orleans, LA)
• New Orleans, Marriage Records Index, 1934
• US Census, 1940 (New Orleans, LA)
• U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1975