My ancestor's name will be on a bridge...

[Joe Biden 2020]

I just got back from the Choctaw, OK City Council Meeting just a little while ago and the main item on the agenda was naming a newly constructed bridge in north-east Choctaw over the North Canadian River.  It will be named the "John Isadore Tescier Memorial Bridge".  (pronounced "Tay-CEE-er") Mr. Tescier was my great-great grandfather.  With him being that far removed from me, I never knew the man.  He died some 55 years or so before I was born, but I did know two of his 11 children and my late grandfather, who passed in 1991, was his grandson.  There will be a dedication ceremony at the bridge site at a date TBA.

So, its a wonderful feeling to know that my family name is being forever remembered on a bridge.  Even though its a bridge in the small town of Choctaw, Oklahoma, it still makes me feel kinda famous in a way, or at least my ancestors.

[Joe Biden 2020]

Cool!  Why are they naming it after him?  i.e., Why was he an important person in Choctaw, OK?

Back in the late 1800's and early 1900's, he owned 160 acres on the border of the Kickapoo lands right next to where that bridge is.  In fact, part of that land is still owned by the descendants of Mr. Tescier.