From the Internet site about the Meux Home that is located in downtown Fresno within walking distance of the Amtrak station:. Meux who had come to Fresno from Tennessee the year before. Meux had been a Civil War surgeon on the side of the Confederacy. As a result of the ravages of war in Tennessee and the ill health of his wife, the doctor felt it was time to move his family to a better climate.
He chose Fresno. Meux, daughter of Dr. Meux, in At that time, because of the concern of many citizens of Fresno, the property was purchased by the city. She was a celebrated woman well before I had relocated from New York City to Fresno, and by some quirk of fate, she became my next door neighbor in the Northwest suburbs upon my arrival here in the Central Valley.
In fact, the date of her death is inaccurate as stated on the Meux Home website. He had tried unsuccessfully to shake her out of her sleep. I had a blurred memory about what followed in the sequence of events, because Anne, her husband, and their family members were very secretive as well as unassuming.
The one and only run in I had with Anne was about this impropriety because I had been worried that my toddlers who crawled across the grass occasionally, might inadvertently explore what should have been out of their bounds. Anne was insistent that Pluto would never do such a nasty thing on my premises, despite the photographic evidence I possessed to the contrary and she felt humiliated when she came over to scoop up the mess as I watched.
One day, years after Anne and I came to verbal blows over Pluto, I mustered the courage to knock on her door one afternoon to thank her for having surreptitiously dropped a basket of trick or treat Halloween candy on our doorstep and I just happened to bring along a program announcing my upcoming concert to benefit Valley Public Radio. It was well known that the Meux family was a big supporter of the arts based on publicity about its endowments to the Fresno Art Museum and Philharmonic.
