Elissa Rhais was my great great grand mother, she had another daughter name that she re named Leonie after her first daughter who died at 11. Leonie was my great grand mother nothing is mentioned of Leonie in biography because she had her out of wedlock with her step nephiew. I know this to be true as she was one of my relatives. She did not raise Leonie as she wanted to hide her from the public

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