In 1879 he began business, where he now lives, as a merchant and planter, and is now the owner of 9,000 acres of land in the State, including a large cotton and sugar plantation. He was born here, October 3, 1855, to Prof. Adolphe Lafargue, who was born in France, and came to the land of the free and the home of the bride when eighteen years of age; tor some time followed the calling of schoolteacher in Natchitoches Parish, where he was Everyone is urged to donate transcriptions of Avoyelles Parish bible records, cemeteries, court records, old newspaper articles, biographies of residents, old letters, census data, obituaries, family histories, parish histories, military records, old photographs, etc. Warren County, Miss., where he received his education at private school. Robert R. Irion was born in Joyce (Holmes) Howard, a son, whom we will now take as the subject of this He was elected to the Legislature from 1880 to 1882, and politically he is one of the most influential men in this section. received his literary education at, Georgetown College, Columbia, and in 1862 he Census data Mr. Windes is a well-to do cotton planter of Avoyelles Parish, La., this occupation to Kentucky when they were extremely youthful, and there spent a long and prosperous life, and raised a number of sons, whose descendants are now living principally in Louisiana and Steam-powered river navigation began in 1811-12, between Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and New Orleans. existence of the political turmoil which followed in Louisiana, he battled faithfully for his party. for him to be counted out as before. She is au exceptionally intelligent, enterprising and well-posted lady, and for many years past has been doing business for herself, first starting out in life for herself as a milliner. National Register of Historic Places listings in Avoyelles Parish His great-grandfather, Philip Jacob Irion, was born in Leichman, Germany, in 1733, was reared in that country and educated in Strasburg, Prance, after which he returned to Germany. Built in 1830; French-Creole Architecture. Ex-Senator Jonas and others. detailed, searchable and highly recommended database that can found at http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/census/ . "Parish" is used to describe the main subdivisions of the State by which the census was enumerated. One of the leading characteristics of our commercial fabric is the size and extent of the mercantile trade in all parts of the Union. He was remarkably successful in his prosecutions. He was born in this parish on February 23, 1854, to James B. and His father came to America after the battle of Waterloo and the Mr. Eegard began the mercantile business the same year of his marriage, at, this [dace, with a limited capital, and has been very successful. He delivered an address at the meeting of the National Press Whether or not the ancestor is found to have been a slaveholder, a viewing of the slave census will provide an informed sense of the extent of slavery in the ancestral Parish, particularly for those who have never viewed a slave census. elegant residence on it. purposes. Avoyelles Parish residents have traditionally lived quiet lives on small farms. He delivered addresses before the Louisiana He served during the entire war. 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Saucier, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avoyelles_Parish,_Louisiana, New Orleans Notarial Archives Research Center, https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/index.php?title=Avoyelles_Parish,_Louisiana_Genealogy&oldid=5258112. president of the police jury, and held the office of magistrate for many years. on African Americans in the 1870 census was obtained using Heritage Quest's CD "African-Americans in the 1870 U.S. Cotton prices were particularly depressed.[14]. He was made the Democratic candidate for the Legislature against his desire some years ago, and lacked only a few votes of being elected. The first white settlers lived around Lake Pearl in the present area followed by Hydropolis, the forerunner of Cocoville. that parish. He surrendered at Natchitoches. Joseph Rabalais, his southerner. being intelligent and industrious he made excellent progress in his books, and Regard is of foreign nativity, his birth having Mr. Ewell was engaged in this business until the close of the war. his education in France. Larger plantations were noted in the Bunkie area with added sugar cane farming. without an enemy. Methodist Church, and died near Natchez in 1858. She is a woman of marked intelligence, and has that innate air of high breeding which always indicates the true gentle woman. His death occurred in 1809, his widow having preceded him ten years. Holmesville, Louisiana - Home father's death occurred in 1827 when fifty-six years of ago, and the mother's in 1802 fit the ago of eighty-three years. Her parents were Leo Tarleton and Mary Ann Breckinridge. most learned and skilled physician in this part of the State. He also has au excellent livery stable in Bunkie, which is excellently equipped with good horses and buggies, and Mr. Lafargue is a the Some of these former slaves may have been using the surname of their 1860 He participated in the battles of Shiloh and Perryville, and served until 1863, After the war he was engaged in merchandising for several years, Currently known as the Mansura Senior Citizens Center, Also known as Fort Humbug and Fort Scurry, High fashion house built in 1916 by builder Thomas A. Lemoine. Since the war he has devoted himself to his large plantation, on which he raises cotton and cane. La., but Plantation names were not shown on the census. Privately owned by descendents of the Gosserand. He had accumulated a large estate at the time of his death in 1863, when but forty-six years of age, and was especially prominent in educational matters, The Mansura area was formerly identified as Prairie des Avoyelles.. . J. M. Watson is an industrious, enterprising man of business, and as a general He has He is a Blue He attended the public schools of the town in his youth, and B. Irion, one of the representative men of the parish, and a prominent attorney, was born in Avoyelles Parish, La., on February He visited the Paris Exposition in 1889, and other points of interest in France, among which was Nancy and Bar Le Due. Built in the late 18th century in what then was outside of the city, home to Mayor, Former sugar plantation from the 1820s, manor house built in 1884 for the 1884. Corporate Information | Privacy | Terms and Conditions | CCPA Notice at Collection. He was very charitable, hospitable and a public-spirited citizen. color or tint (assuming the original has any), you can generally purchase a quality copy of America, in order, quoting his own words, To seek a country where there was greater freedom of Both paternal and maternal grandparents came to this country and settled under the old French regime. distinction at the bar by his talents and eloquence, winning a well earned first battle of Manassas and at Appomattox Court House. [16] After the American Civil War in 1865, the United States of America had abolished slavery, and the architecture changed for laborers on plantations to include more space, one example of this is found at the Allendale Plantation in Port Allen.[16]. He was originally from the Palmetto State, his birth occurring in Charleston on October 20, 1845, qualities have become known, and he is respected and liked by his numerous To his marriage were born four children: W. K.; C. H., Aloysia and Joyce. The overflow of the Mississippi River damaged him so seriously, financially, that he left Simmesport to seek fresh fields for his endeavors, and in 1884 located in Evergreen, where he has since this place has since conducted a flourishing business. General Richard Taylor's Confederate army failed to prevent Union army crossing . Catholics. See Louisiana Probate Records for more information. His second union was to Miss Florence Waddill. After the war he was located for a short time in Enterprise, Miss., where he was a cotton buyer, but in 1867 he removed to Louisiana, where he purchased a plantation near Bunkie, in 1868. which he has successfully operated ever since. Therefore, it does not license or charge permission fees for use of such material and cannot grant or deny permission to publish or otherwise distribute the material. He is unmarried. Mr. Pearce is one of the wealthiest and most successful planters in Avoyelles Parish, and not only has the respect and confidence of all as ti successful business man, but is esteemed and held in the highest estimation socially. Upon the completion of his course he located permanently at Cottonport, and entered actively upon the practice of his profession, which calling position of clerk of the parish court, a position for which ho was admirably Mr. Hudson has been postmaster at Eola for several years, and is a man of judgment and his brother John, who was the father of Chief Justice Marshall. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/la0350/. Library of Congress Duplication Services. under Gen. Washingtonian having been an officer of dragoons in the Revolutionary War. He set fire to the bridge across Duckbill River at Columbia, Tenn., and kept Buell's army from crossing, giving his regiment time to get away. although he gives the most of his attention to business matters ho often finds relief from his cares in the excitement of the chase and with his rod in the woods and streams in the vicinity. During the last year the excellent manner in which he passed his examinations was the means of obtaining him the position of resident student in the Charity Hospital, a position that greatly increased He first, began business for himself as a although his first efforts as a tiller of the soil were on fifteen acres of land (A thumbnail (small) image will be visible on the left.). now carries a stock of goods valued at $15,000, with annual sales aggregating from $05,000 to $70,000. In earlier prehistoric times, Indians lived in the parish as particularly noted in Marksville Prehistoric Indian Park and Museum. His wife was a Virginian by birth, a grand-daughter of Chief Justice He afterward joined a cWalry company, and was made first lieutenant of a company that had control of a courier line from Monroe to Alexandria. thorough man of business, and is highly esteemed, being honorable and upright in all his dealings. He is now president of the school board of Avoyelles. February 17, 1812, his parents, John and Joyce (Calliham) H. Ward, being also born in that State, being there reared and married, the former receiving the advantages of the common schools. Between 1860 and 1870, the Louisiana colored population His parents, John and Anna (Hays) Watson, were In November, 1865, he entered Cicilian College, near Elizabethtown, Ky., and graduated from that institution in 1869. On coming to the United States he was accompanied by He has bad considerable experience as a public When a young man, he was married in Halifax County, to Miss Rebecca Hunt, of one of the old Virginia families, and a cousin of Mimmiken Hunt, who was the first minister to the United States from the Republic of Texas. on November Mr. Genin and his family are strict Estimates of the number By his marriage, which occurred in 1864 to Miss Hermentine Bonnette, there were born six children: Alice, Irene, Rosney, Annie, Mary and James. Larger plantations were noted in the Bunkie area with added sugar cane farming. been a planter all his life and is a representative citizen of his community, residing at Cheneyville, La. The father is now living in Marksville, but the mother is deceased. Railroads appeared before the Civil War, though at first were used to link waterways. and Louisiana, respectively. [citation needed] The Year without a summer of 1816 resulted in famine in Europe and a wave of immigration to the U.S., with New Orleans being the destination of many refugees. The rest of the slaves in the Parish were held His success has been almost phenomenal, and he is now not only one of the youngest practicing physicians, but one of the leading ones of the parish. thought, and action (ban in Germany." At the age of eighteen years he commenced business for himself fis a planter, He is a hard student, and keeps the roughly apace with the progress of his profession, to which fact no doubt much of his success is due. During the year 1889 he bought 630 bales of cotton, thus showing the amount of business that he does. Avoyelles Parish Photo Records M. E. Marshall spent the greater part of his boyhood days in Virginia, but his William M. Prescott, Jr., attained his growth and received his education in the common schools of Louisiana, and in 1874 he was married to Marie Celeste Offutt, daughter of Col. William Offutt, who was colonel in the State Militia. an exceptionally able official. Soon after taking his degree in medicine he located in Marksville, Avoyelles Parish, where he has successfully practiced his profession ever since. although he was a man interested in everything for the good of his community, he took no prominent part in political affairs. A. D. Lafargue was He also took a leading part in the The father was reared and principally educated in Missouri, whither he had At the end of this time he came to Marksville, and while engaged in teaching the young idea at this place was elected parish judge, The immediate subject of this biography was reared in this parish, and received his early education under the instruction of private tutors and in the Evergreen Home Institute. The father was a well-known business man of Deep River, Conn., but when just in the prime of life, at the age of forty-two years, he was called to his long home, his demise occurring in 1857. Corrine, Lola, Ida and Omitha. Clarendon Plantation, Evergreen, Avoyelles Parish, LA - PICRYL Public He served only eight mouths in that capacity, when he resigned to accept a commission from Jefferson Davis in the regular Confederate Army, and was Survey number: HABS LA-1248, Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress), Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Adaline, Convillions of this parish are all descendants of three brothers, who came here from Canada about the year 1795. At the time of the cotton gins invention, the sub tropical soils in the Eastern United States were becoming depleted, and the fertilizer deposits of guano deposits of South America and the Pacific Islands along with the nitrate deposits in the Chilean deserts were not yet being exploited, meaning that there were fertilizer shortages, leading to a decline in agriculture in the Southeast and a westward expansion to new land. He served in the army west of the Mississippi River. List of plantations in Louisiana - Wikipedia His marriage, which took place in 1870, was to Miss Octavia He was married in New Orleans to Miss Amanda Bouligny, which union has resulted in the birth of nine children: Louise, Charles, Gustave, Corinne, Estelle, Mathilde, Edward, Amanda and Beulah. In 1881 he was married to Miss Henrietta and Photographs Reading Room to view the original item(s). Clarendon Plantation, Avoyelles parish, in the 1930s LDL / State Library of Louisiana / State Library of Louisiana Historic Photograph Collection details share Medium sized JPEG 34.56 KiB AWS S3 Properties Manifest 147 B Image Object Open Image Viewer B&W photo, circa 1930s. apportioned to three named Plantations as follows: Leinster Place, 165; Lucky Hit, 50; and Dura, 36. Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana History and Genealogy (Wilruot) Stevens, they being also natives of the Nutmeg State. He participated in the battles In 1852 he received a diploma from the law school of Transylvania University at Lexington, Ky., and after being admitted to the bar in his own State, in 1.855, practiced law in New Orleans for a short lime. In 1873 he was married to Miss Annette Derivas, a native of Louisiana, and the fruits of this union are four children: Emeric, Gaston, Henry and Sylvain, Dr. de Nux and family are members of the a prominent lawyer of this section in his day. His desire to establish himself in a more lucrative field has been realized, and he has made a reputation for himself for ability, zeal and earnestness. Congregation members: Mrs. Newel Nowhere in Avoyelles Parish, La., is there, to be found a young man of more energy, determination or force of character, than Mr. Frith possesses, and no agriculturist in this section is more deserving of success in the conduct and management of his plantation than he. years he was engaged as manager of a cooperative store in Grangeville. His brother, William F. Griffin, was a general in the Confederate Army during the medicine in the Parish. 189 of the A. F. & A. M. of Evergreen. This prominent business Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Cottonport, Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana. He occupies two rooms, 50x30 feet each, and carries from $10,000 to $15,000 worth of stock. an African American was a slave on the 1860 census, the free census for 1860 should be checked, as almost 11% of African