DEATH: Francis was a woman with a bleeding ulcer. She later died from that and other complications
Marriage: Peter went to Mexico to borrow sugar. He stayed there and married a woman. He also had a wife and children in Donaldsonville. When he came back, his wife from Mexico later followed. When the Sheriff told him his other wife was looking for him in Donaldsonville he left and no one had heard of him since.
He was an expert sugar cane farmer. He would travel to the Philipines to help them grow sugar cane.
Marriage: Peter went to Mexico to borrow sugar. He stayed there and married a woman. He also had a wife and children in Donaldsonville. When he came back, his wife from Mexico later followed. When the Sheriff told him his other wife was looking for him in Donaldsonville he left and no one has heard of him since.
Occupation: Simon was a sugar specialist. He was a sugar broiler and sugar dryer. He also was a Donaldsonville iron and sheet boiler maker.
He was smart enough to do the math to fill a volume. He spoke Spanish, Cajun French, Italian. English was his last language. He bought a house on 17 arpents in 1900 for $300 down Bayou Lafourche. It had a dance hall room. He divided it up into rooms and raised his family. He was a strong man. He would jump up 3 steps at a time, up to his porch.
Children: He had seven sons serving in the service during WW2.
(Issues of the Donaldsonville Chief October 28, 1922, August 30, 1924, March 18, April 15, November 4, 1933.)BIOGRAPHY: Simon (pronounced See-Maw) was a man who liked people. You couldn't go to his house without eating something. He just wouldn't let you. Whether it was his pralines or cookies you just had to eat something. Any kind of function that had people at it, like weddings, funerals, etc. he was there.
He would love to tell funny stories and people would laugh. He lived in a house with a metal roof. He said "Whenever it rained, that's how they made all their children".The most likable person anyone would meet. He took in families during the depression. Onita went live with the family and helped his wife Oraline. He never drove a car, he walked. During his funeral wake, over a 1000 people attended with a line of people around the block.
She wasn't a very warm grandmother. She raised so many kids that in her later years, she didn't have much patience for children.
She died in 1952. She was standing next to the fireplace on a cold winter morning. Her gown got sucked up into the fireplace and caught on fire. Simon would hear her holler but he couldn't find her. When he found her, she was really burned. She died after three weeks.
Occupation: Oraline was Louisiana's Mother of the Year during World War II. She had seven sons serving in the military.
He was in Hawaii during Pearl Harbor bombing in 1941. He worked as the Clerk of Court in Ascension Parish for years. Buried in the military cemetery in Pascagoula, MS with his fellow Maries.
Military: In June, 1940, Andrew joined the marines and went to San Diego, California, for training.
Military: Issues of the Donaldsonville Chief Jun 22, July 20, September 7 1940
She loved to play cards with Chun and Carol Ann Falcon. They'd play for fun. She died in Pontchatoula.
Occupation: Joe retired after 13 years with the Louisiana Department of Highways
BIOGRAPHY: He suffered from a heart condition and would take medicine for it. His daughters would fuss at him and he would just ignore them. He was laid back, nice guy. Would sit around and fan himself all day.
He loved baseball and even had his own baseball team. He lived by the Exxon Mobil refinery. Both him and Eva spoke Bruli Isleno Spanish.
BIOGRAPHY: She was known to be very religious. When the grandchildren would visit, she would show them a picture of Jesus asking them "Do you know this man?".
BIOGRAPHY: He worked at a roofing and construction company. He ended up divorcing Vivian and married her niece, Linda Gaudin. He died of cancer painfully. The doctors were worried about giving him medicine for the cancer.
BIOGRAPHY: She was the housekeeper in the family. She got married briefly to a soldier who died in WWII. She died of cancer. She had kept her husbands clothes after his death and each year, she would pull out his clothes, wash them, and then put them back.
BIOGRAPHY: Worked on the riverboats on the Mississippi and was a great swimmer. Being such a great swimmer, he would swim out to the boat for work. He died a few days before his wedding date. People told him not to swim right before his wedding but he ignored them and he drowned.
Education: Elda applied at La School for Deaf on March 16, 1920. Enrolled June 1, 1920. At the time, school opened from April to November. Left school in November 1926, because of pellagra, no cure at the time.
BIOGRAPHY: She was young and deaf. Admitted to Jackson, La. State Hospital after pellagra complications reached her brain, February 24, 1928. Died November 23, 1937 at 5PM. The main cause was vitamin deficiency due to lack of food and her picky eating habits.
BIOGRAPHY: Alma was "babied" by the rest of the family, espcially by Ophelia. She remained poor, never worked or got married. She never knew how to cook and picked through garbage for food. Even into her later life, after everyone else passed away, she lived alone in the family house near the refineries.
BIOGRAPHY: Theres a story of Alma greeting her family members with her kidney stone in a jar.
Adam spent most of his life in a mental institution. He was in the institution in Jackson, La. Adam was a small man in statue, but he loved to fight, and he was good at fighting. One story about him from Walter Boudreaux Sr. is a good example. One night at a dance in Pierre Part, La. Big Jim (name not known so I am using Big Jim) told the band that he didn't want to hear all that noise while he drank his beer. Big Jim was a big man so no one said anything about it. Later, Adam came in and asked why the band wasn't playing. They told him why and he said, "I'll take care of Big Jim, you go ahead and play your music." Big Jim was taken care of by Adam, but 2 deputies decided he had to be arrested. They couldn't take him in, so they went out and got 2 more deputies. The four of them finally got him in.
Affairs: Leoncia and John Boudreaux lived together periodically. They had 2 children, Earl and Carroll.
Occupation: Leoncia told fortunes with cards. Some people believed she really could. Some of her predictions were surprisingly accurate.
She was in a mental institution
Abbey was more or less the black sheep of the family. He ventured in several businesses during his lifetime. At one time he had a health studio, or gym.
Occupation: He was a bank teller
DEATH: He almost received a paupers funeral because no one in the family knew he was dead until it was almost too late
They had a house in Brusly McCall near Joseph Falcon and every Thursday night they had a dance. Wednesday afternoon they would go into Donaldsonville and bring some girls out for the dance. Kebby Falcon and Eddie Rodrigue made moonshine for the dance. Eva had a feud with her mother and father about land Chris bought from Joseph Falcon. Eva said it was not his land to sell, it was her mother's and the kids. She didn't talk to them for some years.
Children: She married Richard Hernandez Sr. Eva and her husband had 2 children and one died.
Baptism: Sponsors were Francis Falcon and Marie Ourse.
Albert graduated from Bowling Green college, the first sibling to graduate from college. He got his money for school from the family. He is believed to have had a mental disorder.
Chris had his own business. He lived in Thibodeaux. He had seven trucks that would do everything in the oil fields that had to be done. He was instrumental in developing a crane that is being used in the NASA program today. He also had the patent on the marsh buggy. Chris was a man that seems to have been a wheeler dealer. Some say his wife pushed him into it. He bought some land from Joseph Falcon which started a family feud. The land sold by Joseph was his wife's inheritance and was not rightfully his.
He was burned in an accident.
DEATH: Georgina Leah died in child birth, along with the baby. According to relatives, the baby was about 15 pounds and the child killed her. She was buried along with the baby in her arms.
Occupation: He worked on the Peytavin Plantation for many years.
BIOGRAPHY: Essie had to drop out of school when her mother died and raised her sisters and three brothers.