Louvenia Lejeune

Louvenia married Andre Young about 1865. Andre was born in Aug 1839 in Louisiana; died after 1900 in of, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Josephine Young was born on 27 Aug 1860 in Eunice, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana; died after 1860.
2. Oska Young was born on 25 Nov 1866 in Eunice, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana; died after 1866.
3. Oscar Young was born in May 1870 in Louisiana; died after 1900 in of, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana.
4. Isra Young was born on 29 Nov 1871; died after 1871.
5. Jasper Young was born in Dec 1880 in Louisiana; died after 1900 in of, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana.

Julien married Louise Eliza Lejeune (Young) on 25 Sep 1827 in Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana. Louise (daughter of Jean Baptiste Lejeune-Young and Marie Louise Bihm) was born on 14 Jun 1813 in Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana; was christened on 17 Sep 1813 in Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana; died on 02 Jan 1868 in Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Married:
Marriage contract 14 Sep 1827
Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana

Marriage contract 14 Sep 1827
Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana

Ozier married Euphrosine Carriere on 13 Aug 1805 in St. Landry Church, Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana. Euphrosine was born on 04 Oct 1792 in Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana; was christened on 04 Oct 1792 in St. Landry church, Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana; died about 1873 in Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Christened:
Baptism: 4 OCT 1792 Sponsors: Joseph Carriere and Euphrosine Carriere. Father Pedro De Zamora, St. Landry Catholic Church, Opelousas, Louisiana

Jean married Marie Louise Bihm on 15 Dec 1807 in Opelousas Church, Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana. Marie was born on 20 Mar 1793 in Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana; was christened on 19 Jun 1790 in Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana; died on 06 Aug 1856 in Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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THE GRASS WAS NOT GREENER ACROSS THE SABINE RIVER

For me, genealogy is more than the collecting of dead people?s names; it is the attempt to put a real face upon a long-gone ancestor and to try to understand his life by understanding the historical events that affected it. I recently read a book, Lost Spanish Towns; Atascosito and Trinidad de Salcedo by Jean L. Epperson, that shed light upon an emigration of nearly two hundred years ago that must have had a dramatic and traumatic effect upon a number of Louisiana families whose descendants still inhabit this area. It also proves the old adage, ?the grass only seems greener on the other side of the fence?..

The United States purchased Louisiana in 1803. Except for the brief period when France?s Emperor Napoleon owned and then sold the colony, Louisiana had been ruled and administered by Spain since 1766. While the Spanish were not exactly loved, they represented a known element to the inhabitants, instead of this strange, new and frightening government of the United States of America with its alien concept of democracy. Understandably, many former Spanish citizens of Louisiana were not exactly thrilled. This fear was egged on by the last Spanish governor, the Marquis of Casa Calvo, who remained in now-American Louisiana and attempted to convince Louisianans to move to still-Spanish Texas..

In 1805, fourteen families arrived in Atascosito, a tiny Spanish outpost laying about halfway between the present-day cities of Houston and Beaumont, Texas. Many were related to one another by blood or marriage. What fears led these people to abandon their homes and friends for the wilds of Texas? Though some of these families came from the area around what is now Lake Charles, at least one came from the Pointe Noire neighborhood between present-day Branch and Church Point. The church and civil records for these families were recorded in Opelousas, regardless of actual homesite, because St. Landry Parish (or Opelousas County, as it was called at the time) then stretched all the way to the Texas border. They were:

Blaise Lejeune and his wife Adelaide Quintero. Lejeune lived on Bayou Plaquemine Brûlée in today?s Acadia Parish and his wife was the daughter of a Spanish soldier stationed in Louisiana. With them was Blaise?s brother Jean Baptiste. Strangely missing from the census was their daughter, Marguerite, who would later marry Catherine LeBleu Sallier?s brother, Jean Baptiste LeBleu.

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Blaise married Marie Josephe Breaux about 1765. Marie (daughter of Pierre Breaux and Marguerite Guidry) was born about 1745; died in Jul 1818 in Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana; was buried on 09 Jul 1818 in Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]