- Household 131, Family #150,
Paul Jeantonin, age 25, male, planter, $500 real estate, could not read or write.
Caroline 55
Laura Commins 12 or 13 LA
(note: Ann not here)
Next door in HH#130
Jacob Commons, 23.
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- CAROLINE WEST
The first record found to date on Caroline is the 07 April 1818 marriage to George Laughlin, the son of Thomas Laughlin and Catherine Forman. Their children are not currently known.
Sometime before 1837 Caroline had either married or cohabitated with a Cummings. It is not known whether George Laughlin was deceased at this time. On 04 July 1837, Port Barre, La., she gave birth to a daughter, Laura Cummings, and at somnt either before or after Laura's birth, she had another daughter, Mary Ann Cummings.
It is not known what happened to this Mr. Cummings, but on 16 August 1847 Caroline married Paul Quintany, and is mentioned as being formerly the wife of George Laughlin. It is presumed that Mr. Laughlin was deceased by this time.
The 1850 St. Landry census shows Household #131, Family #150, Head of Household Paul Jeantonin, age 25, male, planter, $500 real estate, could not read or write. In his household was Caroline, age 55, and Laura Commins, age 12 or 13, bo. Next door in HH#130 was Jacob Commons, age 23. There is no explanation at this time as to why daughter Mary Ann was not living with them in 1850.
It should be noted here that on her marriage to George Laughlin in 1818, Caroline could not read or write. Yet when daughter Laura married in 1851, Caroline wrote a note giving her permission to marry, and signed this note Caroline Cummingater that same year, Caroline wrote another note giving daughter Mary Ann permission to marry, and signed that one Caroline West. The handwriting on both notes appears to be the same. Did she learn to read and write by 1851? Witness at daughter Laura's marriage was Paul Cantani, and Laura's husband, Samuel J. Hook, was securitor when Mary Ann, Laura's sister, married Cyprien Charles.
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