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Louis LaPrairie
Born 1735? New Orleans, Orleans Territory
Died 1789? ?Rapides Parish, Louisiana Territory
SPOUSE CHILDREN
Marie Jeannne Castel

m. Apr 29, 1766
?New Orleans, Spanish LA
b. 1742?
New Orleans, New France
d. Jul 5, 1815
Rapides Parish LA
Cecile

b. 1766?
New Orleans British West Florida
d. 1802?
Rapides Parish, La. Terr.
Louis (Jr.)

b. 1770?
?New Orleans British West Florida

Marie Jeanne

b. 1772?
?New Orleans British West Florida
d. Aug 7, 1808
Rapides Parish, La. Terr.
Michael

b. 1773
?New Orleans British West Florida
d. 1840?
Catahoula Parish LA
Marie Rosalie "Rosie"

b. Feb 28, 1779
?Rapides, Spanish Louisiana
d. Feb 13, 1882
Rapides Parish LA
About 1766, daughter Cecile was born in New Orleans when it was a part of the British West Florida Province in 1766.
New Orleans was part of British West Florida from 1763 until 1783, but Spain captured its capitol, Pensacola, in 1781.
About 1794, son Michael married Marie Magdeleine Roger (1781-1850) in Rapides Parish in Spanish Louisiana. He was buried in Rapides Parish LA [familysearch.org, website].
Daughter Marie Jeanne married Jacob Paul (1775?-1830) and had son Michael (1800-1870) who in 1821 married Mary Anne Holloway (1804-1872), daughter of James Holloway. About 1787, Jacob Paul's sister Mary Paul married James T. White, son of James "Tiago" White, brother of Elizabeth White.
In the 1820 Census for Rapides Parish, on the line 36 of page 133, near the Lacroix families and Gabriel Loving, the household of "Jacob Paul" had:
1 male aged under 10,
2 males aged 26-45 (Jacob & brother?),
a female aged under 10,
and a female aged 16-26. Jacob's wife Marie LaPrairie had died.
Grandson Michael Paul (1800-1870) and his wife Mary Anne Holloway (1804-1872) were buried in St. Peter (Elmer Catholic) Cemetery in Rapides Parish LA. Her grave marker spelled her family name as "Holliway". Photo of his grave marker.
About 1805, daughter Marie "Rosie" married Joseph Poiret Chevalier (1776-1882) in Louisiana and lived to be 102 years old [familysearch.org, website].
Rapides Parish was formed in 1807 by the Territory of Orleans government. (see present day map for location).
At present, Holloway is a community in Rapides Parish LA. It's center is located at the intersection of Hickory Grove Road, State Route 1207 and Route 28, about 14 miles NE of the parish seat of Alexandria, and 50 miles W of Natchez MS. Holloway Methodist Cemetery is located just off of Hickory Grove Road at the end of Slay Cemetery Road (see present day map for location). There is also a Hickory Grove Cemetery also known as Holloway Baptist Cemetery.
SOURCES:
Aymond, Greg, Holloway Family of Holloway Prairie, website, Dec 1999.
U. S. Census, Rapides Parish LA, 1820, S-K Publ., 2003, pp. 133, 134.
U. S. Census, Rapides Parish LA, 1830, S-K Publ., 2003, p. 91.
U. S. Census, Rapides Parish LA, 1840, S-K Publ., 2003, "John Holloway, 1851", File H-3, on p. 208 of "The MS Cains", website.
Unknown author, "...to John ..." [illegible], correspondence detailing discovery of baptismal records of Stillee children in Cathedral Archives, no date but possibly mid 1900's.
Veach, Damon, "Louisiana Ancestors", article in Sunday Advocate Magazine, Baton Rouge LA, Feb 21, 1982.
White, Gifford, "James White and John White", Wm Wiseman & the Davenports, Pioneers Of Old Burke County, North Carolina, v.2 by M.L.Vineyard & E.M.Wiseman, Franklin NC,1997, p. 111.
White, Gifford, James Taylor White of Virginia and some of his descendants into Texas, Austin, TX, 1982.