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Marie Barbara Outre m. 1773? Avoyelles Post La. Terr. b. 1758 Suevia, Germany d. Jan 1814 Avoyelles Parish LA |
John Louis (Jr.) b. 1775? Avoyelles Post La. Terr. d. 1833? Rapides Parish LA? |
Mary b. Jun 1780 Avoyelles Post La. Terr. d. 1847 |
Michael b. 1781? Avoyelles Post La. Terr. d. 1840 Avoyelles Parish LA |
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Joseph b. 1782? Avoyelles Post La. Terr. d. 1822 Harrisonburg, Catahoula Parish LA |
Catherine b. 1782? Avoyelles Post La. Terr. d. 1849? Rapides Parish LA |
Stephen b. 1785? Avoyelles Post La. Terr. d. Feb 24, 1815 LA |
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Peter Felix b. Oct 8, 1791 Avoyelles Post La. Terr. d. Jun 22, 1862 Alexandria, Rapides Parish LA |
Barbara b. Mar 2, 1793 Avoyelles Post La. Terr. d. 1822 |
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Avoyelles was settled by native Americans many centuries ago, and later by Canadians.
It is now a Parish in central Louisiana
(see present day map
for location). |
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Wife Marie Barbara Outre (often spelled Hooter) was the daughter of Johann Michael
Outre (1721-1785) and Maria Barbara Kimmel (1731-1797), both German but married
in Lancaster PA on Jun 11, 1754 [familysearch.org website]. |
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The earliest census for the Avoyelles, dated May 23, 1785, shows a Lacroix
household headed by a 44 year old male [first name missing],
a woman, 4 children and 2 slaves on a medium sized (10,000 ft) tobacco farm.
Also counted were 10 head of cattle, 5 horses and 50 swine. |
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After her husband died, Marie married Hugh Baillie (1775?-1842?) about 1802
[rootsweb.com website]. |
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In 1803, daughter Mary married Samuel Glass who was born in 1779 in Louisiana. |
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About 1803, daughter Catherine married James
Holloway who had settled in nearby Rapides Parish with his brother and
two White family cousins during the previous decade. That area had became known
as Holloway Prairie. |
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The names John and James Holloway appear in several 1790's Spanish Colonial documents
and militia lists. On Oct 30, 1798 John and James gave an oath of loyalty to the
United States as the Natchez district became part of a US Territory (Mississippi
was not admitted to the Union of States until 1817). Also in these records, in
Jun 1795, A "John Holloday" makes a deposition about some horses and a James Stewart
from Georgia. The significance is that the record, translated from Spanish, has
"Sig. John Holliday, 22 Jun, 1795. Before Wm. Cooper, Etc." [McBee. p. 288].
These names may all belong to the "Juan Holladay" who is counted in the 1792 Census
for the Second and Sandy Creek area of Natchez District. The family of this individual
does seem to matchup with later Rapides Parish census records for the John Holloway
who moved there afterwards. |
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Rapides Parish LA was formed in 1807 by the Territory of Orleans government and
borders to the east Avoyelles Parish.
(see present day map
for location). |
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From E. W. McDonald's book The LaCroix Descendants; 1611 - 1991; From France Via
Quebec To Central Louisiana, "we see that James Holloway married Catherine LaCroix.
It appears likely, from age ranges in later Census records, that all of John and
James Holloway's children were born in Rapides Parish, beginning in the mid-1790's.
James Holloway and Catherine LaCroix had the following children: Mary; Nancy;
Selita; Eliza; Elizabeth; Jane; and Stephen. A son Stephen married Polly Martin,
and moved his family to St. Landry Parish and on into Texas, the remaining male
Holloway children are probably descendants of his brother John" [McDonald, pp. 7-9]. |
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In the 1810 Census for Louisiana,
son "John Louis Lacroix" and son "Mitchel Lacroix" headed households: The elder John Louis was born by 1784 and had only one child, a girl under 10, and a female aged 16-26 (wife), and 1 slave in the household. The household of Mitchel, or Michel, the french name for Michael, had: 1 male under 10, 1 male between age 16-26 (himself b. after 1784), 1 female between age 16-26 (wife), and 6 slaves in the household. |
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Between 1786 and 1816 "Jean L. and Mary La Croix" claimed land in Bayou Rapides
(became Rapides Parish) "Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest
Louisiana", website]. |
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On page 133 of the
1820 Rapides Parish LA Census there are three Lacroix households: "John L. Lacroix" [line 1] aged over 45 (son Jr.), 3 female children, and female (wife Mary? aged 26-45, "Michael Lacroix" [line 8] aged over 45 (brother), "Peter Lacroix" [line 9], aged 26-45 (son) living with a male aged over 45 (uncle?), with no females over the age of 45 in any of them. |
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Son Joseph married Celeste E. Holstein (1793-1864), who was a Outre cousin
born in Catahoula Parish LA where Joseph died in 1822. |
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On line 18 of page 19
of the 1820 Catahoula Parish LA Census, son "Joseph Lacroix" was head of a
household of: 1 male aged 26-45 (himself b. after 1775), 2 males under 10, 2 females under age 10, 1 female aged 10-16 (wife), 1 female aged 16-26 (wife Celeste b. 1793), 1 female aged 26-45 (?), and 3 slaves. |
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Son Peter married Mary Wilson (1797-1863), and is buried at a place in Catahoula
Parish called LaCroix Ferry, now known as Bodie's Landing. |
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Son Michael married Rebecca Frazier (1783-1860) and they are both buried in
Pineville in Rapides Parish LA. His widow was counted in the 1860 Rapides
Parish Census, page 232,
line 25, as living in the household of her son Isaac (born 1823) and Theodocia
(nee Vance 1828 in MS) Lacroix. |
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Daughter Barbara married Rebecca's brother
Isaac Frazier (1788?-1850). |
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On line 13 of page 98a
and page 98b of the
1830 Rapides Parish LA Census, son "John L. Lecroix" was head of a household of: 1 male aged 40-50 (himself b. after 1780), 1 male aged 10-15, 1 female aged 5-10 (?), 1 female aged 30-40 (?wife b. after 1790), and 17 slaves. |
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On line 7 of page 90a
and page 90b of the
1830 Rapides Parish LA Census, son "Michael Lecroix" was head of a household of: 1 male aged 40-50 (himself b. after 1780), 1 male aged 5-10, 1 male aged 10-15, 2 males aged 15-20, 1 male aged 10-15, 1 female aged 5-10 (?), 1 female aged 40-50 (wife Rebecca Frazier b. 1783), and 9 slaves. |
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John Louis Sr. died at his home in Avoyelles Parish, about halfway down the road
between the present towns of Deville and Effie LA. |
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SOURCES: Aymond, Greg, Holloway Family of Holloway Prairie, Rapides Parish LA GenWeb, website, Dec 05, 1999. AHGP, Rapides Parish, Louisiana History and Genealogy, "Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana", website. Census of Avoyelles Post, Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana, May 23, 1785, trans. from French, publ. in La. Genealogical Register, Jun 1981, pp. 121-125, website. U.S. Census, Rapides Parish LA, 1830, S-K Publ., 2003, pp. 90, 98. U.S. Census, Rapides Parish LA, 1810, microfilm pp. 281, 398. U.S. Census, Rapides Parish LA, 1820, S-K Publ., 2003, p. 136. U.S. Census, Rapides Parish LA, Nov 15, 1850, page 1, page 2. U.S. Census, Rapides Parish LA, Nov 8, 1860, page 232. U. S. Census, Catahoula Parish LA, 1820, S-K Publ., 2003, p. 15-22. Documents ... , US Congress, 1815-24] Imbert, J. Leopold, map maker, Carte des Possessions Angloises... 1777, reprinted by the Museum of the American Revolution from map image at the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, Boston Public Library. "John Holloway, 1851", File H-3, on p. 208 of "The MS Cains", website. McBee, May Wilson, comp., Natchez Court Records, 1767-1805, Greenwood MS, 1953, v. 2, pp. 10, 14, 16-17, 112-114, 141-2, 218, 288. McBee, May Wilson, comp., Natchez Court Records, 1767-1805, Greenwood MS, 1953, v. 2, pp. 141-2, 287-8. McDonald, E. W., The LaCroix Descendants; 1611 - 1991; From France via Quebec to central Louisiana, private publ., Orlando FL, 1992, pp. 9. MS Dept. of Arch. & Hist., 1816 Franklin Co. Census in "Territorial Censuses", website. USGenWeb, Early Southwest Miss. Territory, "Natchez District 1792 Spanish Census Index", website. 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. Unknown author, "...to John ..." [illegible], correspondence detailing discovery of baptismal records of Stillee children in Cathedral Archives, no date but possibly mid 1900's. |
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