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THE REAL CADET LAFONTAINE, ALTHOUGH THERE WAS THREE GENERATIONS OF LAFONTA1NES HERE ALREADY JEAN CADET LAFONTAINE WAS THE FIRST LAFONTAINE TO SETTLE IN BAYOU CADDY IN HANCOCK COUNTY MISSISSIPPI., BAYOU CADDY WAS NAMED FOR HIM
HE WAS BORN IN NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA ON APRIL 5, 1795, THE SON O F JEAN PIERRE LAFONTAINE AND MARGARET FAVRE CADET HAD TWO SISTERS AND ONE BROTHER HIS SISTERS WERE URANIE WHO MARRIED LAURENT FAYARD AND CAROLINE ? CARMELITA? WHO MARRIED CHARLES FAVRE, SON OF SIMON FAVRE. CADET?S BROTHER DIED AS AN INFANT.
CADET?S GRANDFATHER MARRIED MARIE ELIZABETH MARCOSSIN dit. DUBOIS THIS PIERRE LATER LIVED ON DEER ISLAND AND RAISED CATTLE. ACCORDING TO RECORDS HE LIVED TO BE 108 YEARS OLD CADET?S FATHER PIERRE AND HIS BROTHER LOUIS AUGUSTE WERE OCEAN NAVIGATORS AND RECORDS WERE FOUND WHERE THEY PAID TOLL FOR THEIR SCHOONER TO PASS THROUGH BAYOU ST. JOHN IN LOUISIANA, AND ALSO ON THE CENSUS OF 1840, THEY WERE LISTED AS SUCH.
MY GRANDMOTHER ALWAYS TOLD ME, THAT HER GRANDPA CADDY HAD COME HERE ON A BIG BOAT ? SCHOONER?. HE WAS THE ONE THAT SETTLE AT THE HEAD OF WHAT IS NOW BAYOU CADDY. HE IS MY GREAT-GREAT GRANDFATHER AND I DESCENDED FROM HIM THREE DIFFERENT WAYS.
HE BECAME A LAND OWNER AND WAS IN THE WAR OF 1812, FOR WHICH HE RECEIVED MORE LAND AS PAYMENT, WHICH WAS CALLED A MILITARY BOUNTY ?j. LAND GRANT. HIS WIFE CELESTE WAS ON A LIST OF PERSONS RECEIVING PENSIONS, DATED 1-1-1883, HE DIED IN 1854 CADET SETTLED IN THIS SMALL COMMUNITY AND ALONG WITH I US WIFE CELESTE FAVRE I IAD AND RAISED EIGHT CHILDREN, THREE (ilRI ,S AND FIVE HOYS THEY ALE LIVED IN THIS SAME AREA EXCEPT THE YOUNGEST SON, HE LIVED IN DILLVILLE NOW CALLED BAYOU LACROIX, THEY ALL HAD LARGE FAMILIES
WHEN CADET DIED HIS WIFE CELESTE GAVE 4.3 ACRES OF LAND FOR A FAMILY CEMETERY AND HIS SON GAVE. 1 ACRE: Km Tl IE FAMII.
ANN?S MISSION) ON LOWER BAY ROAD CADET WAS Tl SE THE BAYOU CADET CEMETERY HIS SON RAMON LIVE!) NEXT NOW 1 OWN 10 ACRES OF Wl IA I WAS MY GREAT GRAND THE FAMILY STILL MAINTAINS I I IE Cl 11JRCII AND CEMETERY.
CADET HAD INDIAN BLOOD {CHOCTAW} AND HE MARRIED AN INDIAN WOMAN. CADET AND CELESTE A!,SO OWNED A LARGE SECTION OF LAND IN DOWN TOWN BAY ST. LOUIS AT ONE TIME, I I WAS LEST !