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married May 15, 1886 to ORA MITCHELL. F. JOSHUA FAVRE appears in the 1850 census as born 1842 and is only vaguely remembered by the family members. He appears in the 1870 Hancock Tax List and the 1870 eenaus living in the home of Parmella Brown. The family members that I talked with cannot offer any further information, but what appears to be this person is listed in the St. Tammany Parish, La. Civil Marriage Records, Vol. 12, p. 93 and is listed there as married in 1880 to SARAH P. CRAWFORD. -------- G. LEON FAVRE appears in this family in the 1850 census and listed there as 6 years old or born 1844. What appears to be the same person in the OLG records is as follows: EDWARD BODY FAVRE, son of John Favre and Diana Favre, b 1844 bp March 30, 1873 (OLG* BB 2 p 32 A 196). H. CLARICE LOUISE FAVRE, b May 1847 bp April 15, 1865 (OLG BB 1 p 124A A 815). She appears in the 1850 census listed there as "Leonia". She died Sept. 10 1910 as stated on her headstone in Cedar Rest Cemetery. The Sept. 17, 1910 issue of the Sea Coast Echo newspaper in Bay St. Louis, Miss, gives an account of her death and lists eleven of her children. She was married to 1HC3. SIMON BOURGEOIS (The Ladner Odyssey, Idem, page 127/128 and 468/469) Tn a civil marriage which was blessed May 26, 1865 (OLG MB 1 p 50 A 166). Their children, listed with identification numbers taken from The Ladner Odyssey, Idem, were: 1 JOHN JOSEPH BOURGEOIS (lHC3B),b Dec. 2, 1863 bp March 13, 1864 (OLG BB 1 p 115 A 766) was also known as John Simon Bourgeois. 2 CHARLES NAPOLEON "DOODLE" BOURGEOIS (1HC3C), b Dec. 2, 1865 bp Jan. 31, 1866 (OLG BB 1 p 133 A 892). OLG^ Record of Interments, p. 44, states "Charles Bourgeois, 47, died Aug. 16, 1915" and his headstone in Cedar Rest Cemetery states "Died Aug. 16, 1915". He was married to 1BJ3K. MARY VICTORINE BOURGEOIS (The Ladner Odyssey, idem, p. 234/235). 3 LOUISE BOURGEOIS, (1HC3D) b March 12, 1868 bp April 11, 1868 (OLG BB 1 p 152 A 1003). She lived in Waveland; never married; and her headstone in Cedar Rest Cemetery states that she died July 30, 1950 (The Ladner Odyssey, idem, p. 468). 4 MARTHA "MOT" BOURGEOIS (1HC3E), b March 30, 1869 bp Feb. 27, 1870 (OLG BB 1 p 239 A 1515).At this point, I will digress from this person as it is necessary to give you the following from The Ladner Odyssey, idem. 1HC3. SIMON BOURGEOIS, husband of H. CLARICE LOUISE FAVRE, was first married to 2BC2G. EMILIE "ASPASIE"
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