This text was obtained via automated optical character recognition.
It has not been edited and may therefore contain several errors.

---

To say the lease, that was quite a coincidence .for two children vho '' would later become husband and wife. His grandfather and Jils aunt were hie
sponsors. As can be seen, Louis' maternal ancestry reachea beck loco Che eerly vV'S?f 1700's to Christian Ladner, his great, great grandfather. (This line In reveree. would be:	Louis,	Eloise Ladner, Jean Baptiste Ladner, Nicholas Ladner, ChrleClsn
Ladner.) Louis' paternal ancestrv included his father, Louis Groite, snd his . ?' grandfather, Louis Cregoire. By some strange^uirk among French people in giving * nicknames, 1-oti 11. ? father, would, till his dying day, insist that his name was Cregoire, run Croue. Yet, Croue is the name of this family today, tether then Cregoire, as it seems that it should have been. The baptism In question (for a
"t
Louis' father) was the following (Mobile Cathedral BB 2, p. 187),
i
i	On July 10, 1822, I, the undersigned, missionary priest,
have	baptized Louis, the legltlnate son of Louis Cregoire
and Lout He St. Germain, born on November 18, 1816V Cod-p.jrrntn aroJ.acob Ryan and Elltabeth Laforcf. (Hoblie
Cathedral, EB2, p. 187.)	j
Je.in R.iptiste Ladner had five daughters (Eloise, Louise, Julienne,
Desiree, Arcene) and one son, Alfred. To each he portioned out a part of the large	grant	of	Section 16, Just inside Jackson County near the Jackson-Harrlson
line,	which	he	had received from the Federal Government on April 25, 1812	as
Grant #138.
\
J	To all to whom these presents etull come. Creeling:
Whereis, evidence having been deposited in the General Land Office^ whereby it appears thee the Private Land C^al* of John Baptiste Ladner, being Claim No. 158 (American State Paper) Duff-Creen Edltlos, Volume 3, psge 34) was confirmed by Section three of the Act of March 3, 1819 (3 Stat.,
528), and that the said claim has been regularly surveyed end designated as Section sixteen In Township seven south of Range	^	^
nine w*.*st of the St. Stephen* Merldlsn, Mississippi, eontslnlng six hundred nine acres and thirty-two hundredths of en ecre,	'y
as shown bv the township plet approved December 31, 1828:
Now know ye, that the United States of Aaerlcs, In con-	^
slderation of t,he premises, has given end granted, and by	*.	.
these presents does give sod grant; unto the seld John Baptises Ladner, and to his heirs, the land above described:	to have end	"'t'x
to hold the aane, together with ill th? right*, privilege*,. 1?-