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(saved as Bayou Caddy cemetery, etc.)
Visit with Ernest ?Bully? Ladner - October 13,2007 Russell Guerin
Ernest ?Bully? Ladner and family are the keepers of the Bayou Caddy cemetery, donated many years ago by his ancestor, Celeste LaFontaine. She was the widow of Cadet LaFontaine, whose name was corrupted to ?Caddy?; thus, Bayou Caddy.
The cemetery is a nicely kept four acres reached by Bud Ladner Road, which intersects at Lower Bay Road by the home of ?Poss? LaFrance. Bully?s home and that of his son Ernest are at the entrance to the cemetery.
Other than Native Americans, Cadet was the first to settle the area, having come from Biloxi and finding his way up the bayou as far as he could take his schooner. The site is roughly where the bayou narrows, shown clearly on maps.
These closely knit folks are all believed to be descended from another historical character of Hancock County, in the personage of Simon Favre.
It is fairly well accepted that he had children by three women, the last being Celeste Rochon of Mobile. It was she whom he recognized in his will. She seems to have been his only legitimate wife, but before that union, Favre may have married the daughter of the great Choctaw warrior Pushmataha, a close friend. She was named Pistiklokonay, by whom four children were bom.
The last was also named Celeste; thus the source of some confusion of the women so named.
According to the above speculation, it was to the latter Celeste that Cadet LaFontaine was married. His children were thus part Choctaw.
Another version, seemingly the one preferred by Bully and family, claims Cadet?s mother-in-law was Madame Chariot, thus making her descendants heirs to a huge claim. Favre genealogy chart shows two marriages of Jean Claude Favre, the eventual father of Simon.
His first spouse is listed as an ?Unknown Indian,? and by this union a son named Charles ?Chariot? Favre was bom. It was later when Jean Claude?s marriage to Marguerite Wiltz produced Simon.
In neither case does the descendancy chart show evidence of the Celeste who married Cadet.