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THE REAL CADET LAFONTAINE, ALTHOUGH THERE WAS THREE GENERATIONS OF LAFONTAINES HERE ALREADY JEAN CADET LAFONTAINE WAS THE FIRST LAFONTAIN TO SETTLE IN BAYOU CADDY IN HANCOCK COUNTY MISSISSIPPI. BAYOU CADDY WAS NAMED FOR HIM.
HE WAS BORN ESi 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 SIMONFAVRE. CADET?S BROTHER DIED AS AN INFANT '	"
CADET?S GRANDFATHER MARRIED MARIE ELIZABETH MARCOS SIN 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. HEJSMj^GREAT^GREAj^, QRANDFATHER AND I DESCENDED FROM HIM ZmEE^IRFFRANTWAjI^
1 HE BECAME A LAND OWNER AND WAS IN THE \y.AR OFjjjlZ FOR WHICH HE RECEIVED MORE LAND AS PAYMENT, WHICH WAS CALLED A MILITARY BOUNTY LAND GRANT. CADET SETTLED IN THIS SMALL COMMUNITY AND ALONG WITH HIS WIFE CELESTE FAVRE HAD .AND RAISED EIGHT CHILDREN, THREE GIRLS AND FIVE BOYS THEY ALL LIVED IN THIS SAME AREA EXCEPT THE YOUNGEST SON, HE LIVED IN DILLVILLE NOW CALLED BAYOU LACROIX, THEY ALL HAD LARGE FAMILIES.
WHEN QADET DIED HIS WIFE CELESTE GAVE 4.3 ACRES OF LAND FOR A FAMILY CEMETERY ANDlKIS_SQN?iAYE I ACRE FOR THE JAMH^-CHURCH_{ ST. ANN?S MISSION} ON LOWER BAY ROAD CADET WAS THE FIRST ONE BURIED IN THE BAYOU CADET CEMETERY. HIS SON RAMON LIVED NEXT TO THE CHURCH, NOW I OWN 10 ACRES OF WHAT WAS MY GREAT GRANDFATHERS PROPERTY AND THE FAMILY STILL MAINTAINS THE CHURCH AND CEMETERY.
CADET HAD INDIAN BLOOD {CHOCTAW} AND HE MARRIED AN INDIAN WOMAN, CADET AND CELESTEALSPOWNED A LARGE SECTIOITOFTAND IN DOWN TOWN BAY ST. LOUIS AT ONE^ITJVASiEFMQTHEM BY H1SJV10THER-IN-LAW LOUISA MIMI FA VUE, KNOWN AS^MADAME CHARL&
MANY OF THEIR DESCENDANTS STILL LIVE ON THEIR PROPERTY IN THE