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The Moore-Cannette Family
Louis, Sr., must have made his living catching seafood, growing crops and trapping. Though several families were living in the area, no large business of any kind was in existence. Louis' brother, Jean Baptiste, had married Angelique Ladner, daughter of Jacques Mathurin Ladner and Anna Berda of Horn Island. They, too, had a grant near that of Louis on the Gulf Coast.
The continuation of the line is with Alexis FAYARD. Alexis was born and reared in Biloxi. It is interesting to note that the alias "Lalancette" was still being used.
The boy was baptized in New Orleans, so it would seem.
In all probability the whole family got into sailing boats to make the trip to New Orleans, via Lake Pontchartrain and Bayou St. John.
On January 6, 1796, I, Father Finso de Pele-agonsalo, a Capuchin religious and in charge of the Sanctuary church of this Holy Cathedral Church of New Oleans, baptized and put the Holy Oils to a boy born on January 6, of the past year of 1794, the legitimate son of Louis Lalanzete, a native of Pass Christian, and Marta Gargaret, a native of this city. Paternal grandparents are Juan Lalanget and Francisca Delong (Fisseau); maternal, Miguel Gargare and Marta Paquet. His godparents were Pedro Mon is and Francisca Jacob Bengre. In the Holy Ceremonies the said boy was given the name Alexo. The godparents were advised of their spiritual parentage. For this I sign. (St. Louis Cathedral, BB2, p. 406.)
Father Finso de Peleangonsalo
Alexis, no doubt, learned the various means of catching seafood and raising crops from his Dad, work that would keep him well occupied during his lifetime.
In the early church records of the Gulf Coast, as maintained in the Cathedral Archives of New Orleans, Biloxi and Mobile, references are made which would indicate that Alexis lived from Bay St. Louis to Pascagoula at various times. However, after his marriage during the second decade of the 1800's to Martha Ryan, his first cousin (their mothers were sisters), Alexis apparently moved to acquire a large piece of property on Parker Creek and the Tchouticabouffa River.
In an article written about her grandmother, Rose Cecile FAYARD PARKER, a daughter of Alexis and Martha Groue, and sister to Marie, Miss Marjorie Stewart recounts the following about the property:
?Mrs. Rose Cecile Alexis Fayard owned three hundred sixty acres, or one section of land, on which she grew corn, potatoes, hay, cane, cotton and small
vegetable crops with the help of sixteen slaves. The home was called 'Rose Hill' and rose above the Tchouticabouffa River and Parker Creek. The family cemetery is about three hundred yards from the original small white house with the original plaster still on its walls. In the cemetery rest Alexis and Martha and several descendants.
"During the Civil War the Yankees were camped at Rose Hill farm near the bricked-up well. They asked my grandmother if she would cook bread for them. She said she would, so she and her daughters baked bread with the flour and other ingredients supplied by the Yankees. The South was virtually starving at this time, but when they moved on, they left several bags of flour and supplies for the family.
"My grandfather had a son, Bill (Parker), about sixteen years old. He took Bill by schooner to the islands out in the Gulf to protect him from the Yankees. They were looking for conscripts for their army.
"The Yankees were kind and guarded the home at night while they camped there.
They did not steal nor did they molest any of the animals or destroy the property. They did carry pontoons on wagons, and, when they came to a bay, creek or river, they would put the pontoons on the water, cross over, and continue on their journey.
"After the war ended and the South was subdued, grandmother's slaves were free; yet some of them never left home. They continued to live, work and eat in their cabins until death. They, too, were laid to rest in the family plot about three hundred yards from the plastered house.
"This house, or part of it, stands today, 1971. It is known as the Krautter House, after a daughter, Armine, who had married Louis Krautter and inherited the place."
Alexis and Martha had eight known children. They were: Rose Cecile, who married James Parker of Baltimore, Maryland; Louis, who married Martha Bosarge; Octavia, who married Thomas Latimer; Gilbert, husband of Jane Bennett, who died in the Civil War; Do/id, husband of Martha Bennett, also killed in the Civil War; Melanie,
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