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The Moore-Cannette Family
Though only four months older, Louis Groue was baptized on the same day as Marie Martha, July 22,
1842.
On July 22, 1842, was baptized Louis, bom on December 9, 1840, son of Louis Groue and Eloise Ladner. Godparents are Jean Baptiste Ladner (grandfather) and Marie Arsere Ladner (aunt).
Pastor
To say the least, that was quite a coincidence for two children who would later become husband and wife.
His grandfather and his aunt were his sponsors. As can be seen, Louis' maternal ancestry reaches back into the early 1700's to Christian Ladner, his great, great grandfather. (This line in reverse would be: Louis, Eloise Ladner, Jean Baptiste Ladner, Nicholas Ladner,
Christian Ladner.) Louis' paternal ancestry included his father, Louis Groue, and his grandfather, Louis Gregoire.
By some strange quirk among French people in giving nicknames, Louis' father, would, till his dying day, insist that his name was Gregoire, not Groue. Yet, Groue is the name of this family today, rather than Gregoire, as it seems that it should have been. The baptism in question (for Louis' father) was the following (Mobile Cathedral BB 2, p. 187).
On July 10, 1822, I, the undersigned, missionary priest, have baptized Louis, the legitimate son of Louis Gregoire and Louise St. Germain, born on November 18, 1816. Godparents are Jacob Ryan and Elizabeth Laforce. (Mobile Cathedral, B82, p. 187.)
Jean Baptiste 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-Harrisori line, which he had received from the Federal Government on April 25, 1812 as Grant ^158.
To all to whom these presents shall come,
Greeting:
Whereas, evidence having been deposited in the General Land Office, whereby it appears that the Private Land Claim of John Baptiste Ladner, being Claim No. 158 (American State Paper, Duff-Green Edition, Volume 3, page 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 and designated as Section sixteen in Township seven south of Range nine west of the St. Stephens Meridian, Mississippi, containing six hundred nine
140
acres and thirty-two hundredths of an acre, as shown by the township plat approved December 31, 1828:
Now know ye, that the United States of America, in consideration of the ?' premises, has given and granted, and by these presents does give and grant, unto the said John Baptiste Ladner, and to his heirs, the land above described: to have and to hold the same, together with all the rights, privileges immunities, and appurtenances, of whatsoever nature, thereunto belonging, unto the said John Baptiste Ladner, and to his heirs and assigns forever.
In Testimony whereof, I, Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States of America, have caused these letters to be made patent, and the seal of the General Land Office to be hereunto affixed .
Given under my hand, at the City of Washington, the second day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and fiftieth.
..	By	the President: Calvin Coolidge
60	By	Viola B. Pugh, Secretary.
M. P. LeRoy
Recorder of the General Land (Seal)	Office.
When the actual donations were made in the 1840?s, Eloise received the following grant.
Know all men by these presents that I,
John Baptiste Ladnier, of the county of Hancock in the State aforesaid, for and in consideration of the love and goodwill and affection which I have and doth bear towards my daughter, Elouise, wife of Louis Groux of the County of Jackson in the State aforesaid have given, granted, conveyed and confirmed and by these presents do freely and voluntarily give, grant, convey and confirm unto my said daughter, Elouise and to her heirs and assigns forever, a certain lot, piece or parcel of land situate lying and being within the limits and county boundaries of the aforesaid Jackson and bounded as follows to wit: