from Soard's 1925 New Orleans Directory
Gregoire Weldon Switchmn r1707 Religious
buried in sec 25
Buried in sec 25
buried in Sec 25
From Times Picayune:"Cotton (Greg) Gregoire in Plaquemine La. on Monday October
20 1969 at 4:00 p/m/ son of Mr and Mrs Wilden Gregoire of Donaldsonville, La.
brother of Mrs Charles J. Marquette of Baton Rouge, La., uncle of Bunny, Janet
and Charles Marquette, all of Baton Rouge, La.
Relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend the funeral. Services
from Landry-Cabellero Mintz Funeral Home, Donaldsonville, La. on Wednesday
October 22 1969 at 9:45 a.m. followed by religious services at Ascension
Catholic Church, Donaldsonville, la. at 10:00 a.m. Internement in Church
Cementery. Parlor open Tuesday and 8:00 a.m. till funeral time on Friday."
from Soard's 1925 New Orleans Directory
Gregoire Jacob lab r2832 Hiawatha
from Soard's 1930 Directory
Gregoire, Jacob 2905 Pocahontas (coo says Jacob came to live in the house after
he lost his own house in a real estate scam
was controller for Werlin's Music Store in New Orleans
from Soard's 1923 City Directory
Gregoire Emile r2015 3rd Street slsman
from Soard's 1924 Directory
Gregoire Emile Laborer at 1707 Religious
Marcellin Francois PARR (Part)
Military Record: Enlisted Sept 18 1861 in the La. Militia
private company G at Thibodeaux, La.
J. Klebert Gourdain, Captain US Army (transferred to CSA)
J. Antoine Collin, 1st Lieutenant, Deputy Commander - CSA
Camilla E. Gautreaux, 2nd Lieutenant, Platoon Commander- CSA
Silas T. Grisamore, Sergent- Company Clerk, CSASee Doc P-57-1, from L'HE for article on "Lafourche Creoles"
See Doc P-82-1, From TLL for article on "Lafourche Creoles"
9-23-1861- Co. G was nickmaned "Lafourche Creoles"
ordered to report to New Orleans (Camp Benjamin) for training
departed Lafourche Crossing on Algiers and Western RR at 6am
Arrived Avondale- crossed on a barge- walked to the Camp
(now City Park) by first going to Camp Carrolton (now
Shrewsbury)- assigned CSA gear- uniforms- picked rifles at
Camp Roman- (now Metairie Cemetary) on to BenjaminOctober 5 1861 Company G mustered into the 18th Louisiana
Infantry Regiment, Colonel Alfred E. Mouton, Commander CSAOctober 8 1861 18th La. Regiment ordered to Camp Moore (now
Kentwood, La.) Company G assigned to Provost Marshall-
Quartermaster Corp- Hdqtrs. Company1-1-1862, the company received orders to Camp Beauregard, a
new camp on the Ponchartrain Railroad, on Gentilly Road, near
New Orleans. Regiment officers were Colonel Alfred Mouton; Lt.
Col. Alfred Roman; Major Louis Bush.2-13-1862 the company received orders to prepare for a move to
some other part of the Confederacy. They arrived at Canton,
Mississippi at 10 p.m. on Feb. 16 and changed rail cars for
Grand Junction, Tennessee where they arrived at 4 p.m. the
next day. They again changed cars and finally reached the
village of Pocahontas where the train stopped. The 3-day
rations given them at Camp Beauregard were used up.Corinth, Mississippi
2-18-1862 they left by train and traveled to Chewawly Station
where the train had a lengthy delay, but then began moving and
the company arrived at Corinth, Mississippi at 10 p.m. Corinth
was then a small town of 300-400 people but considered an
important location in the early part of the war because it was
at the junction of the Memphis & Chattanooga Railroad and the
Ohio & Mobile Railroad.First Battle:
Pittsburgh Landing on Tennessee River, Tennessee2-26-1862 the company left Corinth for Pittsburgh Landing on
the Tennessee River, about 20 miles away, where they arrived
Feb. 28. They were to guard a shipping point along the river.
On Mar. 1 there was a confortation with two Union gun boats,
the TYLER and LEXINGTON. About a dozen Confederate soldiers
were killed or wounded in this battle, but the Union suffered
heavier losses with 12 killed and about 60 men wounded or
missing. The gun boats retreated down the river. The company
then marched to Shiloh Church where they spent the night. This
was a log church which later gave its name to the battle of
Shiloh.3-2-1862 the gun boats returned and shelled the camp of
several hours, but afterwards sent a flag of truce to see if
their dead from the previous day had been buried. In the
afternoon the rain turned to snow and the men were exposed to
the weather all night because they had no tents for
protection.3-4-1862, the company fell back behind the village of
Monteray and set up Camp Bush. The enemy, under Gen. Grant,
was landing and establishing thenselves at Pittsburgh
Landing.Battle of Siloh, Tennessee
4-6-1862 the company was engaged in the Battle of Shiloh, with
several men injured or killed. Union losses were about 200
killed, wounded or captured. The weather was cold and raining,
the men could not eat because fires would give their position
away to the enemy, they had no tents and in one case the men
made a make-shift shelter by spreading a blanket over a stack
of guns.4-7-1862 the company was still at battle with the Union forces
but forced to retreat to the Shiloh Church. During this battle
the company had heavy losses, 41 of its 59 men on the field
were killed, wounded and captured.4-8-1862 Grisamore and the few men left started for Corinth
where they arrived that day, under a pall of gloom and
sadness.4-11-1862 orders were made to send the wounded home. Those
injured too badly to recover in camp were taken to the depot
where a boxcar was obtained and a bale of fodder used to cover
the floor for more comfortable transport home.5-7-1862 Outfits of hats, shoes, pants and jackets were
finally received. These supplies had been run out of New
Orleans before its capture May 1st.5-20-1862 The company received orders to cook rations for 2
days and be ready to move by 6. On May 26 baggage was moved to
the rear but one tent was allowed for each ten men. They were
told to prepare for an attack at sunrise. They moved to a camp
near Baldwin, Mississippi by June 2, where the army rested on
the banks of 20-mile Creek.
The company camped near Tupelo, Mississippi on July 8,
then by Sept. 1 were at Pollard, Alabama where they waited
until Sept. 3 for a train, then left for Mobile where they
took the steamer DICK KEYS to cross the Bay of Mobile. They
arrived at Meridan, Mississippi on Sept. 6, then went on to
Jackson, Mississippi where there was talk of being sent to the
battle of Corinth. They were finally ordered toward
Vicksburg, going by steamboat to the mouth of the Red River
where they met 300-400 conscripts from Assumption Parish on
their way to Vicksburg.To the Teche Country
9-12-1862 The company then embarked on three small steamers
and started down the Atchafalaya River, reaching New Iberia on
Sept. 12, 1862.9-18-1862 They crossed Berwick's Bay and received orders on
the 19th to go to Terrebonne and proceeded towards Bayou des
Allemands.The battle of Labadieville, also called the Battle of Texana,
and Capture of Thibodaux10-26-1862 Near Labadieville (Texana, also called Georgia
Landing, where the road goes from the bayou to the (Lower)
Texas community), the "Creoles" with their regiment, plus
the Cresent Regiment and Ralston's Battery, under the command
of Col. Armant, and a detachment of cavalry of 539, fought the
Union brigade of Gen. Weitzel which had come from New Orleans.
Confederate losses in the battle were given as 5 men killed, 8
wounded and 186 either captured or missing. The Confederates
had been outnumbered two to one. Arriving at Thibodaux on the
28th, Gen. Mouton burned the depot, bridges, sugar and
supplies he could not carry with him. The men were loaded on
cars and sent to Brashear City. That same day Weitzel occupied
Thibodeaux.
On Nov 1 the troops were encamped on Bayou Teche at the
plantation of Thomas Bisland.
Confederate troops captured the Union gunboat DIANA on
Mar. 29, taking about 100 prisoners. The company participated
in the battle at Pattersonville and Bayou Teche on Apr. 12,
1863 when the gunboat DIANA was blown up by Capt. Semmes, but
he and most of his men were captured by the Union.
The battle of Bisland forced the regiment to retreat as
far as Natchitoches but they returned and were present for the
recapturing of Brashear City (Morgan City).October 1863 the 18th Louisiana Regiment was consolidated with
the Yellow Jacket Battalion in October 1863, afterwards known
as the Consolidated 18th Regiment.11-16-1863 Parr promoted to PFC-Calvary. transferred
to Company E - 18th La. regiment-reassigned to Camp Baton
Rouge- "Yellow Jacket Battalion"-Col Vincent A. Fournet,
CSA, Commanding
Capt. Arnold E. Bernard- transferred from Camp Moore,
Deputy Commander
Lieutenant Moise Bernard (brothers) - company commanderThat winter they marched to the Arkansas line on Bayou
Bartholomew and in February 1864 returned to Pineville, La.
on the Red River.2-2-1864 Co. E - Calavry 18th La Reg.- assigned Camp Derussy
(Marksville) 2700 men took part in the Red River Campaign-
Mouton and Fournet- joint command4-8-1864 they fell back to Mansfield before Bank's advancing
force, but there stopped and gave him battle. Losses to the
regiment in this battle were 96 killed and wounded. Gen.
Mouton and Col. Leopold L. Armant were killed.
That Fall the regiment marched to Camden, Arkansas, then
back to Minden, La.10-8-1864 Fort Derussy- lost to the invading Yankee Army- 5000
strong. All CSA prisoners sent to POW camp at Natchitoches6-9-1865 the war over- all prisoners released
from CCLP, page 128:
from tombstone :"Parr Marcellin Co. G 18th La. Inf., C.S.A."
from "South Louisiana Records", vol 10 page 405:"PARR, Armand (Marcellin &
Mathilde Robichaux) m. 29 Nov 1899 Felicia RICHARD (Thib. CT. Hse.: Mar v. 39,
#268)"from Doc P-82-1, TLL, V9 #1, page 43 article on The Lafourche Creoles:" Pvt.
Marcellin Parr given as Marcellin Part, age 22 in 1860, Lafourche census, a
sugar maker, married and living near Lockport on west side of Bayou Lafourche.
He married Mathilde Robichaux on 11 May 1858 (Thib. Ct. Hse.); he was b. 15 Oct
1836 (Thib.) s/o Francois & Adele Falgout. Pension for Marcelin Parr."From Doc P-131-2, SLR, V1, page 420:"PART, Marcellin (Francois & Adele Falgout)
b. 15 Oct. 1836 (Thib. Ch.: v. 3, # 1261)"
from "Cem of Central Lafourche Parish, La" R929.37633 H446C
Robichaux, Mathilde age 67 5 May 1911
wife of Marcellin Parrfrom SLR, page 321:"Robichaux, Mathilde Irma (Narcisse & Marcelline Foret) b. 17
March 1844 (thib. Ch. V.4, #616)"
from SLR, page 440:"Robichaux, Mathilde (Narcisse & Marceline Forest) m. 11 May
1858 Marceline Parr or PART (Thib. Ct. Hse.:Mar. v. 10, # 45)"
from SLR, v.4, pp 484,Doc P-56-8:"PARR, George (Marcellin & Mathilde ROBICHAUX)
b. 16 June 1886 (Lockport Ch.:V.1, #31)"
from SLR, vol 5, pp 294, doc P-56-7:"PARR Marcelline Ernestine (Martin &
Matilde ROBICHAUX) b. 19 Feb. 1871 (Lockport Ch.: v.1, #28)"
from SLR, vol 8, pp 367, doc P-56-2:"PART, Marcelline (Marcellin & Matilde
ROBICHAUX) d. 3 - 14 Sept. 1887 at age 15 yrs. & 7 mths. Downed. (Lockport Ch.:
v.1, #13)"
from SLR, vol 7, pp 340:"PART, Josephine Alfrida (Marcellin & Matilde
ROBICHAUX) b. 12 Jan. 1884 (Lockport Ch.: v.2, p.98)"
Emancipation 11 Apr 1872
from Richard's notes:
Our father was born march 2, 1878 (Evariste J. Richard rin 1224- RON), the 2nd
of 9 children. His Father (Oleus Evariste Richard rin 999-RON) was a plantation
Manager (overseer) of Cecelia Plantation Near Lockport (Lafourche Parish, LA-
RON), La. It was owned by two brothers, Thomas and Severin Foret (or Forest-
RON) Severin was married to our Grandfather's Sister. I recall as a boy, our
mother showing us children the house on the plantation where he was born and
reared.
info from document p-16-1
burial place from Doc P-25-1
tombstone reading from Doc P-25-1
in Doc O-141-1, name might have been Odile