Continuation of tree (1st child of Joseph Pierre Pitre/Marguerite Joubert); all known surname descendants:
7 Auguste Joseph Pitre b: September 1815 Opelousas, St. Landry, LA; d: 20 March 1859 Quartier Plaisance, St. Landry, LA
+ Melasie Jean Baptiste Bramme (aka Melanie Brandt) b: 3 August 1824 Opelousas, St. Landry, LA; m: 20 February 1840 Opelousas, St. Landry, LA [Jean Baptiste/Emerante Andrepont]; d: Abt. 1845
8 Marguerite Melasie Pitre b: Abt. 1841 Opelousas, St. Landry, LA; d: Aft. 1862
+ Augustin Pierre Bellard b: 15 August 1838 Opelousas, St. Landry, LA; m: 22 July 1857 Opelousas, St. Landry, LA [Pierre/Constance Andrepont]; d: December 1862 Vicksburg, Warren, MS (apoplexy)
8 Marie Adeline Pitre b: 18 August 1843 Opelousas, St. Landry, LA; d: Aft. 1865
+ Louis Pitre b: 13 November 1840 Opelousas, St. Landry, LA; m: 24 January 1860 Opelousas, St. Landry, LA [Joachin Louis/Marguerite Melasie Pitre]; d: Abt. 11 February 1861
*2nd Husband of Marie Adeline Pitre:
+ Adolphe Cyprien Belaire Fontenot b: 23 August 1839 Opelousas, St. Landry, LA; m: 5 February 1862 Opelousas, St. Landry, LA [Cyprien Belair/Louise Rider]; d: 29 December 1864 Camp Douglas, Chicago, IL
*2nd Wife of Auguste Joseph Pitre:
+ Marie Antoinette Janis (Jannot) b: 23 July 1815 Opelousas, St. Landry, LA; m: Abt. 1851 [Mamert Janis dit Langrois/Marie Francoise Langlois]; d: 4 December 1858 Opelousas, St. Landry, LA
8 Augustin Pitre b: 19 June 1852 Opelousas, St. Landry, LA; d: Aft. 1910
+ Marie Louise Reed b: Abt. 1857 St. Landry, LA; m: 21 January 1874 Ville Platte, St. Landry, LA [Guillaume/Cecile Janis]; d: 9 November 1923 St. Landry, LA
NOTES for Auguste Joseph Pitre:
- 1850 St. Landry, Louisiana census:
Widower Auguste G. Pitre 30 (planter) [$500 real estate], Melasie 6,
Ami 4.
- 26 July 1858 (Prairie Plaisance):
Promise to pay Dondiegue L. Fontenot 300 piastres with interest at 8%.
Signed Auguste J. Pitry, Jullie --uris, Dalicour Joubert.
- Estate of Auguste Joseph Pitre
(filed 4 April 1859): To the Honorable the 15th Judicial district court of the State of Louisiana in and for the parish of St. Landry. The petition of
Dalicourt Joubert and Augustin Pierre Belair both of the parish of St. Landry with respect represents: That
Auguste J. Pitre died lately in the parish aforesaid where he resided leaving a succession composed of land, slaves and movable property and only two heirs, viz:
Melasie Pitre, wife of your petitioner and Adeline Pitre a minor. That it is necessary that an administrator or administrators should be appointed by this honorable court to administer and settle the succession of said deceased. The promises considered your petitioners pray that they be appointed administrators of the succession of Auguste J. Pitre, if no opposition is made to their application for said administration, after the usual legal advertisements and for general relief and as in duty bound. By their attorney
M.&C. Mouton
Let the prayer of the petitioners be granted. It is therefore ordered that the application of Dalicourt Joubert & Augustin Pierre Belair be advertised ten days in the Opelousas Courier. Given under my hand and seal at Opelousas this 4th day of April 1859. L. Lastrapes
- Inventory included property $1200,
Julien (mulatto) age about 35 years ($1000), Marguerite (mulatto) age about 32 years & daughters
Angele about 8 & Josephine about 5 ($1300 as a group), Marguerite's daughter
Celestine (mulatto) age about 12 years ($700), horses, cattle, hogs, sheep:
$5680.50.
- 9 April 1859, Opelousas Courier (LA): Melasie Pitre petitions to be named administrator in the succession of deceased Auguste J. Pitre.
- 23 April 1859, Opelousas Courier (LA): Succession of Auguste J. Pitre - A sale of 150 head of sheep, hogs, one saddle horse, mares, colts, creole horses, mules, oxen, about 20 head of gentle horned cattle, ox and horse carts, one gun, a caleche, household furniture, and sundry other articles of moveables.
- 26 April 1859: At the residence of the late Auguste J. Pitre (about 10 miles from the courthouse) to auction the movable property of the late Auguste Joseph Pitre. Heir
Marie Adeline Pitre, wife of Adolph Cyprien Belaire Fontenot has
a hearing before the judge as to whether it is in her best interests to borrow money during her husband's absence
(private in the 16th Regiment of LA volunteers), to pay debts due on her parents' estate
(Auguste J. Pitre & Melanie Bramme), both deceased; and to mortgage her share of the land she owns with her sister
Melanie Pitre wife of Augustin Belaire. Family meeting composed of Louis Bramme, Etienne Bramme, Napoleon Andrepont, Joachin Louis
Pitre. She is allowed to borrow $1200 against a tract of land to pay the debts.
- 5 February 1862: The petition of Odile Derbes widow of Jean Baptiste
Bellocq, of Auguste Noblom, and Pierre Roy all residents of the parish of Orleans doing business as merchants in N.O. under the name of Bellocq Noblom & Co. They are creditors of the estate $392.84, with interest from 26 April 1858, for advances made said deceased.
Back one generation to parents of Auguste Joseph Pitre
Items in RED verified from transcriptions in the following:
- Southwest Louisiana Records: Church and Civil Records of Parishes of Acadia, Allen Beauregard, Cameron, Calcasieu, Evangeline, Iberia, Jefferson Davis, Lafayette, St Landry, St Martin, St Mary and Vermillion.
- Some Louisiana births, marriages & deaths in RED taken from obituaries or the Louisiana vital statistics collection (which includes spouses/parents).
Last updated: 8 November 2022.