Continuation of tree (6th child of Joachin Louis Pitre/Marguerite Melasie Pitre); all known surname descendants:
7 Francois Villeneuve Pitre b: Abt. 20 July 1849 Opelousas, St. Landry, LA; d: 19 January 1887 Plaisance, St. Landry, LA
+ Dorsina Lacasse b: 30 April 1851 Opelousas, St. Landry, LA; m: 3 October 1866 Opelousas, St. Landry, LA [Dorsin/Marie Jeansonne]; d: Abt. 1870 Opelousas, St. Landry, LA
8 Scholastique J. Pitre b: December 1868 Opelousas, St. Landry, LA; d: Bef. 1900
+Sosthene Brown b: Abt. 1863 Opelousas, St. Landry, LA; m: 30 August 1883 Opelousas, St. Landry, LA [Louis Brant/Emeline Andrepont]; d: 18 March 1915 Opelousas, St. Landry, LA
*2nd Wife of Francois Villeneuve Pitre:
+ Marie Caroline Brown b: 26 February 1861 Opelousas, St. Landry, LA; m: 8 August 1876 Opelousas, St. Landry, LA [Louis Brant/Emeline Andrepont]; d: Aft. 1883
8 Emelina Pitre b: 1 December 1877 Opelousas, St. Landry, LA; d: Aft. 1900
8 Octave J. Pitre b: 2 January 1881 Opelousas, St. Landry, LA; d: 13 July 1957 Prairie Ronde, St. Landry, LA
8 Onezime Pitre b: September 1883 St. Landry, LA; d: 18 March 1961 Ville Platte, Evangeline, LA
+ Edmonia Pitre b: 5 December 1888 Opelousas, St. Landry, LA; m: 1 December 1903 Opelousas, St. Landry, LA [Joannes Madison/Ernestine L. Fontenot]; d: 30 January 1961 Ville Platte, Evangeline, LA
Notes for Francois Villeneuve Pitre:
Francois Villeneuve was one of 6 boys born in a family of 10 children, a fairly common occurrence in the 1800's. He was about 17 when he married Dorsina Lacasse who was only 15. They had daughter Scholastique shortly thereafter. Since, like many other Pitres, I cannot locate this family in the 1870 census, I presume that Dorsina died around that time as there are no other children for this couple.
Francois Villeneuve, now aged about 27, married again in 1876 to 15-year-old Marie Caroline Brown (also sometimes written as Brant or Bramme). In the 1880 census Francois & Caroline were living with his widowed mother along with Francois' daughter Scholastique now 12, and their own daughter Melina 2. There are two Browns (Melina & Sosthene) with them, presumably Marie Caroline Brown's siblings, and 2 Pitre cousins. Sosthene Brown married Scholastique in 1883.
Two more children followed, Octave & Onezime before Francois' early death in 1887 at the age of 37. Son Onezime was boarding with another family in the 1900 census, so presumably his mother Marie Caroline had also died.
Census
- 1870
- 1880 St. Landry, Louisiana: Widow Margaret Pitre 56 farmer, son Francois V. 32 farm laborer, wife Caroline 18, granddaughters Colastie 12, Alicia 10, & Melina 2 and grandson Christoval 7; Melina Brown 23 (single), Sostene Brown 17 farm laborer (single).
- 1900 St. Landry: Children Onezime Pitre 16 (Sep 1883) boarder, living w/family of Emerant Landry 29; and Emelina Pitre 20 (Jan 1880) niece, living w/family of Philip Brown 29. Octave Pitre 19 (Jan 1881) farm laborer (nephew), Marie Pitre (possibly Brown) 10 (Nov 1889) niece, and Sostine Brown 26 (Dec 1874) farm laborer (brother-in-law) all living with family of Theogene Pitre & wife Marie Therese Brown.
Obituaries for the children:
Octave J. Pitre: Daily World (Opelousas, LA), Sunday, 14 July 1957: Octave J. Pitre, 76, retired farmer of Prairie Ronde, died Saturday at 12:15 a.m. following an illness of seven months. The body is at Lafond and Son Funeral Home. Services will be held today at 9 a.m. at a mass at the Prairie Ronde Catholic Church. Burial will be in the adjacent cemetery. Pitre was a native of Prairie Ronde. He is survived by a brother, Lezine Pitre of Ville Platte, and a half-sister, Mrs. Amos Reed of Opelousas.
Onezime Pitre: Daily World (Opelousas, LA), Thursday, 23 March 1961: Ville Platte - Funeral services were conducted at 3 p.m. Sunday in Sacred Heart Catholic Church of Ville Platte for Onezime Pitre, 76, of Ville Platte, who died at 7 p.m. Saturday at his home. He is survived by five sons, Madison, Ezee, Aldes, Herbert and E.T. Pitre, all of Ville Platte; three daughters, Mrs. Lindsey Fontenot and Mrs. Horace Ardoin of Ville Platte, and Mrs. Marshall Soileau of Mamou; 26 grandchildren and 22 great-grandchildren. Burial was in the old cemetery, with Ardoin Funeral Home of Ville Platte in charge of arrangements.
Back one generation to parents of Francois Villeneuve 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 deaths in RED taken from obituaries or the Louisiana Deaths collection (which includes spouses/parents).
Last updated: 31 December 2020.