Continuation of tree (9th child of Francois Pitre/Eliza P. Pitre); all known surname descendants:
8 Moise Pitre b: 22 November 1890 Ville Platte, St. Landry, LA; d: 19 October 1949 Lafayette, Lafayette, LA
+ Ola Lafleur b: 10 May 1895 St. Landry, LA; m: 6 February 1912 Ville Platte, Evangeline, LA; d: 4 June 1961 Ville Platte, Evangeline, LA
9 Auston Pitre b: 23 December 1912 Ville Platte, Evangeline, LA; d: 13 December 2007 Lake Charles, Calcasieu, LA
+Florella West b: 11 March 1919; m: Aft. 1940; d: 21 January 2000 Pine Prairie, Evangeline, LA
9 Mary Elaine Pitre b: 19 November 1914 Ville Platte, Evangeline, LA; d: 21 October 1982 Mamou, Evangeline, LA
+Shelby Larose Fontenot b: 14 April 1911; m: Bef. 1940 [Alcide/Atile Ardoin]; d: 21 August 1983 Ville Platte, Evangeline, LA
9 Hershel Pitre b: 2 January 1918 Ville Platte, Evangeline, LA; d: 8 December 1991 Groves, Jefferson, TX
+Rose Reed b: 9 January 1926; m: unknown; d: 2 March 2000 Groves, Jefferson, TX
9 Francois Pitre b: 16 February 1920 Ville Platte, Evangeline, LA; d: 8 November 1977 Eunice, St. Landry, LA
+Dorine Atkinson b: 2 January 1930; m: unknown; d: 19 June 2000 Eunice, St. Landry, LA
9 George Joseph Pitre b: 16 June 1922 Ville Platte, Evangeline, LA; d: 5 July 1993 Port Arthur, Jefferson, TX
+Patricia Inez b: 24 September 1931; m: 19 January 1957; d: Aft. 1993
9 Rosemary Pitre b: September 1926 Ville Platte, Evangeline, LA; d: 13 May 1946 Eunice, St. Landry, LA
+Harry Guillard b: Abt. 1908; m: Abt. 1945 [Laurent/---]; d: 13 May 1946 Eunice, St. Landry, LA
9 Wilfred Levin Pitre b: 31 August 1930 Ville Platte, Evangeline, LA; d: 24 March 1996 Ville Platte, Evangeline, LA
+Yvonne ---
9 Mona Mae Pitre b: Abt. 1932 Ville Platte, Evangeline, LA; d: Aft. November 1977
+Leo Fontenot
*2nd Husband of Mona Mae Pitre:
+--- Joubert
9 Patsy Ann Pitre b: 22 October 1938 Ville Platte, Evangeline, LA; d: 22 October 2012
+Eugene Roland Stegall b: 27 September 1939 Ville Platte, Evangeline, LA; m: unknown; d: 22 January 1985 Lake Charles, Calcasieu, LA
Notes for Moise Pitre:
Census
- 1920 Ville Platte, Evangeline, Louisiana: Moise Pitre 27 (cotton & corn
farmer), wife Ola 24, Austin 7, (twins) Ealines 2 & Huoshel 2.
- 1930 Ville Platte, Evangeline, LA: Moise Pitre 36, wife Olla L. 34,
Austin 17, Erline 15, Hurshel 12, Francois 10, George 7, Rose 3 years 7 months.
- 1940 Ville Platte, Evangeline, LA: Moise Pitre 46 carpenter, wife Ola 44, Auston 27 owner/restaurant, Hershel 22 taxi driver, Frank 20 meat cutter/market, George 17 chauffeur/own car, Rosemary 13, Wilfred 10, Mae Monia 8, Anne Patsy 1.
- 1950 Ville Platte, Evangeline, LA: Widow Ollia Pitre 53, Patsy 11.
WWI registration records: Moise Pitre; Evangeline, LA; born
22 Nov 1892 (Ville Platte, LA); wife & 2 children; medium height, medium build;
brown eyes & black hair.
Obituary: The Ville Platte Gazette (Ville Platte, LA), Thursday, 20 October 1949: Moise Pitre Dies Yesterday, Final Rites are Today - Lingering illness proves fatal to 59-year-old Ville Platte man - Funeral services were held this afternoon for Moise Pitre, 59, who died Wednesday afternoon at 12:15 in a Lafayette hospital. Services were read at the Sacred Heart Catholic church with interment in the old Ville Platte cemetery at 2:30. Mr. Pitre had been critically ill since May and had been treated in New Orleans subsequent to his removal here to his home and then to the Lafayette hospital where he died. Death was attributed to cancer of the kidney. He is survived by his widow, the former Lula Lafleur; three daughters, Mrs. Shelby Fontenot, Mrs. Leo Fontenot, and Miss Patsy Nell; five sons, Auston, Herschel, Frank, George, and Leran. He is also survived by several grandchildren and two brothers.
Notes for Ola Lafleur:
Obituary: The Ville Platte Gazette (Ville Platte, LA), Thursday, 8 June 1961: Funeral services were held at Sacred Heart Catholic Church Monday at 2 p.m. for Mrs. Moise Pitre, 66, who died here at 12:30 p.m. Sunday. Mrs. Pitre, the former Ola Lafleur, is survived by five sons, Wilfred Pitre of Ville Platte, Frank Pitre of Eunice, Austin, Hershel and George Pitre of Port Arthur; three daughters, Mrs. Shelby Fontenot and Mrs. Herbert L. Joubert of Ville Platte, and Mrs. Eugene Stegall of Lake Charles, fourteen grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Other survivors include two brothers, Curley and Zenon Lafleur, and one sister, Mrs. Dye Fontenot, all of Ville Platte. Interment was in le Vieux Cimetiere under the direction of Ardoin Funeral Home.
Obituaries for the children:
Auston Pitre: The Ville Platte Gazette (Ville Platte, LA), Sunday, 16 September 2007: (photo) Auston 'Yos' Pitre - December 23, 1912 - September 13, 2007 - Funeral services for Auston 'Yos' Pitre, 94, of Lake Charles, at the Ardoin's Funeral Home Chapel in Ville Platte at 2:30 p.m., Saturday, September 15. Burial followed in the Sacred Heart Mausoleum. Mr. Pitre died Thursday, September 13, 2007. He was retired from Texaco and was a Merchant Marine veteran. Survivors include one daughter, Kathleen Lune of Lake Charles; one sister, Patsy Stegall of Morgan City; three grandchildren, six great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his wife, Florella West Pitre. Ardoin's Funeral Home of Ville Platte was in charge of arrangements.
Mary Elaine Pitre: The Ville Platte Gazette (Ville Platte, LA), Thursday, 28 October 1982: Funeral services were held Friday at 11 a.m. in Sacred Heart Catholic Church for Mrs. Shelby Fontenot, the former Mary Elaine Pitre, 68, of Ville Platte, who died Thursday, Oct. 21, at 9 a.m. at Savoy Memorial Hospital in Mamou following a long illness. Burial was in Evangeline Memorial cemetery directed by Ardoin's Funeral Home of Ville Platte. Survivors include her husband, Shelby Fontenot of Ville Platte; one son, Ronald Fontenot of Ville Platte; four brothers, Hershel Pitre and George Pitre of Port Arthur, Texas, and Austin Pitre and Wilfred Pitre of Ville Platte; one sister, Mrs. Eugene Stegall of Kingwood, Tx.; and six grandchildren.
Hershel Pitre: Tombstone Inscription, Greenlawn Memorial Park, Groves, TX: Hershel / 1918 - 1991 / PITRE / Rose A. / 1924 - 2000
Francois Pitre: Daily World (Opelousas, LA), Wednesday, 9 November 1977: Eunice - Funeral services will be held at 4 p.m. Thursday in the St. Anthony's Catholic Church here for Francis Pitre, 57, of Eunice. He died Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. at his residence following a long illness. Burial will be held in the Mt. Calvary Cemetery directed by Ardoin's Funeral Home of Eunice. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Dorine Atkinson Pitre of Eunice; one son, James Pitre of Eunice; two daughters, Mrs. Brenda McCelelland of Baton Rouge and Miss Melinda Pitre of Eunice; four brothers, Hershel and George Pitre, both of Port Arthur, Austin and Wilfred Pitre, both of Ville Platte; three sisters, Mrs. Elaine Fontenot and Mrs. Mona Joubert, both of Ville Platte and Mrs. Patricia Stegeal of Morgan City. He was a store keeper; a World War II Veteran.
Tombstone Inscription, Mount Calvary Cemetery, Eunice: Francis Pitre / US Army / World War II / Feb. 16, 1920 - Nov. 8, 1977 // Dorine A. Pitre / Jan. 2, 1930 / June 19, 2000
George Joseph Pitre: Tombstone Inscription, Calvary Cemetery, Port Arthur: George Joseph / June 16, 1922 / July 5, 1993 / Jan. 19 / 1957 / Patricia Inez / Sept. 24, 1931 / (blank) / in loving memory / PITRE
Rosemary Pitre: Times Picayune, Tuesday, 14 May 1946: Eunice Man Kills Wife, Then Self - Harry Gillard Uses .22 Rifle In Deaths (Special to The Times Picayune) - Eunice, LA, May 13 -- Harry Guillard, 38 years old, machinist employed at Lake Charles, shot and killed his wife and then killed himself in their home here today. Gillard was believed to have slain his wife, the former Rosemary Pitre, 20 years old, as she lay on a bed and then fired a single shot into his temple in their bathroom, according to the findings of a coroner's jury. A .22 caliber rifle was used. His brother, Stanley Gillard, notified Chief of Police Clinton Jeansonne of this city; Sheriff Clayton Gilbeau, Jr., and Coroner George Azaar of Opelousas, who held the inquest at Ardouins Funeral Home where the bodies had been taken, assisted by Deputy Sheriff Arthur Richard of Opelousas. The coroner's jury, composed of Thomas Boudreaux, Matthew Veillon, Jr., Marion Biham, Hillman J. Smith, and Delues Manuel, returned a verdict to the effect that Mrs. Rosemary Pitre Gillard came to her death from a gunshot wound by a .22 caliber rifle in the hands of Harry Gillard, and that Harry Gillard came to his death by a gunshot would of the head, self-inflicted with a .22 caliber rifle. No note or any other information relating to the tragedy was found, and witnesses examined at the coroner's inquest could furnish little information. Gillard, who was a machinist employed by the Firestone Company of Lake Charles, is survived by his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Laurent Gillard; two brothers, John and Stanley Gillard, and a sister, Mrs. Henry Cummings, all of Eunice. Mrs. Gillard is survived by her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Moise Pitre of Ville Platte; four brothers, Austin and George Pitre, Port Arthur, Tex., Francis Pitre of Eunice, Wilfred Pitre, Ville Platte. and three sisters. Mrs. Shelby Fontenot of St. Landry Post Office, Mona Mae and Patsy Ann Pitre, Ville Platte. Funeral arrangements had not been announced today.
Wilfred Levin Pitre: The Ville Platte Gazette (Ville Platte, LA), Thursday, 28 March 1996: Funeral services were held on Tuesday, March 26, 1996, at 2 p.m. in Sacred Heart Catholic Church here for Mr. Wilfred 'Shu' L. Pitre, 65, of Ville Platte, who died at 9:15 a.m. on March 24, in Ville Platte Medical Center following a short illness. Burial followed in the Evangeline Memorial Cemetery under the direction of Ardoin's Funeral Home of Ville Platte. Mr. Pitre was a retired shoe store owner. He was preceded in death by one son Matthew Pitre. Survivors include: his wife, Mrs. Wilfred 'Yvonne' Pitre of Ville Platte; one son, Mr. Dexter P. Pitre of Ville Platte; one daughter, Mrs. Ernest 'Angela' Theriot, Jr. of Ville Platte; one brother, Mr. Auston Pitre of Pine Prairie; one sister, Mrs. Eugene 'Patsy' Stegall of Morgan City; and two grandchildren.
Tombstone Inscription, Evangeline Memorial Park, Ville Platte: Wilfred L. Pitre / PFC US Army / Korea / Aug. 31, 1930 - Mar. 24, 1996
Back one generation to parents of Moise Pitre
Items in RED verified from transcriptions in the following:
- Diocese of Baton Rouge Catholic Church Records
- 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: 3 August 2022.