Pierre Martial Pitre

1813 Assumption, Louisiana – after 1870 Lafourche, Louisiana

 

 

Continuation of tree (5th child of Louis Constant Pitre/Marie Rose Guidry); all known surname descendants:

            6           Pierre Martial Pitre  b: 19 October 1813  Plattenville, Assumption, LA; d: Aft. 1870  Thibodaux, Lafourche, LA

                               + Adeline Francoise Guillot  b: Abt. 1814; m: 20 August 1832  St. Joseph, Thibodaux, Lafourche, LA [Pierre/Elisabeth Olive Pitre]; d: Aft. 1870  Thibodaux, Lafourche, LA

                        7           Marie Aglae Pitre  b: 19 January 1834  Thibodaux, Lafourche, LA; d: Bet. 1861-1868

                                       + Francois Louis Chabert  b: Abt. 1831; m: Abt. 1850  Thibodaux, Lafourche, LA; d: Bet. 1861-1867  [Succession of Aglae Pitre & Francois Chabert, 22 January 1868, $318; Marius Pitre appointed tutor & Justin Pitre under tutor of the minor children]

                        7           Rose Mirtee Pitre  b: 2 May 1835  Thibodaux, Lafourche, LA; d: Aft. 1850

                        7           Augustin 'Justin' Pitre  b: 24 November 1836  Plattenville, Assumption, LA; d: 15 January 1890  Cheniere Caminada, Jefferson, LA

                                       + Virginie Adele Lefort  b: 13 February 1841  Thibodeau, Lafourche, LA; m: Abt. 1861  Lafourche, LA [Alexis/Josephine Marie Menard]; d: 7 March 1922  Marrero, Jefferson, LA

                        7           Louis Wilfred Pitre  b: 18 December 1838  Plattenville, Assumption, LA; d: Aft. 1900  

                                       + Josephine Genevieve Kiff  b: Abt. 1840; m: Abt. 1859  Jefferson City, Jefferson, LA; d: Bef. 1894     

                                     *2nd Wife of Louis Wilfred Pitre:

                                       + Agathe Marilia Thibodaux  b: 12 August 1846  Thibodaux, Lafourche, LA; m: 10 October 1894  Houma, Terrebonne, LA [Benjamin/Madeleine Lambert]; d: 12 February 1904  Berwick, St. Mary, LA

                        7           male Pitre  b: Abt. 1840  Lafayette, Jefferson, LA; d: Aft. 1840

                        7           Jean Marius Pitre  b: 14 August 1842  Thibodaux, Lafourche, LA; d: Aft. January 1868  Opelousas, St. Landry, LA

                        7           Virginie Marcelline Pitre  b: 23 December 1843  Thibodaux, Lafourche, LA; d: 1914  Lafourche, LA

                                       + Felicien Zenon Lefort  b: July 1836  Barataria, Jefferson, LA; m: 2 May 1867  Lockport, Lafourche, LA [Alexis Pierre Jean/Josephine Marie Meynard]; d: 26 March 1928  Cut Off, Lafourche, LA

                        7           David Hippolite Pitre  b: 9 February 1846  Thibodaux, Lafourche, LA; d: 26 October 1910  Cut Off, Lafourche, LA

                                       + Josephine Ada Marie Pitre  b: 23 February 1854  Thibodaux, Lafourche, LA; m: Abt. 1869  Lafourche, LA [Joseph Livaudais/Marie Julienne Lefort]; d: 16 October 1919  Cut Off, Lafourche, LA

                        7           Richard Martial Pitre  b: Abt. 1848  Barataria, Jefferson, LA; d: 1889  Cheniere Caminada, Jefferson, LA

                                       + Augustine Adrienne Pitre  b: 28 December 1856  Raceland, Lafourche, LA; m: Abt. 1873  Lafourche, LA [Joseph Livaudais/Marie Julienne Lefort]; d: 20 September 1933  Cut Off, Lafourche, LA

                        7           Joseph Boniface Pitre  b: 5 June 1850  Thibodaux, Lafourche, LA; d: Aft. 1900 

                                       + Anne Marie Foster  b: Abt. 1850; m: Abt. 1870  Lafourche, LA; d: Bef. 1900

                        7           Marie Veronique Pitre  b: 31 September 1852  Thibodaux, Lafourche, LA; d: 11 September 1934  Cut Off, Lafourche, LA

                                       + Antoine Angelette  b: Abt. 1851; m: Abt. 1872; d: Bef. 1930

 

 

Notes for Pierre Martial Pitre:

Census

- 1840 Lafayette, Jefferson, Louisiana:  Pierre Martial Peter 27, wife Francoise 26, Aglae 7, Mirtee 5, Augustin 4, Wilfrid 2, male infant.

- 1850 Barataria, Jefferson, LA:  Martial Pitre 37 (laborer), wife Fanny 37, Mirthe 15, Augustin 14, Wilfride 11, Marius 9, Marcelline 7, David 5, Richard 2, Joseph 3 months.

- 1860

- 1870 Thibodaux, Lafourche, LA:  Marcel Peter 65 (farm laborer), wife Fanny 55, Victr 16 (farm laborer), Varoncie 14, grandson Louis Shabert 12

 

Obituaries for the children:

Augustin 'Justin' Pitre:  Cheniere Caminada (LA), 19 January 1890:  Mr. Editor:  Cheniere Caminada has just had the sorrow of losing one of its best citizens.  Mr. Augustin Pitre has just died at the age of -- years.  Married to a Miss Lefort, he was the father of many children.  Tireless worker and good father, he died leaving his widow and children a secure future.  It was in his fishing work that he contracted the illness which was to lead him to the grave.  Until his death he retained his awareness; he called upon all those with whom he had difficulties, and after securing their friendship and the forgetting of the past, he died surrounded by his family and friends.  Mr. Augustin Pitre died on January 15th, at 9 o'clock in the morning.  The next morning a large gathering came to his home to accompany him to the grave.  A grand sung mass, and a Requiem were sung at the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes by the Reverend Father Grimualt, the local parish priest.  After the mass, Reverend Father Grimault delivered a very moving speech about death and enumerated the qualities of the deceased.  At his grave, while throwing a little soil, Dr. Frederic said these simple words: "May we one day, friend, be like you, dying the death of the Just and Regretted."

Tombstone inscription, Cheniere Caminada Cemetery, Jefferson Parish, LA:  (The cemetery is below the Leeville Bridge, which is in Jefferson Parish; recognized as an historic site by the town of Grand Isle on 8 August 1978.) - (metal cross screwed to a concrete slab atop a grave of reddish bricks)  Augustin Pitre / died 1886 age 47   (possible that the metal cross was inscribed and attached at a later date)

 

David Hippolite Pitre:  Tombstone Inscription, Sacred Heart Cemetery, Cut Off, LA:  David Pitre / decedee le 26 Oct 1910 / a l'age de 67 ans / Josephine Pitre / decedee le 16 Oct 1919 / a l'age de 68 ans

 

Richard Martial Pitre:  Tombstone Inscription, Cheniere Caminada Cemetery, Cheniere Caminada, LA:  Died 1889 / Richard Pitre

 

 

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Items in RED verified from transcriptions in the following:

- Diocese of Baton Rouge Catholic Church Records

- South Louisiana Records: Church and Civil Records of Lafourche-Terrebonne Parishes

 

Last updated:  18 June 2025.