Continuation of tree (1st child of Pierre Pitre/Celeste Symphorose Vige); all known surname descendants:
7 Pierre Pitre b: 13 November 1814 Opelousas, St. Landry, LA; d: 30 September 1876 Opelousas, St. Landry, LA
+ Emelie Eugenie Ledoux b: Abt. 25 October 1815 Opelousas, St. Landry, LA; m: 22 December 1834 Opelousas, St. Landry, LA [Louis Eugene/Silesie Marie Louise Pitre]; d: 6 November 1868 Opelousas, St. Landry, LA
8 'Nolle' Pierre Pitre b: 31 January 1837 Opelousas, St. Landry, LA; d: 1 March 1890 Plaisance, St. Landry, LA
+ Estelle Pitre b: 7 March 1843 Opelousas, St. Landry, LA; m: 14 June 1860 Opelousas, St. Landry, LA [Onesime/Genevieve Lambert]; d: 25 February 1885 Opelousas, St. Landry, LA
8 Amelia Pitre b: 29 June 1838 Opelousas, St. Landry, LA; d: 5 May 1866 Opelousas, St. Landry, LA
+ Felix Veilland Chachere b: 14 February 1832 Opelousas, St. Landry, LA; m: 14 February 1855 Opelousas, St. Landry, LA [Felix Veilland/Marie Eloise Lavergne]; d: 12 August 1862 Bellevue, St. Landry, LA
8 Elodie Marie Pitre b: 28 September 1842 Opelousas, St. Landry, LA; d: 7 April 1873 Bellevue, St. Landry, LA
+ Joseph Chachere b: 16 January 1834 Opelousas, St. Landry, LA; m: 18 September 1861 Opelousas, St. Landry, LA [Felix Veilland/Marie Eloise Lavergne]; d: 6 January 1896 West Bellevue, St. Landry, LA
8 Marie Louise Pitre b: 7 August 1844 Opelousas, St. Landry, LA; d: Aft. 1850 Opelousas, St. Landry, LA
8 Leon Pitre b: Abt. 1846 Opelousas, St. Landry, LA; d: Aft. 1850 Opelousas, St. Landry, LA
Notes for Pierre Pitre:
Pierre Pitre was one of numerous great-grandchildren of Francois Pitre, the progenitor of the St. Landry branches of the Louisiana Pitres. He was born in 1814 as the eldest of 5 boys and 3 girls. Shortly after his 20th birthday he married Emelie Eugenie Ledoux. He was listed in the 1840 St. Landry census with his wife, 2 small children, and a slave (probably a teenage boy). By the 1850 census he was listed as a planter, with real estate worth $2000 and a family extending to 5 children. By the 1860 census he now had property worth $4000, and a personal estate of $15,000. His daughter Amelia has married Felix Veilland Chachere and son Nolle Pierre has married his 2nd cousin Estelle Pitre. Nolle has a personal estate worth $300. Daughter Elodie was still with the family but would marry Joseph Chachere (brother to Felix) a year later. If son Leon and daughter Marie Louise survived past the 1850 census I have no record of them.
There are many Pitre families missing from the 1870 census, and Pierre and son Nolle are two I cannot locate. Pierre's wife died in 1868, and he died in 1876 at the age of 61. Both of his married daughters preceded him, Amelia in 1866 about 2 months shy of her 28th birthday and Elodie in 1873 at the age of 30.
Census
- 1840 Opelousas, St. Landry, Louisiana: Pierre Pitre
fils 25, wife Emelie Eugenie Ledoux 24, Noel 3, Amelia 2; 1 male slave (10-24).
- 1850 St. Landry, LA: Pierre Pitre 36 (planter) [$2000 real estate], wife
Melene 32, Noll 15, Emelia 13, Eulodie 10, Louise 7, Leon 5.
- 1860 St. Landry, LA: Pierre Pitre 45 (planter) [$4000 real
estate/$15,000 personal], wife Emelie Ledoux 42, Elodie 18, Nolle Pitre 23
(manager) [$300 personal] & wife Estelle 17.
- 1870
Obituaries for the children:
'Nolle' Pierre Pitre: Opelousas Courier (Opelousas, LA), 8 March 1890: Died – At his residence, in Plaisance, March 2, 1890, Nolle Pierre Pitre, aged 52 years, a month and 2 days. Mr. Pitre was one of our best citizens. He was a worthy scion of an old Creole family whose ancestors were cruelly driven away from Canada by the English, and illustrated in his well-spent life many of the sterling virtues which distinguished these hardy pioneers who settled here when Louisiana was yet a wilderness. We extend our sincere condolence to his bereaved family.
Tombstone inscription: St. Landry Church Cemetery, Opelousas, LA: Nolle Pierre Pitre / Co B / 8 LA CAV / C S A / Jan 31 1837 / Mar 1 1890 / wife / Estelle Pitre / Mar. 7, 1843 / Feb. 25, 1885
Elodie Marie Pitre: The Opelousas Journal (Opelousas, LA), Saturday, 12 April 1873: Died: Chachere - On the 6th inst., Elodie Pitre, wife of Joseph Chachere, aged 30 years, 6 months and 16 days.
- SWLR, v. 3: Elodie Pitre m. Joseph Chachur d. 7 April 1873 at age 30 yrs. & 6 mths. (Opel. Ch.: v. 2, p. 295); Elodie Pitre m. Joseph Chachere Succ. dated 17 Nov. 1873 (Opel. Ct. Hse.: Succ. #3688)
- Opelousas Courier (LA), 2 December 1882: Sale of the estate of Elodie Pitre – Joseph Chachere, natural tutor: 40 acres of prairie land in Bellevue (St. Landry parish), 21 arpents of woodland on Plaquemine Point, 25 arpents of woodland at Prairie Ronde; 20 head of gentle horned cattle, 1 ox wagon, 15 head of wild horses
Back one generation to parents of Pierre 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: 14 December 2022.