Barthelemi "Bartholomew" DéJean
and
Felicite Madeleine Boisdore
Widowed husband of:
Therese Carmelite (Verret) DéJean
They were married February 16, 1818.
Husband of:
Euphrosine (Close) DéJean
They were married August 9, 1838.
Death Notice:
Deadly Tornado
Strikes DEJEANS Plantation
Tragic News from St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
The Richmond Whig & Public Advertiser
Richmond, Virginia
Published April 21, 1863
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TERRIBLE CATASTROPHE -- On Tuesday last at about 12 o'clock, m, a tornado passed Barry's landing, breaking and throwing down the house of Mr. Honoré Dejean, his large warehouse and some negro cabins. From under the ruins of Mr. Dejeans house were extricated the dead bodies of his wife and son, Emile Dejean, a promising young man of nineteen or twenty, with two or three others. Mr. Honoré Dejean himself has one leg broken and the other badly injured.
Opelousas (La.) Courier.
David C. Edmund:
YANKEE AUTUMN IN ACADIANA
The Acadiana Press, Lafayette, LA,
Published 1979, p.215
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--"The first disaster occurred on February 28, 1863 A powerful tornado swept through the landscape, taking houses, warehouses, stores and Lives including Honore Dejean, his wife Carmelite (née Verret) [This is an error--it should read Euphrosine (née Close)], his son Emile, daughter, Matilde, the warehouse keeper, Eugene Riquet, and a neighbor, Mrs. Telesphore Zeringue". -- citing dispositions to the French and American Claims Commission in Dominique Lalanne against the United States, No. 134 Archives; also E. C. Drouet (Estate of Louis Eugene Riquet) against the United States, No. 617, National Archives; and US Court of Claims (Southern Claims Commission), Jules A. DeJean (Admin. of Honore DeJean) vs. the United States, no. 19026, National Archives.
[NOTE: This source raises the question of Which Wife died in the tornado. Birth and Burial Records plus family information, including statements by witnesses to the storm, show that Euphrosine Close was Honore's second wife and was killed, along with some of their children, when the tornado struck].
[NOTE: Mrs. Telesphore Zeringue was Genevieve (Close) Zeringue, wife of Daniel Telepshore Zeringue. She was a sister of Euphrosine (Close) DéJean. Genevieve (Close) Zeringue died March 2, 1863].
Barthelemi "Bartholomew" DéJean
and
Felicite Madeleine Boisdore
Widowed husband of:
Therese Carmelite (Verret) DéJean
They were married February 16, 1818.
Husband of:
Euphrosine (Close) DéJean
They were married August 9, 1838.
Death Notice:
Deadly Tornado
Strikes DEJEANS Plantation
Tragic News from St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
The Richmond Whig & Public Advertiser
Richmond, Virginia
Published April 21, 1863
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TERRIBLE CATASTROPHE -- On Tuesday last at about 12 o'clock, m, a tornado passed Barry's landing, breaking and throwing down the house of Mr. Honoré Dejean, his large warehouse and some negro cabins. From under the ruins of Mr. Dejeans house were extricated the dead bodies of his wife and son, Emile Dejean, a promising young man of nineteen or twenty, with two or three others. Mr. Honoré Dejean himself has one leg broken and the other badly injured.
Opelousas (La.) Courier.
David C. Edmund:
YANKEE AUTUMN IN ACADIANA
The Acadiana Press, Lafayette, LA,
Published 1979, p.215
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--"The first disaster occurred on February 28, 1863 A powerful tornado swept through the landscape, taking houses, warehouses, stores and Lives including Honore Dejean, his wife Carmelite (née Verret) [This is an error--it should read Euphrosine (née Close)], his son Emile, daughter, Matilde, the warehouse keeper, Eugene Riquet, and a neighbor, Mrs. Telesphore Zeringue". -- citing dispositions to the French and American Claims Commission in Dominique Lalanne against the United States, No. 134 Archives; also E. C. Drouet (Estate of Louis Eugene Riquet) against the United States, No. 617, National Archives; and US Court of Claims (Southern Claims Commission), Jules A. DeJean (Admin. of Honore DeJean) vs. the United States, no. 19026, National Archives.
[NOTE: This source raises the question of Which Wife died in the tornado. Birth and Burial Records plus family information, including statements by witnesses to the storm, show that Euphrosine Close was Honore's second wife and was killed, along with some of their children, when the tornado struck].
[NOTE: Mrs. Telesphore Zeringue was Genevieve (Close) Zeringue, wife of Daniel Telepshore Zeringue. She was a sister of Euphrosine (Close) DéJean. Genevieve (Close) Zeringue died March 2, 1863].
Family Members
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Gustave Honore Dejean
1820–1849
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Adelaide Odile Dejean Bercier
1826–1853
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Octave DéJean
1831–1863
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Anais DéJean Fournet
1833–1867
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Jules Augustin DéJean
1839–1879
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Emile Déjean
1842–1863
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Felicianne Dejean Roy
1842–1928
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Mathilde Déjean
1846–1863
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Edward Dejean
1855–1914
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Louis Alphonse DéJean
1858–1860
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Azema Dejean Moore
unknown–1843
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