Memorial Updated 22 Dec 2023 ~ Deadra Doucet Bourke
Ovide Lejeune, Son of Joseph Lejeune & Augustine Lemoine. Husband of 1st, Marguerite Cleontine Decuir. They married 12 May 1842, Civil Marriage, Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana. No issue of this union. Husband 2nd of, Laura Archer Turpin. They married 14 Jun 1859, in Jefferson County, Mississippi. Father of; Augustine Lemoine Lejeune & Lt. Gen. John Archer Lejeune.
NOTE: Captain - Confederate Army - Scott's 1st Louisiana Cavalry
NOTE: Ovide Lejeune's 1st spouse Marguerite Cleontine Decuir, married in a 2nd union with Arthur "Abraham" Levy and had issue. Ovide Lejeune was involved with a property dispute and lawsuit that went to the Louisiana Supreme Court in Aug 1860. It has to do with how he acquired his 1st spouses dotal property, when settling her large inheritance.
NOTE: Ovide Lejeune marriage contract with Marguerite C. Decuir; Pointe Coupee Parish Court House, New Roads Louisiana. #2890 Book 1842, Vol. I Contract of Marriage, 12 Mar 1842 - Ovide Lejeune, son of Joseph LeJeune and Augustine Lamoisse [sp] and Marguerite Ducire [sp], minor daughter of Jean Baptiste Ducire and Dame Madeline LaCour. *See copy of marriage index 1771-1846.
NOTE: Pointe Coupee Parish Court House, Probate 9th District Court, Folder 1845-1861) #124 Marguerite LeCour Decuir & #534 Jean Baptiste Decuir, Red Folder #12 - Decuir, Jean Baptiste - 22 May 1850 (Excerpt) To the Honorable, the Judge of the 9th Judicial District Court, in and for the parish of Pointe Coupee, State of Louisiana, The petition of Marguerite Decuir, wife of Ovide Lejeune, authorized by these present by her said husband and of Ovide Lejeune both residing in this parish of Pointe Coupee, state aforesaid, respectfully represents, that Jean Baptiste Decuir late of this parish of Pointe Coupee died in this parish in the year 1849, that Marguerite Decuir wife of Ovide Lejeune is the only heir and child of said Decuir and ____ LaCour her mother also deceased, that she has no children from her union with with said LeJeune.
She further represents this is the contract of marriage between her and LeJeune The instituted or dowery all the property which she may acquire during her marriage but said dowery can not be established only after the debts due by the succession of her father be paid. *See page from probate.
NOTE: Ovide's father Joseph died 1823. His mother Augustine Lemoine married in a 2nd union with Octave Lejeune on 6 Jan 1824. Diocese of Baton Rouge, Church Records; v. 4 (1820-1829) p. 372 - LEMOINE, Augustine, wid. of Joseph Lejeune (Denys and Magdeleine GAUTIER, both decd.) m. 6 Jan 1824, dispensation granted, 2nd degree, Octave LEJEUNE (Michel and Emilie LABRE) wit: Auguste Brunet; Severin Porche; Evariste Porche; Marcelin Porche (PCP-19, 197)
NOTE: Newspaper Articles In a Three Part Series Titled The Autobiography of Major-General John Archer Lejeune - Retired Commander of the U. S. Marines and Past Superintendent of V. M. I. Ongoing series March 1939 The following excerpts from part one of the memoirs penned by John A. Lejeune, shown here to establish his paternal grandparents.
"My father was Ovide Lejeune of Pointe Coupee parish, Louisiana and my mother was Laura Archer Turpin, a native of Jefferson county, Mississippi, where her father and mother and several members of their families had transferred their lares and penates [household goods] from Maryland to Natchez to the country side in that vicinity. My mother's parents were Joseph Turpin and Laura Archer."
"My father was of pure French descent, the names of his parents being Joseph Lejeune and Augustine Lemoine. He was born on August 31, 1820, in the lower part of the parish of Pointe Coupee in the False River district.
"The maiden name of my father's mother was Augustine Lemoine. Before her marriage she did not live in Pointe Coupee but lived in another French settlement in Louisiana. Both his father and mother died when my father was a little child. He remembered his mother well but did not remember his father, owning to his death when my father was only three years old (ca. 1823)."
"My father was seven years old when his mother died (ca. 1827) and after two or three years had elapsed, he was sent by his guardian to the Jesuit school at Cape Girardeau, Mo. Where he remained in charge of the Catholic sisters and the teachers until he was about 16 or 17 years old before he returned to Pointe Coupee on vacation. Having lived an unrestricted life for the first time, he did not return to Cape Girardeau but went to boarding school in Baton Rouge, and after a short stay there, he attended a business college in New Orleans. When he finished the course, he obtained a position with a commission merchant and remained in New Orleans for several years."
"He returned to Pointe Coupee and became a very successful sugar planter in the section known as Raccourci."
NOTE: St. Louis University, Missouri - Catalog of officers and students, 1834-1835, Ovide Lejeune, Pointe Coupee, La. *See Catalog listing.
NOTE: Old Hickory Plantation was owned by Ovide Lejeune in the 1860's. It was at Old Hickory Plantation where his children Augustine Lemoine Lejeune & John Archer Lejeune, were born. In 1879 Ovide Lejeune went bankrupt due to the lawsuit that stemmed from his first marriage to Marguerite Cleontine Decuir, whose mother was a Lacour. Old Hickory Plantation was sold and eventually ended up back in the hands of the Lacour family. From the National Park Service - National Register of Historical Places - (Excerpt referring to Old Hickory) "By 1860, sugar was the major cash crop. That year, the plantation produced 1000 hogsheads of sugar and 28,000 gallons of molasses. At that time the planation was owned by Ovide Lejeune, who had increased the number of slaves to 77, placing Old Hickory among the larger slaveholding plantations in the state. But after the war the planation did not prosper, and in 1879 Ovide Lejeune lost the plantation because he was sued for an old debt which had been held against the property since 1850. It took nearly ten years to settle the suit.
The major portion of Old Hickory, that part on which the house stood, was sold at public auction in the summer of 1888. * See photograph of the restored "Old Hickory Plantation House."
Obituary Pointe Coupee Banner, Dec. 21: Died, at his residence in this parish, on the morning of the 16th inst., Captain Ovide LeJeune in the 70th year of his life, of pneumonia after an illness of several days. If a skilled physicians and tender nursing could have saved him this obituary would not be written. He was a native of this parish, educated at Centenary College, and obtained a knowledge of commercial matters in the large importing house of Barriere & Co., and afterwards became a large and successful sugar planter. When the war broke out he became captain of the Pointe Coupee Cavalry Company and joined Scott's Regiment, which became distinguished for its gallantry. Like most of our planters, captain Lejeune lost his property by the war. At the time of his death he was the commissioner of the Poydras funds, which he administrated so honestly and wisely that it will go far to educate our children. Captain Lejeune leaves a wife, son and daughter to mourn his loss. His son was a graduate of the Naval Academy at Annapolis, and is now a promising young officer of the United States Navy. Captain Lejeune was a true friend, a good citizen, a kind husband and a devoted father. In his death this parish loses one of its best citizens. Peace to his ashes, honor to his memory.
The Lineage: The ancestry of Joseph LEJEUNE, husband of Augustine LEMOINE is not yet proven, but suspected.
Claude Lejeune, of Salzburg Austria/Catherine Colson
Michel Lejeune/Madeleine Hennette(Swiss), both died in Pointe Coupee Parish.
Michel Lejeune/Catherine Barras
Joseph Lejeune/Louise Gosserand
Joseph Lejeune/Augustine Lemoine
Ovide Lejeune/Marguerite Cleontine Decuir & Laura Archer Turner
Full Sequence MtDNA Haplogroup C4c1 Haplogroup Assignment From The Acadian AmerIndian Ancestry DNA Project @ FTDNA. ~ Deadra Doucet Bourke *** C4c1 is a Native Haplogroup that this matrilineal path traces ancestry back to Marie "Ouacanteous" Rouensa, daughter of Chief Francois-Xavier Mamenthouensa Rouensa, of the Illiniwek Tribe in the Illinois Territory. The haplogroup was part of the Acadian Amerindian Ancestry Project's discovery, with 3 agreeing results.
*** Conferred with Pointe Coupee Historian & Genealogist, Brian J. Costello
Ovide Lejeune, Son of Joseph Lejeune & Augustine Lemoine. Husband of 1st, Marguerite Cleontine Decuir. They married 12 May 1842, Civil Marriage, Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana. No issue of this union. Husband 2nd of, Laura Archer Turpin. They married 14 Jun 1859, in Jefferson County, Mississippi. Father of; Augustine Lemoine Lejeune & Lt. Gen. John Archer Lejeune.
NOTE: Captain - Confederate Army - Scott's 1st Louisiana Cavalry
NOTE: Ovide Lejeune's 1st spouse Marguerite Cleontine Decuir, married in a 2nd union with Arthur "Abraham" Levy and had issue. Ovide Lejeune was involved with a property dispute and lawsuit that went to the Louisiana Supreme Court in Aug 1860. It has to do with how he acquired his 1st spouses dotal property, when settling her large inheritance.
NOTE: Ovide Lejeune marriage contract with Marguerite C. Decuir; Pointe Coupee Parish Court House, New Roads Louisiana. #2890 Book 1842, Vol. I Contract of Marriage, 12 Mar 1842 - Ovide Lejeune, son of Joseph LeJeune and Augustine Lamoisse [sp] and Marguerite Ducire [sp], minor daughter of Jean Baptiste Ducire and Dame Madeline LaCour. *See copy of marriage index 1771-1846.
NOTE: Pointe Coupee Parish Court House, Probate 9th District Court, Folder 1845-1861) #124 Marguerite LeCour Decuir & #534 Jean Baptiste Decuir, Red Folder #12 - Decuir, Jean Baptiste - 22 May 1850 (Excerpt) To the Honorable, the Judge of the 9th Judicial District Court, in and for the parish of Pointe Coupee, State of Louisiana, The petition of Marguerite Decuir, wife of Ovide Lejeune, authorized by these present by her said husband and of Ovide Lejeune both residing in this parish of Pointe Coupee, state aforesaid, respectfully represents, that Jean Baptiste Decuir late of this parish of Pointe Coupee died in this parish in the year 1849, that Marguerite Decuir wife of Ovide Lejeune is the only heir and child of said Decuir and ____ LaCour her mother also deceased, that she has no children from her union with with said LeJeune.
She further represents this is the contract of marriage between her and LeJeune The instituted or dowery all the property which she may acquire during her marriage but said dowery can not be established only after the debts due by the succession of her father be paid. *See page from probate.
NOTE: Ovide's father Joseph died 1823. His mother Augustine Lemoine married in a 2nd union with Octave Lejeune on 6 Jan 1824. Diocese of Baton Rouge, Church Records; v. 4 (1820-1829) p. 372 - LEMOINE, Augustine, wid. of Joseph Lejeune (Denys and Magdeleine GAUTIER, both decd.) m. 6 Jan 1824, dispensation granted, 2nd degree, Octave LEJEUNE (Michel and Emilie LABRE) wit: Auguste Brunet; Severin Porche; Evariste Porche; Marcelin Porche (PCP-19, 197)
NOTE: Newspaper Articles In a Three Part Series Titled The Autobiography of Major-General John Archer Lejeune - Retired Commander of the U. S. Marines and Past Superintendent of V. M. I. Ongoing series March 1939 The following excerpts from part one of the memoirs penned by John A. Lejeune, shown here to establish his paternal grandparents.
"My father was Ovide Lejeune of Pointe Coupee parish, Louisiana and my mother was Laura Archer Turpin, a native of Jefferson county, Mississippi, where her father and mother and several members of their families had transferred their lares and penates [household goods] from Maryland to Natchez to the country side in that vicinity. My mother's parents were Joseph Turpin and Laura Archer."
"My father was of pure French descent, the names of his parents being Joseph Lejeune and Augustine Lemoine. He was born on August 31, 1820, in the lower part of the parish of Pointe Coupee in the False River district.
"The maiden name of my father's mother was Augustine Lemoine. Before her marriage she did not live in Pointe Coupee but lived in another French settlement in Louisiana. Both his father and mother died when my father was a little child. He remembered his mother well but did not remember his father, owning to his death when my father was only three years old (ca. 1823)."
"My father was seven years old when his mother died (ca. 1827) and after two or three years had elapsed, he was sent by his guardian to the Jesuit school at Cape Girardeau, Mo. Where he remained in charge of the Catholic sisters and the teachers until he was about 16 or 17 years old before he returned to Pointe Coupee on vacation. Having lived an unrestricted life for the first time, he did not return to Cape Girardeau but went to boarding school in Baton Rouge, and after a short stay there, he attended a business college in New Orleans. When he finished the course, he obtained a position with a commission merchant and remained in New Orleans for several years."
"He returned to Pointe Coupee and became a very successful sugar planter in the section known as Raccourci."
NOTE: St. Louis University, Missouri - Catalog of officers and students, 1834-1835, Ovide Lejeune, Pointe Coupee, La. *See Catalog listing.
NOTE: Old Hickory Plantation was owned by Ovide Lejeune in the 1860's. It was at Old Hickory Plantation where his children Augustine Lemoine Lejeune & John Archer Lejeune, were born. In 1879 Ovide Lejeune went bankrupt due to the lawsuit that stemmed from his first marriage to Marguerite Cleontine Decuir, whose mother was a Lacour. Old Hickory Plantation was sold and eventually ended up back in the hands of the Lacour family. From the National Park Service - National Register of Historical Places - (Excerpt referring to Old Hickory) "By 1860, sugar was the major cash crop. That year, the plantation produced 1000 hogsheads of sugar and 28,000 gallons of molasses. At that time the planation was owned by Ovide Lejeune, who had increased the number of slaves to 77, placing Old Hickory among the larger slaveholding plantations in the state. But after the war the planation did not prosper, and in 1879 Ovide Lejeune lost the plantation because he was sued for an old debt which had been held against the property since 1850. It took nearly ten years to settle the suit.
The major portion of Old Hickory, that part on which the house stood, was sold at public auction in the summer of 1888. * See photograph of the restored "Old Hickory Plantation House."
Obituary Pointe Coupee Banner, Dec. 21: Died, at his residence in this parish, on the morning of the 16th inst., Captain Ovide LeJeune in the 70th year of his life, of pneumonia after an illness of several days. If a skilled physicians and tender nursing could have saved him this obituary would not be written. He was a native of this parish, educated at Centenary College, and obtained a knowledge of commercial matters in the large importing house of Barriere & Co., and afterwards became a large and successful sugar planter. When the war broke out he became captain of the Pointe Coupee Cavalry Company and joined Scott's Regiment, which became distinguished for its gallantry. Like most of our planters, captain Lejeune lost his property by the war. At the time of his death he was the commissioner of the Poydras funds, which he administrated so honestly and wisely that it will go far to educate our children. Captain Lejeune leaves a wife, son and daughter to mourn his loss. His son was a graduate of the Naval Academy at Annapolis, and is now a promising young officer of the United States Navy. Captain Lejeune was a true friend, a good citizen, a kind husband and a devoted father. In his death this parish loses one of its best citizens. Peace to his ashes, honor to his memory.
The Lineage: The ancestry of Joseph LEJEUNE, husband of Augustine LEMOINE is not yet proven, but suspected.
Claude Lejeune, of Salzburg Austria/Catherine Colson
Michel Lejeune/Madeleine Hennette(Swiss), both died in Pointe Coupee Parish.
Michel Lejeune/Catherine Barras
Joseph Lejeune/Louise Gosserand
Joseph Lejeune/Augustine Lemoine
Ovide Lejeune/Marguerite Cleontine Decuir & Laura Archer Turner
Full Sequence MtDNA Haplogroup C4c1 Haplogroup Assignment From The Acadian AmerIndian Ancestry DNA Project @ FTDNA. ~ Deadra Doucet Bourke *** C4c1 is a Native Haplogroup that this matrilineal path traces ancestry back to Marie "Ouacanteous" Rouensa, daughter of Chief Francois-Xavier Mamenthouensa Rouensa, of the Illiniwek Tribe in the Illinois Territory. The haplogroup was part of the Acadian Amerindian Ancestry Project's discovery, with 3 agreeing results.
*** Conferred with Pointe Coupee Historian & Genealogist, Brian J. Costello
Memorial Updated 22 Dec 2023 ~ Deadra Doucet Bourke
Ovide Lejeune, Son of Joseph Lejeune & Augustine Lemoine. Husband of 1st, Marguerite Cleontine Decuir. They married 12 May 1842, Civil Marriage, Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana. No issue of this union. Husband 2nd of, Laura Archer Turpin. They married 14 Jun 1859, in Jefferson County, Mississippi. Father of; Augustine Lemoine Lejeune & Lt. Gen. John Archer Lejeune.
NOTE: Captain - Confederate Army - Scott's 1st Louisiana Cavalry
NOTE: Ovide Lejeune's 1st spouse Marguerite Cleontine Decuir, married in a 2nd union with Arthur "Abraham" Levy and had issue. Ovide Lejeune was involved with a property dispute and lawsuit that went to the Louisiana Supreme Court in Aug 1860. It has to do with how he acquired his 1st spouses dotal property, when settling her large inheritance.
NOTE: Ovide Lejeune marriage contract with Marguerite C. Decuir; Pointe Coupee Parish Court House, New Roads Louisiana. #2890 Book 1842, Vol. I Contract of Marriage, 12 Mar 1842 - Ovide Lejeune, son of Joseph LeJeune and Augustine Lamoisse [sp] and Marguerite Ducire [sp], minor daughter of Jean Baptiste Ducire and Dame Madeline LaCour. *See copy of marriage index 1771-1846.
NOTE: Pointe Coupee Parish Court House, Probate 9th District Court, Folder 1845-1861) #124 Marguerite LeCour Decuir & #534 Jean Baptiste Decuir, Red Folder #12 - Decuir, Jean Baptiste - 22 May 1850 (Excerpt) To the Honorable, the Judge of the 9th Judicial District Court, in and for the parish of Pointe Coupee, State of Louisiana, The petition of Marguerite Decuir, wife of Ovide Lejeune, authorized by these present by her said husband and of Ovide Lejeune both residing in this parish of Pointe Coupee, state aforesaid, respectfully represents, that Jean Baptiste Decuir late of this parish of Pointe Coupee died in this parish in the year 1849, that Marguerite Decuir wife of Ovide Lejeune is the only heir and child of said Decuir and ____ LaCour her mother also deceased, that she has no children from her union with with said LeJeune.
She further represents this is the contract of marriage between her and LeJeune The instituted or dowery all the property which she may acquire during her marriage but said dowery can not be established only after the debts due by the succession of her father be paid. *See page from probate.
NOTE: Ovide's father Joseph died 1823. His mother Augustine Lemoine married in a 2nd union with Octave Lejeune on 6 Jan 1824. Diocese of Baton Rouge, Church Records; v. 4 (1820-1829) p. 372 - LEMOINE, Augustine, wid. of Joseph Lejeune (Denys and Magdeleine GAUTIER, both decd.) m. 6 Jan 1824, dispensation granted, 2nd degree, Octave LEJEUNE (Michel and Emilie LABRE) wit: Auguste Brunet; Severin Porche; Evariste Porche; Marcelin Porche (PCP-19, 197)
NOTE: Newspaper Articles In a Three Part Series Titled The Autobiography of Major-General John Archer Lejeune - Retired Commander of the U. S. Marines and Past Superintendent of V. M. I. Ongoing series March 1939 The following excerpts from part one of the memoirs penned by John A. Lejeune, shown here to establish his paternal grandparents.
"My father was Ovide Lejeune of Pointe Coupee parish, Louisiana and my mother was Laura Archer Turpin, a native of Jefferson county, Mississippi, where her father and mother and several members of their families had transferred their lares and penates [household goods] from Maryland to Natchez to the country side in that vicinity. My mother's parents were Joseph Turpin and Laura Archer."
"My father was of pure French descent, the names of his parents being Joseph Lejeune and Augustine Lemoine. He was born on August 31, 1820, in the lower part of the parish of Pointe Coupee in the False River district.
"The maiden name of my father's mother was Augustine Lemoine. Before her marriage she did not live in Pointe Coupee but lived in another French settlement in Louisiana. Both his father and mother died when my father was a little child. He remembered his mother well but did not remember his father, owning to his death when my father was only three years old (ca. 1823)."
"My father was seven years old when his mother died (ca. 1827) and after two or three years had elapsed, he was sent by his guardian to the Jesuit school at Cape Girardeau, Mo. Where he remained in charge of the Catholic sisters and the teachers until he was about 16 or 17 years old before he returned to Pointe Coupee on vacation. Having lived an unrestricted life for the first time, he did not return to Cape Girardeau but went to boarding school in Baton Rouge, and after a short stay there, he attended a business college in New Orleans. When he finished the course, he obtained a position with a commission merchant and remained in New Orleans for several years."
"He returned to Pointe Coupee and became a very successful sugar planter in the section known as Raccourci."
NOTE: St. Louis University, Missouri - Catalog of officers and students, 1834-1835, Ovide Lejeune, Pointe Coupee, La. *See Catalog listing.
NOTE: Old Hickory Plantation was owned by Ovide Lejeune in the 1860's. It was at Old Hickory Plantation where his children Augustine Lemoine Lejeune & John Archer Lejeune, were born. In 1879 Ovide Lejeune went bankrupt due to the lawsuit that stemmed from his first marriage to Marguerite Cleontine Decuir, whose mother was a Lacour. Old Hickory Plantation was sold and eventually ended up back in the hands of the Lacour family. From the National Park Service - National Register of Historical Places - (Excerpt referring to Old Hickory) "By 1860, sugar was the major cash crop. That year, the plantation produced 1000 hogsheads of sugar and 28,000 gallons of molasses. At that time the planation was owned by Ovide Lejeune, who had increased the number of slaves to 77, placing Old Hickory among the larger slaveholding plantations in the state. But after the war the planation did not prosper, and in 1879 Ovide Lejeune lost the plantation because he was sued for an old debt which had been held against the property since 1850. It took nearly ten years to settle the suit.
The major portion of Old Hickory, that part on which the house stood, was sold at public auction in the summer of 1888. * See photograph of the restored "Old Hickory Plantation House."
Obituary Pointe Coupee Banner, Dec. 21: Died, at his residence in this parish, on the morning of the 16th inst., Captain Ovide LeJeune in the 70th year of his life, of pneumonia after an illness of several days. If a skilled physicians and tender nursing could have saved him this obituary would not be written. He was a native of this parish, educated at Centenary College, and obtained a knowledge of commercial matters in the large importing house of Barriere & Co., and afterwards became a large and successful sugar planter. When the war broke out he became captain of the Pointe Coupee Cavalry Company and joined Scott's Regiment, which became distinguished for its gallantry. Like most of our planters, captain Lejeune lost his property by the war. At the time of his death he was the commissioner of the Poydras funds, which he administrated so honestly and wisely that it will go far to educate our children. Captain Lejeune leaves a wife, son and daughter to mourn his loss. His son was a graduate of the Naval Academy at Annapolis, and is now a promising young officer of the United States Navy. Captain Lejeune was a true friend, a good citizen, a kind husband and a devoted father. In his death this parish loses one of its best citizens. Peace to his ashes, honor to his memory.
The Lineage: The ancestry of Joseph LEJEUNE, husband of Augustine LEMOINE is not yet proven, but suspected.
Claude Lejeune, of Salzburg Austria/Catherine Colson
Michel Lejeune/Madeleine Hennette(Swiss), both died in Pointe Coupee Parish.
Michel Lejeune/Catherine Barras
Joseph Lejeune/Louise Gosserand
Joseph Lejeune/Augustine Lemoine
Ovide Lejeune/Marguerite Cleontine Decuir & Laura Archer Turner
Full Sequence MtDNA Haplogroup C4c1 Haplogroup Assignment From The Acadian AmerIndian Ancestry DNA Project @ FTDNA. ~ Deadra Doucet Bourke *** C4c1 is a Native Haplogroup that this matrilineal path traces ancestry back to Marie "Ouacanteous" Rouensa, daughter of Chief Francois-Xavier Mamenthouensa Rouensa, of the Illiniwek Tribe in the Illinois Territory. The haplogroup was part of the Acadian Amerindian Ancestry Project's discovery, with 3 agreeing results.
*** Conferred with Pointe Coupee Historian & Genealogist, Brian J. Costello
Ovide Lejeune, Son of Joseph Lejeune & Augustine Lemoine. Husband of 1st, Marguerite Cleontine Decuir. They married 12 May 1842, Civil Marriage, Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana. No issue of this union. Husband 2nd of, Laura Archer Turpin. They married 14 Jun 1859, in Jefferson County, Mississippi. Father of; Augustine Lemoine Lejeune & Lt. Gen. John Archer Lejeune.
NOTE: Captain - Confederate Army - Scott's 1st Louisiana Cavalry
NOTE: Ovide Lejeune's 1st spouse Marguerite Cleontine Decuir, married in a 2nd union with Arthur "Abraham" Levy and had issue. Ovide Lejeune was involved with a property dispute and lawsuit that went to the Louisiana Supreme Court in Aug 1860. It has to do with how he acquired his 1st spouses dotal property, when settling her large inheritance.
NOTE: Ovide Lejeune marriage contract with Marguerite C. Decuir; Pointe Coupee Parish Court House, New Roads Louisiana. #2890 Book 1842, Vol. I Contract of Marriage, 12 Mar 1842 - Ovide Lejeune, son of Joseph LeJeune and Augustine Lamoisse [sp] and Marguerite Ducire [sp], minor daughter of Jean Baptiste Ducire and Dame Madeline LaCour. *See copy of marriage index 1771-1846.
NOTE: Pointe Coupee Parish Court House, Probate 9th District Court, Folder 1845-1861) #124 Marguerite LeCour Decuir & #534 Jean Baptiste Decuir, Red Folder #12 - Decuir, Jean Baptiste - 22 May 1850 (Excerpt) To the Honorable, the Judge of the 9th Judicial District Court, in and for the parish of Pointe Coupee, State of Louisiana, The petition of Marguerite Decuir, wife of Ovide Lejeune, authorized by these present by her said husband and of Ovide Lejeune both residing in this parish of Pointe Coupee, state aforesaid, respectfully represents, that Jean Baptiste Decuir late of this parish of Pointe Coupee died in this parish in the year 1849, that Marguerite Decuir wife of Ovide Lejeune is the only heir and child of said Decuir and ____ LaCour her mother also deceased, that she has no children from her union with with said LeJeune.
She further represents this is the contract of marriage between her and LeJeune The instituted or dowery all the property which she may acquire during her marriage but said dowery can not be established only after the debts due by the succession of her father be paid. *See page from probate.
NOTE: Ovide's father Joseph died 1823. His mother Augustine Lemoine married in a 2nd union with Octave Lejeune on 6 Jan 1824. Diocese of Baton Rouge, Church Records; v. 4 (1820-1829) p. 372 - LEMOINE, Augustine, wid. of Joseph Lejeune (Denys and Magdeleine GAUTIER, both decd.) m. 6 Jan 1824, dispensation granted, 2nd degree, Octave LEJEUNE (Michel and Emilie LABRE) wit: Auguste Brunet; Severin Porche; Evariste Porche; Marcelin Porche (PCP-19, 197)
NOTE: Newspaper Articles In a Three Part Series Titled The Autobiography of Major-General John Archer Lejeune - Retired Commander of the U. S. Marines and Past Superintendent of V. M. I. Ongoing series March 1939 The following excerpts from part one of the memoirs penned by John A. Lejeune, shown here to establish his paternal grandparents.
"My father was Ovide Lejeune of Pointe Coupee parish, Louisiana and my mother was Laura Archer Turpin, a native of Jefferson county, Mississippi, where her father and mother and several members of their families had transferred their lares and penates [household goods] from Maryland to Natchez to the country side in that vicinity. My mother's parents were Joseph Turpin and Laura Archer."
"My father was of pure French descent, the names of his parents being Joseph Lejeune and Augustine Lemoine. He was born on August 31, 1820, in the lower part of the parish of Pointe Coupee in the False River district.
"The maiden name of my father's mother was Augustine Lemoine. Before her marriage she did not live in Pointe Coupee but lived in another French settlement in Louisiana. Both his father and mother died when my father was a little child. He remembered his mother well but did not remember his father, owning to his death when my father was only three years old (ca. 1823)."
"My father was seven years old when his mother died (ca. 1827) and after two or three years had elapsed, he was sent by his guardian to the Jesuit school at Cape Girardeau, Mo. Where he remained in charge of the Catholic sisters and the teachers until he was about 16 or 17 years old before he returned to Pointe Coupee on vacation. Having lived an unrestricted life for the first time, he did not return to Cape Girardeau but went to boarding school in Baton Rouge, and after a short stay there, he attended a business college in New Orleans. When he finished the course, he obtained a position with a commission merchant and remained in New Orleans for several years."
"He returned to Pointe Coupee and became a very successful sugar planter in the section known as Raccourci."
NOTE: St. Louis University, Missouri - Catalog of officers and students, 1834-1835, Ovide Lejeune, Pointe Coupee, La. *See Catalog listing.
NOTE: Old Hickory Plantation was owned by Ovide Lejeune in the 1860's. It was at Old Hickory Plantation where his children Augustine Lemoine Lejeune & John Archer Lejeune, were born. In 1879 Ovide Lejeune went bankrupt due to the lawsuit that stemmed from his first marriage to Marguerite Cleontine Decuir, whose mother was a Lacour. Old Hickory Plantation was sold and eventually ended up back in the hands of the Lacour family. From the National Park Service - National Register of Historical Places - (Excerpt referring to Old Hickory) "By 1860, sugar was the major cash crop. That year, the plantation produced 1000 hogsheads of sugar and 28,000 gallons of molasses. At that time the planation was owned by Ovide Lejeune, who had increased the number of slaves to 77, placing Old Hickory among the larger slaveholding plantations in the state. But after the war the planation did not prosper, and in 1879 Ovide Lejeune lost the plantation because he was sued for an old debt which had been held against the property since 1850. It took nearly ten years to settle the suit.
The major portion of Old Hickory, that part on which the house stood, was sold at public auction in the summer of 1888. * See photograph of the restored "Old Hickory Plantation House."
Obituary Pointe Coupee Banner, Dec. 21: Died, at his residence in this parish, on the morning of the 16th inst., Captain Ovide LeJeune in the 70th year of his life, of pneumonia after an illness of several days. If a skilled physicians and tender nursing could have saved him this obituary would not be written. He was a native of this parish, educated at Centenary College, and obtained a knowledge of commercial matters in the large importing house of Barriere & Co., and afterwards became a large and successful sugar planter. When the war broke out he became captain of the Pointe Coupee Cavalry Company and joined Scott's Regiment, which became distinguished for its gallantry. Like most of our planters, captain Lejeune lost his property by the war. At the time of his death he was the commissioner of the Poydras funds, which he administrated so honestly and wisely that it will go far to educate our children. Captain Lejeune leaves a wife, son and daughter to mourn his loss. His son was a graduate of the Naval Academy at Annapolis, and is now a promising young officer of the United States Navy. Captain Lejeune was a true friend, a good citizen, a kind husband and a devoted father. In his death this parish loses one of its best citizens. Peace to his ashes, honor to his memory.
The Lineage: The ancestry of Joseph LEJEUNE, husband of Augustine LEMOINE is not yet proven, but suspected.
Claude Lejeune, of Salzburg Austria/Catherine Colson
Michel Lejeune/Madeleine Hennette(Swiss), both died in Pointe Coupee Parish.
Michel Lejeune/Catherine Barras
Joseph Lejeune/Louise Gosserand
Joseph Lejeune/Augustine Lemoine
Ovide Lejeune/Marguerite Cleontine Decuir & Laura Archer Turner
Full Sequence MtDNA Haplogroup C4c1 Haplogroup Assignment From The Acadian AmerIndian Ancestry DNA Project @ FTDNA. ~ Deadra Doucet Bourke *** C4c1 is a Native Haplogroup that this matrilineal path traces ancestry back to Marie "Ouacanteous" Rouensa, daughter of Chief Francois-Xavier Mamenthouensa Rouensa, of the Illiniwek Tribe in the Illinois Territory. The haplogroup was part of the Acadian Amerindian Ancestry Project's discovery, with 3 agreeing results.
*** Conferred with Pointe Coupee Historian & Genealogist, Brian J. Costello
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