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THE “CAJUNS” OF LOUISIANA

4/21/2019

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​ Wood County Reporter, June 30, 1898. Published in the Dallas News (TX)  
 An Element of Citizenship That Has Never Become Amalgamated

The creole of Louisiana has been a favorite subject of the story writer, and has been so often and so charmingly described by Cable, Grace King and that queen of southern dialect writers. Ruth McEnery Stuart, that of them nothing remains to be told. But a large element of the French population of the state are not creoles, but Acadians, or as they call themselves and are generally called, “Cajuns.” Their expulsion from Acadia forms one of the most pathetic tragedies in the history of the settlement of our native land, and is of additional interest since it furnishes our Immortal Longfellow with the inspiration for his touching poem, “Evangeline.”
 
After the treaty of Paris, by which the French abandoned forever all controlling influence in the new world, these unfortunate refugees were by the French government assisted to Louisiana and assigned lands to the west of New Orleans, where their descendants live to this day, and where in the midst of an age of progress they remain distinctly medieval in thought, manners and customs.
 
Their dwellings are for the most part built of a kind of clay mixed with moss, and are not unlike the concrete and adobe houses of western Texas. Their furniture is just about what their ancestors considered necessary for their Acadian farmhouse over 100 years ago. The little treadle spinning wheel occupies a conspicuous place in the domestic economy, and whatever artistic taste they may have finds vent in the numerous cheap-colored prints of the Virgin which adorn the walls of even the poorest.
 
Of books there are none, except possibly a French prayer book, which none of the family is able to read, and which they could not understand anyway, as their dialect differs in so many respects from the modern French.
 
They are in a certain sense religious, but their religion consists in the observance of the forms and festivals, especially festivals, of the Catholic church, some of which are very pretty, but also very suggestive of the middle ages. With them, celebration of mass in the morning is usually followed by a ball at night, an amusement of which they a passionately fond, and in which the old, middle-aged, the youth and children take part with equal zest.
 
They are extremely hospitable, and in their dwelling it is said the coffee pot is never allowed to grow cold, and every chance guest is served with a cup of this beverage, boiling hot, and very bitter, which he must not refuse on penalty of giving lasting offense to his host. This inveterate coffee drinking seems to be productive of no ill effect physically, but I have sometimes wondered if it might not in part account for the low order of intellect, which prevails.
 
They are a pleasure-loving people, and work only enough to secure the necessaries of life, and as they all – men, women and children – go barefoot except on state occasions, and corn bread and tasso (dried beef) form the staple articles of food, a very little work enables a man to provide for a moderately large family.
 
Their aversion to regular employment might be ascribed toa probable strain of Indian blood that flows in their veins, and for the same reason they mingle with the superstitions of the French peasant, some which come by inheritance from their Indian ancestors.
 
The creoles, many of whom boast of the bluest of the blue blood, have always treated their plebian fellow countrymen with a good-natured contempt (which the Cajuns bitterly resent) and have so far done nothing for their social and mental advancement.
 
Politically, these people are a problem. They take very little personal interest in elections, and are usually voted by the parish priest.
 
One important factor in the making of the children of ignorant foreigners into good citizens is our public school system, and with the Cajuns this has failed so far, partly from prejudice against brain labor of any kind, which is innate, and partly from an antipathy to receiving instruction from a heretic, which is inculcated with their religion. And as their poverty in most cases precludes their attending the Catholic schools, where the creoles educate their children, they remain after nearly a century of American citizenship no better educated in republican institutions than the immigrant of yesterday. 
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African American Boutte Family - Alvin J Boutte (1929-2012)

2/28/2019

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PictureAlvin J Boutte, Treasurer Sr. Class of Sacred Heart Catholic School. 1947
He is the 3rd great grandson of Andre Claude Boutte, II (1719-1792), “Claude”, and his slave Franchon (Francois) Filnotion (1732-1799). (1)  Some of his ancestry is unknown and where cited, the support is sometimes weak.  However, the birth of Eugene Pierre Barbe Boutte, son of Claude and his slave Francoise [Francon], is well supported. (2)
 
He attended, along with all his nine elder siblings, a private Catholic “Colored” school (3) even though both parents worked at low paying jobs.  With his parent’s vision and his determination, he was successful in business, his community and he was an active civil rights supporter during the 1960s Civil Rights movement. (4)

PictureAlvin J Boutte with wife Barbara in first drug store purchased. 1953-54. (TheHistoryMaker.org photo)
​Alvin J. Boutte, Sr. is his name.  He was “co-founder and former Chairman and CEO of Independence Bank [Chicago], the nation’s largest Black-owned bank…” The son of Arthur H. Boutte and Adorea Darensbourg, he was born on October 10, 1929 in Lake Charles, LA, and the youngest of 10 children.  All of Arthur and Adorea Boutte’s children attend Sacred Heart Catholic elementary, junior, high schools.  Alvin’s father Arthur was a gardener and his mother, Adorea, was a seamstress. (5) 

PictureAlvin J Boutte in bank. (TulsaWorld.com photo)
​Background
Andre Claude Boutte, II was the great grandson of Claude Boutte (1609-1677) and Francoise McQuennehen (1609).  The family was from France.  Upon the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1763, Andre Claude Boutte, II brought his family to New Orleans. (6)  He served as a French military officer in Mobile, AL where he married the commandant’s daughter, Marie-Anne Francoise Bodin.  His mother-in-law, Francoise Paillet Bodin, traveled with them and it was from her that he purchased a domestic servant called Fanchon. She was born around 1732. (6A) One of the five children Andre Claude fathered with Fanchon was Eugene Pierre Barbe Boutte (1775-1832). (6B)
 
Eugene Pierre Boutte is the second child of Eugene Pierre Barbe Boutte and his wife Hyacinthe LaPorta and was born about 1796.  He married Isabelle Adelaide Olivier  in 1822.  Eugene Pierre and Adelaide had five children.  Eugene Pierre also had another child with an unknown mother named Hyacinthe Boutte. He was born in 1842. (6C)  In the 1850 census, Hyacinthe Boutte is one of the family members of Eugene Pierre and Adelaide. (6D)
 
Hyacinthe Boutte married Nellie Weber in 1873 in Edgard, LA, St John the Baptist Parish near New Orleans.  From that marriage, Arthur H. Boutte is born in 1886.  Arthur married Adorea Darensbourg.  Alvin J. Boutte is the tenth and youngest child born from this couple in 1929. (6D)

PictureAlvin J Boutte, right, in golf cancer fund raiser. 1976. (Facebook.com). The African-American community were instrumental in removing the PGA all-white professional tour status in 1961.
​Sacred Heart Catholic School
While his high school activities are not a guaranteed path to future successes, his high school participation probably contributed greatly to his lifetime achievements.
 
Alvin J. Boutte, a child of the Great Depression, graduated from Sacred Heart Catholic School in 1947. His senior year activities included President C.Y.O. (Catholic Youth Organization) ’45, Captain softball team, ’45, co-captain basketball team ’46; Corporal in R.O.T.C.; Treasurer of Senior Class; member of Patrol Squad. Hobby – gardening. (7)

​College, Military Service, Business and Community Service
He attended Xavier University in New Orleans on a basketball scholarship after completing high school.  “While at Xavier, he met his future wife, Barbara Gonzaque, who was a music major.”  While earning a Pharmacy degree in 1951, he also served the student body with a laundry pickup business and a payment collection business for male students.  After a tour in the U.S. Army, he was discharged a Captain in 1955. (8)
PictureAlvin J Boutte, CEO Independence Bank of Chicago. 1982. (Facebook.com photo)
​After completing his military service, he and wife and two daughters, Janice and Jeanette, moved to Chicago to join his mother’s family as well as former Xavier classmates who had already established themselves in their careers.  Moreover, they with former classmates, collectively had plans for the future.
 
Shortly after his Chicago move, he purchased his first drug store with a line of credit from Sealtest Dairy Corporation.  He soon had s chain of drug stores.  In 1964, Alvin J. Boutte and others established Independence Bank of Chicago.  He was proud of developing some of his staff as they became presidents of other minority banks as well as other executive positions.

​The civic-minded Boutte helped to advance the fledging Civil Rights Movement along with other Chicago African-American business leaders.  With the $55,000 raised they contributed to Rev. Dr. Martin Lughter King, Jr. and his Southern Christian Leadership Conference. (9)
PictureAlvin Joseph Boutte (1929-2012) (TheHistoryMakers.org photo)

​“During his lifetime, Boutte served on the boards of directors for several organizations including, most notably, twenty years on the board of The Chicago Metropolitan Insurance Company.  He also served as advisor to the Small Business Administration, and was an elected member of the Chicago Board of Education.  In 1971, Boutte was honored as man of the year by the Chicago Urban League.  He was the recipient of several other honors and tributes in his later years.”
 
Alvin Boutte died at his home in Hazel Crest, Illinois on April 1, 2012. He was 82 years old. (10)

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(1)  Andre Claude Boutte. (n.d.). Retrieved March 23, 2019, from https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Boutte-13. Louisiana Families Project WikiTree
(2)  Donald J. Hebert, Southwest Louisiana Records (1750-1900). CD. (Hebert Publications: Rayne, LA 70578)
​(3)  Sacred Heart Yearbook. 1947. School History, pg. 8.
https://africanamericanhighschoolsinlouisianabefore1970.com/sacred-heart-high-school-lake-charles-louisiana/
(4)  Watson, Elwood (2013, October 29). ALVIN J. BOUTTE SR. (1929-2012). Retrieved February 18, 2019, from https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/boutte-alvin-j-sr-1929-2012/
(5)  ibid.
(6) Wood, B. B. (n.d.). Bonnie Bess Wood's Family Tree. Retrieved March 4, 2019, from https://gw.geneanet.org/beebeewood?lang=en&n=boutte&oc=0&p=andre claude dit lalime&type=tree
(6A) WikiTree Genealogy. Fanchon NN (Slave) https://www.geni.com/people/Fanchon/6000000084431391035#/tab/overview
(6B)  Ibid. Donald J. Hebert.
(6C) Ancestry.com. Jance Boutte. https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/107516122/person/400059389181/facts
(6D)  Ancestry.com 1880 Federal Census.
(7)  ibid. Sacred Heart Yearbook.
(8)  ibid. Watson, Elwood (2013, October 29)
(9)  Associated Press. April 10, 2012.  Boutte to be eulogized. https://chicagodefender.com/2012/04/10/boutte-to-be-eulogized-2130/
(10)  )  ibed. Watson, Elwood (2013, October 29)

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Jennings man, a B-17 gunner, shot down twice during World War II By Doris Maricle / American Press (date unknown)

7/29/2018

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PictureBen reviewing his WW II memories
JENNINGS - Imagine rolling yourself into a ball, like an armadillo, and squeezing yourself into a space barely big enough to hold your contorted body.
Now imagine that you will be stuck inside this little claustrophobic ball for eight hours at a time, breathing oxygen through a mask to stay alive and controlling two .50-caliber machine guns, all while flying over enemy-held territory at 29,000 feet, where the outside temperature is 60 degrees below zero.
 
Retired Staff Sgt. Ben Miller, 88, of Jennings, did this 33 times as an 18-year-old ball turret gunner on an Army Air Force B-17 Flying Fortress in the skies over Europe during World War II.
Drafted at the age of 18 in 1943 from his home in Jennings, Miller was shipped off to Logan, Utah, as a cadet for pilot training.
 
Slated to be shipped to California to finish his pilot training, the program was cut and Miller was not able to solo and gain his pilot wings. He was transferred to gunnery school and was trained to shoot down enemy fighters with the .50-caliber machine guns that gave the Flying Fortress its name. The mounting casualties in the air war over Europe forced the Army Air Force to ship Miller to England to man the ball turret on a B-17.
 
He sailed from New York to England aboard the Queen Mary, along with actor Mickey Rooney. “I saw Mickey Rooney on the deck of the ship, but I never got to talk to him,”  Miller said.
 
The Atlantic crossing was dangerous in itself, with many soldiers never making it to England. “It took us nine days to cross because we had to zigzag to avoid the German submarines,” he said. “I was flying combat missions for the 8th Air Force just a few days after landing in England,” he said.
 
On Dec. 11, 1944, Miller flew in the bombing raid on a major railroad complex in Giessen, Germany. The railroad facility was a key strategic target because it handled the transportation of vast amounts of German army resources. The city also was the location for the subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp.
 
Enemy fire wasn’t the only threat to Miller’s survival. Stuffed into his tiny ball turret gun position in the belly of the B-17, Miller’s oxygen mask froze up and cut off his air supply at 29,000 feet. He had to scramble to take off his oxygen mask, disconnect his heated gloves and jacket from their electrical connections, and open the door to the turret so that he could climb back into the aircraft with his other crew members before passing out from hypoxia.
 
"I thought that was my last day on Earth, but I came through and here I am today," he said. His buddies on board were able to get an emergency oxygen tank to him.
 
Life in the ball turret on a B-17 was especially dangerous. Only small-statured men could fit into the cramped space. “I flew the first five missions without a parachute because they didn’t have a chute small enough to fit with me inside that little frozen ball,” he said with a smile.
 
Enemy fire caught up with Miller and his crew on Christmas Eve 1944. “The first time I was shot down, we were hit over Frankfurt, Germany, and ended up crash landing in Belgium.” Miller said.
 
Miller had to climb out of his ball turret before they crash landed because he would have been crushed inside the bottom of the plane.        "We had to scatter and make our way back to England on our own because the Germans were all around," Miller said.
 
The B-17 had a 10-man crew, and it was every man for himself to get out of enemy-held territory because 10 American soldiers in a group would attract the attention of the enemy.
 
Miller’s luck continued as he was approached by a young boy as he made his escape from the crash site. “I couldn’t understand a word he was saying, but I could tell he wanted me to follow him to his home,” Miller said.
 
When they arrived at the boy’s home, he showed Miller identification papers and a pistol given to him by the U.S. government that proved he was a member of the underground resistance and would help Miller get back to his base in England.
 
After spending Christmas with the boy’s family, Miller rejoined an engineering outfit that had seized a castle previously occupied by the Germans. Miller stayed with the engineers for nine days before being transported back to his base in England.
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He immediately returned to duty and began flying more bombing missions. On Valentine’s Day 1945 while on a bombing raid to destroy the oil refinery and weapons factory at Chemnitz, Germany, he was shot down for the second time.

"We got hit real bad," he said. “The flak (air-bursting anti-aircraft artillery) blasted us. Two of our engines were hit and caught fire. One of my buddies caught a load of shrapnel in his leg and was banged up real bad. The shrapnel that tore his leg up barely missed me.
 
"We landed with two of our engines on fire." Having landed on the allied side of the lines, Miller and his crew were back in England on flight status in no time.
 
When asked what was the scariest part of the missions, Miller replied, "The flak exploding and spraying us with shrapnel. The flak was so close and rough that by the time we hit Belgium our formations were all busted up and scattered. The booming noise as the shells exploded was unbearable."
 
          With victory declared in Europe, Miller waited for his orders to ship him to the Pacific to fight the Japanese. Fortunately for him the war in the Pacific ended before he received his orders to go.
 
"Boy was I relieved when we got word of the Japanese surrender," he said.
 
Miller left England for Iceland, and then to Mississippi to await his next assignment before becoming an inactive reservist. He was later called up for the Korean War but was never deployed. He ended his military service in 1952 as a vehicle technician at Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, Miss.
 
Miller’s wife of 59 years, Martha, was just a young girl while he was serving his country. “I was only 9 years old when he was over there fighting,” she said. "All I remember about the war was working at my daddy’s gas station and pasting stamps in the stamp books."
 
Miller kept a diary of his days in combat. "I just wrote in it when I thought about it," he said. "There would be days I didn’t pay any attention to it." The diary is among other keepsakes from his service including his medals, letters from home and old black and white photographs.

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Ben Miller is a descendant of Jacob Miller and Anne Marie Thaison/Theigen and Jacob’s son, Jean Miller and Marie Francoise Mayer.
 
Ben’s parents are Bernard Miller and Anna Marie Clement. He married Martha Blackledge.
 
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Wilda Ann "Toto" Martel (1935 - 2016)

11/9/2016

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Wilda Anna Martel died at a Tampa hospital on October 29, 2016. She was born in Eunice, LA to Gervis P. "Slim" Martel and Ellenor Fontenot on April 23, 1935.

She is survived by her half-sister, Sandra Martel Roger and husband Nick of Tampa; three stepsiblings; one half-nephew; and four half-grand nephews and nieces.

Wilda Anna was preceded in death by her parents Gervis and Ellenor; her loving stepmother and caretaker, Lillian Martel; her caretaker and great-grandmother, Ernestine Aguillard Savoy; her half-brothers, Rawland and John Martel; and her half-niece, Tara Spicer Mramor.

She will join all her heavenly family in a reunion as God promised in Micah 4:6-7. "I will make the lame (people with disabilities) my remnant…" They are God's chosen ones, his remnants.

Funeral arrangements will be handled by Quirk & Son Funeral Home in Eunice. Interment will be in Savoy
Cemetery. A Memorial Service will be held in Eunice in March of 2017.

Wilds Anna “Toto” Martel Family

At the time of her birth Ellenor Fontenot and her husband Gervis Martel knew that she was God's special gift. Wilda Anna Martel was born in April 1935. Her father, 23 years old at the time and working at what men did at that age for family income. It was three years after Huey Long completed his Governorship term and was now a U.S. Senator. Huey Long was planning to challenge F.D. Roosevelt for the Presidency until his assassination in September 1935. All people were struggling to make ends meet during the depression. It was going to become more challenging for this Martel family.
 
Gervis and Ellenor married in 1931. They were probably unaware that they were 2nd cousins. Their common ancestry is Pierre Savoy (1832-1876) and Eugenie Miller (1836-1924). Eugenie Miller is a descendant of Jacob Miller and Anne Marie Thaison/Theigen.
 
Wilda Anna was almost 2 1/2 years old when her mother Ellenor died in December 1937.  Ellenor was two months shy of 22 years old. Gervis probably had help while attending to a sick wife and an infant daughter. Ellenor's father and mother, David Fontenot and Anna Savoy probably lived nearby. Anna's mother, Ernestine Aguillard Savoy was also nearby. Ernestine's husband, Julien, Wilda Anna's great grandfather, died in 1933.
 
Savoy Cemetery, Eunice, is the final resting place for all persons mentioned in this family. Wilda Anna's great grandmother, died in 1964. Prior to his death in 1994, Gervis, aka "Slim" and "Marty", made plans for Wilda Anna's burial. Her eternal resting place is between him and her great grandmother; Tante Ernestine. That  was what she was called by family member. My mother introduced me to her in the mid-1950s. It was courtesy at that time  to call her "Tante"  because my step-father Gervis called her "Tante". I did not know it at the time but Tante Ernestine was my half 3rd cousin once removed. Our common ancestry is Pierre Placide Savoy and Abelaide Babineaux.
 
Very near Ernestine's tomb is her daughter Anna Savoy Fontenot and Anna’s husband David A. Fontenot. Ellenor Fontenot, their daughter is buried nearby. Ellenor's obituary printed in the Eunice News clearly states that she was married to Gervis Martel. We may never know why Ellenor’s headstone excluded her married name - Martel.
 
My step-father Gervis never talked about the difficulties encountered after his 1st wife's death nor the challenges he faced prior to his enlistment in the U.S. Navy in October 1942. He was honorably discharged in September 1945. Many young men in his age group felt a responsibility to defend their country in WW II.
 
Gervis made pay grade E-6, 1st Class Petty Officer, Carpenter's Mate, during his 3 year hitch. The USS Carina, on which Gervis served most of his enlistment, a cargo ship, supported the Pacific Fleet. It was hit by the enemy several times. A Carpenter's Mate was responsible for the ship's repair while at sea. The USS Carina received three battle stars for WW II service, thus it saw battle action with the enemy on more than one occasion. With the skills learned in the Navy, Gervis worked as a carpenter after his discharge.
 
Wilda Anna was cared for and living in Tante Ernestine's old farm house near Eunice when I first met her in the 1950's. It was out in the country. The house seemed very large with a huge fire place. There was a walkway to the kitchen, a smaller building near the large house. My mother, Mary Lillian Naquin, married Gervis, known as "Slim" to many, in 1948, shortly after her divorce from my father, Murphy Miller, Sr.
 
Also in the 1950's Gervis was offered employment with a Tampa firm that manufactured and installed retail store decor and floor display units. He purchased property near Brandon, FL where the family relocated in 1957. Wilda Anna was still in LA. After Gervis and Lillian became FL residents, Wilda Anna too was relocated to FL. She was in a State home in Marianne, FL, then Acadia, FL. She later resided in a Fort Myers home serving people with developmental disabilities for about 45 years. Wilda Anna relocated to Tampa for health reasons in 2006.
 
Gervis Martel and family came often to visit family in LA. His brother Dewey owned the Shell station on Hwy 190. In June 1957 the Gervis Martel family stayed with Dewey and his wife Rose Sittig as Hurricane Audrey delivered its destruction to Eunice. Vellion "Popsi" Martel and his wife Virginia LeDoux were included in the family visits. Prior to their deaths, Gervis' father Etienne and his twin brother Theogene, attended a family gathering in 1952.
 
At 81.5 years old, Wilda Anna will be laid to rest in Savoy Cemetery, Eunice, LA.  Her earthly struggles are over. She will join all her family in a heavenly reunion as God promised in Micah 4:6-7 (NIRV). " 'The time is coming when I will gather those who are disabled,' announces the LORD. 'I will bring together those who were taken away as prisoners. I will gather those I have allowed to suffer. I will make the disabled my faithful people. I will make those who were driven away from their homes a strong nation. I will rule over them on Mount Zion. I will be their King from that time on and forever.' " They are God's chosen ones, his remnants.

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