APPENDICES

Acadians Who Found Refuge in Louisiana, February 1764-early 1800s

CLÉMENT

[KLAY-monh]

ACADIA

Clément Vincent, born at Port-Royal in c1674, was the youngest son of Acadian pioneer Pierre Vincent and his wife Anne Gaudet.  In c1698 at Port-Royal, Clément married Madeleine, daughter of Francois Levron.  Unlike his two older brothers, who took their families to the Minas Basin, Clément remained in the Port-Royal area, where he and Anne had seven sons, four of whom survived to create families of their own.  Each of the married sons adopted their father's first name as a dit, or nickname and moved to Île St.-Jean, today's Prince Edward Island, by the early 1750s, probably to escape British authority at Annapolis Royal.  

Oldest son Jean dit Clément, born at Port-Royal in June 1713, married first to Isabelle, or Élisabeth, daughter of Francois Michel, probably at Port-Royal in c1731.  He remarried to Marguerite, daughter of Charles Hébert, probably at Port-Royal in c1747.  

Joseph dit Clément, born at Port-Royal in September 1715, also married twice, first to Marguerite, daughter of Jean Hébert, probably at Port-Royal in c1740.  

Pierre dit Clément, born at Port-Royal in October 1723, married three times, first to Blanche, daughter of Louis Michel, probably at Port-Royal in c1743.  He remarried to Rosalie dite Rose, daughter of Antoine Barrilleaux, at Port-Lajoie, Île St.-Jean, in May 1752.  

Youngest son Francois dit Clément, was born at Port-Royal in October 1726.  Unlike his older brothers, he married only once, to Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Philippe Doiron, probably at Port-Royal in c1747.  By the early 1750s, he, too, had moved to Île St.-Jean, settling at Petit-Marais then at Anse-au-Matelot. 

The descendants of these four sons of Clément Vincent called themselves Clément instead of Vincent.  

LE GRAND DÉRANGEMENT

Like most Acadian families, Le Grand Dérangement of the 1750s scattered this branch of the Vincent family to the winds.  When the British deported the Acadians of Nova Scotia in the autumn of 1755, the sons of Clément Vincent, living in territory controlled by France, remained unmolested.  Their respite from British oppression was short-lived, however.  After the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg in July 1758, the British rounded up most of the Acadians on Île St.-Jean and Île Royale, now Cape Breton Island, and deported them to France later in the year. 

Jean Vincent dit Clément, oldest son of Clément Vincent, died at St.-Francois du Havre, Normandy, France, in September 1765; he was 52 years old. ...

Joseph Vincent dit Clément, second son of Clément Vincent, remarried to Marie, daughter of Yves Gratien and widow of Francois Marquis dit Savoie, both Frenchmen, at Pertuit, France, near St.-Malo, in August 1761.  Joseph died at Morlaix, France, in December 1778, age 63. 

Pierre Vincent dit Clément, third son of Clément Vincent, and his family somehow managed to escape the British roundup of the Acadian on Île St.-Jean in late 1758.  Pierre dit Clément remarried to Marie-Francoise, daughter of Philippe Paquet, at St.-Jean, Île d'Orléans, Québec, in February 1757.  He died at St.-Gervais de Bellechasse, Québec, in June 1787, age 64.  

Francois Vincent dit Clément, youngest son of Clément Vincent, and his family also escaped the British roundup on Île St.-Jean in late 1758.  Francois died at Beaumont, Québec, in May 1760, only 33 years old.  

Jean-Baptiste Clément, a descendant of Clément Vincent, born in c1740, married Josette Mirande, date and place unknown.  After Le Grand Dérangement, by the early 1770s, he and Josette settled on Île St.-Pierre, a French island off the southern coast of Newfoundland.  

Another descendant of Clément Vincent, Hilaire, son of Jean Clément and Marie-Josèphe Rudouze and grandson perhaps of Jean Vincent dit Clément, was only 12 years old and living with relatives probably on Île Royale, today's Cape Breton Island, when he was rounded up with most of the other Acadians on the island and deported to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  He, his older sister Marguerite, her husband Francois Hardy, and six-year-old nephew Hilaire Hardy made the crossing aboard the British transport Queen of Spain, which reached St.-Malo in mid-November.  Sister Marguerite did not survive the terrible crossing.  

Hilaire Clément lived in France for over a quarter century, suffering along with hundreds of other Acadians the indignities of life in the mother country.  As a bachelor in his late 20s he became part of the Leigne-les-bois venture in the Poitou region of France that frustrated dozens of Acadian families in the early 1770s.  He married Tarsile, daughter of Francois Naquin, at Leigne-les-bois in October 1774.  Daughter Marie was born in Poitou in c1775.  

In March 1776, Hilaire and his family abandoned the Poitou settlement and moved to Nantes, where they survived as best they could in the crowded port city.  Son Jean-Hilaire was born at St.-Martin-de-Chantenay, near Nantes, in c1776.  In the early 1780s, the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France a chance at a new life in faraway Louisiana.  Hilaire and Tarsile agreed to take it.  

LOUISIANA:  RIVER SETTLEMENTS

In June 1785, now a widower, Hilarie Clément took his daughter Marie, age 10, and son Jean-Hilaire, age 8, to Louisiana aboard the fourth of the Seven Ships from France, Le St.-Rémi.  They reached New Orleans in September and settled in the Acadian community of Ascension, on the river above New Orleans, where Hilaire soon died in his early 40s.  

LOUISIANA:  LAFOURCHE VALLEY SETTLEMENTS

By the mid-1790s, Spanish officials were counting Acadian Cléments in the upper valley of Bayou Lafourche.  Marie Clément married Francois, son of Joseph Dugas, at Assumption, on the upper Lafourche, in 1797.  

Descendants of Jean-Hilaire CLÉMENT (1776-1844)

Jean-Hilaire, Hilaire Clément and Tarsile Naquin's only son, born at Chantenay, France, near Nantes, in November 1776, followed his widowed father and his sister to Louisiana aboard Le St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven Ships from France, in 1785.  He settled with them at Ascension, on the river, and then with his sister at Assumption, in the upper Lafourche valley, where he married Geneviève-Sophie, called Sophie, daughter of Victor Boudreaux, in September1801.  Sophie had come to Louisiana aboard La Ville d'Archangel, the sixth of the Seven Ships from France.  The Acadian Cléments of Louisiana are descended from this union, which produced a large family, including four sons who created families of their own.  Their daughters married into the Benoit, Hébert, Levron, and Morvant families.  Jean-Hilaire, his sons, and grandsons settled in the Lafourche valley around present-day Thibodaux.  Jean-Hilaire, père died in Lafourche Interior Parish in October 1844; he was 69 years old.  

Oldest son Jean-Hilaire, fils, called Hilaire, born at Assumption in April 1803, married Marie Florine, daughter of fellow Acadian Michel Bernard, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in September 1826.  Their son Jean Hilaire III, also called Hilaire, was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in October 1827, Georges Edmondville in April 1829, and Trasimond Dumini in August 1839.  Their daughters married into the Guillot family.  Georges Edmondville married Marie Roseline, daughter of fellow Acadian Isidore Guillot, at the Thibodeaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in June 1849.  Their son Joseph Glalsey was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in May 1850, Maurice Théophile in September 1852, Georges Dosilien in July 1859, Jean Trasimond in January 1862, Liber Cleodomi in March 1867, and Joseph Alphonse in February 1870.  Jean Hilaire III married Marie Aglae, called Aglae, daughter of fellow Acadian Marcellin Breaux, at the Thibodeaux church in June 1850.  Their son Cordeluis Hilaire was born in Lafourche Parish in November 1856, Jean Beauregard in July 1861, Émile in c1863 but died at age 3 in May 1866, Simplice Cesaire Camile was born in March 1866, and Emile Julien was born in May 1867.  Trasimond married Odile, daughter of fellow Acadian Marcellin Breaux, at the Thibodeaux church in April 1864.  Their son Grégoire Alcée was born in Lafourche Parish in September 1866, Joseph Alfred in June 1868, and Alphonse in October 1870.  During the War Between the States, Georges Edmondville served as a lieutenant in the Lafourche Parish militia.  

Paul Valery, called Valery, birth place and date unrecorded, but it probably was in the 1810s, married Delphine, another daughter of Michel Bernard, in Lafourche Interior Parish in February 1835.  Their son Joseph Paul was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in January 1839, Joseph Michel in August 1840 but died at age 12 in July 1852, Onesiphore was born in September 1842, Odesoe in April 1846, Michel Oleus or Ellesse, called Ellesse, in December 1848, and Louis Joseph in September 1853.  Ellesse married cousin Eliska, daughter of Euguene Morvant, at the Thibodeaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in April 1867; Eliska's mother was a Clément.  

Francois Ursin, called Ursin, birth place and date unrecorded, but it probably was in the 1810s, married Adeline Severine, daughter of Jean Marie Benoit, probably an Acadian, in Lafourche Interior Parish in January 1836.  Their son Jean Arsene, called Arsene, was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in February 1839, Arsene or Ursin Ulysee in November 1839, Joseph Marcellin, called Marcellin, in September 1841, and Auguste died at age 6 months in December 1843.  Their daughter married a Clément cousin.  Ursin remarried to Azema, daughter of Michel Sevin, at the Thibodeaux church, Lafourche Parish, in July 1853.  Their son Émile was born later that year or in early 1854 in Lafourche Parish, Joseph Paul in October 1854, Jean Baptiste in September 1856, Joseph Treville Clémile in November 1859, Joseph in January 1862, and Arthur Ulysse in October 1868.  Arsene married Adele, daughter of Noël Navarre, at the Thibodeaux church in January 1864; Adele's mother was a Naquin.  Their son Anatole Olezime was born in Lafourche Parish in February 1869.  

Youngest son Charles Joseph, or Joseph Charles, called Charles, birth place and date unrecorded, but it probably was in the 1810s, married Marie Arthemise, called Arthemise, daughter of French Creole Nicolas Sevin, in Lafourche Interior Parish in July 1836; Arthemise's mother was an Hébert.  Their son Charles Joseph Adam, called Joseph, was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in January 1838, Auguste Ovile in October 1839, Théophile in August 1843, Paulin in February 1853, Joseph Paul in October 1854, Joachim Émile in February 1855 but died at age 3 in October 1858, Bernard Clesia was born in August 1857, and Joseph Treville Clemile in November 1859.  They also had a son named Alexis or Félix, birth place and date unrecorded, but it probably was in the 1840s.  Their daughters married into the Morvant and Sevin families.  Auguste married Josephine, daughter of Guillaume Boudreaux, at the Thibodeaux church in May 1861.  Their son Oleus Joseph was born near Labadieville, Assumption Parish, in March 1864, Octave Émile in Lafourche Parish in January 1866, Justilien in c1867 but died at age 15 months in March 1869, and Camile Klebert in July 1870.  Joseph married Marie Rose, daughter of Joseph Boudreaux, at the Thibodeaux church in January 1862.  Their son Joseph Deve was born in Lafourche Parish in October 1862, Davis Anatole in February 1868, and Isidore Cyprien in April 1870.  Charles Joseph Adam served as a private in the Lafourche Parish Militia during the War Between the States.  Théophile married first cousin Melina, daughter of his uncle Ursin Clément, at the Thibodeaux church in January 1864.  Their son Émile Ulysse was born in Lafourche Parish in September 1868.  Alexis or Félix married Victorine, daughter or Polinaire Durocher, at the Thibodeaux church in March 1869.  Their son Marcel Felicien was born in Lafourche Parish in January 1870.  Théophile remarried to Victorine, daughter of Olivier Hébert and widow of Pierre Rabbas or Robbas, at the Thibodeaux church in February 1870.  

NON-ACADIAN FAMILIES in LOUISIANA

Most of the Cléments of Louisiana are not Acadian but French Creole, Foreign French, and even descendants of refugees from rebellion-torn Haiti.  At least a dozen of them came to South Louisiana from the 1770s well into the early 1800s, and many of them created families of their own.  They settled in St. John the Baptist Parish just above New Orleans, farther up the river at St. James and Baton Rouge, along Bayou Lafourche among the Acadian Cléments, south into the Terrebonne marshes, and west of the Atchafalaya Basin at Grand Coteau, in the Opelousas prairies, along Bayou Teche and the lower Vermilion River, and into the coastal marshes west of the Vermilion valley in present-day Cameron Parish:  

Francois, son of Antoine Clément and Marie Mangot of Chamberi, Savoie, in southeastern France, married Anne, daughter Louis Barbé, in what is now St. John the Baptist Parish in October 1773 or 1775.  Their son Michel was born in St. John the Baptist in May 1778, and Francois, fils was born in St. John the Baptist in January 1787.  They also had sons named Jacques and Nicolas, birth places and dates unrecorded, but it probably was in the 1780s.  Their daughters married into the Elfre or Helfer, Jacob, and Vicknair families.  Michel died a bachelor in July 1798; the St. John the Baptist priest who recorded his burial said that Michel was 24 years old when he died, but, according to his baptismal record, he was only 20.  Jacques married Thérèse, daughter of German Creole Maurice Elfre or Helfer, at the Edgard church, St. John the Baptist Parish, in February 1801; Thérèse's brother was Jacques's sister Brigitte's husband.  Their son Jacques, fils, was born in St. John the Baptist Parish the following September.  Jacques, fils must have died young, however, because in May 1803 Jacques, père and Thérèse baptized another son named Jacques at the Edgard church.  Nicolas married Rosalie, daughter of German Creole Jean Schexnayder, at the Edgard church in July 1803.  This Clément family probably remained in St. John the Baptist Parish, where a number of them served in the local militia during the War Between the States.  

Another Francois, son of Phillipe Clément and Marie-Josèphe Alexandre of Paimboeuf, France, married Pélagie, daughter of French Creole Joseph Fremaux, at Opelousas in February 1800.  Their son Phillip was baptized at Opelousas in March 1801, and Joseph was born in St. Landry Parish in September 1807.  

Pierre, son of Olivier Clément and Jacqueline Le Bernier, married Marie-Madeleine, daughter Jean-Baptiste Legendre and Marie-Rose LeTullier, at Baton Rouge in June 1807; Marie-Madeleine's father was an Acadian born in France; her mother was a Frenchwoman from Cherbourg.  Pierre and Marie-Madeleine's son Clemente was born near Baton Rouge in March 1808, and Fergus in December 1810.  They also had a son named Francois Dumas, birth place and date unrecorded, but it probably was near Baton Rouge in the 1810s or 1820s.  Their daughter married into the Babin family.  Fergus married Rosalie, daughter of Acadian Joseph Doiron, at the Baton Rouge church, East Baton Rouge Parish, in March 1835.  Their son Victorin was born probably near Brusly Landing, West Baton Rouge Parish, in April 1838 but died at age 14 in October 1852, Stanislaus was born in November 1839, Leo Paul in c1843 but died at age 7 in October 1850, Adamis was born in c1845 but died at age 13 in December 1858, Célestin was born in November 1846 but died at age 20 months in August 1848, Eustache Aristide was born in March 1849, Timon Victor in April 1850, and Deville Joseph in March 1857.  Francois Dumas married Rosalie, daughter of Jean Raffray and widow of Jean-Baptiste Tullier, at the Brusly church, West Baton Rouge Parish, in May 1848; Rosalie's mother was a Martin.  Their son Eustache Aristide was born near Brusly Landing in March 1849, Alcide Gervais in June 1853, and Alcé in October 1855.  Fergus's son Stanislaus married Acadian Eulalie Doiron, place and date unrecorded, but it probably was in West Baton Rouge Parish in the late 1850s.  Their son Joseph was born near Brusly Landing in July 1860, and Fergus Stanislaus in October 1864.  

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One French Creole Clément family settled among the Acadian Cléments in Assumption, Lafourche Interior, and Terrebonne parishes in the decades before the War Between the States and intermarried with Acadian families: 

Descendants of Jean-Pierre CLEMENT (?-?)

Jean-Pierre Clément, parents unrecorded, but he was not a son of Acadian Hilaire Clément, married Adélaïde, daughter of Acadian Jean Delaune, place and date unrecorded, but it probably was before May 1811, when their daughter Abdela Severina was born in Assumption Parish.  Their other children were born in Assumption Parish, too.  Their daughters married into the Arbonneaux, Ayot, Hael, and Hains families.  

Oldest son Leo, born in c1810, died in Lafourche Interior Parish in September 1835; he was only 25 years old and never married. 

Simeon, born in January 1813, married Marie Pauline, daughter of Jean Olivier, at the Thibodeaux church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in May 1837.  Their son Adam was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in May 1839, Edouard in April 1843, Joseph Folse, called Folse, in February 1846, and Leon Edmond in Terrebonne Parish in December 1853.  Their daughters married into the Hendegriff or Hangriff and Robichaux families.  Adam married Pauline, daughter of Acadian Joseph Chiasson, at the Houma church, Terrebonne Parish, in April 1861.  Their son Joseph Leonie was born in Terrebonne Parish in June 1862, and Laurent Taylor in June 1870.  Edouard married Adeline, daughter of Pierre Marcellin Bonvillain, at the Houma church in July 1869; Adeline's mother was a Thibodeaux.  Folse married Aspasie, daughter of Pierre Daspit, at the Houma church in May 1870; Aspasie's mother was a Guidry.  

Euselien Evariste, born in April 1815, married Scholastique, daughter of Louis Savant, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in April 1839.  Their son Evariste Brutus was born in Terrebonne Parish in February 1857, and Adam Oleus in February 1860.  They also had a son named Joseph, birth place and date unrecorded, but it probably was in the 1840s.  Their daughters married into the Breaux, Duplantis, and Perrin families.  Joseph married Rosalie, daughter of Acadian Augustin Trahan, at the Houma church in February 1864.  Their son Augustin was born in Terrebonne Parish in April 1866, and Ulysse Euselien in June 1868.  

Louis Joachim, born in October 1817, married Adele Pélagie, daughter of Cyprien Maillet, at the Plattenville church in August 1839; Adele's mother was a Dugas.  Their son Henry Louis, called Louis, was born in Assumption Parish in July 1840 but died at age 4 in February 1845, Louis Desonville was born in January 1846, Osil Vileor in November 1850, Auzeme Napoleon in January 1853, and Devillier Adolph in February 1855.  Louis Desonville may have married Marie O'Neil, place and date unrecorded, but it probably was Lafourche Parish in the 1860s.  

Edmond Adrien, born in November 1826, married Acadian Olesida Boudreaux, place and date unrecorded, but it probably was in Assumption Parish in the late 1840s or early 1850s.  Their son Edmond Jean Pierre was born in Assumption in March 1854, Leon Bible near Canal, Assumption Parish, in October 1858, Cleopha Simeon in March 1861, Henry Adrien in November 1863, and Émile Joseph in March 1866.  

Youngest son Pierre, born in c1833, died at age about 10 in August 1843.  

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Yet another Francois Clément came to Louisiana from St.-Domingue, now Haiti, probably as a refugee from the violence there in the early 1800s.  He died in Pointe Coupee Parish in December 1822; he was 44 years old.  The priest who recorded his burial did not say who his wife may have been or if he fathered any children.  

Another refugee from St.-Domingue, Joseph, son of Jean-Baptiste Clément of Cap dans l'Isle, Haiti, married Rosalie, daughter of French Creole Louis Verret of Assumption, in January 1824 at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, after they had been married by a judge in St. Mary Parish the year before.  Joseph died in the 1830s.  

Francois Abel Clément, native of Hucquigny in Brittany, France, parents and wife unrecorded, died in Ascension Parish in July 1836.  He was only 30 years old.  

Jean-Baptiste, son of Laurent Clément and Élisabeth Meauroux of the Bordeaux area of France, married Caroline, daughter of Noel Jourdan of Mississippi, at the Convent church, St. James Parish, in June 1836. 

Jean-Baptiste-Constant, an immigrant from France, son of Jean-Baptiste Clément and Marie-Josèphe Beaupretre, married first to Eve Theodora, daughter of Acadian Valmont Girouard, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in August 1853, and then to Acadian Azina Broussard in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in October 1859. 

In November 1850, Jules Clément, described as an associate of Jean Courtade and Company, died at Paincourtville, Assumption Parish; he was 66 years old.  The priest who recorded his burial failed to lists the names of his parents, his wife, or any children he may have fathered.  

Another Joseph Clément, this one native of the Department of Eloi, France, died in Assumption Parish in November 1853.  He was only 25 years old.  

Auguste S., son of Michael Clément and Louise Barry, married Marie Constance, daughter of Acadian Drosin Breaux, at St. John the Evangelist church, Plaquemine, Iberville Parish, in October 1858.

Benegas Clément married Catherine Flyan, place and date unrecorded.  Their daughter Anne Clarice was born in St. Martin Parish in October 1860.  

Sylvain "of France," son of Louis Clément and Francoise Die, married Josephine, daughter of Acadian Valery LeBlanc, at the Paincourtville church, Assumption Parish, in April 1864.

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An especially prolific branch of French Creole Cléments lived in the old Opelousas District and also intermarried with Acadians:  

Descendants of Louis CLÉMENT (?-?)

Louis, son of Charles Clément and Marguerite Varfaille of Marseille, France, married Marie Anne, daughter of German Creoles Georges Stelly and Marie Barbe Miller, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in February 1810.  The couple settled at La Prairie Basse near Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish, and raised a large family.  Their daughters married into the Breaux, Caruthers, Cormier, Gaspard, Hanks, and Lormand families.  Before she married Onesime Cormier at the Grand Coteau church in June 1851, Louis, père's daughter Urasie had a daughter named Marie Virginie, born near Grand Coteau in April 1849; the priest who recorded the girl's baptism did not name the father.  Marie Virginie married into the Schexnayder family.  Five of Louis, père's seven sons created families of their own:  

Oldest son Louis, fils, called Don Louis, born near Grand Coteau in July 1811, married French Canadian Carmelite or Marguerite Lantier in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in March 1838.  Their son Don Louis, fils was born near Grand Coteau in November 1838.  Louis, fils remarried to Cleménce, or Clementine, Benoit, widow of Samuel Roy, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in July 1843 and sanctified the marriage at the Grand Coteau church in July 1844.  Their son Jean Percival was born near Grand Coteau in August 1850.  Louis, fils died probably near Grand Coteau in the late 1850s; he was only in his 40s.  Don Louis, fils married Felonise LeBlanc, widow of Auguste Perret, first in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in July 1858 then in the Opelousas church in October 1860.  Their son Adam was born near Grand Coteau in October 1859.  

Charles, born near Grand Coteau in February 1817, married Denise Bergeau in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in October 1838 and sanctified the marriage at the Grand Coteau church in December 1846, four years after son Charles Onesime was born in Lafayette Parish in February 1842.  Charles and Denise had more sons:  Octave, born near Grand Coteau in February 1844, Denis in December 1847, Gustave in November 1850, Don Louis le jeune in August 1855, and Julien or Jules, in June 1857.  Their daughter married into the Guillory family.  Charles remarried to Olivia, daughter of Julien Miller, at the Grand Coteau church in February 1862; Olivia's mother was a Dugas.  Charles Onesime married Marie Zeoline Maillard in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in May 1862.  Jules married Marie Anaïs, called Anaïs, daughter of Jean Doucet, at the Eunice church, St. Landry Parish, in October 1877.  Jules and Anaïs moved to western Acadia Parish in the late 1800s, and it was on Jules Clément's land near the village of Evangeline, a few miles east of Jennings, that oil was first discovered in Louisiana in September 1901--the birth of the major industry that transformed the Bayou State. A road in Acadia Parish is named after Jules Clément.

Guilien or Julien was born in St. Landry Parish in February 1819.  He probably did not survive childhood.  

Eugene, called Jean in the church record, baptized at the Grand Coteau church at age five months in November 1823, married Pélagie, daughter of Acadians Alexandre Trahan and Céleste Primeaux, in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in April 1844.  By the late 1840s, they had moved to the Abbeville area in Vermilion Parish, where son Zephirin was born in September 1854, Adrien in March 1857, and Alcide in June 1859.  After the War Between the States, Eugene's son Alcide left Vermilion Parish and moved westward into the coastal marshes of present-day Cameron Parish, settling on Little Chenier, north of Grand Chenier.  Alcide married Amelia Benoit in the late 1880s probably in Cameron Parish.  She died at Little Chenier in April 1893; she was only 25 years old; son Adam died at age one month, only 10 days after his mother died, so Amelia probably died from complications of childbirth.  Alcide remarried to Marianne, daughter of André Suire and Marguerite Touchet, at the Creole church, Cameron Parish, in December 1894.  Their son Pierre was born on Little Chenier in November 1895, daughter Marianne in December 1897, and daughter Marguerite in December 1899.  Marguerite married Jean Louis, son of Joseph Ozincourt Miller of Bayou Blue, Allen Parish, and died in April 1971; she is my maternal grandmother.

Désire, born near Grand Coteau in April 1833, married Angele Maillard in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in September 1856 and sanctified the marriage at the Grand Coteau church in December 1857.  Their son Aurelien was born near Grand Coteau in February 1862.  During the War Between the States, Désire served in Company K of the 3rd (Harrison's) Regiment Louisiana Cavalry, a front-line unit raised in St. Landry Parish that served in north Louisiana and southern Arkansas.  

Joachim, born near Grand Coteau in c1835, married Ederige or Edvige, daughter of Manuel Maillard, at the Opelousas church in August 1856; she may have been a sister of his older brother Désire's wife.  Joachim's son Joseph Neuville was born near Grand Coteau in October 1858, and Valentine in February 1861.  Joachim died by December 1862, when his succession record was filed at the Opelousas Courthouse; there is no evidence that he served as a soldier in the War, so he probably died of natural causes.  

Youngest son Adrien, born near Grand Coteau in May 1837, died in July 1849, age 12.  

CONCLUSION

The family's name also is spelled Clemant, Clemente, Climent.

Sources:  Arsenault, Généalogie, 484, 819, 1454, 1457-58, 2187; BRDR, vols. 2, 3, 4, 5(rev.), 6, 7, 8, 9, 10; Hébert, D., South LA Records, vols. 1, 2, 3, 4; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vols. 1-A, 1-B, 2-A, 2-B, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, CD; NOAR, vols. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Reine_d_Espagne.htm>, Family No. 15; Robichaux, Acadians in Chatellerault, 27; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 41; Robichaux, German Coast Families, 202-08, 318-19; White, DGFA-1, 1575, 1582-83.

Settlement Abbreviations 
(present-day parishes that existed during the War Between the States in parenthesis; hyperlinks on the abbreviations take you to brief histories of each settlement):

For a chronology of Acadian Arrivals in Louisiana, 1764-early 1800s, see Appendix.

The hyperlink attached to an individual's name is connected to a list of Acadian immigrants for a particular settlement and provides a different perspective on the refugee's place in family and community. 

NOTES

01.  Wall of Names, 36 (pl. 9L), calls him Hilaire CLIMENT, & lists him with 2 children; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Reine_d_Espagne.htm>, Familiy No. 15, shows that in the crossing to St.-Malo in 1758-59 his sister Marguerite died at sea, but his brother-in-law & 6-year-old nephew survived the crossing; Robichaux, Acadians in Chatellerault, 27, Family No. 56, calls him Hilaire CLEMENT, says he was born in c1746 but gives no birthplace, says that he was a "native of Acadie," gives his parents' names, says they were from the parish of Monthoiron & were deceased at the time of his marriage, says that he was a domestic, details his marriage, including his wife's parents' names, says they were deceased & that his wife resided in the parish of Leigne-les-bois at the time of the marriage, provides the birth/baptismal record of daughter Marie, baptized 16 Jul 1775, Bonneuil-Matours, goddaughter of Charles DAIGLE & Marie GAUTROT, & details the family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou in the early 1770s; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 41, Family No. 79, calls him Hilaire CLEMENT, says he was born in c1746 but gives no birthplace, does not give his parents' names, calls him a domestic, details his marriage but does not give his wife's parents' names, says his wife was born in c1746 but gives no birthplace, that she died at age 38 & was buried 16 Apr 1784, St.-Nicolas, Nantes, includes the birth/baptismal & death/burial records of son Jean-Hilaire, baptized 29 Nov 1776, St.-Martin-de-Chantenay, daughter Madeleine, baptized 6 Feb 1779, St.-Martin-de-Chantenay, died age 7 mos. & buried 15 Aug 1779, St.-Nicolas, Nantes, & son Francois, baptized 4 Oct 1780, St.-Martin-de-Chantenay, & details the family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou in the early 1770s as well as its voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 50-51, calls him Hilaire CLIMENT, charpentier, age 39, on the embarkation list, & Hilaire CLÉMENT, carpenter, age 39, on the complete listing, says he was in the 33rd Family aboard Le St.-Rémi with no wife & 2 children, details his marriage, including his & his wife's parents' names, & says daughter Marie was born in 1775 but gives no place of birth.  

The standard spelling of his surname here is CLÉMENT.  For his wife's name, see also the marriage records of his children in BRDR, 2:191.  

What happened to his son Francois, who did not go to LA with the family?  The boy would have been only 5 years old in 1785, so he must have died before the family sailed to LA.  

02.  Wall of Names, 36 (pl. 9L), calls him Jean [CLIMENT], & lists him with his widowed father & sister; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 41; Family No. 79, his birth/baptismal record, calls him Jean-Hilaire CLÉMENT, gives his parents' names, does not give his godparents' names, details his family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou in the early 1770s (of which he was not a part), &, calling him Jean, details his family's voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 50-51, calls him Jean, son [Hilaire CLIMENT's] fils, age 8, on the embarkation list, & Jean CLÉMENT, his [Hilaire CLÉMENT's] son, age 8, on the complete listing, & says he was in the 33rd Family aboard Le St.-Rémi with his widowed father & sister; BRDR, 2:118, 191 (ASM-2, 61), his marriage record, calls him Juan CLÉMENT of Nantes, France, gives his & his wife's parents' names, says she was from St.-Malo, & that the witnesses to his marriage were Carlos BERGERON & Pablo BOURQUE; Hébert, D., South LA Records, 2:104 (Thib.Ch.: v.1, #151), his death/burial record, calls him Jean Hilaire CLÉMENT.  

03.  Wall of Names, 36 (pl. 9L), calls her Marie [CLIMENT], & lists her with her widowed father & brother; Robichaux, Acadians in Chatellerault, 27, Family No. 56, her birth/baptismal record, calls her Marie CLÉMENT, gives her parents' names, says her godparents were Charles DAIGLE & Marie GAUTROT, & details her family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou during the early 1770s as well as its voyage to LA 1785; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 41, Family No. 79, calls her Marie [CLÉMENT], & details her family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou during the early 1770s as well as its voyage to LA 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 50-51, calls her Marie, sa [Hilaire CLIMENT's] fille, age 10, on the embarkation list, & Marie CLÉMENT, his [Hilaire CLÉMENT's] daughter, age 10, on the complete listing, says she was in the 33rd Family aboard Le St.-Rémi with her widowed father & brother, & says she was born in 1775 but gives no birthplace; BRDR, 2:191, 255 (ASM-2, 17), her marriage record, calls her Maria CLÉMENT, says the wedding date was 8 Feb 1796, gives her & her husband's parents' names, says her father was deceased at the time of the marriage, & that the witnesses to her marriage were Josef AUCOIN & Ambroiso HÉBERT.  

Her appearance in the Assumption census of 1797 (taken in Apr) without her husband hints that she was married in 1797, not 1796.  

What is a "minor premise"?

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