The Ascension Parish clerk of court tried to explain to D.C. The name in the marriage record she sent apparently didn’t match any of the names on the war rolls. This was a problem for Rosalie because the war office in Washington, D.C., insisted on a precise spelling of her late husband’s name in order to check the war rolls. The problem with her application was that she had no idea how to spell her maiden name much less her married surname. Rosalie Euphrosine Naquin applied for a pension after her husband, Louis Oncal died. Reading through War of 1812 pension records, I came across an interesting saga. Of the five children Desire and Heleine Gautreaux brought into the world, Adrienne had the longest life. All of Adrienne’s sisters and brothers were dead by this point. For nearest friend or relative, the sheriff is listed. What’s sad to me is something listed on both interdiction forms. They had no children so it was just the two of them against the world. They didn’t have to worry about providing for themselves. Maybe Oleus and Adrienne were content in the mental hospital. A lot of people were experiencing economic stress. was in the midst of the Great Depression. Oleus was deaf, partially blind, suffered from a lung ailment and feared running out of money to live on. The orders were signed just three days after Adrienne’s 65th birthday. Husband and wife were packed off to the mental hospital on the same day in 1936. Oleus, by the way, also died at the mental hospital in Jackson. Her stinginess extended to her husband, Oleus Landry. It was not uncommon to be interdicted during the early 1900s.Īdrienne was interdicted in 1936 for “manic depressive insanity” and “constitutional psychopathic inferiority.” According to the doctors who examined her, she heard voices threatening to blow up her home and wouldn’t spend any money on food or warmth. For some reason, these records usually are indexed with the probate records in Louisiana. I was curious what brought her there so I pulled the interdiction records.Īn interdiction is the legal process for committing someone to a mental health facility. She had been there at least 15 years since she’s listed as an inmate on the 1940 census. Somehow, though, Adrienne ended up in a mental hospital, where she died in 1955. I’ll be honest: This doesn’t look so bad. The women’s ward at the mental hospital in Jackson. ![]() Since they had no children of their own, you’d think they would dote on her. She went to live with one of her mother’s relatives. She was only two when her mother died (probably in childbirth). Marie Adrienne was the last of Desire and Heleine Gautreaux’s children. ![]() From family stories, it doesn’t sound like they were happy about it.Ĭordilier’s sister had it no better. He outlived all three of his children, his wife and his parents, leaving it to the stepchildren to care for him in his final years. ![]() Death was a constant presence in his life. He worked as a swamper, carpenter and grocery store deliveryman. He was a good 13 years younger than his bride. I don’t know much about Cordilier other than that he married at 21 and there was friction between him and the children from his wife’s first marriage. My granny’s grandfather was Joseph Cordilier Gautreaux (or Gauthreaux). You know you’re in for a sad tale when the next of kin on a document is the sheriff. The mental hospital in Jackson around 1900.
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