Fifth Generation


24. Zenon Vincent MAYEUX was born on 30 July 1829 in (Avoyelles Parish), Louisiana, USA.248 He was baptized on 2 October 1829 at Saint Paul the Apostle Catholic Church in Mansura (Avoyelles Parish), Louisiana, USA.248 Civil War Military service: Company I, 18th Louisiana Infantry, CSA from October 1862 to January 1963.249,250 He died (Died in a measles epidemic)about 1 January 1863 at the age of 33.251 Zenon was buried at Camp Pratt in New Iberia (Iberia Parish), Louisiana, USA.52 He had his estate in succession on 30 January 1863 in (Avoyelles Parish), Louisiana, USA.122,123 Dispensation: on 2 January 1853. Armide MOREAU and Zenon Vincent MAYEUX obtained a marriage license on 8 January 1853 in (Avoyelles Parish), Louisiana, USA.253 They253 were united in Civil Marriage on 18 January 1853 in (Avoyelles Parish), Louisiana, USA.254 They254 were married on 18 January 1853 at Saint Paul the Apostle Catholic Church in Mansura (Avoyelles Parish), Louisiana, USA.255 Armide and Zenon255 appeared in the census in 1860 in Marksville (Avoyelles Parish), Louisiana, USA.

25. Armide MOREAU was born on 11 January 1839 in (Avoyelles Parish), Louisiana, USA.256 She was baptized on 13 May 1840 at Saint Paul the Apostle Catholic Church in Mansura (Avoyelles Parish), Louisiana, USA.256 She died on 13 May 1908 at the age of 69 in (Avoyelles Parish), Louisiana, USA.251 Armide was buried at Sacred Heart Catholic Church Cemetery & Mausoleum in Moreauville (Avoyelles Parish), Louisiana, USA.257,258

[Note: Armide's 2nd marriage was to Marcelin M. Dufour. They were united in a civil ceremony on 14 June 1864 in Avoyelles and in a religious ceremony at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Moreauville on the same day.]

Picture of Armide Moreau and her 2nd husband, Marcelin M. Dufour

Children were:

i.

Lovencia Vincent (Lovincia) MAYEUX was born on 30 July 1854 in (Avoyelles Parish), Louisiana, USA. He was baptized Mansura in (Avoyelles Parish), Louisiana, USA. He died on 15 November 1939 at the age of 85 in Moreauville (Avoyelles Parish), Louisiana, USA.259,260 Lovencia was buried on 16 November 1939 at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Moreauville (Avoyelles Parish), Louisiana, USA.259,261

ii.

Lovinia MAYEUX was born on 30 July 1854 in (Avoyelles Parish), Louisiana, USA.262 She was baptized in 1854 in Mansura (Avoyelles Parish), Louisiana, USA.

iii.

Joseph Ferdinand MAYEUX was born on 3 June 1857 in (Avoyelles Parish), Louisiana, USA.52,104 He was baptized in 1857 at Saint Paul the Apostle Catholic Church in Mansura (Avoyelles Parish), Louisiana, USA.104 He lived in Naples (Avoyelles Parish), Louisiana, USA in 1918. Joseph died between 1923 and 1927 in Louisiana, USA. He was supposedly buried in Moreauville (Avoyelles Parish), Louisiana, USA but this is not confirmed. ...My Elusive Great-Grandfather...

iv.

Martin MAYEUX was born about 1860. He died (accidentally shot himself) on 11 March 1879 at the age of 19 in Moreauville (Avoyelles Parish), Louisiana, USA.263

v.

Edgar Alphonse MAYEUX was born about 1862. He appeared in the census in 1870. He was (supposedly) buried in Moreauville (Avoyelles Parish), Louisiana, USA but I've been unable to find any record of this burial or his death record.