Baltazar Durosin Triche & Josephine Troxclaire

Contribuição de

Baltazar Durosin Triche

B: 8 Mar 1807

D: 23 Mar 1875

FS #: K194-JYW

Wife:

Josephine Elodie Trosclair

B: 2 Jan 1823

D: 10 Sep 1863

FS #: K194-FLL

Original story written by: Mrs. J. A. (Elizabeth Marie Barrios II) Caballero about March 1972, together with some added information provided by her at a later date.

1. Baltazar Durosin Triche was born 8 March 1807 and christened a Catholic on 9 May 1807 at St. John the Baptist Church in Edgard, St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana, USA (Certificate of Baptism). He was the elder son of Baltazar Leonard Triche and Susanne Elfer (Hefler). He died on 23 March 1875 at Valentine Plantation, Lafourche, Lousiana, near Lockport, Lafourche, LA. He was buried the same day in the St. Joseph's Cemetery in Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, where the family tomb was located (Certificate of Death). The family name, "Triche," is German and was spelled "Trischl."

2. Baltazar Durosin Triche and Josephine Troxclaire (also known as "Marie Elodie") were married on 25 April 1837 at St. Joseph's Church in Thibodaux (Thib. Ch.: v. 1, #568). Josephine Troxclaire was born on 2 January 1823 and christened a Catholic on 23 February 1823 at St. John the Baptist Church (Certificate of Baptism). She was the daughter of Christopher Troxclaire, Sr., and his first wife, Marie Borne (or Borno).

3. Josephine Troxclaire died on 10 September 1863 and was buried on 11 September 1863 in the St. Joseph's Cemetery (Certificate of Death). On 29 February 1964, Baltazar Durosin Triche married Marie Rose Bauset (or Bouvet) at St. Philomena's Church in Labadieville, Assumption Parish, Louisiana. Marie Rose Bauset (or Bouvet) was the widow of Marius Albagnac, and their only son was killed during the United States Civil War. No children were born of the marriage between Baltazar Durosin Triche and Marie Rose Bauset (or Bouvet).

4. Baltazar Durosin Triche had ten children from his first marriage to Marie Josephine Troxclaire, who were:

4(1). Edmond Triche, born on 7 February 1838. He lived five (5) minutes and died on 7 February 1838 (Thib. Ch.: v.1, #804).

4(2). Marie Aspagie Triche, born on 27 May 1839 ( Thib. Ch.: v. 3, #1732). She was christened a Catholic on 29 May 1839 (Family Knowledge). She married Eugene Louefroy Robichaux on 13 July 1854 at St. Joseph's Church in Thibodaux (Thib. Ch. : v. 4, #556). Marie Aspagie Triche died on 12 May 1904 (Thib. Ch. : v. 3, p.309).

4(3). Abraham Ozime Triche, born on 16 March 1841 (Thib. Ch.: v. 3, #2247). He died on 30 March 1854 at the age of four years (Thib. Ch.: v. 1, #219);

4(4). Celeste Edwige Triche, born on 29 March 1843 (Thib. Ch.: v. 4, #140). She died on 15 December 1843 at the age of nine months (Thib. Ch.: v. 1, #101);

4(5). Christope Olimphe Triche, born on 17 December 1844 (Thib. Ch.: v. 4, #724). He never married.

4(6). Honorine ("Edwige") Triche, born on 16 May 1847 ( Thib. Ch.: v.5, p.17). She was christened a Catholic on 14 June 1847 (Family Knowledge). She married Jean Baptiste Leche on 8 July 1865 at St. Joseph's Church in Thibodaux (Thib. Ch. : v. 6, #145).

4(7). Marie Valentine Triche, born on 14 February 1850 (Thib. Ch.: v. 5, p.100). She was christened a Catholic on 25 February 1950 (Family Knowledge). She married Francois Blaise Bourgeois on 20 December 1866 (Decree of Emancipation ; 23 October 1869 (Thib. Ct. Hse. : Succ. #792). Francois Blaise Bourgeois died about 1875-77 (Family Records). Marie Valentine Triche then married Joseph Telemaque Badeaux on 27 January 1877 at Holy Savior Church in Lockport in Lafourche Parish (Lockport Ch. : v. 1, #2). Marie Valentine Triche died on 29 January 1943 (Family Records).

4(8). Octave Triche, born on 18 March 1852 (Thib. Ch.: v. 5, p.165). He died on 8 September 1853 at the age of fifteen months (Thib. Ch.: v. 1, #40)

4(9). Unnamed boy, born between 31 December 1854 and 7 January 1855 ( Thib. Ch.: v. 1, #301). He died at the age of one day (Id.);

4(10). Marie Octavie Triche, born 15 February 1856 (Thib. Ch.: v. 5, p.285). She married Leonidas Trosclaire on 8 September 1874 (Thib. Ct. Hse.: Mar. v. 19, # 162).

5. Baltazar Durosin Triche and Marie Josephine Troxclaire were the owners of Laurel Grove Plantation, which was situated about four miles above Thibodaux on Bayou Lafourche. As was the custom in the South before the United States Civil War, Baltazar Durosin Triche owned many slaves. Some were field hands and others worked in their home. The slaves wore shoes during the winter, but not during the summer. Baltazar Durosin Triche purchased bolts of blue denim for their apparel and slaves who were seamstresses sewed their garments. Some slaves were barbers and others were handy men. One slave was very adept at pulling teeth, which art he practiced on the laborers and their families as the need arose. Throughout their lives, the slaves were well-fed, and provided with housing and medical attention. (Slavery is condemned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints).

6. During the U.S. Civil War (1861 - 1865), many slaves fled the South, leaving planters and their families unprotected from the "Yankees" (Northern soldiers). Old Charles, Isaac, and Liza did not want to leave the Triche family. (They stayed with the Triche family and were well-provided for until their deaths.) Some of the family's belongings were placed in wagons. They hid in the woods while the "Yankees" were campaigning around Thibodaux. The "Rebels" (the Southern property owners) burned the bridge across Bayou Lafourche in an effort to keep the Yankees from crossing, but they were able to cross the bayou upon rafts and skiffs. After the War ended, Baltazar Durosin Triche sold Laurel Grove Plantation, and he acquired and moved to Valentine Plantation.

7. Valentine Plantation is situated on Bayou Lafourche and is a few miles below Lockport. It consisted of all, or part of, Orange Grove Plantation which was previously acquired by Captain Celestin Dalferes. The Dalferes family owned several plantations situated along Bayou Lafourche. While owned by the Dalferes family, Orange Grove Plantation produced 114 hogsheads of sugar. The following information was found in "Les Planteur de la Louisiane," by Jerry Joseph Gros, Seventh Chapter, Dalferes Plantation: "On 2 January 1869, Captain Dalferes lost Orange Grove Plantation to the Louisiana State Bank of New Orleans and was sold at a sheriff sale of Pierre Rousseau and Drauzin Triche, for six thousand dollars, this plantation was to become the Grand Valentine Plantation, as it is known today" (original errors in grammar or punctuation retained).

8. The following which described the circumstances of the Triche family was taken during an inventory when Baltazar Durosin Triche was 52 years of age:

"... occupation farmer; $60,000 of real property; $72,888 of personal property; 334 acres of improved land; 369 acres of unimproved land; $55,000 cash value of farm; $3,888 of implements and machinery; 4 horses; 23 ***** and mules; 9 milch cows; 3 working oxen; 5 sheep; 30 swine; 20 other cattle; $8,300 of live stock; 2,200 bushels of Indian corn; 50 bushels of Irish potatoes; 375 bushels of sweet potatoes; 200 hogsheads of sugar cane; 13,600 gallons of mol*****; and $400 of animals slaughtered" ("The Large Slave Holders of Louisiana - 1860," by Joseph Karl Menn, M.A., Pelican Publishing Co., New Orleans, LA, pp.266-67, No. 31, Family Number 811).

Information: Marie Elizabeth Barrios, Granddaughter

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Compiler: Helen Marie Barrios, Great-granddaughter