Obituary of Mrs. Jane Gould Munson, Assumption Parish, La.
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From the Assumption Pioneer  August 18, 1920

Mrs. Jane Gould Munson Dead

Napoleonville, La., Aug 18. Mrs. Jane Gould Munson died at the home of her 
daughter, Mrs. ‘Eugene E. Chauvin, on Woodlawn plantation, about three miles 
below this town, last Tuesday.  She was 94 years old, being born February 27, 1826 
in Oswego, NY
She came to Louisiana in 1844 with a party who were coming to the South, 
making the trip from Oswego, to Pittsburgh in a stage coach.  From Pittsburgh 
they came to New Orleans by steamboat and thence to Donaldsonville.  Along 
with the party, there came to Bayou Lafourche Dr. Joseph D. Ford, who was 
also one of the early settlers of Assumption Parish, and they made the trip 
from Donaldsonville to Napoleonville in a skiff along Bayou Lafourche.
It was on this visit to her brother, living in this parish, she met John Alden Munson, 
a descendent of John Alden, who was also an early settler, having come to 
this parish from Hartford, Conn.  From this union were born the following 
children:  Three sons, Henry A., Alonzo R., and Edward P., and three 
daughters, Mollie, Ella, and Annie.  One son, Alonzo R. Munson, and two 
daughters, Mrs. C. L. Friend (Mollie) and Mrs. Eugene E. Chauvin (Annie), 
survive.  She is survived also by thirty grandchildren and thirty-eight 
great-grandchildren, among them being some of the most prominent 
people of this parish.  One, Charles H. Munson, is a sugar planter and a 
member of the Legislature from this parish.  Mrs. Aubrey Barlett of New Orleans 
is a grandchild.
Funeral services were held at Christ Episcopal Church here, of which she 
was a member, Wednesday afternoon with interment in the family tomb.  
Rev. Quincy Ewing officiating.  The pallbearers were six of her grandsons, 
Charles M., Harold F. Stephen C, Edward P. and Lloyd Munson and James Chauvin"