Avit Lemoine & Eliska Lemoine Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana Photograph Contributed by Cathy Sturgell, August 2005 ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** Avit J. Lemoine was born 2 March 1878 in Avoyelles. He was the son of Ovide Lemoine and Victoria Dufour. On 22 December 1897, he married Eliska Lemoine in Avoyelles Parish. She was the daughter of Joseph Lemoine and Azema Lemoine. Avit and Elisa were first cousins! They became the parents of ten children: 1. Edwin J. Lemoine b.1898 (married Angelle Mayeux) 2. Wilda Lemoine b.abt 1900 (married Manuel Mayeux) 3. Abdon Joseph Lemoine b. 1902 (married Natalie Couvillion) 4. Helen Lemoine b. 1906 (married Enos Couvillion) 5. Ovide James Lemoine b. 1908 (married Eleanor Couvillion-) 6. Nora Lemoine b. 1911 (married Louis Guillory) 7. Marie Lemoine b. 1913 (married Seston Mayeux) 8. Lumay Lemoine b.1916 (Edine Cecile Couvillion) 9. Henry Lemoine b. 1918 (married Frieda Walter) 10. Florian Lemoine b. 1920 (married Genevieve Brouillette) Avit died in 1950. Eliska lived to the age of 99 and died on 12 December 1977. Both are buried in Sacred Heart Cemetery in Moreauville.