Avoyelles-Natchitoches-Winn County Louisiana Archives Birth..... Duplissey, Adolphus June 17 1817 ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Bobby Duplissey Dup86@bellsouth.net September 1, 2004, 8:19 pm Name: Duplissey, Adolphus Date Of Birth: June 17 1817 Time: County Of Birth: Avoyelles Place Of Birth: Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana Gender: Male Race: W Parent's Residence Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana Mother's Name: Roe (Rowe), Nancy Mother's Age: 20 Mother's Birthplace: Edgefield, South Carolina Father's Name: Plessy, Dominique Father's Age: 40 Father's Birthplace: Bordeaux , France Doctor: Unavailable Hospital: Unavailable Adolphus Duplissey was probably born at home. His parents lived somewhere near Marksville, Louisiana.When he was about four years old, he moved to a part of Natchitoches Parish that later became Winn Parish.After he moved to Natchitoches Parish,his family name was changed from Plessy to Duplissey.I do not know how this happened. When he was about 3 or 4 years old, his father,Dominique Plessy,died in an accident.Dominique Plessy died somewhere between 11-17-1820 and 3-17-1821.He cut his femoral artery on a saddle dirk (knife)while getting down from his horse and bled to death.A dirk was a large knife that some people carried strapped to the horn of their saddle.Dominique was between 40 and 45 years old when he died. This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/lafiles/ File size: 1.8 Kb