Eloi Hebert Family, History: Cameron Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Macile Hooper LeJeune
After passing through many hands, this document reached the Cameron Parish File Manager and was
submitted on Aug. 27, 2006


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"This is Grace Credeur's story of HEBERT COUNTRY:
The Eloi Hebert Family

ELOI HEBERT was born on ll-10-1799t son of JOSEPH HEBERT, Jr. & MARGUERITE TRAHAN. He was christened
on 5-16-1800
@ St. Martinville Church, on 2-15-1819. Eloi married CELESTINE BREAUX, daughter of JEAN BAPTISTS
BREAUX & MARIE
MADELEINE GIROIR. CELESTINE is the Granddaughter of FIRMIN BREAUX & MARGUERITE BREAUX, for whom Breaux
Bridge,
La. is named, (or his son ?) ELOI's Grandfather, JOSEPH HEBERT was also one o>f the founders of Breaux
Bridge,
LA.

ELOI HEBERT & CELESTINE BREAUX had 13 children; most of them were christened @ St. John Church in
Lafayette, LA.
Some were married there also. The Tax roll for Lafayette Parish from 1865-1870, ELOI HEBERT paid
$3.00; $56
Parish tax and $^.17 State tax. He was not living on the property then. Around 1870, ELOI and his
family were
living in Cameron Parish what is known today as Big Lake, LA. or Grand Lake, La. ELOI HEBERT and his
whole family
went to live @ Big Lake, LA.; except his son, ALEXANDRE, married to Euphemie MIER and his Grandson,
JOSEPH DUPRE
HEBERT, married to Euphemie MIER, who was ALEXANDRE HEBERT wife's niece. The Aunt and the niece had
the same
name. Probably the reason that they did not go to live in Big Lake, LA. was because of his wife's
family-that did
not want to go! The MIER Family settled in Acadia Parish and were prominent families.

ELOI HEBERT went to Big Lake because he & his sons heard that there was a lot of land there that they
could get
by just building a fence around it. ELOI HEBERT built his home on a big hill right on the Intercoastal
Canal
levee. By Dec 6, 1873, CELESTINE BREAUX died. They had an inventory of $17,153.15 total property. The
Taxes for
the year 1873 was Parish Tax $98.36 and State Tax $72.31. They had a lot of cattle & horses. Also a
lot of wild
horses.

Eloi Hebert then married again to EMMA GUILLORY. No children were born to them.

In 1881 ELOI HEBERT died. The property divided between his heirs. He also gave land for a cemetery in
Big Lake,
which was called HEBERT CEMETERY until in 1976 the name was changed to Big Lake Community Cemetery.
Most of the
ELOI HEBERT FAMILY is buried in the cemetery. In Sept of 1978 LUCIEN TRAHAN, ALONCEL CREDEUR TRAHAN,
JOHN CREDEUR
& myself (Grace Credeur) visited Big Lake, LA.

The cemetery is well kept. Has a Hurricane fence around it and is located on a hill. We visited Mr. &
Mrs.
Raymond Blanchard. Mrs. Blanchard was ALZIRE HEBERT, daughter of ONEZIME HEBERT, grandson of SOSTHENE
HEBERT, son
of ELOI HEBERT, who lives on the old property where the old ELOI HEBERT HOME was.

Big Lake, LA. is a small community mostly descendants of ELOI HEBERT'S Family.  You take the Hwy from
Lake
Charles until you get to "Boone's Corner". That is a small grocery store. You are about on the middle
of what was
the old ELOI HEBERT property. Follow Hwy and make a curve. You will see where you turn right to go to
the
Cemetery? Continue on the Hwy and right before you cross the Intercoastal Canal on the right is the
old ELOI
HEBERT HOMESTEAD. The Grand Lake High School is on JEAN BAPTIST HEBERT, Sr. property.  So when you
visit Grand
Lake you are in HEBERT COUNTRY. It is also a good fishing place.  A boat landing is run by an HEBERT
descendant,
called Martin, who is deaf & dumb. We also went to Hayes, LA. and found the Community Cemetery there.
We found
the graves, Mr. & Mrs. Maurice HEBERT, son of ELOI HEBERT.

On the cemetery gate @ Grand Lake there was this sign: Hebert Cemetery
 "For information on Grand Lake Cemetery contact
Mrs. John B. Duhon, Rt 2 Box 377,
Lake Charles, LA. 70605

I wrote to him without luck, maybe you will receive some information if you tell him about your book.
(I did
not!) (She sent me listing of graves found.)(Geneva)


Note at bottom of paper states as of July 21, 2003
caretaker is Margaret Duhon Hebert
1625 Whispering Pines Drive
Lake Charles, LA 70605