Margueritte Helte, French Settlement, Livingston Parish, Louisiana
Death Record
File prepared by D.N. Pardue

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From the French Settlement Historical Register, published by the French Settlement
Historical Society, French Settlement, Louisiana 70733. The LaGenWeb Archives thanks 
them for contributing this information.

Vol. 3, December 1978

Originally submitted to the FSHR by Marietta Lambert

Margueritte Helte
Died 8 August 1825
Buried the same day
Wife of: Paul Materne
Daughter of: Michel Helte deceased and Margueritte Kerne deceased

     This death is registered in St. John the Baptist Church, Edgard, La.,
Funeral Book 3 and dated 11 August 1825.  This act which is in the parish
of St. Helena, Amite River, was registered on the testimony of Jean Louis
Picou, (cemetery was on his land) Simon Brignac, Jacque Wicner and Jean
Baptiste Wicner.  She was buried in a place designated to serve as a 
cemetery there being neither church or priest.  
                                            Mina Cure

Margueritte Helte and Pierre Paul Materne were married 3 February 1818 in
St. John the Baptist Church, Edgard, La., and their children were:

1.  Margueritte Arsene
    Born 6 December 1818
    Married Nicolas Guitreau, son of Paul & Josephine Vickner

2.  Paul
    Born 22 March 1820
    Married Eugenie Ory

3.  Elisabeth Da
    Born 25 October 1821 
    Married Pierre Leopold Granon, Widower of Elizabeth Gauthreau

4.  Octave
    Born 15 August 1823
    Married Eleanor Guitreau, daughter of Paul and Manon Brignac

5.  Ursin
    Born 29 July 1825

NOTE:  This is the earliest known record of a burial in French Settlement Cemetery.