Biography of Charles Comeaux and Anastasie Savoie Comeaux, St. Landry Parish, La. Submitted by Jim Conway ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** From La Voix des Prairies: Evangeline Parish Genealogical and Historical Society January 1997, Vol.18 No.68, pages 3-5. ANASTASIE SAVOIE: A Search for her Parents Contributed By John A. Young Among the early Acadian immigrants to arrive in the Opelousas Post area were Charles COMEAUX and his wife Anastasie SAVOIE. Their arrival in the area sometime prior to 1771 is documented in the census taken that year. At the time the census was taken they had two children, boys, aged four and two, allowing us to surmise that Charles and Anastasia were probably married sometime prior to 1767. The date and place of their marriage has yet to be found. Charles and Anastasie remained in the Opelousas Post area until their deaths, she was buried on October 18,1802, and he on August 19,1805 "at age about 60 years."[1] During their life together they had at least seven children, many descendants of whom are still living in the southwest Louisiana area. Identifying Charles COMEAUX as the son of Jean COMEAUX and Madeleine AMIRAULT of Chipoudy, Acadia was not difficult.[2] Identifying the parents of Anastasie SAVOIE has proven to be much more challenging. The first evidence found thus far of Charles COMEAUX and his family being in the Opelousas Post area comes from the 1771 census.[3] On that census, Charles COMEAUX and his family appear as follows: Charles COMO, age 29 [b. 1742]; Pierre SAVOIE, age 26 [b. 1745]; Wife of Charles COMO, age 27 [b. 1744]; One son age 4 [b. 1767]; one son age 2 [b.1769]; 19 cattle; 7 horses; 6 arpents without title. Six years later, on the 1777 census[4] the family of Charles COMEAUX (family #110) appears as follows: Charles COMAUT, age 40 [b. 1737]; 100 cattle; 15 horses; 50 hogs; and 0 sheep; Anastasie SAVOIE, age 34 [b. 1743] wife; Charles [Jr.], age 10 [b.1767]; Pierre, age 8 [b. 1769]; Dorautee [Dorothy], age 7 [b. 1770]; Emelie, age 4 [b. 1773]; and Susanne COMEAUX, age 1 [b. 1776]; Slaves 1. Living next to the Comeaux family at the time the 1777 census was taken is thefollowing family (# 111): Pierre SAVOIE age 36 [b. 1741]; 60 cattle; 12 horses; 20 hogs; Louise BOURO wife age 20 [b. 1757]; One daughter Scolastie, age 3 [b. 1774]. These two census (1771 and 1777) raise an interesting question. Why is Pierre SAVOIE listed with the family of Charles COMEAUX and his wife Anastasie SAVOIE on the 1771 census and with his family, living next door to them in 1777? From Bona Arsenault, Historie et Genealogie des Acadiens, and Harry J. SAVOY, Savoy/Savoie/Savois Families of Louisiana[5] we can ascertain that Pierre SAVOIE who married Louise BOURO at Pointe Coupee on July 11 1771 is the son of Paul SAVOIE and Judith MICHEL of Chipoudy, Acadia, born in 1741. Bona Arsenault lists the following children born to Paul SAVOIE (son of Germain SAVOIE and Marie BREAUX) and Judith MICHEL (dau. of Jacques MICHEL and Catherine COMEAUX;[6] 1. Judith SAVOIE, b. 1723. 2. Marie Josephelate that, perhaps Pierre and Anastasie are brother and sister. If this were found to be fact, then Anastasie, born about 1743, would be the eighth child in the family of Paul SAVOIE and Judith MICHEL. This would explain why Pierre was living in the Comeaux/Savoie Household in 1771 and next door to them in 1777. Further research into the family will either prove or disprove that Anastasie is a child of Paul SAVOIE and Judith MICHEL. Charles COMEAUX and his wife Anastasie SAVOIE had the following children: 1. Charles Antoine COMEAUX b. ca. 1767; m. 10 Jan 1786 (SM Ch.), Perpetue BROUSSARD, d/o Jean Baptiste BROUSSARD & Anne BRUN. 2. Pierre COMEAUX b. ca. 1769; m. 19 Oct 1791 (Opel. Ch.), Cecilia LANGLOIS d/o Felipe LANGLOIS & Jeanne SONNIER. 3, Dorothy COMEAUX, b. ca. 1770; m. Jean Charles BOUDREAUX s/o Jean BOUDREAUX Marguerite GUILLEBAUT. 4. Emelie "Humilis" COMEAUX, b. ca. 1773; d. 20 Feb 1801 (Opel. Ch.); m. 9 May 1789 (Opel Ch.), Silvian SONNIER, s/o Silvain SONNIER & Magdalaine BOURQUE. 5. Susanne Josette COMEAUX, b. ca. 1776; m. 19 Oct 1791 (Opel.Ch.), Silvester MOUTON, s/o Jean MOUTON & Elizabeth BASTARACHE. 6. Auguste COMEAUX, bt. 3 Jun 1779 (Opel. Ch.); m. 26 Feb 1797 (Opel. Ch.), Celeste SONNIER, wid. of Elisea LAVISSOGNERE [MISSONIER], d/o Silvain SONNIER & Magdeleine BOURQUE. The above was submitted wIth the hope that one of our readers has already solved the puzzle regarding the ancestry of Anastasia SAVOIE and is willing to share that information with other interested readers. [1] Fr. Donald J. Hebert, Southwest Louisiana Records, (Hebert Publications, Rayne, La., 1975), Vol.1-B, pp.644 &187. [2] Bona Arsenault, Histoire et Genealogie des Acadiens, (CHAU-TV, Baie des Clizabeth BASTARACHE. 6. Auguste COMEAUX, bt. 3 Jun 1779 (Opel. Ch.); m. 26 Feb 1797 (Opel. Ch.), Celeste SONNIER, wid. of Elisea LAVISSOGNERE [MISSONIER], d/o Silvain SONNIER & Magdeleine BOURQUE. The above was submitted wIth the hope that one of our readers has already solved the puzzle regarding the ancestry of Anastasia SAVOIE and is willing to share that information with other interested readers. [1] Fr. Donald J. Hebert, Southwest Louisiana Records, (Hebert Publications, Rayne, La., 1975), Vol.1-B, pp.644 &187. [2] Bona Arsenault, Histoire et Genealogie des Acadiens, (CHAU-TV, Baie des Chaleurs Inc., Canada, 1988), Vol. 6, p.2461. (Hereinafter cited as Arsenault, Historie.) [3] Winston De Ville, FASG, Opelousas Post: The Census of 1771 (Ville Platte, La., n. pub., 1986), p. 10. [4] Winston De Ville, FASG, Southwest Louisiana Families in 1777: Census Records of Attakapas and Opelousas Posts, (Ville Platte, La., n. pub., 1987), p.25. [5] Harry J. Savoy, Savoy/Savoie/Savois Familes of Louisiana, (Church Point, La., Acadia Publishing Co., 1989), pp.16, 19,and 109. [6] Arsenault, Histoire, Vol.4, p.1572. [7] Ibid.