St Landry County Louisiana Archives News.....Adele Fontenot Estate Sale 1857 January 3, 1857
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The Opelousas Courier (Opelousas, LA) , Page 1 January 3, 1857
Judicial Sales, & c.

Public Sale.

Estate of Adele Fontenot, deceased.

The public are hereby informed that there will be sold at public sale, to the 
last and highest bidder, by a duly commissioned officer, on the plantation 
hereinafter described being the last residence of the deceased, situated near 
Ville Platte, in the Parish of St. Landry, on Thursday, the 24th January next, 
1857, the following described property belonging to the Estate of the late 
Adele Fontenot, deceased widow of Don Diegue Alexandre Larose Fontenot, late of 
the Parish of St. Landry, to wit:

THE PLANTATION, upon which the deceased last resided, situated near Ville 
Plate, in this Parish, measuring about six hundred and seventy-five arpents of 
land, bounded North by public lands, East by Alexandre Larose Fontenot, South 
by Cyprien Larose Fontenot, Jean Fontenot and others, and West by Philip Larose 
Fontenot, together with the Buildings AND IMPROVEMENTS, thereon erected and 
thereto pertaining:

19 Slaves of both sexes and divers ages,

About fifty head of gentle horned Cattle,

2 Yokes of work Oxen,

One Buggy,

Work Horses, and

Mules, horse creature,

About 150 barrels of Corn,

Ox Carts,

Plantation implements, household furniture, kitchen utensils, and many other 
articles, the enumeration of which would be too tedious.

Terms and Conditions: - All sums of five dollars and under, payable on the 
first day of April next, 1857, and all sums upwards of five dollars payable 
thus. One half on the first day of April 1858, and the remaining half on the 
first of April following 1859. Purchasers furnishing good and sufficient 
security to the satisfaction of whom the right, payments to be made at the 
office of Marcel Daire, in Ville Plate, and all sums bearing eight per cent 
interest from maturity until paid.

Alex. Larose Fontenot. Administrator.

Opelousas, December 20th, 1856.





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