Obituaries: Victorine Flores Desadier, 1961, Winn & Natchitoches Parishes, LA.
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: October 19, 1961 Winn Parish Enterprise News-American

Mrs. Desadier, 108, Is Buried At St. Maurice Oct. 18

A 108 year old Natchitoches Parish woman, Mrs. Victorine Flores Desadier, died
in a Natchitoches hospital, Tuesday, leaving 195 direct descendants, including
five generations.

An orphan of the Civil War, Mrs. Desadier was born in Montgomery, La., Jan.
14, 1853.  Her father, Hosea Flores, died in service of the Confederacy during
a flu epidemic which claimed his entire battalion during the Battle of
Mansfield.

Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Wednesday from St. Joseph's Catholic
Church, in the Pace Community, with the Rev. Francis Crowe officiating. 
Burial was in the St. Maurice Cemetery.

Mrs. Desadier was the mother of 18 children, seven of whom are living.  She
is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Phanor Desadier of Clarence and Mrs.
Charles N. Cox, Baton Rouge; five sons, Jim Carter of West Monroe, Walter
Carter of Rt. 3, Natchitoches, Clarence Desadier and Noah Desadier, both of
Clarence, and W. W. Desadier of Alexandria; 35 grandchildren, 102 great
grandchildren, 50 great-great grandchildren, and one great-great-great
granddaughter.