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Permalink Reply by Kate Steere on July 28, 2009 at 11:21am

Hi Dodi-
I'm looking for anything on the death of Gus LaCour or his wife Mathilde LaCour in Texas or Lousiana. Gus was a widow in 1910, I have an article that he appears in in 1911, and I haven't found him yet in 1920 or 1930 yet, so I'm assuming he may have died between 1911 and 1920. I believe he would have been in Liberty, Texas.

thank you!
Kate

Permalink Reply by Dodie Ford on July 28, 2009 at 12:27pm

Kate: I checked the TX and Louisiana CDs and I found a "J. LaCroir in TX listed as a German immigrant bet 1847-1861" and a few La Croix on the Louisiana CD but all the records for LaCroix were way too far back to be your Gus. It mostly concerned the War of 1812.

I also checked "Handbook of Texas" with no result and "Early Texas Births with no results for La Cour or any variation.

I'm sure there are some different spellings of your surname LaCour. If your Gus was from Germany, I will be glad to send what I have for your reference.

I'm sorry I couldn't be more help.

Permalink Reply by Dodie Ford on July 28, 2009 at 2:05pm

Kate, I was working on my own family in LA and on the same page with my family (Porche) was a Zenon Lacour.
I found it on the 1810 Pointe Coupee LA census. He was prob born in middle 1700s but he could be related to your Gus Lacour.

I thought I would let you know since the spelling is the same. This name was not listed in the index and I found it just by chance.

I have never uploaded a file here and don't know how this will work but I have attached the file for you. You will have to let me know if you can't open it or can't read it. I will be glad to send to you by regular mail, Dodie

Attachments:

• Zenon Lacour.jpg, 502 KB

Permalink Reply by Dodie Ford on July 28, 2009 at 2:17pm

I have found two more Lacour names on the 1810 Pointe Coupee Parish LA census.
*M. Leonard Ve. Lacour
*Clement Lacour

Let me know if you are interested. Dodie

Permalink Reply by Karen Struve on July 28, 2009 at 5:01pm

Dear Dodie,

Thank you for volunteering your time to do lookups in Texas. Would you please look for a birth record for Mary Harriett MINOR, born 27 Dec 1846 in Houston, TX? I have this piece of information in a widow's pension application for her husband, Andrew W. LASCELLE. Her father was Jarvis Golden MINOR and her mother was Mary Ann CASTLEMAN.

Thanks again,
Karen Struve

Permalink Reply by Dodie Ford on July 28, 2009 at 7:20pm

Yes, I will be glad to do lookups for you. I will have to wait 'til tomorrow to get back to you. Obligations for this evening. But, I will be in touch with you in this group.

Permalink Reply by Dodie Ford on July 29, 2009 at 12:17pm

Karen, I have found nothing for a birth of Mary Harriet Minor. I have to tell you that you may not find an official birth record for her. Most of my g. and gg grandparents before 1870 in TX do not have birth records. They were not required and are just not available.

What I have done is accumulate as many sources for the birth date of each of my ancestors as I could find and then applied the Genealogical Proof Standard. My sources came from family Bibles, censuses and as you said,Confederate Pension Records. Anything that states a birth date.

I searched "Early Texas Births" with no result.

I searched "Handbook of Texas": wih the following result:
Fred Hawthorne Minor (1888-1976) lawyer, politician from Denton Co TX. Parents: John Rufus Minor and Elizabeth Matilda (Boyd)

I searched "Early Texas Settlers" with the following result:
Jarvis Minor, Travis Co TX, Republic of Texas Poll Lists for 1846 (I have attached a copy to this post).

There are a number of MINOR names on this CD:
Clement Minor
Diana Ann Minor
Eleanor Joyce Joye Scoville Minor
Elizabeth Minor
Ephriam Minor
Garrett Minor
Grace Minor
Hanna Minor
Henry Minor
Isabella Minor
J.J. Minor
James Minor
John Minor
Joseph Minor
Juda Minor
Sarah Minor
Thomas Minor

I am just sending these as a point of possible interest. If you need to see a copy of anything let me know. I hope you can use something in all this. Dodie

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• Jarvis Minor record.jpg, 582 KB

Permalink Reply by Dodie Ford on July 29, 2009 at 12:37pm

Karen, in "Early Texas Settlers" I also found the following CASTLEMAN names:
Andrew Castleman
Elizabeth
Jacob
James
John
Louvinia, Lavinia
M.D.
Margaret
Michel
Milly
Nancy
Polly
Sophronia
Sylvanus

I didn't find anything for LASCELLE or any variation of spelling

Permalink Reply by Kate Steere on July 29, 2009 at 7:22am

Hi Dodi-
Thank you for the lookups! I'd love to the see the 1810 census records-
Thank you very much for your time!

Permalink Reply by Dodie Ford on July 29, 2009 at 11:42am

Kate, a copy of the census page for Zenon Lacour is attached to my post above. I will send the page with the other two names.

The underlines on the page I am sending are my family. If you have a blank 1810 census form, you can copy the info for your family to it and use the copy I send to support it. The source is noted at the bottom of the page.

If you need a blank 1810 form, I can send one.

Look for attachment at bottom left of message. And, let me know if you can open and read them, please.

Attachments:

• 1810 Lacour.jpg, 504 KB

Permalink Reply by Kate Steere on July 29, 2009 at 2:39pm

Hi Dodie-

Thank you for the 1810, I believe Nicholas is one of my ancestors, I think it fits the timeline. :)

many thanks!
Kate