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Name: Louis Dufilho
Birth Date: 5 Jan 1908
Address: 265 Rr01, Opelousas, LA, 70570
- [S449] Hollier, Mark, death certificate for Louis Joseph Dufilho, died 22 February 1985, Louisiana, Secretary of State, Vital Records, Death Certificates.
- [S243] Social Security Death Index, Ancestry.com, Database online. Number: 434-16-8975; Issue State: Louisiana; Issue Date: Before 1951.
Record for Louis Dufilho
Name: Louis Dufilho
SSN: 434-16-8975
Last Residence: 70570 Opelousas, Saint Landry, Louisiana, United States of America
Born: 5 Feb 1908
Died: Feb 1985
State (Year) SSN issued: Louisiana (Before 1951)
- [S322] Hollier, Rose Marie (Dufilho), Firsthand Knowledge, (Location: Opelousas, Louisiana;), telephone conversation, 1992.
- [S370] Bellevue Memorial Cemetery (Opelousas, Louisiana), Grave Markers, Louis J. and Celeste S. Dufilho grave marker, GPS (lat/lon): 30.4635, -92.1005, by Mark Edwin Hollier on 23 Oct 2011.
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Name: Louis Dufilho
Birth Date: 5 Jan 1908
Address: 265 Rr01, Opelousas, LA, 70570
- [S449] Hollier, Mark, death certificate for Louis Joseph Dufilho, died 22 February 1985, Louisiana, Secretary of State, Vital Records, Death Certificates (Reliability: 4).
- [S588] Southwest Louisiana Records (1750-1915), 47 vols, Donald J. Hebert, (Name: Hebert Publications; Location: Rayne, Louisiana;), 40:263.
DUFILHO, Louis Joseph (John & Anna HINCKLEY) b. 5 Feb. 1908 (Opel. Ch.: v.8, p. 121)
- [S651] St. Landry Catholic Church (Opelousas, Louisiana), (Name: Diocese of Lafayette Archives; Location: Lafayette, Louisiana;), Baptisms, vol. 8, p. 121, no. 106, Louis Joseph Dufilho (1908); copy of original register supplied by Candace Brunet, Associate Archivist, Diocese of Lafayette Archives; privately held by Mark Edwin Hollier, Opelousas, Louisiana, 2020 (Reliability: 3).
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- [S670] Newspapers.com, "Mr. Louis J. Dufilho," obituary, Daily World, Opelousas, 24 February 1985, p. 3, https://www.newspapers.com/image/228559857.
Mr. Louis J. Dufilho
Funeral services for Louis J. Dufilho, 77, of Opelousas will be at 10 a.m. Monday at Our Lady of Mercy Roman Catholic Church with burial to follow in Bellevue Cemetery.
Mr. Dufilho died at 9:21 a.m. Friday at Opelousas General Hospital. Survivors include his wife, Celeste St. Amand Dufilho of Opelousas; one son, Harold Dufilho of Picayune, Miss.; four daughters, Mrs. Joe (Anna) Stelly of Baton Rouge, Mrs. Mervin (Gloria) Sonnier of Norman, Ok., Mrs. Edwin (Rose) Hollier and Mrs. Donald (Beverly) Fontenot, both of Opelousas; three brothers, George and Gerald Dufilho of Opelousas and Eugene Dufilho of Bay St. Louis, Miss; two sisters, Mrs. Netti Burleigh and Mrs. Ida Russ, both of Opelousas, 15 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
Mr. Dufilho was a member of Our Lady of Mercy Roman Catholic Church and former owner and operator of the Fontenot Supply House. He was a Woodsman of the World, a member of the Hope, Hook and Ladder Fire Company, and the Louisiana Cattlemen’s Association.
The funeral home will be open from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. today and will re-open at 8 a.m. Monday until time of services. The family requests memorial contributions be made to the United Heart Fund. Lafond-Ardoin Funeral Home, Old Sunset Road, is in charge of all arrangements.
- [S245] 1910 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;), Database online. Year: 1910; Census Place: Police Jury Ward 1, Saint Landry, Louisiana; Roll: ; Page: ; Enumeration District: ; Image: .
Record for Louis Dufillea
- [S246] 1920 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;), Database online. Year: 1920; Census Place: Opelousas, St Landry, Louisiana; Roll: T625_630; Page: 4A; Enumeration District: 88; Image: .
Record for Louis Dufilho
- [S271] 1930 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2002;), Database online. Year: 1930; Census Place: Police Jury Ward 5, St Landry, Louisiana; Roll: 820; Page: 6B; Enumeration District: 31; Image: 531.0.
Record for Louis Dufilho
- [S484] 1940 United States Federal Census, (Name: Ancestry.com;), Year: 1940; Census Place: St Landry, Louisiana; Roll: m-t0627-01451; Page: 5A; Enumeration District: 49-7.
Record for Louis Dufilho
- [S370] Bellevue Memorial Cemetery (Opelousas, Louisiana), Grave Markers, Louis J. and Celeste S. Dufilho grave marker, GPS (lat/lon): 30.4635, -92.1005, by Mark Edwin Hollier on 23 Oct 2011 (Reliability: 4).
- [S266] Find A Grave, Find A Grave, Louis Joseph Dufilho, Memorial# 81979598, created by Mark Hollier, 14 Dec 2011.
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DUFILHO, John (Charles & Antoinette DEBAILLON) m. 21 March 1900 Anna HINKLEY (Opel. Ch.: v.3, p.245)
- [S354] "St. Landry Parish Marriage Licenses, 1807 - Present", (Location: Opelousas, Louisiana;), no. 27754, John Dufilho and Anna Catherine Hinckley, 1900, recorded license (with original signatures); Opelousas Court House (Reliability: 4).
- [S366] Daily World, Opelousas, Louisiana (print edition), (Location: Opelousas, Louisiana;), Sunday, March 19, 1950 edition.
- [S393] St. Landry Catholic Church (Opelousas, Louisiana), Marriage Certificates, (Location: Opelousas, Louisiana;), certificate for John Dufilho and Anna Hinkley, married 21 Mar 1900, volume M-3, page 245, number 12 (Reliability: 3).
Witnesses:
A. L. Hollier - Arthur Louis Hollier, Lilly Ann's grandfather.
A. M. Hollier - Adolphe Marshall Hollier. Adolphe married Antoinia Dufilho, John Marie's sister.
U. L. Hinckley - I think this may be Arthur L. Hinckley, Anna’s brother. It is possible the “U” was incorrectly transcribed. A. L. Hinckley appears as a witness on the marriage license I have from the court house.
M. J. Dufilho – Maurice Joseph (Jean Marie’s brother).
- [S670] Newspapers.com, "John Dufilhos are Married 64 years," Daily World (Opelousas, Louisiana), 20 March 1964, p. 5 (https://www.newspapers.com/image/227891266: accessed 15 October 2017).
John Dufilhos are Married 64 years
Mr. and Mrs. John Dufilho, 332 S. Lombard St., are today observing their 64th wedding anniversary. The couple was married March 20. 1000, at St. Landry Catholic Church In Opelousas.
The couple will observe the day quietly because Mr. Dufilho has been ill with pneumonia. He was moved last night from St. Landry Clinic to his home so he and Mrs. Dufilho could spend their anniversary together at their home.
Mr. and Mrs. Dufilho are the parents of six sons and two daughters -- Johnny Dufilho, Louis Dufilho, Peyton Dufilho and Gerald Dufilho all of Opelousas, George Dufilho of Narwalk [Norwalk], Calif., Mrs. Havard Burleigh and Eugene Dufilho, both of Clermont Harbor, Miss., and Mrs. H. A. Russ of Houston, Tex.
Another son, 1/Lt. [1st Lieutenant] Marlon Dufilho, lost his life In the war.
- [S366] Daily World, Opelousas, Louisiana (print edition), (Location: Opelousas, Louisiana;), "'Kidnapped,' Says He After Fifty Years," 19 March 1950, p. 4 (Reliability: 2).
‘Kidnapped,’ Says He After Fifty Years
John M. Dufilho figures today it turned out great, even though his wife “just kidnapped” him into marrying her 50 years ago. “I was at a dance,” Mr. Dufilho explained “standing around when all of a sudden a pink rose bud hit me on the chest.
“That was the beginning of a different courtship and 50 years of married life.”
Well-known and beloved Mr. and Mrs. Dufilho, who have spent the greater part of their life right here in Opelousas, are celebrating today their anniversary.
TELLS ALL
The operating part of this apparent conspiracy admits, that maybe there is something with a twinkle In her eye, to it.
“I knew he was the one for me the first moment I saw him, and so I set my hat for him,” Mrs. Dufilho confides.
He was 23 years old and she only 13 when the courtship began.
“I thought she was just a little girl and didn’t know what she wanted, so I started being nice to her –taking her to dances and all,” he relates.
WAS HE FOOLED
He tried to be a guardian to her, introducing her to nice boys, and in reality, trying to find a man for her. But he didn’t know how set she was, until, he didn’t see her for one year
WRITES HIS MOTHER
Undaunted, the pretty dark-haired dark-eyed girl, wrote his mother. “That’s when I gave up my idea of wanting to be a bachelor and started, to my amazement, thinking that perhaps married life wouldn’t be too bad.”
WED IN 1900
Their wedding was held in the Opelousas Catholic church on March 20. 1900. Mrs. Dufilho was the former Miss Catherine Ann Hinckley, and she had been born in Opelousas Mr. Dufilho. however was born in New Orleans and came to Opelousas in the year 1882, and it is considered a coincidence by the couple, for it was in this very year that Mrs. Dufilho was born.
“IT WAS FAITH”
“It was faith—he just had to come to me.” Mrs. Dufilho teased. as she smiled at her husband
HAD 9 CHILDREN
They had nine children, seven boys and two girls. One of their boys was killed at Pearl Harbor.
Mrs. Dufilho on telling about her children, told of a very odd thing that has happened. Two of her children, the oldest and youngest have never seen each other. George, the oldest, went to California when he was about 29 years old; and the baby Gerald, was only a few months old.
Since then, both have been busy and have never had a chance to visit each other. On this day. with their children, grandchildren (nine), and great-grandchildren (two); this scribe would like to take her hat off to them.
MET LIFE BRAVELY
They have met life bravely and hive received its reward of a happy life together. “We’ve always been very close to each other, sharing sorrow and joy alike; and to be truthful we have never stayed away from each other in vexation for even one-half hour, Mrs. Dufilho proudly said.
CHILDREN
Their children are: George Dufilho of California, Mrs. Havard Burleigh of Mississippi, John Dufilho, Mrs. Gayheart Shute of Houston. Tex., Louis, Eugene and Gerald Dufilho.
- [S670] Newspapers.com, "John Dufilhos are Married 64 years," Daily World (Opelousas, Louisiana), 29 March 1964, p. 5 (https://www.newspapers.com/image/227891266: accessed 27 December 2020).
Mr. and Mrs. John Dufilho, 332 S. Lombard St., are today observing their 64th wedding anniversary. The couple was married March 20, 1900, at St. Landry Catholic Church in Opelousas. The couple will observe the day quietly because Mr. Dufilho has been ill with pneumonia. He was moved last night from St. Landry Clinic to his home so he and Mrs. Dufilho could spend their anniversary together at their home. Mr. and Mrs. Dufilho are the parents of six sons and two daughters — Johnny Dufilho, Louis Dufilho, Peyton Dufilho and Gerald Dufilho all of Opelousas, George Dufilho of Norwalk, Calif., Mrs. Havard Burleigh and Eugene Dufilho, both of Clermont Harbor, Miss., and Mrs. H. A. Russ of Houston, Tex. Another son, 1/Lt. Marlon Dufilho, lost his life in the war.
[Source: "John Dufilhos are Married 64 years," Daily World (Opelousas, Louisiana), 29 March 1964, p. 5.]
[Transcribed by Mark Edwin Hollier, 2020.]
- [S354] "St. Landry Parish Marriage Licenses, 1807 - Present", (Location: Opelousas, Louisiana;), registry, entry for Louis Dufilho and Celeste St. Amand, 14 October 1933, no. 19-0522, p. 552 (Reliability: 4).
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