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DUFILHO, Mary Antoinette (John & Anna HINCKLEY) b. 28 Aug. 1902 (Opel. Ch.: v.7, p.565)
- [S272] U.S. Public Records Index, Volume 2, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;), entry for Marie D. Burleigh.
Name: Marie D Burleigh
Birth Date: 28 Aug 1902
Address: 402 E Wright Blvd, Universal City, TX, 78148-4527
- [S242] 1930 United States Federal Census, (Date: 1930;), population schedule, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, ward 1, Opelousas city, enumeration district 49-1, sheet 8-A, p. 8 (stamped), house no. 533, family no. 167, Havard Burleigh.
Name: Havard Burleigh
Birth Year: abt 1899
Gender: Male
Race: White
Birthplace: Louisiana
Marital status: Married
Relation to Head of House: Head
Home in 1930: Opelousas, St Landry, Louisiana, USA
Map of Home: View Map
Street address: Walnut St
Ward of City: Ward 1
House Number: 533
Dwelling Number: 167
Family Number: 167
Home Owned or Rented: Rented
Home Value: 15
Radio Set: No
Lives on Farm: No
Age at first Marriage: 24
Attended School: No
Able to Read and Write: Yes
Father's Birthplace: Louisiana
Mother's Birthplace: Louisiana
Able to Speak English: Yes
Occupation: Mechanic
Industry: Garage
Class of Worker: Wage or salary worker
Employment: Yes
Household Members:
Name Age
Havard Burleigh 31
Nettie Burleigh 27
Gwendolyn Burleigh 6
Elaine Burleigh 2
Havard A Burleigh 0
Johnnie Dililho 24
- [S243] Social Security Death Index, Ancestry.com, entry for Marie A. Burleigh, 1997, SS no. 426-94-5939.
Name: Marie A. Burleigh
SSN: 426-94-5939
Last Residence: 78148 Universal City, Bexar, Texas, USA
BORN: 28 Aug 1902
Died: 6 Jun 1997
State (Year) SSN issued: Mississippi (1967)
- [S651] St. Landry Catholic Church (Opelousas, Louisiana), (Name: Diocese of Lafayette Archives; Location: Lafayette, Louisiana;), Baptisms, vol. 7, p.565, Mary Antoinette Dufilho (1902); 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).
- [S651] St. Landry Catholic Church (Opelousas, Louisiana), (Name: Diocese of Lafayette Archives; Location: Lafayette, Louisiana;), Baptisms, vol. 7, p.565, Mary Antoinette Dufilho (1902); copy of original register supplied by Candace Brunet, Associate Archivist, Diocese of Lafayette Archives; privately held by Mark Edwin Hollier, Opelousas, Louisiana, 2020 (Reliability: 4).
- [S670] Newspapers.com, "Marie Burleigh," obituary, Daily World (Opelousas, Louisiana), 8 June 1997, p. 5B, cols. 2-3 (https://www.newspapers.com/image/228947422: accessed 21 October 2017).
Marie Burleigh
Funeral services for Mrs. Marie Antoinette “Nettie” Dufilho Burleigh, 94, will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday in Lafond-Ardoin Funeral Home on North Main Street in Opelousas. Burial will be in the Holy Sepulcher Mausoleum.
Mrs. Burleigh, a former resident of Opelousas, died at 7 p.m. Friday, June 6, 1997, in Autumn Winds Nursing Home in Schertz, Texas. She was a member of the Ladies Altar Society of Our Lady Queen of Angels Catholic Church, the Opelousas Garden Club, the Home Extension Club, Woodman of the World, AARP and the Opelousas Art League.
Survivors include; three daughters, Gwendolyn Smith of Universal City, Texas, Elaine Burleigh of Houston, Texas, and Shirley Broussard of New Orleans; a brother, Gerald Dufilho of Opelousas; a sister, Ida Russ of Opelousas; seven grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
Mrs. Burleigh was preceded in death by her husband, Havard Burleigh; her parents, John Marie and Anna Catherine Hinckley Dufilho; and six brothers, George, Louis, Johnny, Peyton, Eugene and Marion Dufilho.
Visitation will be held from 10 a.m. until the time of services Tuesday. Lafond-Ardoin Funeral Home on North Main Street in Opelousas is in charge of 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 Antoinette 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 Nedie Dufilho
- [S484] 1940 United States Federal Census, (Name: Ancestry.com;), Year: 1940; Census Place: Opelousas, St Landry, Louisiana; Roll: m-t0627-01451; Page: 6B; Enumeration District: 49-4.
Name: John H Burleigh
Age: 41
Estimated birth year: abt 1899
Gender: Male
Race: White
Birthplace: Louisiana
Marital status: Married
Relation to Head of House: Head
Home in 1940: Opelousas, St Landry, Louisiana
Map of Home in 1940: View Map
Street: Lamhard Street
House Number: 314
Farm: No
Inferred Residence in 1935: Opelousas, St Landry, Louisiana
Residence in 1935: Same House
Sheet Number: 6B
Number of Household in Order of Visitation: 124
Occupation: Shop Foreman
House Owned or Rented: Owned
Value of Home or Monthly Rental if Rented: 2500
Attended School or College: No
Highest Grade Completed: High School, 2nd year
Hours Worked Week Prior to Census: 48
Class of Worker: Wage or salary worker in private work
Weeks Worked in 1939: 52
Income Other Sources: No
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Name Age
John H Burleigh 41
Marie Burleigh 37
Gwendolyn Burleigh 15
Elaine Burleigh 12
Shirley Burleigh 3
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- [S275] Texas Death Index, 1903-2000, entry for Marie Burleigh, Guadalupe County, 6 June 1997.
Name: Marie Burleigh
Death Date: 6 Jun 1997
Death County: Guadalupe
Gender: Female
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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;), entry for John Havard Burleigh and Marie Antoinette Dufilho, license dated 29 December 1922, married 15 January 1923 (Reliability: 3).
- [S354] "St. Landry Parish Marriage Licenses, 1807 - Present", (Location: Opelousas, Louisiana;), entry for John Havard Burleigh and Marie Antoinette Dufilho, license dated 29 December 1922, married 15 January 1923.
- [S670] Newspapers.com, "Mr. and Mrs. Havard Burleigh Celebrate Golden Anniversay," Daily World (Opelousas, Louisiana), 15 January 1973, p. 6 (https://www.newspapers.com/image/227896333: accessed 23 December 2020).
Mr. and Mrs. Havard Burleigh Celebrate Golden Anniversary
Mr. and Mrs. Havard Burleigh, prominent Opelousas couple who were married 50 years ago today, celebrated their golden wedding anniversary yesterday at a reception at their home.
They were married in St. Landry Catholic Church by the late Father A.B. Colliard. Their marriage was blessed at the reception Sunday by Father Lloyd Hebert, pastor of Our Lady Queen of Angels Catholic Church.
Mrs. Burleigh was Marie Dufilho of Opelousas when she was married to Mr. Burleigh, a native of Sunset. They are the parents of three daughters, Mrs. B. C. Smith of San Antonio, Tex., the former Gwen Burleigh, Elaine Burleigh of Houston Tex.; and Mrs. S. J. Broussard of New Orleans, the former Shirley Burleigh.
Mr. and Mrs. Broussard and their children, Danny, Rusty, Susan and Mike, were here for the reception. The couple’s other two daughters were unable to attend because of illness.
Decor Is Gold
The decorations at the Burleigh home for the anniversary reception were in gold. There was a large arrangement of gold gladioli in the living room. The serving table was centered with a bouquet of gold chrysanthemums flanked by gold tapers in crystal candelabra. Mrs. Horace Russ presided at the silver coffee service and also served sherry. Mrs. Johnny Dufilho presided at the crystal punch bowl.
The cake table held a three tiered anniversary cake, which was served by Mrs. Lee Delcambre. Gold tapers in gold candleholders were used on the cake table.
Susan Broussard and Jackie Delcambre registered guests.
Mrs. Burleigh recieved her guests in a full length print dress and wore a gold orchid corsage.
Reception Guests
Honoring the couple in addition to Mr. and Mrs. Broussard and their children were Mrs. Eric Guilbeau of Carencro, Mrs. George Webb and son, David Wyble, and Mr. and Mrs. Peyton Dufilho, all of Baton Rouge, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Cummings, Mrs. Ray Hession, Mrs. Bobby, Hession, Brenda and Kay Hession, Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Devalcourt, Mrs. E.J. Bourdreaux, all of Sunset, Lt. Col. and Mrs. Albert Burleigh of Lafayette and Mrs. Emma Lou Doucet of Oklahoma.
Mr. and Mrs. Martin Bordelon III, Mrs. Wayne Savoy, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Cortez, Mrs. Edmae German, Mr. and Mrs. Horace Russ, Mrs. Johnny Dulfiho, Mr. and Mrs. George Dufilho, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Delcambre, Mrs. Stella Harmon, Jennie Kretschmer, Lee Delcambre Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Dufilho, Father Lloyd Hebert, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Kleefisch, Mrs. Daisy Kellams, Mrs. E. L. Heath Sr., Mr. and Mrs. Valerie Cary, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Dufilho, Mr. and Mrs. A. O. Vige, Mrs. Edward Bertinot, Mrs. Sue Adams, Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Briggs, Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Dufilho, Mrs. Percy LeDoux and Mrs. James Resweber, all of Opelousas.
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