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- [S243] Social Security Death Index, Ancestry.com, entry for Eugene T. Dufilho, 1197, SS no. 434-03-4213.
Name: Eugene T. Dufilho
SSN: 434-03-4213
Last Residence:
70570 Opelousas, Saint Landry, Louisiana, USA
BORN: 19 Dec 1910
Died: 5 Jun 1997
State (Year) SSN issued: Louisiana (Before 1951)
- [S294] U.S. Veterans Gravesites, ca.1775-2006, National Cemetery Administration, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;), record for Eugene T. Dufilho.
Name: Eugene T Dufilho
Service Info.: US ARMY WORLD WAR II
Birth Date: 19 Dec 1910
Death Date: 5 Jun 1997
Cemetery: Bellevue Memorial Park
Cemetery Address: 122 North Market Opelousas, LA 70570
- [S272] U.S. Public Records Index, Volume 2, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;), record for Eugene T. Dufilho.
Name: Eugene T Dufilho
Birth Date: 19 Dec 1910
Residence Place: Bay Saint Louis, Mississippi, USA
Zip Code: 39520
- [S627] "U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947," digital images, card for Thomas Eugene Dufilho, serial no. 1432, Local Draft Board No.1, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana; citing Records of the Selective Service System, 1926-1975, RG 147.
Thomas Eugene Dufilho
Gender: Male
Relationship to Draftee: Self (Head)
Birth Date: 19 Dec 1910
Residence: Opelousas, St Landry, Louisiana, USA
Registration Date: 1940-1945
- [S588] Southwest Louisiana Records (1750-1915), 47 vols, Donald J. Hebert, (Name: Hebert Publications; Location: Rayne, Louisiana;), 42:207; citing Opel. Ch.: v.8, p.258 (Reliability: 2).
DUFILHO, Thomas Eugene (John & Anna HINCKLEY) b. 19 D ec. 1910 (Opel. Ch.: v.8, p.258)
- [S651] St. Landry Catholic Church (Opelousas, Louisiana), (Name: Diocese of Lafayette Archives; Location: Lafayette, Louisiana;), Baptisms, v.8, p.258 (1911), Thomas Eugene Dufilho (Reliability: 3).
- [S588] Southwest Louisiana Records (1750-1915), 47 vols, Donald J. Hebert, (Name: Hebert Publications; Location: Rayne, Louisiana;), 42:207; citing Opel. Ch.: v.8, p.258.
DUFILHO, Thomas Eugene (John & Anna HINCKLEY) b. 19 D ec. 1910 (Opel. Ch.: v.8, p.258)
- [S651] St. Landry Catholic Church (Opelousas, Louisiana), (Name: Diocese of Lafayette Archives; Location: Lafayette, Louisiana;), Baptisms, v.8, p.258 (1911), Thomas Eugene Dufilho (Reliability: 4).
- [S670] Newspapers.com, "Eugene Dufilho," obituary, Daily World (Opelousas, Louisiana), 6 June 1997, p. 9A, cols. 3-4.
Eugene Dufilho
Funeral services for Mr. Eugene T. Dufilho, 86, will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday in Lafond-Ardoin Funeral Home Chapel in Opelousas with burial in Bellevue Memorial Park Cemetery. The Rev. Nicky Trahan will officiate. Mr. Dufilho, a resident of Opelousas, died at 7:40 p.m. Thursday, June 5. 1997, in Senior Village Nursing Home. He was a veteran.
Survivors include: a brother, Gerald Dufilho of Opelousas; and two sisters, Ida Russ and Marie “Nettie” Burleigh, both of Opelousas. Mr. Dufilho was preceded in death by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Dufilho; and five brothers, George, Louis, Johnny, Peyton and Marion Dufilho.
Visitation will be held from 4-9 p.m. Saturday and from 9 a.m. Sunday until the time of services. A rosary will be recited at 6:30 p.m. Saturday.
Lafond-Ardoin Funeral Home on the Old Sunset Road. Opelousas, is in charge of arrangements.
- [S246] 1920 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;), St Landry Parish, Louisiana, population schedule, Opelousas City, ward 1, p. 91A (stamped), enumeration district 88, sheet 4A, dwelling78, family 85, John Dufilho; citing NARA microfilm T625, roll 630.
Name: John N Dufilho
[John Marie Dufilho]
Age: 45
Birth Year: abt 1875
Birthplace: Louisiana
Home in 1920: Opelousas, St Landry, Louisiana
Street: Union Street
House Number: 750
Residence Date: 1920
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Head
Marital status: Married
Spouse's name: Anna Dufilho
Father's Birthplace: Louisiana
Mother's Birthplace: Louisiana
Native Tongue: French
Able to Speak English: Yes
Occupation: Farmer
Industry: Farmer
Employment Field: Own Account
Home Owned or Rented: Rented
Attended School: No
Able to Read: Yes
Able to Write: Yes
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Name Age
John N Dufilho 45
Anna Dufilho 37
George Dufilho 19
Nedie Dufilho 17
Jannie Dufilho 15
Idama Dufilho 13
Louis Dufilho 11
Eugene Dufilho 9
Rhaten Dufilho 6
Marion Dufilho 3
- [S242] 1930 United States Federal Census, (Date: 1930;), St Landry Parish, Louisiana, population schedule, ward 5, p. 266B (stamped), enumeration district 49-31, sheet 6B, dwelling 95, family 96, John Dufilho; citing NARA microfilm T626; street noted as Ville Platte gravel road.
Name: Eugene Dufilho
Gender: Male
Birth Year: abt 1911
Birthplace: Louisiana
Race: White
Home in 1930: Police Jury Ward 5, St Landry, Louisiana
View Map
Marital Status: Single
Relation to Head of House: Son
Father's Name: John Dufilho
Father's Birthplace: Louisiana
Mother's Name: Anna Dufilho
Mother's Birthplace: Louisiana
Household Members: Name Age
John Dufilho 56
Anna Dufilho 48
Louis Dufilho 21
Eugene Dufilho 19
Paton Dufilho 16
Marion Dufilho 13
Gerald Dufilho 9
Source Citation: Year: 1930; Census Place: Police Jury Ward 5, St Landry, Louisiana; Roll: 820; Page: 6B; Enumeration District: 31; Image: 531.0; FHL microfilm: 2340555.
- [S670] Newspapers.com, "10 Arrested as Violators of Dry Law," The Shreveport Times (Shreveport, Louisiana), 6 May 1933, p. 7, col. 3 (https://www.newspapers.com/image/209326418: accessed 27 December 2020).
Eugene T. Dufilho, Opelousas, 500-gallon still, 954 gallons of whisky and 1,875 gallons of mash; Kirby Fontenot and Paul St. Amand of Washington, La., 100-gallon still, 190 gallons of whisky and 880 gallons of mash.
- [S484] 1940 United States Federal Census, (Name: Ancestry.com;), population schedule, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana (Opelousas), ward 4, p. 94 (stamped), enumeration district 49-4, sheet 11B, dwelling 408, family 216, Eugene Duffilho; citing NARA microfilm T627.
Name: Eugene Duffilho
Age: 29
Estimated birth year: abt 1911
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
House Number: 408
Farm: No
Inferred Residence in 1935: Opelousas, St Landry, Louisiana
Residence in 1935: Same Place
Sheet Number: 11B
Number of Household in Order of Visitation: 216
Occupation: Machine''s Helper
House Owned or Rented: Rented
Value of Home or Monthly Rental if Rented: 15
Attended School or College: No
Highest Grade Completed: High School, 3rd year
Hours Worked Week Prior to Census: 48
Class of Worker: Wage or salary worker in private work
Weeks Worked in 1939: 52
Income: 1200
Income Other Sources: No
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Name Age
Eugene Duffilho 29
Olivia Duffilho 28
- [S670] Newspapers.com, "Society," Daily World (Opelousas, Louisiana), p. 5, col. 1 (https://www.newspapers.com/image/228330600: accessed 27 December 2020).
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Dufilho from Bernice, are the house guests of Mr. and Mrs. Havard Burleigh.
- [S446] U.S. City Directories, 1821-1989.
Record for Eugene 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.]
- [S592] GenealogyBank.com, (Name: NewsBank, inc. ; Location: Naples, Florida, USA;), "Mrs. Mary Dufilho," obituary, Sun Herald, (Biloxi, Mississippi), 31 December 1985, p. A-2.
MRS. MARY DUFILHO
Waveland — Mrs. Mary Gertrude Robertson Dufilho, 528 Bourgeois St., Waveland, died Sunday, Dec. 29, 1985. In Slidell, La.
Mrs. Dufilho was a native of Brewton, Ala. She was a member of Christ Episcopal Church In Bay St. Louis.
Survivors Include her husband, Eugene T. Dufilho of Waveland; two sons, Edward Ray Robertson of Bay St. Louis and Charles Harris Robertson of Arlington, Va.; one daughter, Mrs. Aubre McMahon; a sister, Mrs. Louise Banks, both of Bay St. Louis; nine grandchildren; and I5 great-grandchildren.
Services were held today at 11 a.m. at Christ Episcopal Church, followed by burial In Hope Mausoleum, St. John Cemetery, in New Orleans. Edmond Fahey Funeral Home In Bay St. Louis is In charge of arrangements.
- [S643] NewspaperArchive.com, "Garden Club Names Officers for Year," The Biloxi-Gulfport Daily Herald, 29 November 1967, p. 14, col. 5 (https://newspaperarchive.com/biloxi-daily-herald-nov-28-1967-p-33: accessed 27 December 2020).
- [S361] "Dufilho Land Development" Articles of Partnership, (Name: Sandoz, Sandoz, & Schiff; Location: Opelousas, Louisiana; Date: 24 May 1982;), 1982.
- [S411] U.S., Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File, 1850-2010, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2011;), entry for Eugene Dufilho, SS no. 434-03-4213.
Name: Eugene Dufilho
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 19 Dec 1910
Death Date: 5 Jun 1997
Cause of Death: Natural
SSN: 434034213
Branch 1: ARMY
Enlistment Date 1: 28 Jun 1943
Release Date 1: 16 Oct 1943
Enlistment Date 2: 17 Apr 1944
Release Date 2: 27 Jan 1946
- [S370] Bellevue Memorial Cemetery (Opelousas, Louisiana), Grave Markers, photograph, gravestone for Eugene T. Dufilho grave marker, GPS (lat/lon): 30.46417, -92.09983, photographed by Mark Edwin Hollier, 23 October 2011 (Reliability: 4).
- [S266] Find A Grave, Find A Grave, Eugene Thomas "Uncle Doc" Dufilho, Memorial# 81977835, created by Mark Hollier, 14 Dec 2011.
- [S279] Southwest Louisiana Records (1750-1900), CD-ROM database, Donald J. Hebert, (Name: Hebert Publications; Location: Rayne, Louisiana;).
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.
- [S487] "United States Census, 1940", index and images, FamilySearch, (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VY5X-X5X : accessed 30 July 2012), Eugene Duffilho, Ward 4, Opelousas, Police Jury Ward 1, St. Landry, Louisiana, United States.
- [S670] Newspapers.com, "Dufilhos Leave for Annapolis for Son's Graduation June 4th," Clarion-News, 19 May 1938, p. 8, col. 6 (https://www.newspapers.com/image/470462553: accessed 27 December 2020).
Four years of hard study at Annapolis, Maryland, seat of the United States Naval Academy where the nation trains its future admirals and officers of the seas, will be climaxed June 4 for Marion Dufilho, who will graduate. Mr. and Mrs. John Dufilho. his parents. will leave Opelousas Saturday for the exercises. Accompanying them were their young son, Gerald, a granddaughter, Gwendolyn Burleigh, and Mrs. Eugene Dufilho.
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