General Antoine Paul Joseph Louis Garrigues Flaujac

1780 - 1845  (64 years)

• Name	Antoine Paul Joseph Louis Garrigues Flaujac  [1, 2, 3]
  Title	General
  Born	5 Sep 1780	Montfaucon, Haute-Loire, Auvergne, France   [2, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Died	25 Jun 1845	St Landry, Louisiana, USA   [2, 5]
  Buried	St Landry Cemetery, Opelousas, Louisiana, USA   [2, 6]
  	Section 11, Plot 1917
  Person ID	I1620	Hollier & Dufilho
  Last Modified	29 May 2022

  
  

  Father	Living
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Living
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F571	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Marie Louise Fontenot,   b. 6 May 1788, Opelousas, St Landry, Louisiana, USA ,   d. 2 Mar 1862, Opelousas, St Landry, Louisiana, USA  (Age 73 years)
  Married	1 Aug 1805	Opelousas, St Landry, Louisiana, USA   [1]
  Last Modified	29 May 2022
  Family ID	F570	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 5 Sep 1780 - Montfaucon, Haute-Loire, Auvergne, France Married - 1 Aug 1805 - Opelousas, St Landry, Louisiana, USA Died - 25 Jun 1845 - St Landry, Louisiana, USA Buried - - St Landry Cemetery, Opelousas, Louisiana, USA  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Sources

  [S279] Southwest Louisiana Records (1750-1900), CD-ROM database, Donald J. Hebert, (Name: Hebert Publications; Location: Rayne, Louisiana;). FONTENOT, Marie Louise - of this parish (Louis & Marie Josephine FONTENOT) m. 1 Aug. 1805 Antoine Paul Joseph Louis GARRIGUES Flaujac - from Montfaucon, France (dec. Jean Charles GARRIGUES Flaujac & Marie Jeane SUBREJEAN) Wits: LARRIERE, BOORHIES [VOORHEIS]. Fr. Louis BUHOT (Opel. Ch.: v.1-A, p.144) [S545] Douget, Susan Burleigh, "Sous Cette Pierre Repose": Tombstone Inscriptions of the Old St. Landry Catholic Church Cemetery, Opelousas, Louisiana, p. 232-233, section 11, plot 1917. [S359] St. Landry Catholic Church Cemetery (Opelousas, Louisiana), Grave Markers, (Location: Opelousas, Louisiana;), General Antoine Paul Joseph Louis Garrigues de Flaujeac headstone, section 11, plot 1917, photo by Mark Edwin Hollier on 15 Apr 2013. (Reliability: 4). [S390] Dictionary of Louisiana Biography, (Name: Louisiana Historical Association; Date: 2008;), entry for Antoine Paul Joseph GARRIGUES DE FLAUGEAC. GARRIGUES DE FLAUGEAC, Antoine Paul Joseph, soldier, politician. Born, Montfaucon, France, September 5, 1780; son of Marie Jeanne Sabrejon and Jean Charles Garrigues. Married Marie Louise Fontenot, daughter of Louis and Marie Fontenot, August 7, 1805, in Opelousas, La. Children: Marie Louise Irma (b. 1806), Adolphe (b. 1808), Claire (b. 1809), Celeste (b. 1812), Eugénie Antoinette (b. 1819), Julie Estelle (b. 1821). Volunteer in (French) Army of Italy, 1800; infantry officer in Saint-Domingue. Arrived in New Orleans, January, 1805; commissioned as a land surveyor in Opelousas; brigadier general of the state militia, 1812; elected to the state senate, 1812; fought in the Battle of New Orleans; commended by Gen. Andrew Jackson (q.v.) in an address made in New Orleans following the victory; served in the senate for eighteen years; retired from public office; was serving as a state representative at the time of his death. Died, at home, June 25, 1845; interred St. Landry Church Cemetery, Opelousas. J.B.C. Sources: Opelousas Daily World, 250th anniversary edition, June 12, 1970; Ellen Roy Jolly, "Louisiana's Forgotten Hero," Attakapas Gazette, XVII (1982); Donald J. Hebert, Southwest Louisiana Records, 33 vols. (1974-1984). [S279] Southwest Louisiana Records (1750-1900), CD-ROM database, Donald J. Hebert, (Name: Hebert Publications; Location: Rayne, Louisiana;), GARRIGUE, General Flaujac d. on his farm; 25 June 1845 at age 58 - 60 years (Opel. Ch.: v.2, p.45) (Reliability: 2). [S279] Southwest Louisiana Records (1750-1900), CD-ROM database, Donald J. Hebert, (Name: Hebert Publications; Location: Rayne, Louisiana;), GARRIGUE, General Flaujac d. on his farm; 25 June 1845 at age 58 - 60 years (Opel. Ch.: v.2, p.45).