Willie Girard Roger

Notes:

Never Married. Willie drowned in flood relief work during the 1927 flood.

Buried:
Willie Girard Roger
son of Louis M. Roger &
Delia A. Hinckley
Born Dec. 19, 1892
Died June 11, 1927
World War Veteran
Corporal 65th Co.
Camp Hancock, GA
Drowned in Flood Relief Work

Died:
Drowned in Flood Relief Work in Melville during the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927.

Other Events:

• Baptism: 24 Jan 1844, Thibodaux, Lafourche, Louisiana, USA; St. Joseph Co-Cathedral
• Residence: 1850, Breaux Bridge, St Martin, Louisiana, USA
• Residence: 1860, St Martin, Louisiana, USA; Attakapas
• Residence: 1870, Lafayette, Louisiana, USA; Vermilionville
• Residence: 1880, Arnaudville, St Landry, Louisiana, USA
• Residence: 1900, Arnaudville, St Landry, Louisiana, USA
• Probate: 18 Jan 1904, Opelousas, St Landry, Louisiana, USA; Opelousas Court House

Notes:

L. M. ROGER, Arnaudville.- L. M. Roger, a prominent merchant of St. Landry parish, and a member of the firm Roger Bros., is a native of St. Martin parish, Louisiana. He is the son of Francois and M. (Thibodeaux) Roger, natives of Louisiana. He was born in 1843, and spent his school days in St. Martin parish. During the war, before the battle of Shiloh, he joined the Orleans Guards Battalion and was subsequently transferred to the Third Louisiana Infantry, in which he served until the regiment disbanded. He was in many of the active engagements in which his department participated. At Spanish Fort, near Mobile, he received a flesh wound which disabled him until the time of the surrender. On coming home after the war he began a mercantile business as sub-manager for U. A. Gilbeau, of this place, and was in his employ for some time. He was subsequently employed at Breaux Bridge, Abbeville, and there became the partner of Joseph Plonsky in a mercantile business. In 1875 he removed to St. Landry parish, where he engaged in mercantile business, in partnership with his brother. In July, 1885, he was married to Miss D. .A. Hincklev. of St. Landry parish. He is a prominent Mason.

Source: William Henry Perrin, Southwest Louisiana, Biographical and Historical: (New Orleans: The Gulf Publishing Company, 1891), p.72. openlibrary.org.

Baptism:
Certification and Abstract Document
BIRTH-BAPTISMAL RECORD
Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux
Office of Archives
HISTORICAL RESEARCH CENTER
205 Audubon Avenue
Thibodaux, Louisiana 70301
Year of Baptism: 1844 Record Number: 1844-331
LOUIS MARCELUS ROGER
Son of
FRANCOIS ROGER & MELANIE THIBODEAUX
WAS BAPTIZED AT
ST.JOSEPH
THIBODAUX , LA
ON
JANUARY 24, 1844
According to the Rite of the Roman Catholic Church
Date of Birth: May 19, 1843
Place of Birth: LAFOURCHE PARISH, LA.
Minister of Baptism: : REV. CHARLES M. MENARD
Sponsors: LEO LANDRY & MARGUERITE LANDRY
CONFIRMATION: NO RECORD
MARRIAGE: NO RECORD
A true abstract from the
Baptismal Registers of the above-named Parish
which are now deposited with the
Office of Archives, Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux
Date Abstracted: 12-JUL-13

Buried:
In Memory of
Louis M. Roger
Died Nov. 22, 1903
Aged 60 years

Died:
Death notice reads: Died. At his family residence, Arnaudville, La. Sunday Nov. 22nd, 1903 at 6 a.m. Louis M. Roger, age 60th year. Funeral service tomorrow (Monday) evening at 2 o’clock. Interment at the family burying ground Washington, La. Brothers and Companions Hope Lodge No 145, F. and A.M. Lafayette, La. Girard Hope Chapter No 33 New Iberia, La. Jas. Ray Council No 16 Opelousas, La. And Trinity Commandry No 8 Alexandria, La. Attend.

Louis married Delia Abitha Hinckley on 16 Jul 1885 in St Landry, Louisiana, USA. Delia (daughter of Captain Orramel Hinckley and Anna Hawley Gardner) was born on 24 Sep 1858 in Washington, St Landry, Louisiana, USA; died on 7 May 1930 in Washington, St Landry, Louisiana, USA; was buried in Gardner Hinckley Cemetery, Washington, St Landry, Louisiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Residence: 1860, Washington, St Landry, Louisiana, USA
• Residence: 1870, Washington, St Landry, Louisiana, USA
• Residence: 1880, Arnaudville, St Landry, Louisiana, USA
• Residence: 1900, Arnaudville, St Landry, Louisiana, USA

Notes:

Buried:
Delia A. Hinckley
Wife of L. M. Roger
Sept. 24, 1858
May 7, 1930

Died:
Although the place of death is listed as Washington, Delia was residing in Arnaudville with her sister Alice and niece Edna Alice as evidenced by the 1930 census.

Other Events:

• Residence: 1850, Breaux Bridge, St Martin, Louisiana, USA

Francois married Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Residence: 1849, St Landry, Louisiana, USA
• Residence: 1850, St Landry, Louisiana, USA
• Residence: 1860, Washington, St Landry, Louisiana, USA
• Obituary: 19 Dec 1868, Opelousas, St Landry, Louisiana, USA
• Probate: 15 Jan 1869, Opelousas, St Landry, Louisiana, USA; Opelousas Court House

Notes:

Orramel Hinckley was a steamboat owner and captain whose business was centered principally in New Orleans and Opelousas, Louisiana. He lived in Washington, Louisiana with his wife, Anna Hawley Gardner, and their children. Anna was the daughter of Thomas Gardner and granddaughter of Asa Norton, tanners and dealers in hides and deer skins in St. Landry Parish.

Steamers:
Anna Perret (Perrette) & Nina Simmes were bought by Louisiana with Confederate money and used during the Civil War. [Eakin, Washington, Louisiana, .48-49]The Nina Simmes was built in New Albany, Indiana in 1860. During the Civil War it served as a Confederate troop transoport along Bayou Cortableau. The steamer Aline was appropriated by the Confederacy in 1861. [Brasseaux and Fontenot, Steamboats on Louisiana's Bayous: A History and Directory, 220.]

Others were
Annie Wagley
A. W. Glaze
Aline

Flatboats:
Robert E. Lee

Hinckley served as a second lieutenant on Confederate transport vessels and was a Royal Arch Mason.

[Opelousas Courier, 11 Jan 1868, p. 2, cols. 3-5]:
FOR NW ORLEANS
THE STEAMER
ANNIE WAGLEY,
GUS E. LOUAILLIER, Capt.
M. KENISON, Clerk
Will resume her regular trips, leaving at 10 o'clock A. M., and continue leaving Washington every Sunday and New Orleans every Wednesday. All freight per Steamer Annie Wagley will be stored with O. HINCKLEY & SON. Freight and storage to be paid on delivery. For freight or passage, apply on board or to O. HINCKLEY & SON
Washington, La. Washington, Jan 4, 1868.


Name:
Orramel or Oramel. Hinckley is sometimes spelled Hinkley.

Obituary:
It is with deep feeling of regret that we announce the demise of Capt. O. Hinckley, who died - after a lingering illness of several months - at his residence in Washington, on Tuesday last, at the age of 55 years.

Capt. Hinckley was too well and favorable known lor us to repeat here his good qualities. His disiuterestedness, his simple and open urbanity of manners, and oilier qualities of the heart will long he remembered by many.

Capt. Hinckley came to our parish about thirty years ago, most of which time he was interested in our steamboat navigation. He leaves a family and a large, circle of friends to whom his remembrance will ever be dear.

“Capt. O. Hinckley,” obituary, The Opelousas Courier (Opelousas, Louisiana), 19 December 1868, p. 2; citing Newspapers.com, https://www.newspapers.com/image/168306920.


Buried:
Inscription: Orramel Hinckley, Born Feb. 29, 1816, Died Dec. 15, 1868

Orramel married Anna Hawley Gardner on 23 Apr 1839 in St Landry, Louisiana, USA. Anna (daughter of Thomas Gardner and Mary Norton) was born on 25 Apr 1824 in Washington, St Landry, Louisiana, USA; died on 7 Jan 1886 in Washington, St Landry, Louisiana, USA; was buried in Gardner Hinckley Cemetery, Washington, St Landry, Louisiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Residence: 1850, St Landry, Louisiana, USA
• Residence: 1860, Washington, St Landry, Louisiana, USA
• Residence: 1870, Washington, St Landry, Louisiana, USA

Notes:

Buried:
Anna H. Gardner
Wife of Orramel Hinckley
Born April 25, 1824
Died Jan. 7, 1886

Notes:

After the settlement of his father's estate, Charles who owned the home place sold out and moved to Vincennes, Indiana, where he and his wife both died of the diseases of the country and their only son Oramel was taken possession of by a Mr. Wood and was removed to Mobile, Alabama, together with the property of which Wood had possession. This Oramel is eventually settled in Louisiana and is the progenitor of the Louisiana Hinckleys. ["Orramel Hinckley and Family Papers, Mss. 1151, 1317, 970"; LSU Special Collections.]

Arthur Latham Hinckley, Jr. notes that he has a letter written by Caroline (Hinckley) Latham to Orramel Strong Hinckley. In this letter Caroline writes that Orramel & Lydia (Strong) Hinckley died within a few weeks of each other and since Charles was the oldest, it was thought best for him to have the homestead and make a home for his sisters and brothers. He married the following spring (1812). Caroline left home when Oramel was about 3 yeras old. Not long afterwards, Charles "removed to the West."

Died:
Although some sources state that Charles Hinckley died in 1814, this date cannot be correct if his son Orramel Hinckley was born in 1816. No hard evidence has been found for Charles' death and a death date of sometime after 1816 is the best available at this time.

Charles married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Probate: 20 Mar 1850, Opelousas, St Landry, Louisiana, USA

Notes:

Name:
Also GARDINER or GARDENER.

Died:
Thomas Gardner's death notice reads:
You are respectfully invited to attend the funeral
of the late Thos Gardner, deceased. The procession will
leave his late residence at 5 o’clock P.M. for the family
burying ground. Washington Sept 19th 1844.

Thomas married Mary Norton on 30 Aug 1811 in St Mary, Louisiana, USA. Mary (daughter of Asa Jesse Norton and Anna Hawley) was born on 20 Apr 1797 in Stamford, Delaware, New York, USA; died on 24 Sep 1853 in Washington, St Landry, Louisiana, USA; was buried in Gardner Hinckley Cemetery, Washington, St Landry, Louisiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Probate: 30 Sep 1853, Opelousas, St Landry, Louisiana, USA