Marguerite Elisa Folse (1810 - 1889)

Born 1810 in St. John the Baptist, Orleans Territory, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Albert Drosin Hotard — married 15 May 1828 in St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana, United States

Descendants

Died 28 Feb 1889 at about age 79 in St James Parish, Louisiana, USA

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Biography

Margerite Elisa Folse was born about 1810 to Alexis Folse and Marie Marcellite Hotard, in St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana. ^{[citation needed]} The 1850, 1860 and 1870 census records have her birth date as about 1815.

According to researcher Elton Oubre, in 1823, at the young age of 13, she married Albert Drosin Hotard, son of Mathieu Hotard and Marie Marguerite Bourgeois.^[1] Researchers at Family Search have her birth date as 1815 and her marriage in 1828.

Known children:

1. Rosa Marguerite Hotard (1831)
2. Victor Albert Hotard (1833)
3. Marie Eliza Hotard (1835)
4. Marie Elodie Hotard (1836)
5. Marie Aima Hotard (1837)
6. Adele Marie Otilie Hotard (1840)
7. Antoine Hotard (1841)
8. Marie Theodelia Hotard (1846)
9. Charles Hotard (1849-1943)^[2]

By 1850, they had moved to the section of Vacherie called Steibville.^[3] Oubre states on page 301 that Albert Hotard and Marguerite Elisa (Folse) Hotard lived at Golden Star Plantation in 1850. Golden Star Plantation is located in lower Vacherie, near Lac Des Allemands.^[1]

In 1860, they were counted on the census in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana with five of their children.^[4] She was still there, with three of her children in 1870, but apparently widowed, as her husband Albert Drosin was not listed.^[5]

Marguerite died in 1889 at the age of 79.^{[citation needed]}

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Elton J. Oubre, Vacherie: St. James Parish, Louisiana: History and Genealogy (Oubre's Books, 1986), pp.301, 310.
2. ↑ "Louisiana Deaths, 1850-1875, 1894-1960," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FSY1-B8N : 12 December 2014), Eliza Folse in entry for Charley Hotard, 25 Jul 1943; citing Kraemer, Lafourche, Louisiana, certificate number 2608, State Archives, Baton Rouge; FHL microfilm 1,183,972.
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCJ6-M5X : 12 April 2016), Elisa Folse in household of Albert Otar, St. John the Baptist parish, St. John the Baptist, Louisiana, United States; citing family 529, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
4. ↑ "United States Census, 1860," FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFP6-P11 : Mon Jul 08 08:15:46 UTC 2024), Entry for Albert Hotard and W Eliza Hotard, 1860.
5. ↑ "United States Census, 1870," FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M873-YS7 : Sat Jul 13 01:24:17 UTC 2024), Elisa Hotard, Louisiana, United States; citing p. 2, family 13, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 552,015.Entry for Elisa Hotard and [son] Albert Hotard, 1870.