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The death notice says that Augustus was 62 when he died. According to Orleans Parish Death Index Vol 34, pg, 579. He died 12/16/1863


The News Paper New Orleans Bee from December 1863:

Decede hier, a 6 herures et demie du soir, a l'age de 68 ans, August Follain, des Opelousas. Ses amies ae connaissance sont pries, sans autre invitation, d'assister a l'enter rement qui aura lieu aujourd'hui, a 4 heures de l/apres -midi. Le corps est expose a( l'enclo ?) des rues Roman et Chemin du Bayou.(These streets are not in NO , so perhaps they are in Opelousas, St. Landry.)

Translation:
August Follain, age 68 years, of Opelousas, died yesterday at 6:30 in the evening. Friends are invited to attend the internment today at 4 in the afternoon. The body is exposed at rues Roman & Chemin du Bayou.

The date of his will being finalized was listed in the Opelousas Ct. House as 9/3/1866 (Succ. 2908)St. Landry Parish Court House, Court & Landry Streets, Opelousas, LA 70570. Phone 1-337-942-5606. Phone ahead for fees.Follain, Auguste, Succ. dated 3 Sept. 1866 (Opel. Ct. Hse. : Succ. # 2908)
FYI Succ. = Succession. (May also refer to probate records, estates, wills, etc.)
d. 2 April 1884 at age 84 years (Opel. Ch.: v. 2, p. 405) Hebert, V. 16, p. 200

After the death of Augustin Fontenot, Denise and Genevieve took the name of Fontenot.

Sometimes this woman is called Denise Beler Fontenot- On baptism certificate for Augustin,; on her death certificate she is called Denis Belaire Follani.

On the St. Landry Parish Census of 1850, it states that Denise Fonteneau, wife,age 50 female, mulatto, born in LA, cannot read or write, was living in the same dwelling as Augustin Follain, age 50 ,male Merchant. Value of Real Estate $6000, born in France.

the 1850 census has the names of the children as Fontenot, the 1860 as Follain. Perhaps this was just due to different people writing the names down.

Children listed:Octave - age 22, Victorine, age 16,Genevieve, age 14,Pierre, age 9, Augustin age 27, clerk,Gerand, age 23, cooper.

on the 1860 Census, the family was shown to be living in the household of G. Carriere, a merchant. Peter Follain a clerkc,, Gerand, Follain a cooper, Augustin - a clerk. Living in dwelling 250 was D.B. Follain, age 60, female mulatto, value of estate $12000. Genevieve and Clarah were living with her.

There is a Genevieve Follain, who passed away 5/5/ 1892 at the age of 49. her mother was an undertaker, who lived at 99 Toulouse Street( or Joulouse St.?) Miss Genevieve died at th Louisiana Retreat in N. O. Denise Fontenot Follain had a daughter called Genevieve and these dates match hers.

Louisiana Census, 1810-90 Record
about D. B. FOLLAIN
Name: D. B. FOLLAIN
State: LA
County: Saint Landry Parish
Township: Grand Coteau P.O.
Year: 1860
Record Type: Federal Population Schedule
Page: 996
Database: LA 1860 Federal Census Index



1870 United States Federal Census Record
about Denise Folin
Name: Denise Folin
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1802
Age in 1870: 68
Birthplace: Louisiana
Home in 1870: New Orleans Ward 6, Orleans, Louisiana
Family and neighbors: View Results
Race: Mulatto
Gender: Female
Value of real estate: View Image
Post Office: New Orleans
Document Date: 7/29/1792
Notary: Pedesclaux
Document Number: 414
Location: Orleans (including Chapitoulas).
Master: Belair of Opelousas
Master's Gender: 2
Name: Genoveva
Gender: female
Race: grif (usually means mixed black/Indian)
Age: 22
Birthplace: Louisiana Creole
Freed: under will
Relationship of freer to the freed: father
Slave was freed.
Name Type of Freer: Hugon
Freer: Juan Bautista
Race of Freer: other
Freer Gender: male
sold or inventoried as an individual
Value of Sale: 460
Sale Common Price: 460
Family: Jn Bta-f,Marie-m,Genov-d,Enriq-s,Constanc-d,Celes-
This slave's family relationships were indicated.
Comments: Hugon left a will w/instructions for his exec. Noel Carriere,N.l, to buy the freedom of his dau Genoveva from her master Belair of Opels. Carta issued by Luis Fontenau w/p/o/atty of Ma Juana Briggan wid Belair on 4/16/1793 (doc also at LHC 1792/08/08)
Slave's mother is listed in the document
Mother's Race: black
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"Opelousas resident, Augustin Belaire Fontenot, in his last will and testament, recognized and acknowledged the eight natural children born to him and his free woman of color mistress, Genevieve Hugon. In his will, he provided Genevieve with a $300 annuity and a Negro Slave. He gave as much of his estate to his natural children as the law allowed and the remainder to his nephew and universal\ heir, Jacques Dupre. The probate court awarded half of the estate to Jacques Dupres' and the remainder to Genevieve and her children. On August 17, 1824, Jacques Dupre' renounced one-half of the amount awarded to him by the court and donated that amount to his uncle's natural children (St. Landry Parish, Notary Bood AA pp 48-51). The St. martin and st. Landry Parish archives, as well as the records of district civil and state supreme courts, provide evidence of such donations." Source: "Creoles of Color in the Bayou Country" by Carl A Brasseaux, Keith P. Fontenot, and Claude F. Oubre, Call #F380.C87 B73 1994

From Ancestry.com Mulatto Belaire Fontenot Family 1686 - 1930:
ID 127
Genevieve Hugon
Female
St. Landry (Opelousas Post); LA
Death Aft. 1850 in St. Landry
NATI: Abt 1810 Slave Freed
Census 1850, Mulatto, Age 100

List of the First Families of St Landry Parish:


378 FONTENOT, Augustin ?-1765
other free person Genevieve HUGON
other free person Joseph 1797? LA
other free person Delphine 1804? LA
other free person Denise LA
other free person
other free person
other free person
other free person
other free person
other free person
male ?-1765
female ?-1765

NOTE: Augustin was a son of Joseph and Marie Jeanne (Brignac) Fontenot
dit Bellaire. He and Genevieve, a free mulatress, apparently were never married

A Medle y of Culture s: Louisiana H is tory at th e Cabildo
Ch apte r 2
A Multitude of Culture s :
Th e Pe ople ofLouis iana
New Cultures from Old:
Cultural Exch ange in Colonial and Ante be llum Louis iana
Pg. 23
"...Indeed, a third factor that could help a free person of color succeed materially was
that of being born free or having free kin. Second- or third-generation free blacks usually
inherited the accumulated property, no matter how meager, of past generations, and slaves
who had well-established free black friends or relatives stood a better chance of being
"rescued" from slavery than those with no ties to the free black population. For example,
Juan Bautista Hugón, born free and a captain of the free pardo militia when he died in
1792, purchased the freedom of four of his five children and at least one of their mothers
during his lifetime. At the time of his death Hugón's goods consisted of a house and land
on Calle Santa Ana in New Orleans, one slave, furniture, and clothes. He donated to don
Juan Bautista Macarty's slave Magdalena a bed, a stoneware fireplace adornment, one pig,
and some chickens. Hugón also requested that his executor, the moreno captain Manuel
Noël Carrière, purchase his fifth child's carta de libertad. Hugón's goods sold at public
auction for 1,095 pesos. After paying for the carta, outstanding debts, and burial and
court costs, Carrière turned over 227 pesos, 5 reales to Hugón's children. "The Free Pardo Militia originated in Cuba. After some upheaval in Cuban, many moved to Florida and from there up the coast to Louisiana.