Marie Osite Hebert

• General Notes
  • Wall of Names, 22, calls her Osite HEBERT veuve Alexandre MELANSON; BRDR, 3:424 (SJA-4, 26), her death/burial record, calls her Osite HEBERT, age 75 yrs., wid. Alexandre MELANSON.
    
    The Acadian Memorial Wall of Names lists the first Acadians who were deported from Nova Scotia and came into Louisiana about 1765 and honors the 3,000 men, women and children that found refuge in Louisiana after British forces exiled the from ACADIE, their homeland on the Atlantic Coast of Canada, in the mid 18th century.
    
    *Located in downtown St. Martinville, LA, on the banks of the Bayou Teche, down the street from the famous Evangeline Oak, the Acadian Memorial is both a museum & a research center. The Robert Dafford Mural is the highlight of the museum on the first floor. Also important is the bronze Wall of Names at the opposite end of the main-floor museum that contains the name of nearly every Acadian who found refuge in LA from 1764-1813. Upstairs is the research center where visitors can trace their Acadian ancestry in the Memorial's extensive database. The Memorial's website is <acadianmemorial.org>. A new feature of the website is its Ensemble Encore, which includes two superb essays by Dr. Carl A. Brasseaux at <acadianmemorial.org/english/ensembleencoreset.html>
    
    "THE ARRIVAL OF THE ACADIANS IN LOUISIANA"
    "Acadians, men, women and children...have just disembarked here. They would actually have died of misery had we not provided them some assistance...Their affliction is the result of their sacred attachment to their homeland and to their religion"
    Aubry to Choiseul-Stainville, New Orleans, February 25, 1765
    
    Occupying lot number 122, left [east] bank, called Ozitte HEBERT widow MELANCON, age 39, with sons Pierre MELANCON age 9, Joseph MELANCON age 15, Etienne MELANCON age 13, Paul MELANCON age 7, & Charles MELANCON age 17 mos.
    *Cabanocé census, 1769
    
    Left [east] bank, called Ozitte HEBERT, age 45, with sons Joseph MELANCON age 22, Éstienne MELANCON age 20, Paul MELANCON age 14, Charles MELANCON age 9, & 2 engages, ____ WILLIAMS age 37 & Charles ____ age 29;
    *St.-Jacques de Cabanocé census, 1777
    
    Osite HEBERT, age 75 years, widow of Alexandre MELANSON, buried 1 Sep 1805 at St. James Catholic Church, St. James, LA (SJA-4, 26).
    *Title: Catholic Church Records, vol. 3, 1804-1819 Author: Diocese of Baton Rouge Publication: Baton Rouge, Diocese, 1982 Page: p. 424