Francois Silvain Garic (abt. 1813 - 1893)

Born about 1813 in St. Bernard, Louisiana, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Eulalie Marie Armantine Saucier — married 1833 in New Orleans, Louisiana

Descendants

Died 11 Dec 1893 at about age 80 in New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, United States

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Biography

Francois was a Louisiana State Legislator

François Silvain Garic was born about 1813 on his father's plantation in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana. He was accepted at West Point, but when he was about to leave, his mother could not bear to be separated from him, so he stayed home.^[1]

After his mother's death, he married Armantine Saucier in 1833.^[1][2]

Their known children were:

1. Louis Francois Garic (1836-1899)^[3]
2. Eulalie Anais Marie (Thierry) (1836-1876)
3. Oscar Garic (1838–1918)
4. Cornelia (Fortier) (1840)
5. Armand Garic (1841)
6. Arthur Jean Baptiste Garic (1843–1913)
7. Marie Constance Alice (Bahan) (1845-1876)
8. John Baptiste Arthur Garic (1847)^[4]
9. Marie Eugenie (Carriere) (1852-1931)^[5][6]
10. Lawson Garic (1853-1921)
11. Samuel Garic (1855-1911)^[7][8]
12. Marie Armantine Garic (1857-1857)
13. Mary Garic (1858-1876)
14. John S. Garic (1861-1919)^[9][10]

In 1836 he and his sisters petitioned to the court to emancipate one of their slaves, Fonrose, because of long service. They asked that he not be required to leave the state "inasmuch as Fonrose, a carpenter and a mason by trade, can easily and honestly provide for his needs."^[11]

He served as Sheriff of St. Bernard Parish and served in the Louisiana State Legislature.^[1][12]

In 1850, 1860, and 1880 he and his wife and children were counted on the census in New Orleans, Louisiana.^[13][14][15]

François died in 1893 and is buried at St. Bernard Catholic Cemetery in Kenilworth, Louisiana.

Obituary

Francois became St Bernard Sheriff and represented his parish in the Louisiana Legislature at a time when the state capitol stood on Royal Street.

In the 1840's Francois was one of the prime movers in establishing the Mexican Gulf Railroad (now the Shell Beach Road) at a time when the people of St Bernard were decidedly opposed to new ideas and improvements, such as the introduction and innovation of an iron horse running on steel rails. Mr. Garic would not be budged from his opinion as to the building of the road, and the opposition took such a bitter phase that Governor Roman was compelled to send the militia to St Bernard parish to restore order. Mr. Garic was threatened with personal violence and had several narrow escapes from serious injury.

When the Civil War broke out, Mr. Garic was too old to join the army, but he sent two of his sons to represent the Garic family on the field of duty. He contributed his share to the South's defense by becoming a Home Guard. He sold his St Bernard plantation in 1845 and settled in NOLA.

Eugenie de Lavigne Garic, mother of Francois objected so strenuously to his marriage to Armantine Saucier that it was only consummated after the mother's death in 1833. Francois married Armantine Saucier and they had 15 children in which 7 were living at the time of his death in 1893; (A daughter and 6 sons). He died at the age of 80.

Mr. Garic will repose in the ancient cemetery of St Bernard parish, where so many of his family are sleeping, and where many of his dear friends have been lying for many and many a decade.^[12]

US Census Records

New Orleans, Louisiana

Name Francois Garic

Event Type Census

Event Year 1850

Event Place Orleans parish, part of, Orleans, Louisiana, United States

Age 36

Race White

Birth Year (Estimated) 1814

Birthplace Louisiana

• Francois Garic 36 Louisiana
• Armentine Garic 30 Louisiana
• Anais Garic 14 Louisiana
• Louis Garic 13 Louisiana
• Oscar Garic 12 Louisiana
• Cornellia Garic 10 Louisiana

New Orleans, Louisiana

Name: F Garague

Age: 40

Home in 1860: New Orleans Ward 8, Orleans, Louisiana.

Occupation: Clerk

• F Garague 40 New Orleans
• Armantine Garague 38 New Orleans
• Louise Garague 23 New Orleans
• Oscar Garague 20 New Orleans
• Arthur Garague 16 New Orleans
• Cornelia Garague 18 New Orleans
• Alice Garague 14 New Orleans
• Eugenie Garague 8 New Orleans
• Lawrason Garague 6 New Orleans
• Samuel Garague 5 New Orleans
• Mary Garague 3 New Orleans
• Elmire Socie 33 New Orleans

New Orleans, Louisiana

Name: Francois Gan E (Francois Garic)

Age: 66

Birth Date: Abt 1814

Birthplace: Louisiana

Home in 1880: New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Occupation: Sugar Boiler

• Francois Gan E 66
• Armantine Gan E 60
• Samuel Gan E 25
• John Gan E 18
• Mary Gan E 22
• Ana is Thiery 40 (Divorced daughter)
• Rosella Thiery 9 (Grandaughter)
• Elmira Sancier 58 (Sister-in-law)

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Stanley Clisby Arthur, Old Families of Louisiana, (Baton Rouge, LA: Claitor's Publications, reprint 2020) p. 273.
2. ↑ "Louisiana, Orleans Parish Death Records and Certificates, 1835-1954", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:ZMJQ-S53Z : 18 April 2020), Francis Garic in entry for Armantine Saucier, 1901.
3. ↑ "Louisiana Parish Marriages, 1837-1957," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKJH-8Q1D : 17 February 2021), F Garie in entry for Louis F Garie and Annastasia Filahaven, 10 Jan 1876; citing Orleans, Louisiana, United States, various parish courthouses, Louisiana; FHL microfilm 911,650.
4. ↑ "Louisiana, Orleans Parish, Birth Records, 1819-1906", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:WFS1-26W2 : 1 April 2020), Francois Garic in entry for John Baptist Arthur, 1847.
5. ↑ "Louisiana Parish Marriages, 1837-1957," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKJ8-2GQX : 18 February 2021), Francois Garic in entry for Alphonse Auguste Carriere and Marie Eugenie Garic, 14 Feb 1873; citing Orleans, Louisiana, United States, various parish courthouses, Louisiana; FHL microfilm 911,851.
6. ↑ "Louisiana, Orleans Parish Death Records and Certificates, 1835-1954", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Z888-BZ6Z : 13 May 2020), Francois Garic in entry for Marie Garic, 1931.
7. ↑ "Louisiana Parish Marriages, 1837-1957," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKJH-XQ9Q : 18 February 2021), Francis Garic in entry for Samuel Garic and Mary E Wright, 15 Feb 1882; citing Orleans, Louisiana, United States, various parish courthouses, Louisiana; FHL microfilm 911,659.
8. ↑ "Louisiana Parish Marriages, 1837-1957," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKJH-2J31 : 18 February 2021), Francois Garic in entry for Samuel Garic and Louise L Garrot, 06 Oct 1894; citing Orleans, Louisiana, United States, various parish courthouses, Louisiana; FHL microfilm 912,035.
9. ↑ "Louisiana Parish Marriages, 1837-1957," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKJH-XQ9Q : 18 February 2021), Francis Garic in entry for Samuel Garic and Mary E Wright, 15 Feb 1882; citing Orleans, Louisiana, United States, various parish courthouses, Louisiana; FHL microfilm 911,659.
10. ↑ "Louisiana, Orleans Parish Death Records and Certificates, 1835-1954", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:CGRG-WZW2 : 2 April 2020), Francis Garie in entry for Jon S. Garie, 1919.9
11. ↑ The Digital Library on American Slavery (DLAS),Race and Slavery Petitions Project, PAR Number 20883481, State: Louisiana, Year: 1834, Location: Orleans, Location Type: Parish, (The University of North Carolina at Greensboro), Maintained by ERIT, University Libraries, UNCG; Abstract:

    François Garic and his three sisters, Eulalie Dumouchel, Rosalie Lefebvre and Aglaé Limos, present to the police jury that they are the owners of a forty-year-old male mulatto slave named Fonrose, whom they wish to emancipate in consideration of his good behavior during his long years of servitude ["pendant cette longue servitude"]. François Garic and his siblings further present that Fonrose especially recommended himself by the good care he lavished on their parents, the late François Garic and Eugénie Lavigne Garic, during times of long and cruel illness ["une longue et cruelle maladie"]. They therefore ask the jury to authorize Fonrose's emancipation, without compelling him to leave the state, inasmuch as Fonrose, a carpenter and a mason by trade, can easily and honestly provide for his needs [Original in French].

12. ↑ ^{12.0 12.1} Tuesday, December 12, 1893, Times-Picayune (New Orleans, Louisiana) p. 9.
13. ↑ "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCJ4-BW5 : 12 April 2016), Francois Garic, Orleans parish, part of, Orleans, Louisiana, United States; citing family 412, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
14. ↑ 9"United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFPZ-ZD4 : 14 December 2017), F Garague, 1860.
15. ↑ Ancestry Record 6742 #6859088 Year: 1880; Census Place: New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana; Roll: 461; Page: 486B; Enumeration District: 048

See also:

• Find A Grave: Memorial #171702228: accessed 08 August 2018, memorial page for Francois Garic (1813–11 Dec 1893), citing Saint Bernard Catholic Cemetery, Kenilworth, St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, USA; Maintained by Judy Ber2c W (contributor 47928814).