Evariste Navarre (bef. 1815 - 1884)

Ancestors

Biography

Parents, Birth:
 Evariste was born to Jean Marie Navarre and Anne Jeanne Boudreaux on the 5th of some month in the year 1815 before his date of baptism on August 7, 1815.^[1]

Marriage:
 Evariste married Marie Rose Antoniette Desiree Minguet, the 15 year old daughter of Eugene “Jenny” Minguet and Marie Basilice Guillot (both of whom died when Marie Rose was only three years old)^{[2] [3]} on 14 Aug 1837 in Thibodaux, Louisiana.^[4][5]

Children:
 My research shows that there were multiple Navarre families living in and around the same area during this time and at least three couples whose names were Evariste and Marie. To add to the confusion, the families named their children with similar names.
 That being said, I am fairly confident that the following children were the children of Evariste and Marie Rose:

1. Evariste Aurelien Navarre (Interesting story below Sources):
   • Born: 6 Nov 1838 in Thibodaux, Louisiana.^[6]
   • Married:
     1. Eveline Daigle on 10 Aug 1859 in Houma, Louisiana.^[7]
     2. Marie Aurelia Guidry on 25 Jun 1868 in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana.^[8][9]
   • Died: 1 Jan 1916
   • Burried: Saint Joseph Catholic Cemetery #1 in Rayne, Louisiana^[10]
2. Marie Celeste Adonaise Navarre:
   • Born: 30 Mar 1840 in Thibodaux, Louisiana.^[11]
   • Married: Michel Treville Sevin on 10 Oct 1857 in Thibodaux, Louisiana.^[12]
   • Died: 1867 in Thibodaux, Louisiana.
   • Buried: Saint Joseph Cemetery in Thibodaux, Louisiana^[13]
3. Gustave Ulysse Leandre Navarre:^{[citation needed]}
   • Born:14 Mar 1842 in Thibodaux, Louisiana
   • Died: 29 Jun 1842 in Thibodaux, Louisiana
4. Jean Mathurin Navarre:^[14]
   • Born: 27 Dec 1843 in Thibodaux, Louisiana
   • Died: 1 Sep 1847 in Thibodaux, Louisiana
5. Pauline Marie Navarre
   • Born: 22 Oct 1846 in Thibodaux, Louisiana^[15]
   • Married: Adrien Toups on 24 Nov 1866 in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana.^[16]
   • Died: 11 Dec 1939 Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana.
   • Buried: Our Lady of Prompt Succor Cemetery in Chackbay, Louisiana.^[17]
6. Joseph Dupre Navarre:
   • Born: 7 Aug 1851 in Thibodaux, Louisiana^[18]
   • Christened: 4 Jan 1852^[19]
   • Married: Marie Adelaide Chiasson on 23 May 1876 in Thibodaux, Louisiana.^[20]
   • Died: Unknown
7. Hilaire Emile Navarre:
   • Born: 14 Jan 1854 in Thibodaux, Louisiana^[21]
   • Married: Angelina Panvelle (Panwelle/Panvel) 5 Jun 1876 in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana.^[22]
   • Died: 23 Apr 1944 in Thibodaux, Louisiana^[23]
   • Buried: Saint Joseph Cemetery in Thibodaux, Louisiana.^[24]
8. Leroy Navarre:
   • Born: 5 May 1856 in Thibodaux, Louisiana^[25]
   • Married: Unknown
   • Died: Unknown
9. Anatole Henri Navarre:
   • Born: 23 Jul 1858^[26]
   • Married:
     1. Marie Aimee Chiasson on 21 Jul 1879 in Thibodaux, Louisiana.^[27][28]
     2. Elda Clothilde Ordoyne, daughter of Joachim Severin Ordoyne and Eugenie Adelina Panvelle, on 13 Oct 1892 in Thibodaux, Louisiana^[29][30]
   • Died: 5 Dec 1932 in Marrero, Louisiana^[31]
10. Louise Navarre:
    • Born: Around 1861^[32]
    • Married: Joseph Theodule Boudreaux on 31 Jan 1881 in Thibodaux, Louisiana^[33]
    • Died: Unknown
11. Ulysse Joseph “UJ” Navarre:
    • Born: 12 Oct 1863 in Thibodaux, Louisiana,
    • Married: Georgina Estelle Martin on 7 Aug 1884 in Thibodaux, Louisiana^[34]
    • Died: 22 Jan 1930 in Thibodaux, Louisiana
    • Burried: Saint Joseph Cemetery in Thibodaux, Louisiana^[35]

Death:
 Evariste died on 11 Apr 1884 and was buried in Thibodaux, Lafourche, Louisiana.^[36]

Census Data

1860 Census: Lafourche Parish, Louisiana:^[37]
Name: Evariste Navarre - Age: 46
 Birth Year: abt 1814
 Gender: Male
 Birth Place: Louisiana
 Home in 1860: Ward 2, Lafourche, Louisiana
 Post Office: Thibodaux
 Occupation: Farm Laborer
 Personal Estate Value: 150
 Cannot Read, Write: Y
Household Members:
Evariste Navarre - 46
 Marie R Navarre - 36
 Amellien Navarre - 21
 Pauline Navarre - 13
 Joseph Navarre - 9
 Emile Navarre - 6
 Leoy Navarre - 4
 Anathole Navarre - 1

1880 Census: Lafourche Parish, Louisiana:^[38]
Name: Evariste Navarre - Age: 69
 Birth Date: Abt 1811
 Birthplace: Louisiana
 Home in 1880: 6th Ward, Lafourche, Louisiana, USA
 Race: White
 Gender: Male
 Relation to Head of House: Self (Head)
 Marital Status: Married
 Spouse's Name: Marie Rose Navarre
 Father's Birthplace: Louisiana
 Mother's Birthplace: Louisiana
 Occupation: Farmer
Household Members:
Evariste Navarre - 69
 Marie Rose Navarre - 57
 Louise Navarre - 19
 Ulysse Navarre - 15

Sources

• Source: Hebert Vol. 1: Title: South Louisiana Records, vol. 1, 1794-1840; Author/Compiler: Rev. Donald Joseph Hebert; Publication: Rayne, LA, Hebert Publications, 1978; Contains church and civil records of Lafourche & Terrebonne Parishes; copy in possession of Jacqueline Girouard
• Source: 1860 Census: Year: 1860; Census Place: Ward 2, Lafourche, Louisiana; Roll: M653_413; Page: 167; Family History Library Film: 803413
• Source: LA Marriages: Ancestry.com. Louisiana, Compiled Marriage Index, 1718-1925 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.

1. ↑ Diocese of Baton Rouge Catholic Church Records 1804-1819 Volume 3. Catholic Diocese of Baton Rouge: Baton Rouge, 1982, p.660. Text:

   NAVARRE...Evaristo (Juan and Maria BOUDRAUX) bn. 5 page torn 1815 bt. 7 Aug. 1815 spo. Gilberto Forgeron and Reyna LeJeune (ASM-6, 366)

2. ↑ Source: Hebert Vol. 1, p. 412
   Text:

   NAVARRE, Evariste 22 yrs. old (d. Jean Marie & Jeanne BOUDRAUX) m. 12 Aug. 1837 Marie Rose Antoinette Desiree MINGUE, about 15 yrs. old (Thib. Ct. Hse. : Mar. v. 2, # 29)

3. ↑ Source: Hebert Vol. 1, p. 395
   Text:

   MINGUET, Jenny m. Marie Basilice GUILLOT Children listed: Marie Rose Antoniette Desiree - 3 yrs.; Eugenie Catherine - 17 mths. Inventory: 28 March 1826 (Thib. Ct. Hse.: Succ. : Year 1826)

4. ↑ Source: Hebert Vol. 1, p. 395
   Text:

   MINGUET, Marie Rose Antoinette Desiree about 15 yrs. old (Jenny & Marie Basilice GUILLOT) m. 12 Aug. 1837 Evariste NAVARRE, 22 yrs. old (Thib. Ct. Hse.: Mar. v. 2, # 29)

5. ↑ Source: Hebert Vol. 1, p. 395
   Text:

   MINGUET, Marie Rose Antoinette Desiree (d. Eugene & Marie Basilice GUILLOT) m. 14 Aug. 1837 Evariste NAVARRE (Thib. Ch.: v. 1, # 579)

6. ↑ Source: Hebert Vol. 1, p. 412
   Text:

   NAVARRE, Evariste Aurelien (Evariste & Marie Rose MINGUE) b. 6 Nov. 1838 (Thib. Ch. : v. 3, # 1535)

7. ↑ Evariste marriage to Eveline Daigle: Million Early Marriages: Terrebonne Parish
8. ↑ Evariste marriage to Marie Aurelia Guidry: Million Early Marriages: St. Landry Parish
9. ↑ Source: LA Marriages:

   Name: Evariste Navarre
    Spouse: Marie Aurelia Guidry
    Marriage Date: 25 Jun 1868
    Marriage Pace: St. Landry

10. ↑ Evariste Navarre on Find A Grave: Memorial #6351392 retrieved 5 Feb 2018
11. ↑ Source: Hebert Vol. 1, p. 413
    Text:

    NAVARRE, Marie Celeste Adonaise (Evariste & Marie Rose MINGUE) b. 20 March 1840 (Thib. Ch. : v. 3, # 1903)

12. ↑ Source: LA Marriages:

    Name: Marie Adonaise Navare
     Spouse: Treville Sevin
     Marriage Date: 10 Oct 1857
     Marriage Place: Lafourche

13. ↑ Marie Adonaise Navarre Sevin on Find A Grave: Memorial #141615276 retrieved 5 Feb 2018
14. ↑ Jean Mathurin RootsWeb Profile
15. ↑ Source: 1860 Census: Pauline Birth
16. ↑ Adrien Toups marriage to Pauline: Million Early Marriages: Lafourche Parish
17. ↑ Marie Pauline Navarre Toups on Find A Grave: Memorial #99622914 retrieved 2 Feb 2018
18. ↑ Source: 1860 Census: Joseph Birth
19. ↑ Rhode Island Births and Christenings, 1600-1914, database, FamilySearch accessed 10 February 2018; Joseph Dupre Navarre, 07 Aug 1851; citing , reference 2:16R9759; FHL microfilm 914,404.
20. ↑ Source: LA Marriages:

    Name: Joseph Navarre
     Spouse: Marie Chiasson
     Marriage Date: 23 May 1876
     Marriage Place: Lafourche

21. ↑ Source: 1860 Census: Hilaire Emile Birth
22. ↑ Angelina Panvel marriage to Hilaire (Emile):Million Early Marriages: Lafourche Parish
23. ↑ Ancestry.com. Louisiana, Statewide Death Index, 1819-1964 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2002.

    Name: [Hilaire] Emile [Navarre]
     Gender: Male
     Race: White or Mexican (White)
     Age: 90
     Birth Year: 1854
     Death Date: 23 Apr 1944
     Death Place: Lafourche, Louisiana, USA
     Certificate Number: 31995
     Volume: 51
     Title: Louisiana Statewide Death Indices 1940-1944.

24. ↑ Hilaire Emile Navarre on Find A Grave: Memorial #89744881 retrieved 6 Feb 2018
25. ↑ Source: 1860 Census: Leroy Birth
26. ↑ Source: 1860 Census: Anatole Birth
27. ↑ Anatole marriage to Marie Chiasson:Million Early Marriages: Lafourche Parish
28. ↑ Year: 1880; Census Place: 5th Ward, Lafourche, Louisiana; Roll: 455; Page: 648B; Enumeration District: 131
29. ↑ Year: 1900; Census Place: Police Jury Ward 5, Lafourche, Louisiana; Roll: 567; Page: 29; Enumeration District: 0030; FHL microfilm: 1240567
30. ↑ Elda Ordoyne marriage to Anatole:Million Early Marriages: Lafourche Parish
31. ↑ Ancestry.com. Louisiana, Statewide Death Index, 1819-1964 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2002.

    Name: Anatole Navarre
     Age: 74
     Birth Year: 1858
     Death Date: 5 Dec 1932
     Death Place: Jefferson, Louisiana, USA
     Certificate Number: 14306
     Volume: 35

32. ↑ Year: 1880; Census Place: 6th Ward, Lafourche, Louisiana; Roll: 455; Page: 653A; Enumeration District: 132
33. ↑ Louise marriage to Joseph Theodule Boudreaux:Million Early Marriages: Lafourche Parish
34. ↑ Source: LA Marriages:

    Name: Ulysse Navarre
     Spouse: Georgina Martin
     Marriage Date: 7 Aug 1884
     Marriage Place: Lafourche

35. ↑ Ulysse Joseph “U J” Navarre on Find A Grave: Memorial #89281915 retrieved 7 Feb 2018
36. ↑ South Louisiana Records: Lafourche~Terrebonne Volume 7 (1881-1885) by Rev. Donald J. Hebert; Claitor's Publishing: Baton Rouge, LA, 2008. p.329. Text:

    NAVARRE, Evariste d. 11 April 1884 at age 68 yrs. (Thib.Ch.: v.3, p.66)

37. ↑ Source: 1860 Census
38. ↑ Year: 1880; Census Place: 6th Ward, Lafourche, Louisiana; Roll: 455; Page: 653A; Enumeration District: 132

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From THE OPELOUSAS COURIER
January 3, 1880

NEW ORLEANS AND ST. LANDRY THE LOCALITIES
--ITS STRANGE AND HAPPY DENOUEMENT

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  On Christmas Eve, Dec. 24th, 1879, was witnessed the pleasant sequel, of one of the most romantic cases of abduction, that it has ever been our lot to recall, much less to publish in the columns of the Courier.
  As nearly as we can glean the facts of this most remarkable episode, they are as follows:

  In the city of New Orleans, there has resided for the past 25 or 30 years, on 205 Port Street, an Italian physician by the name of Francois Toro. After living there a few years, it seems that he established a very good practice in the medical profession, and began accumulating money and real estate. About the time the civil war commenced, he married a widow lady - who then had two sons - by the name of Mrs.---Borne. In the year 1862 the subject of this sketch - Hermenegildo Toro - was born of this marriage. In the course of time the wife of Dr. Toro dies, leaving only one child - the boy Hermenegildo. In the meantime the Doctor had continued to accumulate money, amounting to four or five thousand dollars; and his son had reached eight years of age, and was the only legal heir of his estate. Alexandre Borne, one of the sons by the wife's first marriage, having reached manhood, was at this time married. Knowing that his little half-brother, Hermenegildo, would inherit all of his step-father's property, and wishing to get rid of this legal hindrance to his own remote expectations, he conceived the diabolical conspiracy of abduction, which was carried into such successful execution.
  On a bright sunny day, in the month of June 1871, Dr. Toro sent his little son to the baker's to get some bread. On the way he met his half-brother -- Alexandre Borne, who asked him to go home with him on a visit, where he would greatly enjoy himself. As the little fellow had passed nights at his brother's house before, he never suspected the dreadful consequences that were to inure to himself and his father from this visit. On the following morning Mrs. Alexandre Borne took the lad and crossed over the Algiers; got aboard of the cars and went to Brashear City. From thence, she hired a hack and brought her hapless victim to her uncle's -- Evariste Navarre -- who resides in Queue Tortue, St. Landry parish. Mrs. Borne told Mr. Navarre, that the boy was an orphan, giving his name as Emile Poncho; and requested her uncle to keep him a couple of months, as she did not have money enough to pay his fare back to the city at the time, but would remit it soon. When she started back in the hack, Hermenegildo begged piteously to be taken back; but she told him he would have to wait until she could send money to pay his passage home. As a mater of course she never intended, and did not send for him. Weeks and months passed, and the uncle and boy heard nothing from the recreant Mrs. Borne. She had left no address, and the unfortunate child could not remember that of his father. In the meantime a strong attachment had grown up between Mr. Navarre and his little protege. As no intelligence had been received from his father, Emile Poncho -- as the boy was now called -- concluded that he must be dead. Being with a kind family, and as yet but a child, the pain of his exile gradually passed away, and he became reconciled to his untoward destiny. Mr. Navarre was a poor man, yet he gave the boy a good horse, bridle and saddle, when he had reached an age to make use of them. The early history of Hermenegildo was gradually fading from his mind; his name had become familiar as Emile Poncho; he had long believed his father dead; and he had almost attained the age of manhood, as a member of Mr. Navarre's household. Now comes the third and last act of this thrilling drama of life. Destiny, so to speak, now reverses the order of its events, and travels back over the desolate track it made for an unhapph child, and still greater bereaved parent; brings unspeakable happiness and reunion to them; and puts an angry Nemesis on the trail of the venal abductors, who deserve, and will doubtless get swif retribution for their crimes.
  In October 1879, Mr LeBesque of New Orleans, while on a business tour throuh the Attakapas parishes, discovered the boy, by the merest accident, in St. Landry. He had stopped to dine with an acquaintance -- a Mr. Guidry-- near the line of Lafayette parish; and during the course of their conversation, Mr. Guidry incidentally mentioned the story, this boy gave of his early life. The romantic features of it, so interested Mr. LeBesque that he asked Mr. Guidry to send for the boy so that he might get more definite information about the matter. Mr. Guidry did as requested, and when the boy arrived, he related substantially the same facts of his abduction as we have already given them; stating that his father must have died years ago, and that he must have left him some property in the city. Mr. LeBesque returned to the city, and as an act of kindness to the boy, commenced an immediate investigation of the records, to ascertain if the father had left an estate. But no such name as Dr. Francois Toro, could be found in the list of successions. Mr. LeBesque then visited the Italian portion of the city, and began a diligent inquiry for Dr. Poncho -- the surname the boy had been given by Mrs. Borne at the time of his abduction. Luckily, a bystander pointed out a man, who was often called Dr. Poncho; and when interviewed by Mr. LeBesque, he proved to be the veritable Dr. Francois Toro, the father of the lost son, the boy found in St. Landry. It is said, that he was almost wild in his new found happiness; because he had long since considered his son dead. He had devoted long years in painful search of him, and spent every cent of his money and all his property to ascertain the fate of the child. Dr. Toro and Mr. LeBesque reached Opelousas on the 23d of December; a writ of arrest was immediately placed in the hands of the sheriff, who brought the boy -- now seventeen years old -- into town on the 24th of December, and delivered him to his father. It is said the son recognized his father, although seperated from him nine years ago, when only eight years of age. Was this not a happy Christmas eve to parent and child? Orders were left for the arrest of the abductors upon the arrival of Dr. Toro in the city.
  "Truth is stranger than fction."