This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: pkobleur1 Surnames: Chaudoin Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.chaudoin/8.21.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hello Cassidy. It is too late for your paper, but my sister and I made a trip to Halletsville Texas and went to the courthouse to look up info on Wallace A Chaudoin, our gggrandfather. All we could find in the criminal and other court records was Wallace was charged with shooting into a man's house without his permission. There was one charge of horse theft, but it turned out the man purchased the colt from Wallace and never paid, so Wallace took it back. No record of anything more sinister. Byron Chaudoin married Mary Jane Creasman(Crissmon, Chrisman). Byron was listed as a farmer on census records. He died in Civil War on a ship and buried in Maryland. He was on the confederate side. No record he was a doctor. His father, Thomas Chaudoin was well know and owned a large number of acres around Halletsville. He possibly was at the Alamo also. If you Google his name in republic of Texas you can see some articles with his name listed. Wallace was blind in his later! years. My mother remembers him as a child staying at their house and whittling, telling stories of his mother and grandmother, supposedly Cherokee from Tn. Wallace Creasman was Mary Jane's relative, we aren't clear exactly the relationship, as his wife Biddy Scrimsher, never had children. After her death, she is buried in an abandoned cemetary in Morovia Tx, he remarried and had children in his old age. Unfortunately courthouses burned and records were lost. If you get the opportunity to travel to Hallettsville, go to the courthouse clerk of court. They have the actual records for the Chaudoin's that are over 150 yrs old in the vault and you can actually handle them and read some history. Who are your parents, grandparents, etc.? Please feel free to write [email protected] The search continues.... Pedigree chart; Francis Chaudon b 1735 m-1753 in Germantown Goochland Virginia, son: John Shadden Chaudoin b 9/19/1761 Chesterfield Co, VA, m-2/1788 Chesterfield, dj-1/21/1843 Williamson Co Il married Sarah Weaver b1730 Germanna, Fauqier VA d-1798 Buckinham VA, son: Thomas Chaudoin b7/6/1804 Robertson Co Tn m-1825 TN d-7/1869 Lavaco Co Tx married Sarah Wilkinson; son: Byron Chaudoin b-1837 Lavaco Tx, -10/05/1851 Lavaco Co, d-5/20/1862 Chesapeake Bay MD married Mahala Smith b-1804 N Carolina, d-4/29/1885 Lavaca Co Tx; won Wallace A Chaudoin b-10/4/1859 Lavaco Co, m-Avoyelles Parish La, d-1943-Pineville La married Cornelia McCann . Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

Found your message interesting, My father in law was a Wallace and my mother in law was a Chaudoin from Green Co. KY