Hi All, I thought this might be of interest to some members of our list. This is an article taken from the New Orleans Newspaper. Follow the Descendants of Victor Baudier Times-Picayune, Sunday, April 03, 2005 Article by: Damon Veach (Jean) Victor Baudier arrived in the United States, circa 1810. He is first found in the War of 1812 as a 15-year-old servant to Captain Hubbard's Mounted Co., Plauche's Battalion of Orleans. Baudier was born in 1797 in Morliax, France, a son of a military surgeon. Possibly arriving in Mobile, Ala., he finally made it to New Orleans and lived in the city and in Plaquemines Parish before going on to Attakapas (St. Martinville) about 1842, and later to Jesuit Bend in Plaquemines. While living in St. Martinville, Baudier also kept a home in New Orleans. In 1824, he married (Marie Anne) Leonide Josephine DuFouchard Verloin DeGruy from St. Charles Parish. Together they had eight children, most of whom resided in New Orleans. Jean Victor served in the Civil War as did five of his sons and two of his grandsons. 1. (Jean) Alexandre Sr. married (Marie Louise) Elodie Boutte, from St. Charles Parish. They had 10 children. The third of these was (Jean) Aleandre Jr., who married his cousin (Louise) Angela Baudier. Alexandre and Angela both died in 1899, leaving behind nine children, the oldest 19 years, the youngest only 1 year old. The seventh child of Alexandre and Angela was (Joseph) Roger Baudier, editor of Catholic Action, a researcher and a New Orleans historian who was born in 1893. Allied families are: O'Neil, Perrot, Frigola, Culotta, LeVasseur, Thompson, Demarest, Pastureau, Oertling, Aspelund, Brown, Escude, Occhipinti, Freeman, Frazier, Scully, Olivier, Schexnayder, Demarest, Silva, McCoy, Caneza, and Maroney. 2. (Jean) Victor Baudier married (Felicite) Elizodie (DeVince) Bienvenu from St. Martinville in 1847. They had nine children. Their daughter (Marie) Louise married Paul Gelpi in 1869. Paul and Louise were the parents of Dr. Paul Joseph Gelpi, a surgeon, who invented the Gelpi clamp. One year, Dr. Gelpi was elected by five Carnival crews to be king of their parades and balls. Dr. Gelpi married (Marie) Annette Hincks, and together they had 10 children. Two of his brothers were Dr. Louis Gelpi, married to Nina Webster in 1907, and Dr. Maurice Gelpi, married to Ruth DeGrange in 1918. Allied families are: Labarre, Bozonier, Laplace, Dart, Landry, Chapman, Wadsworth, Granzin, Kahle, McCarroll, Lurry, Blanchard, Mengelle, Harris and Theard. 3. Edouard Antoine Baudier married Amelie Eugenie Domingon in 1854 and Louisa Trosclair in 1868. There are no known children. 4. In 1851 (Louis) Theodore married Elizabeth Zeringue from St. Martinville, where they resided with their one child, Daniel, who married Melanie Frederic from Grand Coteau in 1871 in Breaux Bridge. Their child, Arthenise, went to school at the Academy of the Sacred Heart in Grand Coteau. 5. Ernest Joseph married Louise Angela Planchard. Together they had three girls, the last being Louisa Angela Baudier, who married her cousin (Jean) Alexandre Jr. Louise died nine days after the birth of this daughter. Ernest then married Marie Elina Vanier after the death of his first wife, and they had one child. Allied families are: Planchard, Garcia, Bonneval, Denley, Montamant, Gerlinger, Dominicim Ascani, Hartmann, Crowley, and Todd. 6. Pierre Gustave Auguste Baudier was married circa 1860 to (Marie) Madeleine Mereidier, and they had three children. Their first son (Jean) Jefferson married Angelique Rideau in 1881. 7. (Marie) Leonide Baudier married Jefferson Leon Seuzeneau, circa 1862. They had 10 children. After the death of his first wife, Jefferson married Mary Emma Thiel, widow Fayard, and two more children born of this marriage. Allied families are: Blanchard, Hubert, Mason, Whitfield, Trawick, Pence and Sbisa. 8. Paschal Henri Baudier married (Marie) Wilhelmina Bonneval in 1874. They had 11 children: (Marie) Victoria married Louis Serpas in 1893; (Henry) Louis married Elizabeth Schneider in 1899; Alice married Edward Frank Held in 1902; Cecile married Frederick Pflueger in 1905, then Henry Weber in 1922; Stella married Herman Binder in 1907, then Henry Dermenstein in 1921; Robert married Emily Root in 1921; and the other children died at an early age. Allied families are: Palmisano, Marquet, Fischer and Rosenbohm. Helen Kendrick has been tracing the Baudier and allied families for many years. Because this family is so immense, there are many missing pieces. She would like to find anyone interested in helping her complete the Baudier family genealogy. Letters, photos, Civil War records, oral histories or other information would be most welcome. Contact Helen Kendrick, e-mail: lhkendri@bellsouth.net. Please use Baudier in the subject line. . . . . . . . Louisiana Ancestors appears in the Living section on the first and third Sundays of each month. Correspondence should be addressed to Damon Veach, Louisiana Ancestors, care of Living Section, The Times-Picayune, 3800 Howard Ave., New Orleans, La. 70125-1429. The e-mail address is bookman@intersurf.com. When submitting queries by e-mail, include a residence or mailing address for those researchers who do not have access to computers.