In a message dated 4/20/2004 4:04:04 AM Central Standard Time, LAVERMIL-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: Message Board Post: Looking for any info on my GG Grandmother Felicia Foreman Catalon. She was born around 1843 in SW Louisiana. She was married to Arvilien Catalon and together they had 10 children that lived. Marie Cordelia - b 1870 Joesph Adoris - b 1872 Elia - b 1873 Leo - b 1875 Ignace - b 1877 Leomire - b1880 Bernadette - b 1883 Oscar - b 1884 Jean Hovel - b 1886 Eva - b 1887 I'm willing to share any info I have. I'm not sure if I've talked to you before about this or not. What do you need to know about the Catalon family? Most of the information I have came from Fr Hebert's books and family records. The Mercier/ Barras family married into the Catalon family. My mother's cousin Clebert Barras married Elia Catalon in 1893 in St Martin Parish. I don't know what happened to their marriage or her, but he later married Elodea Verret in Iberville Parish in 1914. I believe Elodea is the mother of Clebert's only child Wilfred Barras. I am seeking anyone who may know anything about him. I suspect Elodea may have died in child birth, I haven't located a death certificate for her yet. Clebert later married another girl in Iberville Parish by the name of Louise Amelina DeCuir in 1926. I also suspect that Clebert moved to Plaquemine, Iberville Parish, LA for work, following his half brother Terrance Mercier who also married a girl in Iberville Parish by the name of Eunice Verret, a cousin of Elodea. The Mercier connection to the Catalon family comes in when Dolsin Sellers married Marie Cordelia Catalon, a sister to Elia (I have a picture of Dolsin & Cordelia). Their son, Romeal or Romauld Sellers, married my grandfather's sister Josephine Mercier. h Cherryl Forbes Montgomery g CherrylM@AOL.com My Louisiana Afri-Creole Family //\\//\\//\\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\/ /\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\//\\//\\//\\//\\// Researching Southwest Louisiana parishes of Lafayette, St. Martin, St. Landry, and Iberia Parish surnames of MERCIER, WILTZ, ESCLAVON, DeCLOUET, MASSE, GREGOIRE, JEAN LOUIS, SHAY (CHAIX), GUIDRY, BASILE (CHIASSON), BARRAS, LeMELLE, LeBLANC, GUILLUAME, HENRY, and SIMON Also researching Louisiana old West Florida Parishes of East Baton Rouge, Livingston, East and West Feliciana surnames of FORBES, DUNN, CARTER, SCOTT, DeARMOND, EVANS, RICKS, BROWN, GAINES, CURRY, PATTERSON and ANDREWS.