Aristide Jerome Weekes

Aristide was orphaned at a very young age when both of his parents died closely following each other in 1868 from the effects of the yellow fever sweeping the Gulf Coast at the time. Aristide and his year-old baby sister, Annie Corinna went to live with their late mother's brother Jerome Ulysses Barnard and his wife Mary Delphine Weeks. Annie died two years later, also of yellow fever.

Aristide once owned large tracts of river front property known as "the brick yard," but sold most of it off. He died at the age of 78 in 1943, nearly broke and doing odd jobs to support himself and his wife. Most of his children had married and moved away by then. Cause of death was believed to be prostate cancer.

After the death of his wife Mary Cecilia in 1958, the house was occupied by their unmarried son OScar until his death from colon cancer in 1971. The family home which Aristide built for his family across from Claude & Bernie Laurendine on Magnolia Springs Highway is long gone but their old giant oak tree still shades the grounds.