Mary Alida Broussard

Birth: Apr. 14, 1850 Louisiana, USA Death: May 23, 1951 Louisiana, USA

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Spouse:

 Prevat Broussard (1848 - 1916)

Children:

 Mary Rosan Broussard (1875 - 1972)*

 Jethro Broussard (1877 - 1976)*

 Severin Broussard (1883 - 1908)*

 Desire Broussard (1886 - 1973)*

*Calculated relationship

Burial: Pecan Island Community Cemetery Pecan Island Vermilion Parish Louisiana, USA Plot: Row 15 or 21

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Newspaper article about the 100th brithday of Alida Miller Broussard. Specific paper unknown but according to the note attached to it, it was printed in 1949. This is consistent with the 100th brithday of this person who sayhs she was born in 1849. The information on her birth indicates that she was born in 1853.

The article is about Marie Alide Miller but she is referred to as "Aunt Bonnie". She was married to Prevat Broussard. The article refers to her father Ozachare Miller. His name was Joseph Ozincoutt Miller. The name on his birth certificate is 'Joseph Miller.' The article refers to her mother Delphine Fruge. The records indicate her name is Marie Fruge.

Anniversary Celebrated by Today's Citizen

Abbeville, Aug. 14 - "Aunt Bonnie" - Mrs Alida Broussard - a resident of Pecan Island near Abbeville, for 81 years and one of the first settlers of the marsh regions along the Vermilion parish coast, is 100 years today. Many of her 120 direct descendants, including 33 grandchildren, 72 great-grandchildren, and 10 great-great-grandchildren, are expected to make the four-hour trip by boat from Abbeville to the isolated island, surrounded by many miles of marsh. Among her descendants in this area are Mrs.T.E. Owens of Jennings, and Mrs Dallas Miller of Lake Charles, granddaughters.

Gathered around her cottage on one of the ridges that form the island, a group of friends and relatives will listen to Aunt Bonnie tell how her home and theirs,has changed since 1863.

Mrs Broussard recalls that she has seen the island emerge from a forsaken wilderness filled with wild animals and embedded with thickets and underbrush. "It has passed from the oxcart days to automobiles and from a valueless territory to a much treasured place since oil fields have been developed there," she says.

The oldest resident of Vermilion Parish, she was born in 1849, 13 years before the war between the states. But her only memory of the war is that her father, Ozachare Miller, died of wounds received near Shreveport and was buried there. The death of her father left her an orphan since her mother, the former Delphine Fruge of St Landry parish died when "Aunt Bonnie" was nine days old.

Mrs Broussard was reared at Grand Cheniere, which is only a few miles by water from her present home in Vermilion. It was at Grand Cheniere that she met and married Private Broussard. With several other families the Broussards moved to Pecan Island in the late fall of 1868. Recognized since as the first permanent settlers, their descendants now recall anecdotes and superstitions about the early history of the ridges the belief was that the island had been used as a slaughter place by the LaFitte brothers and their band of pirates. Another and probably more accurate belief, is that the skeletons there were left by the Attakapas Indians who inhabited South Louisiana before it was settled, and who were known to eat human flesh.

Mrs Broussard has three living sons, Jethro, Deserie, and Eugene, and two daughters, Mrs. Lewis Roberts and Mrs. B.F. Winch, all of whom live on the island.

(Note: this entire article was taken from page 93 of Murphy Miller's book on the descendants of Jacob Miller

Sources:
1.Title: Southwest Louisiana Records
Author: Rev. Donald Hebert Note: Grand Chenier, La Catholic Church Births 2:105 2.Title: Jacob Miller & Anne Marie Theigen Louisiana Families - Six Generations Author: Murphy Miller Publication: Self Published Page: 1:203 3.Title: Jacob Miller & Anne Marie Theigen Louisiana Families - Six Generations Author: Murphy Miller Publication: Self Published Page: 1:204 4.Title: Southwest Louisiana Records Author: Rev. Donald Hebert Note: Creole, La Catholic Church, Marriages, 1, p. 22 (date of 6 Aug 1892); previous civil marriage in Jennings, LA