Brief Life History of Joseph Edmond
When Joseph Edmond Mouton was born on 16 August 1848, in Lafayette, Lafayette, Louisiana, United States, his father, Jean Baptiste Sosthene Mouton, was 44 and his mother, Celestine Marie Vavasseur, was 27. He married Emerite Flavie Voorhies on 15 February 1870, in Lafayette, Louisiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Ward Three, Vernon, Louisiana, United States in 1880 and Ward Three, Lafayette, Louisiana, United States in 1900. He died on 14 March 1925, in Lafayette, Lafayette, Louisiana, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Lafayette, Lafayette, Louisiana, United States.
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- J Edmund Moreton, "United States Census, 1900"
- Edmond Mouton, "Louisiana Births and Christenings, 1811-1830, 1854-1934"
- J Edmond Mouton, "United States Headstone Applications for U.S. Military Veterans, 1925-1949"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1868 · Louisiana Is Readmitted Into the Union
Louisiana was readmitted into the Union.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: French Andre, Antoine, Camille, Elphege, Emile, Michel, Ravis, Adhemar, Adrien, Alcee, Alcide.
French: nickname from Old French mouton ‘sheep’, used for a docile, mild-mannered person, for someone easily led, or perhaps for a curly-haired man. This surname is also established in South Africa.
English: variant of Mutton .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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