Brief Life History of J. Edmond Benjamin
When J. Edmond Benjamin LaVallee was born in 1807, in Missouri, United States, his father, Jean Baptiste LaVallee, was 43 and his mother, Jeanne Chauvin, was 34. He married Sidney Smith Watson in January 1832, in New Madrid, Louisiana Territory, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 10 May 1853, in New Madrid, Louisiana Territory, United States, at the age of 46, and was buried in New Madrid, Louisiana Territory, United States.
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- E B Lavalle in household of Unknown, "United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1850 "
- J. Edmond Benjamin LaVallee, "Find A Grave Index"
- Legacy NFS Source: Dr. J. Edmond Benjamin LaVallee -
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1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1808 · City of Ste. Genevieve
The city of Ste. Genevieve was incorporated on June 18, 1808. The city was founded in 1735 by French Canadian colonists and is Missouri’s oldest town. Ste. Genevieve was also the location of the first organized European settlement west of the Mississippi River.
1820 · Making States Equal
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: French Normand, Armand, Andre, Marcel, Pierre, Adrien, Lucien, Julien, Laurent, Michel, Raoul, Achille.
French (Lavallée): topographic name for someone who lived in a valley, a variant of Vallée (see Vallee ), with fused feminine definite article la; or a habitational name from La Vallée, the name of several places in various parts of France, named with this word. Compare Lavalais , Lavalla , Lavalle , Lavalley , Lavallie , Lavelle , Lavely , Levalley , and Lovely .
Altered form of French Vallée (see Vallee ), a cognate of 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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