Jean Ebene Touissaint
–16 August 2009
Petit Goâve, Ouest, Haiti
The Life of Jean Ebene
Jean Ebene Touissaint was born in Petit Goâve, Ouest, Haiti as the son of Bellame Touissaint and Eximene Gabriel. He died on 16 August 2009, in his hometown.
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Parents and Siblings
Bellame Touissaint
–Male
Eximene Gabriel
–Female
siblings
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–2009Male
World Events (3)
1915
President Woodrow Wilson orders the U.S. Marines to occupy Haiti and establish control over customs-houses and port authorities. The Haitian National Guard is created by the occupying Americans. The Marines force peasants into corvée labor building roads. Peasant resistance to the occupiers grows under the leadership of Charlemagne Peralt, who is betrayed and assassinated by Marines in 1919.
1934
The U.S. withdraws from Haiti leaving the Haitian Armed Forces in place throughout the country.
1937
Thousands of Haitians living near the border of the Dominican Republic are massacred by Dominican soldiers under the orders of President General Trujillo.
Name Meaning
French: apparently from elements meaning ‘St. Louis’, but perhaps an altered form of a habitational name from Luisant in Eure-et-Loir.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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