Paul Bouet Laffitte - Mansfield, LA
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N 32° 05.200 W 093° 37.466
15S E 441073 N 3550213
Marker on a member of the Laffitte family of Northwest Louisiana, located on LA 509 at Carmel Loop in Mansfield.
Waymark Code: WMJVXF
Location: Louisiana, United States
Date Posted: 01/05/2014
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Paul Bouet Laffitte
(1746 - circa 1815)
The progenitor of the Laffitte family in northwest Louisiana was born in Pouyroquelaure, Gascony, France on March 4, 1746 to Francois Jean Bouet and Marie de Laffitte. He immigrated to Louisiana in 1764 and eventually settled here in the Bayou Pierre community. Laffitte was a prominent figure in local affairs and a respected trader with the Yatasi and other Caddo Indian groups in northwest Louisiana and northeast Texas. He established a cattle ranch in the Dolet Hills region of present-day DeSoto Parish and was appointed a justice in the Bayou Pierre settlement by the Spanish. In 1770 he married Marie Magdeleine Grappe (1754-1781), of French and Chitimacha Indian descent. Although contemporaries, their eldest sons, Pierre and Jean Baptiste, were not related to the pirates Pierre and Jean Laffite of Barataria fame. In 1782 Laffitte married Eulalie Marie Anne de Soto (1762-1833), of French and Spanish descent and granddaughter of Louis Juchereau de St. Denis, founder of Natchitoches. Paul Bouet Laffitte's name disappears from local records after 1815, with the date and place of his death being unknown.
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Marker Name: Paul Bouet Laffitte
Marker Type: Roadside
What does marker relate to?: Person
Parish: De Soto
Year Erected or Date Dedicated: Not listed
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