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According to St. Martin Parish church records, the parents of Eloy Broussard, born February 19, 1824, were Rosemond Broussard and Josephine Broussard. [1]
Eloi married Rose Hebert on January 27, 1845 in New Iberia, Louisiana. [2]
Eloi Broussard apparently never married Josephine Lesse, his domestic servant with whom he had thirteen children in an open and consensual relationship that continued throughout most of his adult years.[3] There is a record, in Hebert's Southwest Louisiana Records indicating that he did marry her on 19 March 1873 in New Iberia,[4] but according to Creole genealogist, Christophe Landry, this was a mistranscription by Hebert for their son's marriage.[5]
In 1868, the couple was named as parent of Edouard Moderant. [6]
In 1875, the couple are named as parents of Eleonor Broussard who married Elisabeth Gobleur. [7]
The family was counted on the US census of 1880 when Eloi was 56y and a widow and Josephine Lesser was 40y and there were 10 children in the household. The census lists Josephine as "other" though the St. Martin Parish church records show the couple were married in 1873. However, the Find a Grave Memorial (see last source citation) has census information and describes Josephine as "partner". There is an image of the census available but it is behind a paywall. [8]
Éloi Rosémond, by his father's first wife, married Rose or Rosa, daughter of fellow Acadian Exhubert Hébert, at the New Iberia church, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in January 1845. Their daughters married into the Boudreaux, Delcambre, Landry, and Thibodeaux families.
A succession record for Éloi R. Broussard was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse, St. Martin Parish, in January 1866; it was not post-mortem.
Éloi remarried to Afro Creole Joséphine Lesse or Lessey, perhaps a former slave, at the New Iberia church in March 1873, but they had children together years before the ceremony.
Their son Édouard Moderant was born near New Iberia in October 1868. In 1885, Éloi donated land for a family cemetery near his home on Bayou Petit Anse. (Éloi and Joséphine are maternal ancestors of singer/actor/pop star Beyoncé Knowles of Houston, Texas, a tenth generation descendant of François Brossard of Acadia through his son Joseph Broussard dit Beausoleil). [9]
On November 10, 1906, Eloi Rosemond "Rene" Broussard died in Iberia Parish. He was buried in the Broussard Cemetery, Derouen, Iberia Parish, Louisiana. [10]