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Note: Baptism of Elphege Joseph Daigle
Abstract graciously provided by Faye Messmer Daigle
Transcribed here by Cynthia Fatchett Daigle
Certification and Abstract Document
Birth-Baptismal Record
Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux
Office of Archives
Historical Research Center
Joseph Elphege Daigle child of Leufroy Daigle and EulalieThibodeaux was baptized at St. Joseph's Church, Thibodaux, LA
Year of Baptism: 1863 Record number: vol. 5, #469
According to the Rite of the Roman Catholic Church
Date of Birth: June 3, 1862 Place of Birth: ________
Date of Baptism: May 3, 1863
Minister of Baptism: Rev. Chs M. Mennard
Sponsors: Joseph Daigle and Antoinette Laperouse
A true abstract from the Birth-Baptism registers of the above named parish which now deposited with the Office of Archives, Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux
Date abstracted: July 18, 1994
Signed: Roland J. Boudreaux, Archivest
Official seal affixed
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Elphege Joseph Daigle b. June 3, 1862 Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, LA s/o Leufroy Ulgere Daigle and Rosalie Eulalie Thibodaux. The following is an excerpt from the works of Billy Earp Robertson in "Lafourche Country, The People and the Land".
Elphege grew up along Bayou Blue, near Houma, La., when it was a large bayou and cypress and oak logs were floated down the bayou to the mill to be processed into building material. He helped his father to collect Spanish moss in a pirogue and to bring this home to be dried in the hot sun to be used in mattresses.
He learned farming from his father and grandfather. During his lifetime, there was a small narrow gauge railroad along the bayou that was used to haul sugarcane to the mill. Even now, sometimes, the old railroad spikes turn up when there is digging done in the area yards.
Elphege was a farmer, but, in partnership, he owned a dancehall on Bayou Blue. Many fais do-do were held there. As the community cottage church services grew larger, it became obvious that a larger meeting place was needed. With permission of his partner, he offered the use of the dance hall. This seems to be a strange place to meet and hear the gospel, but, Rev. Blackburn was heard to quote, "For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them." Even so, Elphege felt uncomfortable and eventually dissolved the partnership and had the building cut in half. Mrs. Blackburn was heard to say, "The Word of God has sawn asunder a place of worldliness." Elphege moved his half of the building to another piece of property on Bayou Blue also owned by him. There, in the midst of the sugarcane, services continued in the crude structure.
Later, the men of the group built a small church on this site. It was destroyed in 1925 by a hurricane, but it was rebuilt and added to until in now stands in that same place. A picture of Elphege hangs in the foyer of the church as one of it's founders. The property was donated for the church site.
Elphege died of cancer and is buried in Halfway Cemetery. He will be remembered not only for being the ancestor of many Lafourche and Terrebonne people, but for his help in the beginnings of Presbyterianism on Bayou Blue.
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Louisiana Statewide Death Index, 1900-1949 Recordinfo
about Elphege Daigle
Name: Elphege Daigle
Death Date: 8 Jan 1924
Estimated Birth Year: 1863
Age: 61 years
Parish: Lafourche
Certificate Number: 576
Volume: 2
Title: Louisiana Statewide Death Indeces 1900-1929
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South LA Vital Family Records by Terrebonne Genealogy Society
v. 7 p. 54
Daigle, Elphege d. 8 Jan 1924 m. #1 Marie Pitre d., children listed: Shelly, Henry, Magnolia w/o Paul Sear, Ozia w/o Clay Sonier, Mathilde w/o Dovie Bergeron, Elda w/o Emile Thibodeaux & Charles. M. #2 Angelina Guidry, children listed: Edley age 8 years, Wilbert age 5 years, Nelson age 3 years, and Nellie age 18 months (Thib Ct Hse Succ #2708 filed 20 Aug 1924)
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