♀Amanda Zeringue

Amanda Zeringue (8 July 1892 – 24 February 1973), known by her married name as Amanda Serrette, was a woman of St. Martin Parish, Louisiana, who was left a widow with seven children in 1937 and outlived her husband by thirty-six years. She was the wife of Simeon Joseph Serrette (1891–1937), an elder brother of Ida Serrette (1903–1990), the mother of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014).

Early life and marriage

A Find a Grave memorial gives Amanda’s birth as 8 July 1892 at Cecilia, St. Martin Parish. She married Simeon Joseph Serrette, a son of Pierre Anatole Serrett (1853–1926) and Amelia Pennison Daigle (1869–1906), in St. Martin Parish in April 1913; the parish marriage records give both 18 April and 19 April 1913, which probably reflect the licence and the ceremony. One of those entries names her parents as Honore Zerinque and Marie Georgia Nothareze.

Family and widowhood

The couple made their home in Police Jury Ward 2 of St. Martin Parish, the ward where Simeon had grown up in his father’s household. They had seven children, born between 1914 and 1930, and a FamilySearch index of the census of 1930 places all seven at home with Simeon and Amanda, both then aged 37. A Find a Grave memorial gives Simeon’s death as 29 April 1937, at 45, which would have left Amanda a widow in her mid-forties; her eldest child was then in his early twenties and her youngest about seven.

Death

A cemetery memorial index gives Amanda’s death as 24 February 1973 at Arnaudville, St. Landry Parish, aged 80, thirty-six years after her husband’s, and places her burial at Henderson, St. Martin Parish, where Simeon is also recorded as buried.

Notes

The date of her death is recorded two ways: a cemetery memorial index gives 24 February 1973, and her Social Security record gives 15 February 1973; the records do not settle which is correct. The marriage entry that names her parents gives her age as 18 in 1913, which would place her birth about 1895, not in 1892; the 1930 census age of 37 agrees with the 1892 birth. Her parents are known only from that marriage entry.