♂Hyacinthe Laplante

Hyacinthe Laplante (born about 1808, died before 5 September 1890) was a man of the French Catholic community of Vincennes, Indiana. In 1830 he married Marie Anne Compagnotte at St. Francis Xavier, and in 1837 his brother Joseph Narcissus married her sister. He was the third great-grand-uncle of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), the brother of Julia Adele Laplante (1811–1861), Nancy Jane’s third great-grandmother.

Early life

A compiled Indiana index of births and christenings gives Hyacinthe’s birth as 11 March 1808 and his christening at Vincennes, in the Indiana Territory^W, on 8 May 1808. It names his parents as Jean Baptist Laplante and Marie Colne, that is Jean Baptiste La Plante and Mary Dorcus O’Connell/Colne(y).

His sister Julia Adele was born three years later. A biography of her written by her granddaughter says that their father died when she was very young, and that her brothers “were very devoted and gave her every advantage that was theirs to give.” Julia Adele gave the name Hyacinth to a son born on 10 August 1841.

Marriage

On 4 January 1830 Julia Adele was married to Augustin Tougas Lovellette at St. Francis Xavier^W, the parish church of Vincennes. On 1 June 1830 Hyacinthe was married in the same church to Marie Anne Compagnotte, who had been born on 19 September 1811. The parish marriage index names Marie Anne’s parents as Pierre Compagnotte and Marguerite Gamelin, and gives the same parents for Marellite Compagnotte, who married Joseph Narcissus Laplante (born 1805) on 6 February 1837. So two probable brothers married two sisters, seven years apart, in one parish. No children of Hyacinthe and Marie Anne are recorded.

Death

The year of Hyacinthe’s death is not recorded. A notice in the Vincennes Commercial reports that Marie Anne died at two in the morning on Friday, 5 September 1890, at her home on South Fourth Street, aged seventy-eight, and calls her the widow of “the late Hyacinth LaPlante.” Her funeral was announced for Sunday, 7 September, at St. Francis Xavier’s Cathedral. Hyacinthe therefore died some time between his marriage in 1830 and that day.

Notes

The date of the widow’s death

The Newspapers.com copy of the notice carries the date 12 September 1890. The notice itself says that she died “Friday”, that her funeral “will take place” on Sunday, 7 September, and that she lacked fourteen days of being seventy-nine, which gives 5 September 1890, a Friday. The date kept here follows the notice’s own wording.

A namesake

Another Edouard Hyacinthe La Plante, born 4 May 1828 and christened at Vincennes on 11 September 1831, was the son of a Jean Baptiste La Plante and Elizabeth Martin. He belongs to a different family.