♂Zack Talley

Zack Talley (14 February 1892 – 27 August 1943) was a St. Martin Parish, Louisiana, man who married the sister of his half-brother’s wife: his wife, Ozea Serrette, was the elder sister of Ida Serrette, who married his half-brother Jeffrey Delahorne (1899–1929). The youngest known son of Marie Virginia Cottrelle (1858–1937) by her first husband, he was the half-uncle of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014).

Life

He was born at St. Martinville, the son of Denis Gédéon Talley and Virginia Cottrell, who had married in St. Martin Parish in 1881. His father’s death has not been found; by 1894 his mother, described as a widow, had married Augustin Delahunt. In the 1900 census the boy, recorded as “Zarachie” Talley and aged ten, was living in the second ward of St. Martin Parish with his widowed mother, his elder sister Isabelle, his brothers Taylor, Thomas and Jefferson, and his two-year-old half-brother Jeffrey.

He married Ozea Serrette, a daughter of Pierre Anatole Serrett and Amelia Pennison Daigle of Breaux Bridge. The marriages made the two families doubly related: Zack’s nephews and nieces through Jeffrey were also Ozea’s nephews and nieces through her sister Ida. Zack and Ozea had two daughters, Claire, born in 1918, and Mabel, born in 1926.

Zack Talley died on 27 August 1943 in St. Martin Parish, aged fifty-one, and was buried at Henderson. Ozea outlived him by more than twenty years; in 1950 she was living in St. Martin Parish with her daughter Mabel’s family, and she died in 1966.

Notes

The 1900 census gives his age as ten, which points to a birth about 1890 rather than the 14 February 1892 given here.