Marie Olive Marceaux^{[1, 2]}

1917 - 1989  (71 years)

• Name	Marie Olive Marceaux  [3]
  Nickname	Mamam
  Born	10 Nov 1917	Kaplan, Vermilion, Louisiana, USA   [3]
  Christened	24 Dec 1917	Holy Rosary Church, Kaplan, Vermilion, Louisiana, USA
  Gender	Female
  Arrival	1944	Golden Meadow, Lafourche, Louisiana, USA
  Died	11 Aug 1989	Golden Meadow, Lafourche, Louisiana, USA   [3]
  	Cause: Cancer
  Buried	14 Aug 1989	St. Mary Magdalene Church Cemetery, Abbeville, Louisiana, USA
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  Person ID	P2570531553	Our Family Tree | Edea Pitre's Ancestors
  Last Modified	8 Oct 2010

  
  

  Father	Francois A Marceaux,   b. 03 Dec 1876, Kaplan, Vermilion, Louisiana, USA ,   d. 31 Jan 1939, Abbeville, Vermilion, Louisiana, USA  (Age 62 years)
  Mother	Edia Marie Legnon,   b. 9 May 1879, Charenton, St. Mary, Louisiana, USA ,   d. 15 Dec 1964, Abbeville, Vermilion, Louisiana, USA  (Age 85 years)
  Married	1894
  Family ID	F6	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Robert Jean Sonnier,   b. 11 Aug 1912, Breaux Bridge, St. Martin, Louisiana, USA ,   d. 17 Nov 1998, Lafayette, Lafayette, Louisiana, USA  (Age 86 years)
  Married	30 Mar 1932	St. Genevieve Catholic Church, Lafayette, Lafayette, Louisiana, USA
  	"When Aunt Ora visited Mama - May, 1989 she recounted to Yvonne & I how she & her husband Harry Bayliss (Brother Bayliss, he was called) drove Mama in their Studebaker to marry Daddy in Lafayette. She told how she tried to persuade her father that Mama was too young to marry (14 years old) but nevertheless they married. The wedding reception was at Papit & Mamit's place in Anse La Butte. Aunt Ora said it was quite an event. She also said when they got to church, a bunch of Mama's school friends were there to attend the wedding at St. Genieve's Catholic Church, Lafayette, La. While cleaning after her death in 1989, I found the top of her wedding cake with cake still on it & 2 glasses with initial S on them. I fixed it in a dome & Yvonne has it as well as her wedding dress - Clarissa married in it." (Olive Sonnier Pitre's family history book)
  Children	+ 1. Olive Jane Sonnier,   b. 17 Jan 1933, Anse La Butte, St. Martin, Louisiana, USA ,   d. 28 Oct 2008, Thibodaux, Lafourche, Louisiana, USA  (Age 75 years) + 2. R.J. Sonnier + 3. Murrel James Sonnier,   b. 21 Sep 1937, Anse La Butte, St. Martin, Louisiana, USA ,   d. 14 Sep 1981, Golden Meadow, Lafourche, Louisiana, USA  (Age 43 years) + 4. M.Y. Sonnier
  Last Modified	11 Jul 2009
  Family ID	F4	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map	Load the map	Born - 10 Nov 1917 - Kaplan, Vermilion, Louisiana, USA Christened - 24 Dec 1917 - Holy Rosary Church, Kaplan, Vermilion, Louisiana, USA Married - 30 Mar 1932 - St. Genevieve Catholic Church, Lafayette, Lafayette, Louisiana, USA Arrival - 1944 - Golden Meadow, Lafourche, Louisiana, USA Died - Cause: Cancer - 11 Aug 1989 - Golden Meadow, Lafourche, Louisiana, USA Buried - 14 Aug 1989 - St. Mary Magdalene Church Cemetery, Abbeville, Louisiana, USA  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Photos		Olive Marceaux as a Baby
  		Marceaux Family Edia, Frank, and baby Olive are in front center
  		Marceaux Sisters Front, sitting: Adele, Olive; Standing, l-r: Famie, Myra, Lillian
  		Marceaux Family in the 1920s Frank seated, Edia in black, Olive leaning towards her father on the left, Ida far left.
  		Marie Olive Marceaux Sonnier
  		Olive Marceaux with One of Her Sisters
  		Olive Sonnier
  		Olive and Nookie Sonnier
  		Olive and Nookie Sonnier
  		Marceaux Women Seated: Olive Marceaux Sonnier with baby Olive Sonnier, Peggy Hopkins Eagan, Edia Legnon Marceaux, and Adele Marceaux Pappas. Calice Marceaux is standing in back.
  		Robert and Olive Sonnier
  		Olive and Murrell Sonnier
  		Olive Sonnier
  		Edia Marceaux with Family Edia Legnon Marceaux surrounded by family, including daughter Olive (bottom left) and granddaughter Olive "Nookie" Pitre (in white, standing to Edia's right), who is pregnant with Edea Pitre.
  		Olive Marceaux Sonnier
  		Olive Marceaux Sonnier
  		Olive Sonnier
  		Olive Sonnier & Edea Pitre
  		Olive Sonnier
  		Olive Pitre, Edea Pitre, and Olive Sonnier Attending Patricia Pitre's first communion
  		Yvonne Sonnier's Wedding
  		Yvonne Sonnier's Wedding Yvonne Sonnier at her wedding with parents Robert & Olive and niece Edea Pitre
  		Robert & Olive Sonnier at Robert & Edea Baldwin's College Graduation
  		Adolph Sonnier Adolph Sonnier with daughter-in-law Olive Marceaux, great-granddaughter Edea Pitre, and great-great-granddaughter Edea Baldwin
  		DeeDee's Second Birthday Nookie Pitre, Edea Baldwin, Olive Sonnier, and DeeDee Baldwin at DeeDee's second birthday, held at the hospital where brother Bobby Baldwin was born several days before.
  		Robert & Olive Sonnier's 50th Anniversary
  		Robert & Olive Sonnier's 50th Anniversary
  		Robert & Olive Sonnier's 50th Anniversary
  		Robert & Olive Sonnier with Guidry Grandchildren From left: Dean, Olive, Robert, Clarissa, Bodie. Christopher in front.
  		Marceaux Sisters: Ora, Famie, Myra, and Olive
  		Olive Sonnier and Daughter Nookie Pitre
  		Olive Sonnier with Great-Granddaughters Olive Sonnier with Elisa Ledet, Grace Ledet, and Emelie Mayet
  		Robert & Olive Sonnier with Family Front: Nelma Sonnier Dendy, Bobby Baldwin, Robert Sonnier, Elisa Ledet, Emelie Mayet, Grace Ledet, DeeDee Baldwin, Christopher Guidry Second Row: Olive Marceaux Sonnier, Olive Sonnier Pitre, Christie Sonnier, Paige Sonnier, Yvonne Sonnier Guidry Third Row: Edea Pitre Baldwin, ?, Loyd Dendy, Ann Carter Sonnier, Laurence Guidry Fourth Row: Robert Baldwin, ?, ?, Shirby Breaux, Junior Sonnier Back: Ron Sonnier, Rick Sonnier
  		Robert and Olive Sonnier Robert and Olive Sonnier with peaches from the garden of the Baldwin house on Old Stagecoach Road.
  		Robert & Olive Sonnier Ceremony for couples married 50 years or more
  		Sonnier Family: Larry and Yvonne Sonnier Guidry, Robert & Olive Marceaux Sonnier, Olive Sonnier Pitre, Robby Jr. & Antonia Carter Sonnier. Olive Sonnier is slightly jaundiced from the liver and pancreatic cancer that killed her later that year.
  		Former Home of Robert & Olive Sonnier Robert & Olive Sonnier lived in this house on Bayou Lafourche for many years, until the early 1990s. My mother, Edea Pitre Baldwin, grew up here.
  		Olive Sonnier with sons Junior and Murrell

  
  

  Documents		Edia and Marie [Olive] Marceaux on the 1930 Census Edia and Frank had divorced, but Edia is listed as a widow.
  		Marceaux Family on the 1920 Census With very interesting spellings, they are: Edea (35), Myra (17), Ora (15), Lillian (13), Famie (9), Adele (7), and Olive (3).
  		Letter from Guy Pitre to His Mother Letter from Guy Pitre, stationed in Germany, to his mother, Leonore Lathrop Pitre. He mentions his wife (Olive "Nookie" Sonnier Pitre), daughter (Edea "DeeDee" Pitre), and mother-in-law (Olive Marceaux Sonnier). He wrote the letter on his 23rd birthday.
  		Baptism Record of Marie Olive Marceaux
  		Death Certificate of Olive Marceaux Sonnier
  		Article about Olive and Murrell Sonnier
  		Sonniers on the 1940 Census

  
  

  Headstones

  Olive Sonnier's Headstone

  
  

  Histories		Edea Pitre Baldwin's Memories of Her Grandmother, Olive Marceaux Sonnier From answers she wrote in a memory book, 1997
  		Maternal DNA: Haplogroup H

  
  

• Sources

  [S2645887989] 1930 United States Federal Census, Year: 1930; Census Place: Police Jury Ward 3, Lafayette, Louisiana; Roll: 797; Page: 11B; Enumeration District: 14; Image: 1020.0. Name: Marie Marceau Home in 1930: Police Jury Ward 3, Lafayette, Louisiana Age: 12 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1918 Relation to Head of House: Daughter Parent's Name: Idea [S2645867104] 1920 United States Federal Census, Year: 1920;Census Place: Police Jury Ward 9, Vermilion, Louisiana; Roll: T625_634; Page: 12B; Enumeration District: 110; Image: 988. Name: Olive Marceaux Home in 1920: Police Jury Ward 9, Vermilion, Louisiana Age: 3 years Estimated Birth Year: abt 1917 Birthplace: Louisiana Relation to Head of House: Daughter [S2645910474] Social Security Death Index, Ancestry.com, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2007.Original data - Social Security Administration. Social Security Death Index, Master File. Social Security Administration.Original data: Social Security Administration. Social Security), Number: 437-54-3655; Issue State: Louisiana; Issue Date: 1955. Name: Marie M. Sonnier Birth Date: 10 Nov 1917 Birth Place: Death Date: 11 Aug 1989 Death Place: Golden Meadow, Lafourche, Louisiana, United States of America http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=ssdi&h=58811585&ti=0&indiv=try