 | I am the great-grand son of Ulixes LeBlanc, (1879- 1934) and Magdelen Papillon, (1888- 1966). Ulixes and Magdelen had nine children: Esther, Gaston, Aulton, Arthur, Ella, Luceil, Austin, Melvin and Martha LeBlanc. Esther LeBlanc married Lee LaTour, son of Ozeme LaTour and Marie Guillory. Ozeme LaTour was the son of Homer A. LaTour and Helene Richard. Information regarding Helene Richard is vague;
there is no record of her marriage to Homer A. LaTour, however, there is a record of her first marriage to
Julien Bellard.
When I started research on the family, all I knew was that the family was from Okmulgee County, Oklahoma. My father told me after my mother, Catherine LaTour died, that her family was from Opelousas and Toulouse. Ozeme LaTour and Marie Guillory had eleven children: Lee, Ophelia, E'villa, Laura, Clarence, Marie, Joseph, elestine, Adam, Ulysse, and Ethel. Lee LaTour, my grandfather, married Esther LeBlanc. Ophelia LaTour, my great-aunt married Joseph LeBlanc, brother of Ulixes LeBlanc, my great grandfather, two brothers married sister and brother.
My paternal grandparents, Esther LeBlanc and Lee LaTour were married December 12, 1928 at Uganda Martyrs Catholic Church in Okmulgee County, Oklahoma. From their union, five )5) children were born: Catherine, Lorene, Rayfield, John Adam, and Charles. The family lived in Boynton, Muskogee County, Oklahoma. For some reason, uknown to me, Lee left or divorced Esther, moved to California, and joined the military. Esther moved to Muskogee, Muskogee County, Oklahoma were she meet Fred D. Wakefield. They produced one (1) child together, Mildred Wakefield. My mother, Catherine LaTour, daughter of Lee LaTour and Esther LeBlanc married my father, Osborne Thomas son of John Bennett Thomas and Viola Coursey on September 15, 1951. To this union, six (6) children were born: Patricia Ann, Osborne (fils), LaRita Viola, Kathy, Derrick Lee, and Harrison. |