Honore  DEJEAN SR

Death Notice:
Deadly Tornado
Strikes DEJEANS Plantation
Tragic News from St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
The Richmond Whig & Public Advertiser
Richmond, Virginia
Published April 21, 1863
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TERRIBLE CATASTROPHE -- On Tuesday last at about 12 o'clock, m, a tornado passed Barry's landing, breaking and throwing down the house of Mr. Honoré Dejean, his large warehouse and some negro cabins. From under the ruins of Mr. Dejeans house were extricated the dead bodies of his wife and son, Emile Dejean, a promising young man of nineteen or twenty, with two or three others. Mr. Honoré Dejean himself has one leg broken and the other badly injured.
Opelousas (La.) Courier.

David C. Edmund:
YANKEE AUTUMN IN ACADIANA
The Acadiana Press, Lafayette, LA,
Published 1979, p.215
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--"The first disaster occurred on February 28, 1863 A powerful tornado swept through the landscape, taking houses, warehouses, stores and Lives including Honore Dejean, his wife Carmelite (née Verret) [This is an error--it should read Euphrosine (née Close)], his son Emile, daughter, Matilde, the warehouse keeper, Eugene Riquet, and a neighbor, Mrs. Telesphore Zeringue". -- citing dispositions to the French and American Claims Commission in Dominique Lalanne against the United States, No. 134 Archives; also E. C. Drouet (Estate of Louis Eugene Riquet) against the United States, No. 617, National Archives; and US Court of Claims (Southern Claims Commission), Jules A. DeJean (Admin. of Honore DeJean) vs. the United States, no. 19026, National Archives.
[NOTE: This source raises the question of Which Wife died in the tornado. Birth and Burial Records plus family information, including statements by witnesses to the storm, show that Euphrosine Close was Honore's second wife and was killed, along with some of their children, when the tornado struck].

[NOTE: Mrs. Telesphore Zeringue was Genevieve (Close) Zeringue, wife of Daniel Telepshore Zeringue. She was a sister of Euphrosine (Close) DéJean. Genevieve (Close) Zeringue died March 2, 1863].