Alexis Onésime Guidry - First Physician of the Guédry Family

by R. Martin Guidry

In Volume 14 Issue 3 (Fall 2016) of "Generations" we discussed the family history of Onésime Alexis Guidry, older brother of Alexis Onésime Guidry and both sons of Charles Alexis Onésime Guédry and Marie Julie Euphrasie Potier. It was an interesting genealogical journey to determine the family of these two brothers. You can read the twists and turns in the Fall 2016 issue of "Generations" .

Married in St. Martin Parish, LA on 19 June 1813, Charles Alexis Onésime Guédry, son of Louis David Guédry and Marie Modeste Borda, was a native of St. Landry Parish, LA and his bride Marie Julie Euphrasie Potier, daughter of Charles Potier and Magdelaine Ducrest, was from St. Martin Parish, LA. 1 Shortly after their marriage, the young couple moved to St. Landry Parish and settled on Bayou Carencro south of Carencro, LA. Here they had thirteen children: Elizabeth (b. 18 Sep 1814) 2 , Alexis (b. 15 August 1816) 3 , Alouise (b. 20 July 1818) 4 , Onésime (b. 5 September 1820) 5 , Modeste (b. 12 December 1822) 6 , Valerie (b. 26 November 1824) 7 , Marcelite (b. 17 October 1826, d. 10 December 1830) 8 , Françoise (b. 16 August 1828) 9 , Louis David (b. 14 February 1830) 10 , Magdeleine Mathilde (b. 23 June 1832) 11 , Emilie Constance (b. 10 December 1833) 12 , Alida Philomene (b. 10 September 1835) 13 and Benjamin (b. 9 May 1838) 14 .

Charles Alexis Onésime Guidry was baptized on 12 June 1791 in St. Landry Parish, LA 15 and died on 17 April 1750 in St. Landry Parish, LA 16 . His wife Marie Julie Euphasie Potier was born about 19 August 1794 in St. Martin Parish, LA 17 and died 16 April 1858 in St. Landry Parish, LA 18 .

Initially, Charles Alexis Onésime Guédry and Marie Euphrasie Potier attended St. Landry Catholic Church in Opelousas, LA; however, in 1818 St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church was built in Grand Coteau, LA and this was closer to their home. They then became parishioners of St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church.

The father and two eldest sons used the names Alexis and Onésime variously in the vital records. For example, Charles Alexis Onésime Guédry is called Onésime, Alexis dit Onésime, and Alexis Onésime. In the baptismal records of the two oldest sons only a single name is given before the surname and it is the reverse of what the two sons were called throughout their lives. Onésime Alexis Guidry (b. 1816) is called Alexis Guidry in his baptismal record while his brother Alexis Onésime Guidry (b. 1820) is called Onésime Guidry in his baptismal record.

Alexis Onésime Guidry grew up on Guidry Plantation that was built in the 1790s by his grandfather Louis David Guédry and later owned by his father Charles Alexis Onésime Guédry. It was located on Bayou Carencro - just south of Carencro, LA. Here the family raised cotton as a commercial crop. The original plantation home still sits on the banks of Bayou Carencro and is still occupied by a descendant of the Guidry family. Today it is called "Ile Carencro".

At the death of Marie Julie Euphrasie Potier, widow of Charles Alexis Onésime Guédry, on 16 April 1858, her Last Will and Testament dated 8 August 1855 was read and a probate was opened on 21 April 1858 for the distribution of her estate. In 1858 the Guidry Plantation occupied 5 arpents on Bayou Carencro by 40 arpents deep and was appraised at $1750 which included the plantation home. The total estate of Julie Marie Euphrasie Potier was appraised at $24,360.98 19 - a considerable sum in 1858 and worth almost $1,000,000 in today's dollars.

Alexis Onésime Guidry owned the land to the south of the Guidry Plantation in 1858. On 26 May 1858 the estate was sold at public auction and Alexis Onésime Guidry purchased the plantation home and property for $1350 as well as a number of other items being sold.

Charles Alexis Onésime Guidry was a successful plantation owner and had sufficient funds to educate his children. As early as 1821 St. Landry Parish had an established Catholic school when the Sacred Heart sisters opened Sacred Heart Academy in Grand Coteau to young ladies. And in 1837 the Jesuits founded St. Charles College in Grand Coteau for young men 20 . It is very possible that Onésime Alexis Guidry and Alexis Onésime Guidry boarded at and attended St. Charles College as young men. Their parents also may have hired a private tutor to educate their children at the plantation.

Onésime Alexis and Alexis Onésime must have received an excellent education as both attended Georgetown College in Washington, D.C. in the late 1830s or early 1840s where they studied in the School of Arts. It is uncertain if they graduated or resigned before graduation. Onésime Alexis Guidry is on the "Register of Graduates of Georgetown University" for the period 1816 - 1849 21 ; however, he and Alexis Onésime Guidry are listed as sub-graduates (left college before graduating) in the 1848 and 1867 "List of the Members of the Philodemic Society of Georgetown College, D. C." 22a-b .

Onésime Alexis Guidry apparently returned to St. Landry Parish, LA where he became a Justice of the Peace & Notary, Deputy Clerk of Court and later Clerk of the District Court in St. Landry Parish 23a-c .

Alexis Onésime Guédry must have decided that he desired to be a physician and Georgetown College did not have a School of Medicine yet. Thus, he transferred to the nearby School of Medicine at the University of Maryland where he completed his Doctor of Medicine Degree in 1842. His 19-page handwritten Inaugural Dissertation for his degree was on "Yellow Fever" and was submitted to the Faculty of Physics in February 1842 24a-b .

Both Onésime Alexis and Alexis Onésime were admitted to the Philodemic Society at Georgetown College. The Philodemic Society at Georgetown College is a debating society founded in 1830 at Georgetown College and today is one of the oldest in the country. To be selected for membership, a student must give three unscripted floor speeches in one semester or four speeches during two or more semesters. The members, honorary members and alumni meet annually and a membership list of members, alumni and honorary members is maintained 22a-b , 25 .

Shortly after receiving is medical degree and returning to St. Landry Parish, Dr. Alexis Onésime Guidry married Celestine Laperle Dupre, daughter of Cyprien Dupre and Marcelite Guédry, on 9 November 1843 26a-b . She was born in St. Landry Parish on 27 February 1826 26c-d . Soon after, on 21 October 1844 little Maria Hormide Guidry was born to the couple 27 . Tragedy struck the young family in 1845 when Celestine Laperle Dupre died in St. Landry Parish on the 24th of June 28 .

A widower with a young daughter, Dr. Alexis Onésime Guidry married Celestine's sister Palmyre Dupre, daughter of Cyprien Dupre and Marcelite Guédry, on 11 October 1848 in St. Landry Parish 29a-b . Palmyre was born in St. Landry Parish on 25 March 1828 29c-e .

Interestingly, Dr. Alexis Onésime Guidry was the first cousin of his two wives, Celestine Laperle Dupre and Palmyre Dupre. Their mother, Marcelite Guédry, was the sister of Charles Alexis Onésime Guédry, who was the father of Dr. Alexis Onésime Guidry. Charles Alexis Onésime Guédry and Marcelite Guédry were children of Louis David Guédry and Marie Modeste Borda.

Dr. Alexis Onésime Guidry and Palmyre Dupre had 11 children in St. Landry Parish: Marie Blanche (b. 27 July 1849) 30 , Marie Josephine (b. 22 March 1851) 31 , Marie Laperle (b. ca. 18 Nov 1852) 32 , Marie Elmire (b. 1 October 1854) 33 , Valery Cyprien (5 August 1836) 34 , Marie Alexia (b. 12 September 1858) 35 , Raoul (b. 21 September 1859) 36 , Joseph Beauregard Manassas (b. 25 August 1861) 37 , Marie Erasie Isaure (b. 11 November 1862) 38 , Marie Annette [Aloysia] (b. 28 November 1865, d. 31 January 1867) 39 and Marie Estelle Agnes (b. 25 March 1870) 40 .

In addition to having children with his two wives - Celestine Laperle Dupre and Palmyre Dupre - Dr. Alexis Onésime Guidry also had several children with a mulatto woman, Virginia Barker/Barcus, thought to be his slave. Virginia Barker/Barcus was the daughter of Harrison Barker/Barcus and Mariah Gascer and was born between 1826 and 1835. The various censuses and her death certificate provide a wide range of years for her birth 41a-d . She lived most of her life in St. Landry Parish, LA, but sometime after 1900 she moved to Beaumont, Texas - probably to live with her daughter Pauline Guidry Washington. Virginia died in Beaumont, Jefferson County, Texas on 17 August 1923 and is buried in the Blanchette Cemetery near Beaumont 41d . Mrs. Pauline Guidry of Beaumont, Texas signed the Death Certificate of Virginia Barcus 41d .

We know that Virginia Barker/Barcus had children with Dr. Alexis Onésime Guidry as the church marriage certificate of Pauline Guidry and Simeon Washington on 15 December 1881 state that Pauline's parents were O. A. Guidry and Virginie Barker 42 . According to the Death Certificate of Pauline (Guidry) Washington, the birthdate of Pauline was 15 April 1864 43 .

Additionally, according to the "Slave Narrative of Louis Evans", son of Tom Evans and Rachel and the former slave of John Smith and Carmellite, Louis married Cora Gindry (Guidry), who was a quadroon, when he was 21 years old. The "Slave Narrative" states that she was old Dr. Gindry's (Guidry's) daughter 44 . Since Louis states in the "Slave Narrative" that he was born on 15 August 1853, he would have married about 1874. On 20 September 1873 Lewis Evans obtained a marriage license in St. Landry Parish to marry Corinne Guidry 45 . Note that "old Dr. Gindry" was Dr. Alexis Onésime Guidry as he was the only physician with the surname Guidry in the St. Landry Parish area.

Other potential children of Dr. Alexis Onésime Guidry and Virginia Barker/Barcus were Sonny (b. ca. 1848), Harrison (b. ca. 1850), Louise, Dorestan and George.

After receiving his medical degree, Dr. Alexis Onésime Guidry spent most of his life raising his growing family, being a successful planter, serving the community as a physician and becoming actively involved in local and state politics.

Alexis' father Charles Alexis Onésime Guédry owned the cotton plantation which his father Louis David Guédry had built. In the records of the era, it was often referred to as Guidry Plantation. Today the plantation home is referred to as Ile Carencro. After returning from Maryland about 1842 with his Doctor of Medicine degree, Alexis began his medical practice, but also became a planter. At the death of his mother Julie Marie Euphrasie Potier, widow of Charles Alexis Onésime Guédry, on 16 April 1858, her estate was inventoried on 21 April 1858. Her plantation on Bayou Carencro measured 5 arpents 46 along the bayou by 40 arpents deep and was bounded on the south by land of Alexis O. Guidry 47 . Alexis, therefore, had purchased his own property adjacent to his parents. At the Sheriff's Sale of his mother's estate, Alexis purchased several significant items including his mother's plantation with all buildings and improvements for $1350 47 . Alexis Onésime and his brother Onésime Alexis were testamentary executors of their mother's estate 47 . With these two properties he now had a sizable cotton plantation to manage.

Although there is little reference to it in the newspapers of the day, Alexis must have begun his medical practice shortly after returning home to St. Landry Parish from Maryland. Shortly before the tragic death of his young wife Celestin Laperle Dupre on 24 June 1845, Alexis was traveling back to his home from New Orleans on 8 April 1845 on the steamer Elizabeth. As she entered Bayou Courtableau from the Atchafalaya River, her boilers exploded at about 3 a.m. that day with tremendous damage. At least one crew member was killed, two missing and several seriously injured. Fortunately, only a few of the passengers were slightly injured due to the late hour as most were within their sleeping quarters. Dr. Alexis Guidry was a passenger on the Elizabeth and was cited for coming to the aid of the injured and rendering excellent medical assistance 48 . By a Resolution dated 1 July 1872 by the State of Louisiana, 29 members of the St. Landry Medico-Surgical Society were honored and credited as graduates and Doctors of Medicine and Surgery. Included among those recognized was Alexis O. Guidry 49 . Dr. Alexis O. Guidry is earliest physician known in the Guédry family.

On 13 July 1861 The Opelousas Patriot reported an organizational meeting held on the 30th of June to encourage membership and elect the officers of the Grand Coteau Rangers for the Civil War. Dr. Alexis O. Guidry was elected Captain of the Grand Coteau Rangers 50 .

Early in his career, Dr. Alexis O. Guidry must have been a very influential person and leader within the St. Landry Parish community. In 1844, only two years after receiving his medical degree and returning to St. Landry Parish, Dr. Guidry was selected as a member of the Clay Club of St. Landry Parish and was chosen as one of the delegates from the parish to attend the Whig Mass Convention in Baton Rouge, LA on 9 August 1844. At the convention, Dr. Alexis O. Guidry was selected as one of the 100 Louisiana delegates to attend the Grand Whig Mass Convention in October 1844. The Clay Club supported electing Henry Clay, a Whig, rather than James Polk as President of the United States in 1844. The major confrontational issues in the election were slavery and the annexation of Texas 51 . By August 1861 the local newspaper was asking Dr. Alexis O. Guidry to be a candidate for the Louisiana House of Representatives. In October 1861 he agreed to be a candidate in the November 1861 election 52 . On 27 August 1868 Dr. Alexis O. Guidry was the Chair of a large meeting of the Democracy of St. Landry and Lafayette held near Chretien's Point in St. Landry Parish, LA. The goal of the meeting was to support Horatio Seymour of New York for President of the United States and to improve the political climate in Louisiana 53 . In 1874 the local press requested that Alexis O. Guidry be a candidate for the Senate 54 . Despite being very active in St. Landry Parish politics, Dr. Alexis O. Guidry apparently was never elected to the Louisiana House of Representatives or the Louisiana Senate.

In the mid-1860s Alexis O. Guidry worked with the Pavy family as cotton factors and commission merchants. Their business was established on Carondelet Street in New Orleans, LA. Today, we would call them cotton brokers. Their customers were rural cotton planters for whom they sold the crop, shipped the crop, purchased needed goods and may even have found excellent schooling for the planter's children.

After a very distinguished career as a recognized physician, extremely successful planter, businessman and politician, Dr. Alexis Onésime Guidry died at Carencro, LA on 14 April 1877 at age 55 56 . His widow Palmyre Dupre lived over 15 years longer - dying at her daughter's home (Marie Erasie Isaure Guidry Elmer) on 29 April 1893 in Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, LA from an attack of apoplexy at age 65 57 . Apoplexy is a cerebral hemorrhage or stroke.

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  45. (a) St. Landry Parish Courthouse; Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, LA; Marriage Licenses - #7524; (b) Hebert, Rev. Donald J.; Southwest Louisiana Records, Church and Civil Records - Volume 11 (1873-1874) (Rev. Donald J. Hebert; Cecilia, LA; 1977), p. 126.
  46. The French measure "arpent" is both a linear measurement and an area measurement. As a linear measure (as used above), it is 191.83 feet. As an area measure, it is 0.846 acres.
  47. Estate of Julie Pothier (Widow of Onezime Guidry) (No.2149; Probate Court of St. Landry Parish, Louisiana; Filed 21 April 1858 by Jno. E. King, Attorney)
  48. (a) "Terrible Accident" ( The St. Landry Whig ; Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, LA; Vol. I,No. 32; 10 April 1845) p. 2; (b) "Accident Deplorable" ( Le Whig de St. Landry ; Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, LA; Vol. I No. 32; 10 April 1845) p. 1
  49. (a) "Medical Notice" ( The Opelousas Courier ; Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, LA; Vol. XIX No. 44; 13 July 1872) p. 1; (b) "Avis Medical" ( Le Courrier des Opelousas; Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, LA; Vol. XIX No. 45; 20 Jul 1872) p. 1
  50. "The Grand Coteau Rangers" ( The Opelousas Patriot ; Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, LA; Vol. VII No. 333; 13 July 1861) p. 2
  51. (a) "Whig Meeting" ( The St. Landry Whig ; Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, LA; Vol. I No. 3; 19 September 1844) p. 2; (b) "Clay Club of St. Landry" ( The St. Landry Whig ; Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, LA; Vol. I No. 4; 26 September 1844) p. 2; (c) "Whig Doings" ( The St. Landry Whig ; Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, LA; Vol. I No. 5; 3 October 1844) p. 1.
  52. (a) Notice ( The Opelousas Patriot ; Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, LA; Vol. VII No. 340; 31 August 1861) p. 2; (b) Notice (The Opelousas Patriot; Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, LA; Vol. VII No. 344; 12 October 1861) p. 2.
  53. "Mass Meeting and Barbecue" ( The Opelousas Courier ; Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, LA; Vol. XVI No. 13; 5 September 1868) p. 2.
  54. "Notice" ( The Opelousas Courier ; Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, LA; Vol. XXI No. 27; 18 April 1874) p. 1.
  55. "Advertisement - P. J. Pavy & Co." ( The Opelousas Courier ; Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, LA; Vol. XIV No. 24; 24 November 1866) p. 1.
  56. "Died" ( The Lake Charles Echo ; Lake Charles, Calcasieu Parish, LA; Vol. IX No. 8; 26 April 1877) p. 3.
  57. "Mrs. Alexis Guidry" ( The Lafayette Advertiser ; Lafayette, Lafayette Parish, LA; Vol. XXVIII; 3 May 1893) p. 4.