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Jean Baptiste Ory

Jean was born in the year 1757, the second son of NICOLAS ORY and JEAN BOYER. He married EVA HOFFMAN January 30, 1781 in St. John the Baptist in Edgard, La., the legitimate daughter of JACOB HOFFMAN and SOPHIE JACOB. She died 1795 in St. James. Their nine children are as follows :
  1. MAGDELENA ORY, b. 1781; d. September 17, 1819; m. DENIS REMONDET, September 08, 1818;
  2. JEAN BAPTISTE ORY,(b. 13 Aug 1782, SJTB, LA) m. Eve HACKMAN;
  3. Jean Louis Ory (b. 17 Apr 1783, Opelousas, LA) m. 4 Apr 1814, Marie PICOU (b. 9 Aug 1795), daughter of Alexis PICOU and Marie Ann CUVILLIER
  4. SOPHIA ORY, b. January 14, 1786; m. JUAN TIRCUIT, January 26, 1802; b. 1776;
  5. PIERRE BAPTISTE ORY, b. 1788;
  6. MARIANNE ORY, b. May 25, 1788;
  7. NIKOLOS ORY, b. July 12, 1790; m. DELPHINE BOURG, 1821;
  8. MARIE ORY, b. April 06, 1792; m. PIERRE RICHARD, September 05, 1814; b. 1779; d. October 25, 1823;
  9. CATHERINE ORY, b. September 23, 1794; d. March 16, 1815; m. FRANCOIS TIRCUIT, May 14, 1811; b. September 22, 1776.

Within two years of Eva's death, he remarried, this time to BARBE TIRCUIT 1797 in Ascension Church. The five children of JEAN ORY and BARBE TIRCUIT are as follows :

  1. MARIA BARBARA ORY, b. April 06, 1798; d. September 25, 1818; m. JEAN LOUIS DELATTE, August 08, 1815;
  2. JEAN ALEXIS ORY, b. September 06, 1800;
  3. FELICITAS ORY, b. September 11, 1802;
  4. EMERANTE ORY, b. August 30, 1805; m. EUGENE MATTERN, 1827;
  5. FRANCOIS ORY, b. April 13, 1812; d. November 09, 1840; m. CELESTINE LECHE, January 24, 1837.
    Transactions involving Jean Baptiste

    Jean was sent back to the Maryland/Pennsylvania area to settle the legal affairs of his father with his brother-in-law PHILLIP ENGELHART. In effect, they such as selling the 100 acres Nicolas bought there in Digges Lot as well as possible other matters left undone when their family left Maryland for South Louisiana. On their way back to Louisiana they brought with them the HENRY ADAMS family, the PAUL SHARP family, the SEBASTIEN GUIDRY family and the JOHANN GEORGE KLEINPETER family with them, according to the book, Baker : The First 100 Years The Kleinpeter family also settled on Highland Road and began to build a dairy farm that is still popular in the Baton Rouge area today. They have their own cemetery and the rest are buried at the Highland Cemetery (turn right before you enter the gates and then an immediate right and the cemetery is on the left)close to the East Gate of the LSU campus.
    Jean was a well respected member of his community standing as bondsman for his friends and buying land in several parishes, St. Helena Parish as well as St. John the Baptist Parish until his death on November 11, 1812.



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