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The Wheel of Life
Pierre Joseph Landry |
You know obviously I am interested in history, and particularly my family lineage, because of
the house and my grandmother and so forth, so I've done a lot of research within my family. In
the process I found I have receipts from the manifest log on the Golden Eagle, which was a sailing
ship that came across that brought my great, great grandfather, and his name was Pierre Joseph
Landry. It's fascinating because they have a complete manifest of who all, what all, the ages, and
it's fascinating to look at. But anyway, he came across, and he had a son. The ship landed in New
Orleans, and for some strange reason, he migrated up the [Mississippi] River and landed in a little
spot called Bayou Goula. Bizarre, it was very bizarre.
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Pierre Joseph Landry |
So here's Pierre Joseph Landry, in 1715,
but he migrates into this area, the same place that I found when I was 14 years old, for some strange
reason. But anyway, he was a sugar cane farmer. He had a place on the River Road, in Bayou
Goula, and it was called Palo Alto; and apparently he did very well. But later in life he had some
physical problems. He had something wrong with his legs and I've read conflicting reports as to
what was wrong with him, but nevertheless, he was confined to a wheelchair. This is where I get
particularly interested because this is kind of how it ties back to me.
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