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- Joseph Adam married twice. He had twelve children. He had one son and five daughters
with his first wife, Louise Hulin and one son and five daughters with his second wife, Annette
Louviere. He lived in Youngsville, La. where he was a share cropper, raising sugar cane, cotton
and sweet potatoes. He later moved to Abbeville, La. where he was a tenant farmer for Dr.
Robert Young. He was also a "bootlegger" during the time of Prohibition. We as children
remember him making whiskey and other liquor in a small shed some distance from the house.
There was a dance hall for black people not far from our home, where he went to sell his
whiskey. He also sold in Texas. Most of the people that bought the liquor came at night. We
also remember when he was warned of the Federal men coming and he dumped everything. That
was when he quit making whiskey.
I remember as a child, my daddy singing a French song to us. This is part of the song as I
remember it:
Quand j'ai quitt& ce view pays ice
Pour mien aller vivre dans I1ennui
Moi, qu'avais le coueur aussi plein de grand chagrin
J'ai bien jonglh en cherchant
J'en ai trouvC un autre
(written by) Jacqueline Voohries March 15,1991
The English translation of this song:
When I left this old country here
to go live in lonliness
I who had a heart so full of great grief
Then I well thought in looking
I would find another.
He later stopped fanning and moved to Lafayette, La., where he worked for the city. After
World War II started, he moved to Port Arthur, Texas where he worked at the Texas Company
for C.A. Turner Construction Co. He was still living there when he died in 1955.
Annette Louviere, his second wife, was born in Loreauville, La. Her parents must have
moved around Youngsville and Broussard, La., because when Louise, Joseph Adam's first wife
was dying we're told that she made the dress she was buried in. People in those days made their
on clothes. Annette was a seamstress and sewed for the community. She also made all our clothes for
school.
Georgie Vice Richard Dore
- Adam Joseph Vice was raised near Youngsville, La. He was a share crop farmer. He
married at an early age to Louise Hulin. They had six children, one boy and five girls. He
continued fanming and living around Youngsville and Erath, La., moving around several times.
After a few years, he moved to Long Plantation and continued to farm, mostly sugar cane,
corn and sweet potatoes. While living there his wife Louise died.
After fourteen months, he remarried Annette Louviere and they had six children, one boy
and five girls.
In 1923 he moved near Broussard, La., still farming the same crops. He then started
making whiskey, which they called "Moonshine", and it sold very well. In late December 1928,
he moved near Abbeville, La and there he raised mostly cotton and still made "Moonshine" until
one day the inspectors came to search the house, but found nothing.
After a few years he moved to Lafayette, La. and made his living by doing different jobs.
In 1943 he moved to Port Arthur, Texas and worked for C.A. Turner Construction until he
retired. In August of 1950 his second wife died. He stayed at the same place until he died in
August of 1955.
He had a very interesting life. When his children were growing up, he used to sing
French songs wifh them and played games, mostly hide and seek. All of his twelve children were
still living when he died.
Euna Vice Bourque
March 15,1991
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1877 - 1955 (78 years)
