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part four....exscuse my typing... at end of part three should read; must Not lose post.... also see its out of sequence and don't see edit button... back to Aunt Millie;;;; The story has come to be used as a test by many LaDues, to see if a new one they meet is of the same family. So I have had it asked of me, even in letters several times. And while in Iowa City I drove thirty miles over to Marengo to visit a LaDue I had heard of there. She tilted her head and gave me that sideways look from her eyes that I've found typical, and said, "Did you have the wine-cask story in your family?" When I assured her that we did she was satisfied that we were somehow related. And so we are, as are most all LaDues in America today. If no closer, at least we are related by that Pierre LaDoue who had the wild scheme of being carried on ship-board in a barrel. For me this is really enough to know to know about my immigrant ancestor. However, we do have records to show that he held land in Connecticut, was a minor officer of his town and signed a loyalty oath for the King. He also left us the names of his children. Would that all of his sons had had the good sense to make their wills also! As it is, most of Pierre's descendants are left dangling there, unable to attach their branch to this family tree.....Thanks Millie, I have this document, family tree chart, plus the writings of Eva LaDue... Look down in Fertile Minn. on this board where she wrote of the founding of said town...My Ma has those other documents I am told....this spring I go look at the rest of material... maybe I get mailed to me but not... Here's a LaDue joke I made up.... Since we got genocided on, do the French owe us a Casino.....seeya,sam
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