I am a big fan of HBO's "True Detective" http://www.hbo.com/true-detective#/ and bought the southern gothic horror book, The King In Yellow, from which the television series is allegedly based. Each week the detectives uncover more leads into the dark mystery surrounding a few rural parishes in Louisiana. Each week I spend way too much time mulling over the plot during the middle of the night when I should be sleeping. The show is THAT good! And disturbing. Some of those parishes (counties) I recognize from my research.
St. Landry, Vermilion and St. Martin Parishes were early residences of my southeast Texas families before land opened up for white settlers after the Battles at San Jacinto and Bexar. In the 1840s many of father's ancestors moved to Chambers, Liberty and Jefferson Counties in Texas--from Louisiana. Some of my Louisiana kin are:
My third Great-Grandfather, Benjamin Franklin Abshier and his wife Hannah (Weed), who appear in the Federal Census of 1810 in St. Landry;
My fourth Great-Grandfather, Jean Jacques Abcher, died in St. Landry in 1836;
My third Great-Grandpa, Jean Baptiste Boulet, was born in St. Martin Parish in 1799; and
My second Great-Grandparents, Benjamin Franklin Abshier, Jr. and his bride, Carmelite Boulet, were married in September 1842 in St. Landry. This is a later photo of the couple.
