"The public are hereby informed that there will be sold at
public sale, to the last and highest bidder the following property, belonging
to the late Clara Doucet…"
Clara Doucet Hollier was a woman of some means. After her
death in 1859, a sale was held to auction off Clara Doucet Hollier’s property:
2 land parcels in the town of Opelousas, and 14 slaves—5 women and 9 children,
aged 1 year to 13 years.
According to information on familysearch.org/tree, Clara
Doucet is the 3rd-great grandmother of C. Muntz. C Muntz – M Lambert – Roger Lambert
–Stanislaus Lambert – Victoria Hollier – Clara Doucet
References:
Photo: "A Slave Auction In Virginia," ILLUSTRATED
LONDON NEWS, England, Feb. 16, 1861. http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/slavery/pictures/slave-trade/illustration
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Slaves_auction_Virgina_1861.jpg
Notice of public sale: The Opelousas courier., December 31,
1859, English, Image 1. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83026389/1859-12-31/ed-2/seq-1/
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