Some Photos and Documents Related to the Decuir and Dubuclet Families and the Governor Allen Steamship

Antoine Dubuclet Jr.; Madame Decuir's older brother

Summons in case filed by Antoine Decuir II, Mme Decuir's husband.  Note the parties are designate "fmc" or free men of color.

Advertisement for the Governor Allen in the Picayune on the day Mme Decuir filed suit.

Restaurant in New Roads, LA, on the False River today.

Antoine and Josephine Decuir's first plantation house on the lower False River, now known as Austerlitz.

The Dubuclet family Tomb in St. Louis Cemetery no. 1, New Orleans.  Mme Decuir and her brother Antoine may be interred there.