Person:Daniel Avery (5)

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Judge Daniel Dudley Avery
m. 1807
  1. Judge Daniel Dudley Avery1810 - 1879
m. 15 Aug 1837
  1. Mary Eliza Avery1838 - 1915
  2. Sara Marsh Avery1840 - 1918
  3. Dudley Avery1842 - 1917
  4. John Marsh Avery1844 - 1891
  5. George Marsh Avery1846 - 1846
  6. Margaret Henshaw Avery1848 - 1925
Facts and Events
Name[1] Judge Daniel Dudley Avery
Gender Male
Birth[1] 12 Apr 1810 Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana
Marriage 15 Aug 1837 St. Martin, Louisianato Sarah Craig Marsh
Census[2] 1840 East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana
Census[3] 1850 Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana
Census[4] 1860 Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana
Census[5] 1870 Iberia Parish, Louisiana
Death[1] 8 Jun 1879 Petit Anse, Iberia Parish, Louisiana
Burial[1] Avery Island Cemetery, Avery Island, Iberia Parish, Louisiana

New York Herald, 14 Jun 1879, p. 9


East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, 1840 census:[2]

Avery, D. D.
(learned professions = 1)
Males
30-39 = 1
Females
under 5 = 2
20-29 = 1
Slaves
Males = 5
Females = 4

Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, 1850 census:[3]

Avery, D. D. 38 yrs Lawyer (real estate = $5,000) b. Louisiana
      Sarah 31 yrs b. Louisiana
      Eliza 12 yrs b. Louisiana
      Dudley 7 yrs b. Louisiana
      Sarah 10 yrs b. Louisiana
      John 6 yrs b. Louisiana
      Margaret 2 yrs b. Louisiana

Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, 1860 census:[4]

Avery, D. D. 50 yrs District Judge (real estate = $7,200; personal estate = $2,000) b. Louisiana
      Sarah 40 yrs b. New York
      Mary E. 21 yrs b. Louisiana
      Sarah M. 19 yrs b. Louisiana
      Dudley 17 yrs b. Louisiana
      John 16 yrs b. Louisiana
      Margaret H. 11 yrs b. Louisiana

Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, 1870 census:[5]

Avery, D. D. 60 yrs Lawyer (real estate = $100,000; personal estate = $5,000) b. Louisiana
      Sarah 58 yrs Keeping House b. New York
      John 26 yrs Supt. in Salt Mine b. Louisiana
      Marguerite 21 yrs b. Louisiana
McIlhenny, E. 51 yrs [no occupation listed] b. Maryland
      Mary 31 yrs b. Louisiana
      Sarah 9 yrs b. Louisiana
      John 3 yrs b. Louisiana
      Mary 1 yr b. Louisiana
Avery, Dudley 28 yrs Farmer b. Louisiana
      Louise 23 yrs b. Louisiana
      Daniel 4 yrs b. Louisiana
      Kate 2 yrs b. Louisiana
Leeds, Paul 34 yrs Clerk in Salt Mine b. Louisiana
      Sarah 30 yrs b. Louisiana
Pierce, Cora 40 yrs [no occupation listed] b. Louisiana
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Find A Grave.
  2. 2.0 2.1 East Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States. 1840 U.S. Census Population Schedule
    p. 74.
  3. 3.0 3.1 East Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States. 1850 U.S. Census Population Schedule
    p. 186A, dwelling/family 495/495.
  4. 4.0 4.1 East Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States. 1860 U.S. Census Population Schedule
    p. 463, dwelling/family 148/148.
  5. 5.0 5.1 Iberia, Louisiana, United States. 1870 U.S. Census Population Schedule
    p. 173B, dwelling/family 91/103.
  6.   Iberia, Louisiana, United States. 1880 U.S. Census Population Schedule
    Mortality Schedule, p. 1.

    Name: Avery, Dan'l D.
    Age: 70 yrs, b. Louisiana (parents, b. Connecticut/England)
    Occupation: Lawyer
    Died June, of pneumonia (5 days).

  7.   New Iberia Louisiana Sugar-Bowl
    3 Jul 1879.

    AVERY, Daniel Dudley, attorney, planter, politician. Born, Baton Rouge, April 12, 1810; son of Dudley Avery. Educated Yale College, 1826-1830. Admitted to Louisiana bar, 1832. Married Sarah Craig Marsh, 1837; several children. Elected to state legislature, 1832, served four years. Appointed a commissioner, with Maunsel White (q.v.) and Walter Brashear (q.v.),, to superintend construction of state capitol. Removed to Petite Anse Island (later Avery Island) plantation in 1850s, remaining there until 1860 when called to the bench of the Florida district. Resigned judgeship when New Orleans fell to Federal forces in 1862. Retired to Avery Island, but driven from there, with family, by General Banks’ (q.v.) overland expedition. Went to Texas, remained there until war’s end. Returned to Avery Island. Named by Governor Warmoth (q.v.) first president of Iberia Parish Police Jury when Iberia Parish created in 1868. Died, Avery Island, June 8, 1879. G.R.C.

    ALSO FOUND IN: Glenn R. Conrad, New Iberia: Essays on the Town and Its People (1979).