Individual Details
Benjamin "Ben" Avant
(28 Jul 1840 - 29 Jul 1917)
Events
| Birth | 28 Jul 1840 |  | |||
| Marriage | 14 Feb 1867 | Melina Annie Hoffpauir | | ||
| Death-Alternate | 29 Jul 1870 | | |||
| Marriage | 22 Nov 1894 | Acadia Parish, LA - Marie Lea Bertrand | | ||
| Death | 29 Jul 1917 | | |||
| Burial | |
Families
| Spouse | Melina Annie Hoffpauir (1850 - 1891) |
| Child | Dora Avant (1868 - 1931) |
| Child | Clarence Avant (1873 - 1932) |
| Child | John Claiborne "Claby" Avant (1875 - 1915) |
| Child | Lydia "Etta" Avant (1877 - 1936) |
| Child | Orietta Avant (1880 - ) |
| Child | Raleigh Avant (1884 - 1942) |
| Child | Theresa Avant (1889 - 1967) |
| Spouse | Marie Lea Bertrand (1869 - 1933) |
| Child | Estelle Avant (1896 - 1973) |
| Child | Dewey Avant (1898 - 1942) |
| Child | George Avant (1898 - ) |
| Child | Grady Henry Avant (1900 - 1962) |
| Child | Jacob Bruce Avant (1903 - 1963) |
| Father | William Avant ( - ) |
| Mother | Charlotte Herson ( - ) |
| Sibling | Sarah Avant (1843 - ) |
| Sibling | Thomas Avant (1845 - ) |
Endnotes
1. Tombstone Inscription.
2. Lamar Boulet, Hoffpauir PAF File.
3. Rosemary Wright Hoffpauir, The Hoffpauirs of Louisiana.
4. Tombstone Inscription.
5. Donald J. Hébert, SWLR-CD.
6. Notation by Howard Hoffpauir.
7. Pointe de l'Eglise Geanealogical and Historical Society, Cemetery Listings, Acadia Parish, LA Vol II, 11.