Photo Credit by Henry Chauvin

Left to Right

1. Henry Boudreaux, Union, LA.

2. Antoinette Webre who later married Henry Boudreaux & moved to NOLA. She was daughter of Melford Webre & Ursule Chauvin, daughter of Louis Chauvin I.

3. Sam Boudreaux, Henry's brother, married Noelie Chauvin

4. Noelie Chauvin, daughter of Louis Chauvin II

5. Philomeme Webre, sister to Antoinette Webre, was engaged to marry Sam Boudreaux, but after she died, Sam married Noelie Chauvin.

6. Michel Boudreaux

Photo Credit by Henry Chauvin

2nd St. Mary’s Organist, Noelie Chauvin: In about 1900, after Noelie Chauvin’s sister Louise Chauvin Letulle died in childbirth with twins in Louis Chauvin II’s house, she and her brother Frank Chauvin adopted (2) of Louise Chauvin Letulle’s daughters, i.e., Lovie Letulle and Agnes Letulle. Noelie’s sister, Louise Chauvin had earlier married Leonce Letulle. Noelie Chauvin had a piano in Louis Chauvin II's house bought by her father Louis Chauvin II and her brother Frank Chauvin. Like her Aunt Olympe Chauvin (1st Organist), she also taught music and taught her younger niece Lovie to play the piano here and also practice on the organ next door at St. Mary’s Chapel. Noelie Chauvin later married her cousin Sam Boudreaux from Union, LA in about 1908 and moved to operate the Branch Store with him along the River Road in front of the Orange Grove Plantation where the old former LA Highway 22 from Sorrento used to terminate in a “Y” Branch at the River Road which is now LA Highway 44. After Noelie moved to the Branch Store, as the second St. Mary’s Church organist, she initially continued coming to St. Mary’s Church to play St. Mary’s Church’s Organ and continued teaching her niece Lovie Letulle, still then in Frank Chauvin’s house, to play both piano and organ. Afterwards, Noelie’s niece Agnes Letulle later married Noelie’s former neighbor from Union. LA, Louis DeHass. Louis DeHaas had moved to Sorrento, LA as owner of the Sorrento Sawmill, and Noelie and her husband moved to Sorrento, LA to operate a store on this Sorrento Sawmill property. After this move, further from St. Mary’s Church, Noelie then became the organist at Holy Rosary Church in St. Amant, LA. At Noelie’s St. Mary’s funeral in the 1950s Father Wyschoff from Holy Rosary announced that Noelie Chauvin Boudreaux had played the organ in St. Amant for forty (40) long and dedicated years.

Photo Credit - Henry Chauvin