Godefroy Hollier of Opelousas, Louisiana

The Ancestry Hollier Message Board came up with a new reference to the sale of land by Godefroy Hollier after his wife Azelie died and indeed just before his own death. Both this reference and an Obit for Godefroy from 1860 appeared in a web transcript of the Opelousas Courier. Apart from the land being sold, the auction was to sell off all the contents of the plot, including:

"An American horse; a Creole horse; a Creole mare; a lot of about 15 head of horned cattle; a lot of about 30 head of hogs; 3000 three feet boards; a lot of posts and laths; 2 cross-cut saws; a horse cart; 2 beds and bedding; about 50 barrels of corn in the shuck; a double barreled shot gun; a lot of spokes and telloes; a lot of household and kitchen furniture, and some other articles too tedious to enumerate."

Godefroy (1810-1860) and his wife Azelie were both Holliers, being second cousins, great grandchildren of Luc Hollier from Nantes, France, where the Louisiana Holliers all originate from.