Honore Perigny Morancy, Milliken's Bend, Madison Parish, Louisiana
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Honore Perigny Morancy, Milliken's Bend, Madison Parish, Louisiana

MADISON COORDINATOR'S NOTE: Since Honore Morancy was responsible for naming Carroll
Parish in 1832 when he was a State Senator, he has been referred to by some as the 
"Father of Carroll Parish". He was, however, a resident of Milliken's Bend in Madison 
Parish which was until 1838 part of Carroll Parish. Morancy built one of the most
beautiful houses in northeast Louisiana at Milliken's Bend. The house was supposedly
spared by General Grant during the Civil War at the request of Mrs. Morancy. After 
being moved back from the Mississippi River three times, this magnificent house and 
its fine grove of oak trees was finally claimed by the River.

The Morancys claim descent from the noted French family of Montmorency. 
Compelled to flee the country to escape the horrors of the French Revolution, 
they found refuge in the Island of St.Domingo, and dropped the prefix "Mont," 
owing to the extreme hostility to all titles of nobility.

With the remnant of their scattered fortunes, Jean Francois Morancy and a brother 
acquired property in the island and became extensive planters and slave owners.

Jean Francois Morancy was married in St. Domingo to Mademoiselle Honorine Molinery, 
a granddaughter of Madam Bouligny, the ceremony being performed by Father Pierre. 
From this marriage there were six children, Joseph, Victoire, Melanie, Honore, 
Pierre, Thadeus, and Emile. Their tranquility was of short duration, however, 
as the insurrection of the slaves in St. Domingo was, if possible, worse than the 
Revolution in France from which they had escaped.

At the beginning of the Revolution in St. Domingo the Morancys took refuge in 
the town of Aux Cayes, where the mother died of yellow fever. Soon after Jean 
Francois Morancy, his brother, and his wife's brother, with other members of 
the family, were killed by the negroes when the town was captured and sacked.

Three of the children, Victoire, aged thirteen, Honore Pierre, about ten, and 
Emile, five years of age, were saved by a servant belonging to the family, and 
finally reached the United States,landing at Charleston, South Carolina, from 
whence they were sent to Baltimore. Influential friends received them there, and 
the history of their escape and description of their confiscated property in the 
Island of St. Domingo, comprising several valuable plantations, was authenticated 
and forwarded to the French Government, which recognized their claim and allowed 
them an indemnity for many years.

Honore Pierre, the oldest son, was taken in charge by the Abbe Mercier, and 
educated at St.Mary's College, Emmettsburg, Maryland. Madam LePeltier, a refugee 
from France, assumed the care of Victoire and Emile, and about a year afterwards 
some relations or friends took Victoire to the Island of Margalanti, in the West 
Indies, where she grew up, married, went to France, and died there. Madam LePeltier 
was recalled to France, and Emile entered the family of Mrs. Harper, a daughter of 
Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, and was educated with her son, Charles Harper, at 
Emmettsburg, under the patronage of Charles Carroll, who furnished the means for 
his graduation in the profession of medicine. (NOTE: Charles Carroll was the only 
Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence.)

Honore Pierre's name was changed to Honore Perigny, in gratitude to Madam LePeltier, 
whose family name was Perigny. After the death of the Abbe Mercier, Honore Perigny 
finished his education, and was Professor of French, Greek, and Latin in the college 
at Natchez, Mississippi, until 1818, when on the 16th of July of that year he was 
married (to Eliza Jane Lowry). He afterwards moved to Louisiana, where he entered 
large tracts of land, and at the breaking out of the Civil War was one of the 
wealthiest and most prominent planters in that State. He held many public offices, 
and died at the advanced age of eighty-six in 1881. When in the Legislature he named 
the Parish of Carroll in honor of his benefactor, Charles Carroll.

His son, Louis Morancy, married Agnes Morancy (sic), a daughter of Joseph Anderson and 
Tunstella Kinkead, who was a daughter of Anne Quarles and Archibald Kinkead.

Emile Morancy, above referred to, married Agnes Kinkead, a sister of Tunstella, and 
besides these two intermarriages of the Quarles' and Morancys, two of Honore Perigny 
Morancy's grandsons, Thomas and Honore Jackson, married two of the descendants of the 
Quarles', whose ancestor was Tunstal Quarles, who married Susannah, a daughter of 
Ambrose Edwards.

From "Old King William Homes and Families" by Peyton Neale Clarke 1966