Later life Louis Juchereau de St. Denis
st. denis street in historic district of natchitoches
on 10 january 1743, st. denis wrote jean-frédéric phélypeaux, comte de maurepas, @ versailles, indicating no longer perform duties commandant of natchitoches. asked permission retire new spain wife , children, forbidden so. st. denis died @ natchitoches on 11 june 1744. survived wife , 5 children, 1 of whom married briefly athanase de mézières. after time of death, rumored wife became richest woman west of mississippi river.
as st. denis 2 sons did not father children of own, daughters carried posterity. descendants include jefferson j. deblanc (1921-2007) , alcibiades deblanc (1821-1883), founded knights of white camellia, post-civil war white insurgent group in louisiana. goal suppress voting freedmen , regain political power white men.
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