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LOUIS RODRIQUE is the owner and occupant of fourteen acres on lot 12, third sub-division, Kaskaskia Commons, Randolph County. He was born on the island between Dozaville and Kaskaskia, in this county, August 10, 1846. He was reared and has spent his entire life within a few miles of the place of his birth.

Our subject is the son of Augustus and Florence (Buatte) Rodrique, natives of Kaskaskia. The Rodrique family is of Spanish origin, and the Buatte family of Creole descent. Our subject attended the Old Kaskaskia schools until about seventeen years of age, but his parents having died when he was a very small boy, little interest was taken in his education or welfare, and his school days were few and far between. Louis la Chapelle was his guardian, and he made his home with that gentleman and worked on his farm until his nineteenth year. At the age above mentioned, young Rodrique began farming for himself on land left by his parents and also adjoining land, which he rented. Here he has always made his home, and is well known and respected in the community in which he has so long lived.

December 31, 1871, Louis Rodrique and Theresa Derousse were united in marriage. Mrs. Rodrique was the daughter of Poulite and Ellen (Menard) Derousse, and was born on Kaskaskia Commons. Here her death occurred February 10, 1878. Of this marriage were born three children: Mary Genevieve, Florence Ellen and Joseph H. Our subject was a second time married May 13, 1879, to Seraphene La Fleur, daughter of Lexon and Pelagi (Danis) La Fleur, and a native of Kaskaskia, who was born in 1846, and died March 31, 1893. Four children came to bless this union: Maggie Cecelia, Estella, James Augustus; and Erma, who is deceased. Like all the early French people of Old Kaskaskia, our subject has been reared a Catholic, as were both his wives. He has been a life-long Democrat and is always a supporter of its candidates.