The Chouteau Family A Genealogy of Descendants. and Collateral Branches Compiled by Beatrice Clark Turner Copyright, Beatrice Clark Turner 1934 References were made to the Missouri Historical Society 11 Creoles of St. Louis, 11 Beckwith 11 Conquest of the Northwest," English To My· Children and Their's 5th and 6th Generations of Chouteaus THE FIRST KNOWN RECORDS of the CHOUTEAU FAMILY Copied by the Abbe Uzureau, 103 Faubourg St., Michel, Angers, France. PIERRE CHOUTEAU, married FRANCES MOCQUOIS. Child: "Stephen Chouteau, legitimate son of Pierre Chou­ teau and Frances Mocquois, was baptized by the under­ signed curate of Hermenauld. Done the 28th day of July, 1658." (Signed) "OUTIN." ''Stephen Chouteau and Jeanne Plumant married 29th of January, 1687, in the presence of Pierre Chouteau, father of Stephen and Etienne Mocquois, his uncle; Stephen Plumant, brother of the said Jeanne, and of Marie Russon, her mother. STEPHEN CHOUTEAU, baptized at L'Hermanauld, July 28, 1658, married January 29, 1687, at L'Hermanauld, JEANNE PLUMANT. She died 1733. Child: Rene Chouteau, born March I 5, 1688; baptized L'Hermanauld March 16, 1688, married January 20, 1709, Marie Sarazin. Children: Stephen Chouteau, born France, November 26, 1709, died 1769. Elizabeth Chouteau, born France, October 6, 1716. Rene Auguste Chouteau, born France, Septem­ ber 2, 1723, died 177 6. Jane Chouteau, born France, August 13, 1725. Francis Ambrose Chouteau, born France, Sep­ tember I 5, 1726. Renee Louise Chouteau, born France, 1729. I I RENE AUGUSTE CHOUTEAU, married MARIE THERESE BOURGEOIS. Rene Auguste Chouteau, born Bearn, France, 1723; died 1776. Came to New Orleans and married Marie Therese Bourgeois Sept. 20, 1748. Contract drawn up before Mr. Henry, notary. (See Estate of Rene Chouteau, New Orleans Archives.) Marie Therese Bourgeois, born January 14, 1733, in New Orleans; died August 14, 1814, in St. Louis. She died in the 81st year of her age and was buried with all the ceremonies of the Catholic Church in Calvary Cemetery, St. Louis. In 1764 she came to St. Louis with her five children. First Generation Born in America Children: AUGUSTE, JEAN PIERRE, MARIE PELAGIE, MARIE LOUISE, VICTOIRE. Baptismal records from St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans: Auguste Chouteau, born 1749; baptized September. 9, 1749. Jean Pierre Chouteau, born October 10, 1758; baptized October 19, 1758. Marie Pelagie Chouteau, born Oct. 6, 1760; baptized Oct. 15, 1760. Marie Louise Chouteau, born Dec. 4, 1762; baptized Dec. 21, 1762. Victoire Chouteau, born l\tlarch 23, 1764; baptized May 9, 1764. 12 1JIAD.A.l\1E RENE AUGUSTE CHOUTEA.U ~(,;; -'~f·· PIERRE de Li\CLEDE LIGUEST PIERRE de LACLEDE LIGUEST, born near Pau, France, 1724 Son of a noble family in France, he came to Louisiana in 1755 and entered commercial life in New Orleans. In 1762 the firm of Maxent, Laclede & Company were granted a license by d' Abbadie, Director General and Commandant of Louisiana, for the exclusive trade with the Indians of the Missouri and all nations residing west of the Mis­ sissippi River for a period of eight years. Laclede, accompanied by Auguste Chouteau, a boy of fourteen years, left New Orleans Aug. 3, 1763, and arrived at Fort _Chartres the following November, where he stored his goods. Then he and Chouteau proceeded up the river. In December they landed at the spot that he chose for his trading post, the present site of St. Louis. He blazed the trees and said to Chouteau, "You will come here as soon as navigation opens and cause this place to be cleared in order to form our settlement after the plan that I shall give you." On February 15, 1764, Laclede sent Chouteau, in charge of thirty men to lay out the town, which is the present site of St. Louis. For the next few years, Laclede was engaged in building up the new settle­ ment. The winter of 1777-8, he passed in New Orleans and died when enroute to St. Louis, June 20, 1778. His remains were buried at the mouth of the Arkansas, on the banks of the river. 13 AUGUSTE CHOUTEAU, married MARIE THERESE CERRE Auguste Chouteau, son of Rene Auguste Chouteau and Marie Therese Bourgeois, born in New Orleans September 7, 1749; died St. Louis February 25, 1829. When a boy of 14, he accompanied Pierre de Laclede Liguest, when he left New Orleans A.ug. 3, 1763, and came by river to the present site of St. Louis. I-Ie was sent in charge of 30 men from Fort Chartres to St. Louis and reached there Feb. 15, 1764, at the spot ,vhere Laclede had marked the trees. He laid out the town and employed Indian women and children to dig out the cellar of the first house. They carried the earth a,vay in their blankets. Chouteau was left in full charge and was appointed Presiding Judge of the Territorial Court of Oyer and Terminer-1804. Appointed Colonel of the St. Louis 1st Militia Regiment -1808. Chosen first President of the Board of Trustees for the Town of St. Louis-1809. Commissioner of the U. S. in negotiating treaties with Indian tribes. Married Marie Therese Cerre, Sept. 26, 1786. Marie Therese Cerre, born in the territory of Kaskaskia, Illinois, November 26, 1769, and died in St. Louis, Mis­ ouri, August 14, 1842. Was the daughter of Gabriel Cerre. See Cerre, page 105.) Both buried in Calvary Cemetery, St. Louis. Second Generation Children: l\1:arie Therese Chouteau, born July 22, 1788; died Decem­ ber 16, 1796. Auguste .A.ristide Chouteau, married Constance Sanguin­ ette. Gabriel Sylvestre Chouteau, died unmarried. Born De- cember 31, 1794; died June 18, 1887. Eulalie Chouteau, married Rene Paul. Louise Chouteau, married Gabriel Paul. Emilie Marie Antoinette Chouteau, married 11ajor Thomas Floyd Smith. Henri Chouteau, married Clemence Coursault. Ed,vard Chouteau, died unmarried. Born 1807, died 1816. 14 Auguste Aristide Chouteau, married Constance Sanguinette. Auguste Aristide Chouteau, son of Auguste Chouteau and Marie Therese Cerre, born in St. Louis, Mo., October 21, 1792. Died in Little Rock, Ark., 1833. Married Con­ stance Sanguinette June 10, 1810. Marie Anne Catherine Sanguinette, born February 20, 1781, died 1859; married Francois Marie Benoist, born 1767, Canada, died - ; ii'' Son Louis Benoist, born St. Louis, 1803, died 1867; married Sarah E. Wilson, 1849, from whom were descended a large family of Benoists. Constance Sanguinette, born March 27, 1792, died 1834. · Third Generation Children: Auguste Rene Chouteau. Edward Aristide Chouteau. Virginia Chouteau. Celeste Chouteau. Chas. Jerome Chouteau. Auguste Rene Chouteau, born St. Louis, 1811, died 1847, married Rebecca Sefton, November 23, 1836, who ,vas born in Cincinnati, Ohio, February, 1819. No children. Wido,v married second time, June 29, 1852, A. Sire. Edward Aristide Chouteau, married Elizabeth Julia Christy. Edward Aristide Chouteau, born St. Louis, Decem­ ber 26, 1814, died St. Louis, June 1, 1864, mar­ ried Elizabeth Julia Christy, born January 12, 1830. Married secondly, Peter L. Foy. Fourth Generation Children: Eugenie Chouteau, born St. Louis, July 29, 1850, unmarried. Auguste Chouteau, born St. Louis, May 15, 1853, married June 16, 1884, Ida Reba Taylor, born St. Louis, February 21, 1859, died March 21, 1893. 15 Child: Auguste Chouteau, born St. Louis, November 7, 1890, married 1913, Virginia Wilson. Children: Auguste Chouteau, Jr., born July 11, 1913. Walter Cerre Chouteau, born September 25, 1914. lviary Isabelle Chouteau, born St. Louis, June 2, 1856, matried October 12, 1886, Charles J. Healy, of N. Y. Children: Charles Edvvard Healy, born Jersey City, August 5, 1888. Francis C. Healy, born August 18, 1890. Virgil J. Healy, born December 7, 1892, married 1923, Elizabeth Trapp. Children: Isabel Marie Healy, born December 25, 1926. Robert Virgil Healy, born July 23, 1928. Florence Teresa Chouteau, born September 18, 1858, died January 16, 1863. Edward Chouteau, born September 17, 1862, died Septem­ ber 29, 1863. Elizabeth J. Christy Chouteau, married secondly Peter L. Foy, born December 6, 1824; died June 26, 1906. Children: Julius L. Foy, born May 29, 1871; died January 11, 1907. Agnes Foy, married 1896, Howard A. Benoist. Children: Louis Lannan Benoist, born December 1, 1897, mar- ried Elizabeth P. Smith. Elizabeth Christy Benoist, born November 27, 1899. Marie Agnes Benoist, born June 18, 1906. Sara Miriam Benoist, born June 24, 1911, married Ronald Whitney Richards. Howard Alphonsus Benoist, Jr., born May 26, 1915. Florence Elizabeth Foy, born July 11, 1873; died August 11, 1881. Virginia Chouteau, born St. Louis, June 16, 1816; died August 11, 1856. married March 8, 1836, Joseph C. Barlow, born Philadelphia, March 10, 1803. Married secondly, Catherine M. Clark. 16 1IRS. AUGUS1'E CHOUTEAU Nee tLA.RIE THERESE CERRE .\UGUSTE CHOUTE.AU Children: Edward Chouteau Barlow. Celeste Marie Barlo,v. Helen Clemence Barlow. Nlartha Therese Barlow. Estele Neomi Barlo,v. Kendrick Joseph Barlow. Joseph Augustus Barlow. Edward Chouteau Barlow, born St. Louis, May 1, 1844, married May 4, 1876, Harriet Kipling of Roselle, N e--vv Jersey. Fifth Generation Children: De La Rue Kipling Barlow, born March 31, 1877. Grace Chouteau Barlow, born July 14, 1879; died 1887. Edward Chouteau Barlow, born November 28, 1881 ; died 1887. Kathleen W. Barlow; died 1891. Faith Chouteau Barlow, born March 31, 1888. lVIary Celeste Barlow, born January 7, 1884; died Roselle, New Jersey, November 12, 1926; unmarried. Helen Clemence Barlow, born St. Louis, January 15, 1846; died Brooklyn, New York, August 8, 1882. married James A. Phinney, U. S. A. Children: Susan B. Phinney, married J. James. Children: Rowe C. James. George James. Katherine James. Marguerite H. Phinney, born September 9, 1866, married October 21, 1886, John W. Bishop. Children: John W. Bishop, Jr., married Virginia Nels on Sims. Helen Bishop. Katherine Bishop, died March 1, 1892.