{"id":19,"date":"2008-05-11T17:18:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-11T17:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogybank.com\/?p=19"},"modified":"2024-07-26T13:47:21","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T17:47:21","slug":"clementine-breaux-110-yrs-old-1000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/clementine-breaux-110-yrs-old-1000.html","title":{"rendered":"Clementine Breaux &#8211; 110 yrs. old &#8211; 1,000+ Descendants"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms; font-size: 180%;\">Happy Mother&#8217;s Day!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms;\"><strong>Clementine (Robicheaux) Breaux<\/strong>, the widow of <strong>Paul Breaux<\/strong>, must have set a record. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms;\">As of March 19, 1915 &#8211; she was still going strong at age 110 &#8211; the mother of 13 children and the matriarch of more than 1,000 descendants born in her lifetime. She lived in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana and her family lived there in Thibodaux and &#8220;scattered over the entire state&#8221; of Louisiana.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms;\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/s1600-h\/oldest-mom.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5199468339999405154\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; cursor: hand;\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/s200\/oldest-mom.jpg\" alt=\"Duluth (MN) News Tribune (19 March 1915)\" width=\"200\" height=\"195\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Even though she was 110 years old according to the article in the <em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/enter\/gblog\">Duluth (MN) News Tribune<\/a><\/strong><\/em> (19 March 1915) she was still active. Her eyesight was still good enough &#8220;to permit the threading of a needle&#8221; and she enjoyed &#8220;getting out in the yard and feeding the chickens and poultry.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS;\">You learn the most amazing things about your family in these old newspapers. <\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/enter\/gblog\">GenealogyBank<\/a> has over 3,400 newspapers from across the country. Give it a try right now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms;\">So &#8211; here&#8217;s to our mothers everywhere, of all generations. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms; font-size: 180%;\"><strong>Happy Mother&#8217;s Day!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Mother&#8217;s Day! Clementine (Robicheaux) Breaux, the widow of Paul Breaux, must have set a record. As of March 19, 1915 &#8211; she was still going strong at age 110 &#8211; the mother of 13 children and the matriarch of more than 1,000 descendants born in her lifetime. She lived in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12713],"tags":[3732,1999,958,2372,1129,957,1661,1674,1829,642,956,717,1100,578,1761,3930,1874,5366,27,817,716],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-children","tag-descendants","tag-discovering-family-history","tag-duluth","tag-family","tag-family-chronicle","tag-genealogybank-2","tag-id","tag-in","tag-internet-genealogy","tag-join","tag-lafourche-parish","tag-louisiana","tag-mn","tag-mother","tag-mothers","tag-ms","tag-news","tag-newspapers","tag-old-newspapers","tag-paul-breaux"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99831,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/99831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}