Dad and Mom like the two CDs with Edius singing. Merci!
Dad said his Dad, Leon, came from down south (Terrebonne or LaFourche) and he married a woman from
around here, Osea DevilliƩr. Edius or
Eddius supposedly learned his songs from his Mom or grandmother. They’re not sure but that’s what they were
told from family. Uncle Gussie, oldest
son, married one of Dad’s sisters, Tante Ena. Edius was supposedly baptized in Washington
but Dad said it might have been a priest from Washington that baptized
him. They lived around L’Anse Grise and
also in the Piniere west of L’Anse Grise.
Their (Edius and his wife) gravesite is in the new St. Ann cemetery, close
to the rice dryers in Mamou.