Notes for Manuel Armentor: Emmanuel De Armento is mentioned in the book "Vigilante Committes of the Attakapas" He was banished from the Lafayette area in 1859 and went to New Orleans as you discovered. The New Orleans Bee, a French newspaper has his obituary in January 25, 1872 edition all written in French. I found it in New Orleans library a few years ago.It says he was 70 years old and drowned in a canal on Broad Street and that he was a resident of Lapeyrousse street. The coroner is investigating the cause of death. Source: An email from a dfoster on 10 Feb 2001 on Rootsweb.
ARMANTOR, Emanuel The 1810 NY Census, Ulster County, p. 135, shows one male (age 45+), one female (age 45+), two males under 10, one male between 26 and 45, three females under 10, in the household.
Emanuel ARMANTOR (The microfilm record shows it clearly to be ARMENTOR, with the "E" written in a looped flourish which the index transcriber mistook for an "A") is very likely the father of Manuel DE ARMENTOR, our Louisiana ancestor, who claimed that he was born in New York.
Manuel DE ARMENTOR named his three sons, Manuel Leon, Romain Alfred, and Emanuel. I believe that this link between the Louisiana descendants and the New York family is real.
Now, if we can find some documents to fill in the gaps about the New York family, their origins, where they went, etc.
From Norman Carnahan, Armentor Researcher, 23 Apr 2000
I have recently found some new information on Manuel Armentor, the progenitor of the Louisiana and Texas Armentors/Armintors. Little by little we keep finding more about this elusive ancestor. 1860 New Orleans City Directory lists Manuel d. Armentor at 514 Villere St. District 3 1869 New Orleans City Directory lists M. Armenter, painter, living at Josephine St. between Frenchmen and Union. District 3 1873 Orleans Parish Death Index Records list the widow of Manuel Armentor as dying on 15 JAN 1873 in Vol 57 page 23 (LA State Archives) Source: Nancy Armintor Lees email to Rootsweb on 25 Jan 2001
Also search under the names of Dermentor, DeArmentor Almentor, Armentau, Armantor, Ormentor, Armento,
The Armentor Family
from Denise Ruth Foster, 1988, granddaughter of Leon Armintor
There are a few different possibilities on when and how Emmanuel Armento arrived in the United Stateso One possibility is that he entered via Cuba, This story could be documented by the spelling of the name as Armenteros. Two Armenteros* entered New Orleans in the 1840's via Havanna and Vera CruZo There is an extensive genealogy on the Armenteros family of Cuba who left Spain in the 1600's to avoid persecution. The other possibility is found in a book of Southwest Louisiana history stating that Emmanuel DeArmento left New York to go south to do manual labor and shame his father., Included in this book are references to both of these stories.
The first time Emmanuel DeArmento is mentioned in southern Louisiana is found in Hebert's Southwest Louisiana Records in 1844. The Abbeville, Louisiana Church recorded a birth of Lousia(also called Louisinaise) to Emmanuel Armentor and Merante Trahano There is no other mention of Manuel Armentor in the Southwest Louisiana Records until 1852,, On June 2,1852 Euranie Viator Rouly married Emmanuel DeArmentOo Euranie's first husband was Joseph Rouly of Santo Domingo. Euranie and Emmanuel had three known sons. It is from these three sons that all Louisiana Armentors descends All three sons had eleven children eacho The first Emmanuel Leon,usually called Leon, is the son from which the author descends and will be discussed more in depth in this booko
The next mention of DeArmento is found in 1859, A man named Alexander Barde wrote an account of the Vigilante Committees of the Attakapas, These committees were formed to fight corruption in and around StoMartinville, Louisi- ana, Barde was a journalist and a member of the vigilantes. One day in 1859 all people suspected of wrongdoing were hounded and tracked by the committeeso Bandits were whipped, exiled, and sometimes shot. It is in this account where Emmanuel DeArmento is mentioned. Many people have argued that the reason for the disorder was the clash between the rich and the poor, instead of the good and the bade The following passage was taken from the book Vigilante Committees of the Attakapas and describes Manuel DeArmento.
' Manoel de Armentor was forty-five years old. He was of Spanish origin and had that dark complexion which betrays the mixture of the white race with the Saracen race of which so many types still exist in Spain, He was a monstrous exception to the beauty of the Castillian and the Saracen raceso Manoel was Castillian and a very ugly Castilliano Moreover he was a one- armed man, which contributed still more to make of him the opposite of the mythological Antoneus. He was a painter of buildings and had received the most meager education. He took up the paint brush only 3 or 4 times a year, but for the most part lived that existence which the masses call an enigma nd which the police call vagabondage and punish as sucho In Paris they call ^1-hat La Petit Boheme: in StoMartinville it had no name, p He was born, he said, in New York where his father, a grandee of Spain of the first class, had come to seek refuge after the fall of 'Napoleon,, What I had caused the expatriation of this hidalgo were the sympathies which he had avowed to King Joseph during the latter's reigno These sympathies would have brought him to the Presidio or to the garotte if he had not removed him- self by flight from the reaction which declared itself in Spain after the fall of Napoleono He,nevertheless, had managed to sell all of his magnifi- cent lands which he possessed on the other side or beyond the Somma-Sierra, and to place the proceeds in New York where he possessed three or four blocks of houses on streets near Broadwayo His father had disowned him, he said, because of his indolence and he had come to the South to shame his father and his ancestors by doing manual labor. It was foolish if you wish, but a few credulous persons had accepted all of these lies as true. Do not believe I am inventing this strange paragraph to give interest to this story, for a great many people in the Attakapas have heard this man who was given to strange recitals.
This story of de Armentor could be true because of the genealogy of the Annenteros family who left Spain and went to Cuba.
It is not known what became of Emmanuel DeArmento after his arrest. His wife, Euranie, is listed in the 1860 census of St.Martinville living with her daughter. Only Armento's third son is living with the wife» More than likely, Armento was banished from the Attakapas region. No other account of Armento has been found until 1872. He died in New Orleans, Louisiana. His obituary reads as follows:
New Orleans Bee(newspaper)25 Janvier 1872
Le corps de Manuel Armanto, viellard de 70 ans et qui residait rue Lapeyrouse a etc trouve hier dans le canal Broad pres de cette premiere rue. Le coroner n'avait pas encore fait la levee du corps hier coiro
The corps of Manuel Armanto, old man of 70 years and a resident of Lapeyrouse Street drowned in the Broad Street Canal. The coroner is investigating the cause of death.
The first son born to Manuel Armento and Euranie Viator Rouly married a woman named Marcelite Roy.(refer to the following pages of charts) Their first son was named Emmanuel,also. Emmanuel married Isma Brasseux on May 15,1897. They lived in Crowley, Louisiana and are listed in the 1900 census of Acadia Parish. The couple had three sons named Fernand, Walter, and Leono Fernand died in 1942 and is buried in Crowley with his father. Walter lives in Crowleyo Shortly after Leon was born in 1904, Isman moved to Sulphur, Louisiana and remarried. She had a son named Wilfred Hebert. Emmanuel remarried Esperie Toups and had a son named Avery Armentor. These two half-brothers were always well liked by all of Leon's family, /-]
More About Manuel Armentor and Merante Trahan: Marriage: 1844
More About Manuel Armentor and Marie Uranie Viator: Marriage: 02 June 1852, St. Martinville Parish, LA.
Children of Manuel Armentor and Merante Trahan are:
Louisa Armentor, b. 15 February 1844, Abbeville, Vermilion, LA.
Children of Manuel Armentor and Marie Uranie Viator are:
Manuel Armentor (b. Abt. 1814)
Notes for Manuel Armentor: