Jean Baptiste Ortego

Jean Baptiste J. Ortego, son of Joseph Ortego and Helouise Landreneau, and married to Louisa LaHaye, filed his original homestead claim on 20 May 1862, and received his homestead certificate on 23 November 1892, for 164.5 acres in what was to become L'Anse Grise. The certificate no. 4186 (Application No. 13932), describes the property as being the "Southeast Quarter of Section 13, Township 4 South, Range 1 West." The location of this property is along and on the north side of Red Fox Lane, 1/2 mile from Highway 13, and extends for 1/2 mile to the end of Red Fox Lane, by a dept of 1/2 mile. The original site of the home is where Mr. Carl Fontenot has his rice well pump now, in the approximate center of the property. He later sold approximately 40 acres from the northeast corner to Valmont Ortego, one of his cousins. The rest of the property was kept in the family, and the western half was bought by Ortemon Ortego, one of Jean Baptiste's sons, after his death in 1936,  Ortemon Ortego's family kept it until about 1980, when it ended up in the hands of Evangeline Bank in Ville Platte. Living on the property today are Mr. & Mrs. Charles Yielding and Mr. and Mrs. Faron Brown.

Photo of Jean Baptiste Ortego and Louisa LaHaye