Pierre Ducote, Avoyellean of the Year 1787, was one of the first two carpenters at the Avoyelles Post noted by historian Corinne Saucier. Ducote, the patriarch of the DuCote family of Avoyelles, physically helped to build the beginnings of Avoyelles, providing home, barns, stores for the early settlers.

PIERRE DUCOTE II
Birth: 4 SEP 1753 in Pointe Coupee Post, Louisiana
Death: 1836 in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana
Burial: 20 DEC 1836 St. Paul the Apostle Church Cemetery, Mansura, Louisiana

The name Ducote is be lived to be uniquely of Avoyelles. It is not found in the other posts and settlements of colonial Louisiana. Also, the name is not listed in the Canadian genealogical dictionaries of the colonial period.
Pierre DucoteII and Henriette Rabalais were in Avoyelles as early as 1783. They appeared on the census in 1785 in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana.
He served in the military 1777- Corporal in Pointe Coupee Militia, Pointe Coupee Post under Bernardo De Galvez, 1746-1786, who led Louisiana men, including many Avoyelles ancetors at the Battle of Baton Rouge. He was a carpenter.

Father: PIERRE DUCOTE I b: 1679 in Flanders, France
Mother: MARIE MAGDALEINE CABLE b: 1709 in Freudenberg, Germany
Marriage 1 HENRIETTE JOSEPHE RABALAIS b: 19 AUG 1756 in Pointe Coupee Post, Louisiana
Married: 15 FEB 1773 in Pointe Coupee, Louisiana
Note: Following the American Revolutionary war, Pierre & Henriette were displaced by the great Mississippi River flood of 1780 and settled on the high ground of the Avoyelles Prairie.
Children
Pierre DUCOTE III b: 24 JUN 1774 in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana
Joseph Jean Pierre DUCOTE I b: 8 JAN 1777 in Pointe Coupee Post, Pointe Coupee, Louisiana c: 8 JAN 1777 in Pointe Coupee Post, Pointe Coupee, Louisiana
Hyppolite DUCOTE b: 30 JUL 1778 in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana c: 16 AUG 1778 in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana
MARIE LOUISE (Elise) DUCOTE b: FEB 1781 in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana
Jean Pierre DUCOTE I b: 24 AUG 1783 in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana c: 18 JAN 1784 in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana
Magdeleine Sophia DUCOTE b: 20 OCT 1789 in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana c: 6 JAN 1792 in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana
Henry Zenon DUCOTE b: ABT 1791 in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana
Celestin Augustin DUCOTE I b: 29 APR 1792 in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana c: 19 JAN 1794 in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana
Marie Celina DUCOTE b: 28 DEC 1794 in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana
Emelie DUCOTE b: 19 APR 1798 in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana c: 30 AUG 1798 in St. Paul the Apostle Church, Mansura, Louisiana
Aspasie DUCOTE b: 12 JUL 1800 in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana c: 22 APR 1801 in St. Paul the Apostle Catholic Church, Mansura, Louisiana


For a list of past recipients of the Avoyellean of the Year award visit: Avoyelleans of the Year