St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1919-07-26
ITALIAN LEGACY Is
SOUGHT BY MANY
LOUISIANA PEOPLE
HOPE TO SECURE SHARE or Es-
TATE LEFT BISHOP OF ST.
MARKS CHURCH, VENICE
WILL FILED MORE
THAN 90 YEARS AGO
Parties Organizing Heirs for Recov
cry Of Money Claim That S2o,ooo,-
600 viii Be Distributed to Heirs
OF Louis Gradenigo

Vt LOUIS GradenIgo
The following articles are repro
duced from the Times -Picayune of tn,
10th and the 22nd, inst, and the Clar
ion does not in any manner wish t.
mislead or inspire with undue hop,
any of the prospective claimants whit
live in this section. We only trus
that many worthy families in ouI
midst whose names are mentioned a!
/ possible beneficiaries, viii reap full
fruition of their expectations, but VIZ
are constrained to advise them not tt
4 be unduly jubuliant, in a fortuns
which has lain dormant Throughout
all these years, may be, in the end
| more fictiona1 than real
/ Lake Charles, La, July 21-Of the
sevent branches of the Gradenigc
! family which will share a portion OF
the $68,000,000 estate, one is largely
represented in Lake Charles includ
ing Mrs. C1ermont Young, Mrs. H. E.
Segrist, Mrs. NJ N. Leinbacker, A. N
Young, Miss Gartrude Young, and No.
tary Clegg Young, former resident
now at Fort Smith, Ark, F. T. Young,
Cleveland. O.; F. G. Young, New
Iberia; Mrs. Robert Mestayer, New
Iberia, Mrs. ]. Bass, Lake Arthur; C.
Young, Franklin. The above are chill
dren of Clermont Young, who lived
at New Iberia. dying there March %.
Clermont Young was the son of Nj
cholas Young, grandson of Angus
tus Gradenfgo and Elizabeth Cler-
mont.
Augustus was a son of Juan Gra-
denigo of OpeIousas nephew and
third heir to Juan Gradenigo, the
wealthy Venitian nobleman. Other
heirs of this branch of the family,
brothers and sisters of Clermont
Young, are Mrs. Tolson of Lafayette,
the children Of DR.. Nicholas Young of
Rayville, children of Gradenigo
Young of Morgan City, children of DR..
Tom Rand. New Iberia; children of
Fenwiek Morgan of Franklin :.
The Young condition is further de-
tailed in a letter written by Jos and
Felix VOORHEES, of Cinclaire, La, to
the late Clermont Young on May 13,
received by the widow, now resi-
dent Of Lake Charles.
Juan Gradenigo. a wealthy yene-
tian nobleman, after having travelled
in South America, then in North Amer.
lea on his return trip to his native
land, met at Pensacola. Fla, beauti-
full and wealthy young girl by the
name of Marguerite Krebs. whom he
married, settling shortly afterwards
in that section of Louisiana, now
known as st. Landry parish at Lille
Langlois. The issues of that mar
riage were: Joseph Halaire Gradenigo,
who married Louis Carriere; Mar
guerite, who married Etenne Lam
ourandier: Marie who married Nj
cholas Rousseau; Bridget, who mar
ried Louis Deonteout. and Annie .Gra-
denigo. who married Cornelius Voor-
HES, my grandfather
Augustus Gradenigo married Eliza
beth C1ermont. and the issues of that
marriage were: Eliza, who married
Notary Young; Azile, who married.
Bennett P voorhies, Augustus and
Pauline. who married Francois Genin.
MY purpose in comparing this in
formation to you is the following:
you must certainly have heard
spoken Of in your family OF an i'm
mense fortune, amounting to 10000
600 marks. devised by viii by a Ca
thoiic prelate. a Gradenigo of Venice,
to his relatives in the figures follow
ing: One-third to his relatives in Italy
one-third to his relatives in America.
one-third othe church. The only rel
atiye of the tetator in America was
Juan radenigo, our common ancestor,
mentioned above Therefore, the
share of Juan in that estate was Io,-
100000 gold marks. amounting to
s20, 100000 Of the money OF the
United States BY the negligence and
perhaps by the want Of agreement
and of understanding among the heirs
Of Juan, no steps were taken by them
10 be placed in possession of that for
.une.n