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and for his love of the lands he purchased during his lifetime in Louisiana
and East Texas. Ben Hebert and his son Joseph became pioneers in the rice
industry, irrigation systems, and the cattle business. The site of the Ben
Hebert homestead at LaBelle, Texas (now the Port Arthur Country Club
area) has been honored with a Texas Historical Marker. It was in this home
that Ben Hebert and his wife, Elodie (Nunez), raised their three children,
Emma Hebert Mixson (1872-1958), Joseph James Hebert (1874-1931), and
Rosala Hebert (1876-1948), and helped in the upbringing of their three
nephews, Joseph Eloi Broussard (1866-1956), Edmar LeBlanc (b. 1874), and
Remy LeBlanc (b. 1876).
On her maternal side, the names Jackson, Pivoto, and Mowbray are
those of pioneer families who settled in East Texas. In 1835, Elodie's maternal
great-great grandfather, Stephen Jackson (1803-1860), was issued a league
of land in the area of Sour Lake, Hardin County, Texas, by the Mexican
government for his services as a soldier in Zavala's Guard. Jackson, the
first white settler in Hardin County, owned the land from which bubbled
the famous sour springs that had been used by the Indians and then by the
early settlers, for their medicinal properties.
The Pivoto family, originally from Lyon, France, established residence
in Texas in 1834, when Michel Pivoto (b. 1799) was issued a land grant of
one league (4,439 acres) along Flores Bayou (the area of Nome, Texas) for
his service as a soldier under Andrew Jackson during the War of 1812.
Elodie's great-grandfather, Joseph Pivoto (1811-1876), husband to Anna
Seraphine (DuBois) Pivoto (1797-1901), first arrived in East Texas at High
Island in the mid-1830's and lived in a hastily built log cabin in the area
of Nome, Texas, until the historic homestead was completed between 1852
and 1853. The Joe Pivoto home became a famous stage-coach stop and way
station for travelers and cattlemen on their way to and from Houston and
New Orleans.
The Mowbray family, originally from England, settled in East Texas
in 1857 when Elodie's maternal great-grandfather, Joseph Mowbray
(1833-1917), husband to Emily (Pivoto) Mowbray (1841-1931), established
residence in Nome, Texas, where he began a career as a builder, farmer,
and cattleman.
Elodie Hebert Langham, having thus derived from early settlers of the
Gulf Coast, was endeared to this region and made her own significant con-
tribution to its quality of life. After her early education in St. Anthony's
Catholic School, Beaumont, she attended Our Lady of the Lake College
in San Antonio.

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