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To:	The	descendants	of	Jules	Antoine	Dupont	(	1837-1922)
From:	Harold	J.	Heck,	877	Delgado	Drive,	Baton	Rouge,	LA	70808
For some time I have wanted to know something about Grandpa Dupont's family and the area from which he came. I knew that he came from the D^partement du Doubs but no one I contacted in Louisiana knew anything about hi& family.
So, in anticipation of a trip to Europe that Bunny (toy wife, for those of you who do not know her) and I were considering I began extensive correspondence with mayors and librariesand a newspaper in the region; this brought forth some interesting and useful information. I found not only Grandpa Dupont's birthplace (Arcey) but .some detailed information on his brothers and sisters, parents, grandparents and beyond. On the strength of all this, Bunny and I took our trip in September-October. Arcey is a small farming village of about 900, located some 45 miles from Besanfon, 15 from Belfort and 20 from the Swiss border. It is in pretty* rolling, dairying country.
The enclosed diagram traces the direct line of our family as far back as 1592. Wherever known, birth and death dates are shown; if only one, it is presumed to be birth date or year except where "d" indicates "deceased" .77?*- *	/?????	">	?	?	*	t	/'????	?i	*
Grandpa Dupont came to the United States in 1856 on the s/s Guttenberg, sailing from Le Havre and debarking in New. Orleans.
His age on the passenger list is shown as 18. He seems to have traveled alone. His older brother by four years,.Claude Francois, also came to the US but whether before or after Jules I do not know. Franc^ois married Rosalie Nagelin on 15 April 186l!and he was killed in the American Civil War on 19 December 1862. No record of children,
Grandpa's father (ray great-grandfather) and Augustine de France were married on 26 January 1829. Of their eight children, five did not live to the age of 10. Grandpa's mother idied at age 37 of complications related to childbirth, the baby living only four days Incidentally, her father, Etienne de France, died* at Magdebourg in 1813 in ontrof the Napoleonic campaigns.
By the time Grandpa was bora, two of his brothers had died, one at the age of three months, the other at six months, so he could nof^ have known them. Then, when he was five, his sister, Marie Julie (age 3) died. And when he was 11, his mother and infant brother both died. Finally, when he was 14, his only remaining sister, Josephine Augustine (age not quite 10) died.