Joseph Ducote is the Avoyellean of 1835. About that year, he donated land for a road and school which became the beginnings of the community of Cottonport on Bayou Rouge

Joseph Jean Pierre DUCOTE II
Birth: 18 APR 1802 in Avoyelles Parish
Death: 28 JUN 1856 in Avoyelles Parish
Residence: Bayou Rouge, Avoyelles Parish
Burial: 29 JUN 1856 St. Paul the Apostle Catholic Cemetery, Mansura
Note: Noted at the marriage of Resaire Ducote that Joseph Ducote was deceased.

Father: 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
Mother: Clemence MAYEUX b: JUL 1782 in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana c: 24 NOV 1782 in Pointe Coupee, Pointe Coupee, Louisiana

Marriage 1 Marguerite BORDELON b: 15 JUN 1803 in Avoyelles Parish
Married: 28 JAN 1823 in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana
Note: The January date was a civil marriage. A religious ceremony took place on April 20, 1825. Father Jean Emile Martin from St. Paul's in Mansura performed the ceremony. This ceremony took place at the home of Joseph Ducote, Sr, as Father Martin married several other couples on this date at that home.

The 1850 Census shows this couple living between René & Meline Rabalais and Valery & Eugenie Rabalais. There were 6 boys at home: Sylvert, Jerome, Resaire, Alphonse, Louis & Ovide. Value of the farm was $6,000.
Avoyelles Parish, Roll 229, Book 1, Page 117a, dated September 3, 1850 by Louis Bordelon, Assistant Marshall.

The 1860 Census shows Marguerite as the widow Joseph Ducote. Children still at home were Alphonse, Avit, & George. Also living there was her son, Jerome and his wife and 2 children. Value of her real estate was $18,000. They were living between René & Meline Rabalais and Jean Baptiste martin & Celestine Rabalais.

Avoyelles Parish, Marksville P O, Roll 407, Book 1, Page 326, dated July 14, 1860 by Edgar Edmond Cockrane, Assistant Marshall.

Children
Joseph Jean Pierre DUCOTE III b: 21 OCT 1823 in Avoyelles Parish
Moise J. DUCOTE b: 28 FEB 1825 in Cottonport, Avoyelles Parish
Hypolite DUCOTE b: 23 FEB 1826 in Cottonport, Avoyelles Parish
Sylvert DUCOTE b: 3 JUN 1829 in Cottonport, Avoyelles Parish
Jerome J. DUCOTE b: 1835 in Avoyelles Parish
Clemence DUCOTE b: 14 SEP 1831 in Avoyelles Parish
Resaire DUCOTE b: 12 OCT 1836 in Cottonport, Avoyelles Parish
Alphonse J. DUCOTE b: 11 MAY 1839 in Avoyelles Parish
Louis J. DUCOTE b: 31 DEC 1841 in Cottonport, Avoyelles Parish
Ovide "Avit" DUCOTE b: 17 JUN 1844 in Avoyelles Parish
George DUCOTE b: 1849 in Avoyelles Parish