For the Burguiere Project; With Deacon Jerry Bourg at the Franklin Health Center; Leroy is 94 years old;

00:00:05 - Introduction by Donna Onebane;
00:02:15 - He thinks he was born around 1911-12; He was born around Oaklawn;
00:03:50 - Working for the Burguiere's when he was a teenager; He would work the mules they got from Kentucky; Dave Rollands(?) and the Burguiere's (sounds like he is saying Beauregard, but it is hard to tell) would go get them in Kentucky; He would plow the land all day; Talks about working with the mules;
00:10:00 - He worked for Mr. Dennis Burguiere; Sugarcane fields; Another plantation in Jeanerette;
00:15:00 - Cypremort plantation; People lived at the plantations they worked at;
00:16:20 - He worked with Mr. Hayes, Thomas Trout; He said everyone he worked was nice except one person;
00:18:30 - He never got married; His nephew is Lester Levine(?); He got married at the courthouse in Franklin;
00:20:00 - Siblings; He has one brother still living;
00:21:40 - They talk about the big house at the Louisa plantation; Bernie Burguiere;
00:23:00 - They never had any parties; Just work and church; He went to a baptist church; Baptisms; He was baptized;
00:25:40 - He's just now getting sick; Mr. Press Foster (brother to Mike Foster) at Bayou Salle; Brother Lee Bourgeois;
00:29:30 - They show him some photos and ask him about it; Louisa, Midway, and other plantations;
00:31:45 - The depression; WWII; He worked in the sugar house; He would eat flapjacks, corn, okra, tomatoes; They would eat in the fields;
00:35:00 - He mother, Ida Yiggins, spoke french;
00:37:30 - Robin Landry from Glenco;
00:37:50 - Railroads; Barging sugarcane from Bayou Salle to Louisa;
00:39:15 - He's been at the Franklin Health Center for 8-10 years;
00:40:00 - There were no schools when he was growing up; Lester works at Franklin High; He has another nephew that got killed in a car wreck;