Biographical Sketch of Joseph Bardot, Franklin County, Missouri

>From "History of Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Crawford and 
Gasconade Counties", Biographical Appendix, Goodspeed Publishing 
Company, 1888.

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Jospeh Bardot is a native of Upper Saone, France, born February 27,
1829, and is the fifth of nine children born to Joseph Athanase and 
Marie Elizabeth Bardot, natives of Upper Saone, France.  Joseph A.
Bardot served in the war of 1814 under Napoleon Bonaparte; he also
served as mayor of his native town.  He was a farmer by occupation,
and a son of Andre Bardot, who married a Miss Marie Jaco.  Mrs.
Elizabeth Bardot was a daughter of John Peter Louis and Mary Anne
Pequignot, natives also of Upper Saone, France, where they lived and
died.  Joseph Bardot was reared on the farm, which occupation he has
always followed.  He began doing for himself when nineteen years old,
and by industry and good management now owns 863 acres of well im-
proved land.  He was married August 29, 1854, to Marie Thairaise, a
native of Alsace, France and a daughter of George Voisine and Marie
Thairaise.  Mrs. Bardot came to the United States in 1853, and first
settled in Shelby County, Ohio.  Mr. Bardot also started to this 
county in 1853 (with only enough money to pay his passage), first
located in Shelby County, Ohio and in 1859 settled on the farm where
he now resides, in Franklin County, Mo.  Eleven children have been
born to Mr. and Mrs. Bardot, viz.: Louis L., Anthony, Joseph L.,
Josephine M., Peter C., Elizabeth, Julius, Julia T., John Baptiste,
Augustus and Marie Josephine.  The parents are members of the Catho-
lic Church, and Mr. Bardot is a Democrat in politics.

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