Norbert Badin papers. Personal Correspondence. Folder 01-04, 1900-1915. - Norbert Badin papers. Personal Correspondence. Folder 01-04, 1900-1915.

The Badin family was the oldest family of free people of color of creole heritage and their descendants who lived in the Cane River settlement, a large community of free people of color in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana. The family is descended from the slaves of Pierre Badin, a planter of tobacco from Thorigne, France in the diocese of Poitiers. In 1791, Pierre manumitted all twenty enslaved persons in his possession. The freed slaves continued to live with Pierre and adopted his surname. Prior to Pierre’s death in 1805, he drafted a will naming his former enslaved persons as his legatees.</br></br>Gabriel Metoyer (born 1847) was born a free person of color in Natchitoches, La. and worked as a farmer. He is a descent of Marie Thérèse Coincoin. Gabriel married Pauline (born 1861) in 1880, and together the couple had at least six children: Magdaline (born 1880), Calister (born 1885), Allen (born 1888), Thomas (born 1891), Eugenia (born 1894), and Lelia (born 1897).</br></br>Ed Antee (born approximately 1894) and Joe Antee (1901-1932) were born in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana to Edgar Antee and Oscarine Badin Antee, who were born free people of color of the Cane River settlement of free people of color in Natchitoches Parish. Their surname is sometimes seen as "Anty." Their mother, Oscarine, was the daughter of Norbert and Sylvia Phermance Badin, who were free people of Color and planters of Cane River. Ed Antee, a farmer, married Ethyl Moran, and together the couple had a number of children. Joe Antee moved to Beaumont, Texas, where he owned a barbeque stand. Joe was murdered there in 1932 at the age of 30.