“Lil-o-tige” - Does anyone know where this is located? KERSHAW-BROUSSARD CONNECTION When Rita Broussard married Jackson Kershaw of the Cameron area, they brought together the best of two musical families. Rita Broussard came from a very musical family whose great-grandfather, Nicholas “Cola” Broussard, and his sister first came to Cameron parish in about 1850. Nicholas Broussard served in the Civil War in Co. B 16th Battalion and married Natalie Savoie. They lived and reared their children in Creole. This whole Broussard family was described as being able to “make a fiddle soar, and make an accordion dance.” DOUG KERSHAW Doug Kershaw was a member of this family and he wrote a song about his uncle Abel Kershaw. He also had another uncle named Savin Broussard, who was blind but still played the guitar and fiddle. Jackson Kershaw, Doug’s father, married Rita the tradition of earning a living by trapping and fishing. He took his family, including four sons, Edward, who died young, Nelson, Doug and Rusty Kershaw, to live on a houseboat near an island called “Lil-o-tige” which is near Lake Arthur. Doug, who wrote and made famous a record Louisiana Man, about his father who died when Doug was seven, and his brother, Rusty Kershaw, performed on the Louisiana Hayride and the Grand Old Opry, before they split up and went their separate ways, each becoming famous in their own right. Wayne Kershaw, who was a prominent member of the Cameron school system, also came from this family.
Posted on: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 03:24:58 +0000
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