Pierre
Pierre (Pedro), the oldest child, was born 8 January 1764 at the Arkansas Post. He was baptized 20 July 1766, at the same time as his sister Carlota. His godparents, or sponsors, were Louis Perrault, merchant, and Francoise Mayeux.¹ No records of marriage or baptism of children have been found for Pierre. One source mentions an old Frenchman, Peter Jardelow, who had made a lot of money.² The same source notes that Peter Jordalles had possessions near the Post dating back to 1795. These references must all be about Pierre, the oldest Jardelat child who obviously remained in the area of the Post.


Charlotte
Charlotte (Carlota), the oldest daughter, was born 8 February 1766 at the Arkansas Post. She was baptized at the same time as her brother, Pierre, on 20 July 1766. Her godparents, or sponsors, were ___Songy, scrivener for the navy, and Charlotte Rillieux [Songy].³ She married Joseph Reynes (Reines, Renes) 24 January 1786 in New Orleans.⁴ Joseph and Charlotte lived in the French Quarter of New Orleans, at the corner of Toulouse and Chartres Streets. Their first house burned down in 1790 and in 1795 Joseph built another house on the same spot.⁵ The building now houses the Chartres House Cafe. Joseph and Charlotte had one child, José, born in 1793. According to one researcher, Joseph kept a mistress, Marie Louise Constant, a free woman of color, a common practice at the time, not far from the house where he and Charlotte lived.⁶

Another house that Joseph owned was the well-known Pitot House on Bayou St. John. In 1800 he became the second owner of the house built in 1799 by Bartholme Bosque. In 1805 he sold it to Madame Marie Tronquet Rillieux.⁷

In 1815, according to another researcher, Joseph and Charlotte moved to Paris. Charlotte died there on 22 September 1817 and Joseph died several years later on 24 June 1824. They are buried in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.⁸


Louise
Louise (Louisa, Luisa) was most likely born at the Arkansas Post. It was noted at her marriage that she was a native of the parish. No baptismal record has been found for her. She was married to Etienne (Estevan) le Vasseur 16 April 1798.⁹ Etienne was born in Quebec to Stanislas le Vasseur and Francoise L'Oeil (Loeil). He had at least two siblings, Carolina, born about 1763 in Quebec, and Francois (Francisco). Etienne was a resident of the parish at the time of their marriage and he and other family members are listed in censuses at the Post. Because their first child was born 3 July 1796 and baptized in December of the same year,¹⁰ it is likely that Etienne and Louise were married informally before their 1798 marriage. Priests did not seem to get out to the Post that often and some children were not baptized until several years after they were born. Why Etienne and Louise were not married when the priest was there to baptize their son in 1796 is not known. Louise was living in the le Vasseur household at the time of the 1896 census.¹¹ Their children were Atanase, born 3 July 1796; Rosemo, born 9 January 1799; Delfina, born 14 July 1801; and Rene Victor, born 28 June 1809.¹²

     Baptism of Atanase le Vasseur, son of Louise Jardelat and Etienne le Vasseur
     Descent report for the le Vasseur family of Arkansas Post


Louis
It is not known when Louis was born but the censuses taken at the Post appeared to list the children in order by age.¹³ He was older than Alexis but it is not known if he was older or younger than Charlotte and Louise. There were two sons in the family in the 1766 census and one girl who would have been Charlotte. It is possible that one of these two sons died and that he was born later. He had to have been born by about 1769 at the latest because Alexis was born in 1770. Louis married Agustina Valliere, daughter of Josef Valliere and Maria Feliciana Morand, on 17 July 1802.¹⁴ Agustina died 22 May 1805, not long after their marriage. She is buried in St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 in New Orleans. She was 21.¹⁵ Josef Valliere was the Commandant of the Post between 1787 and 1790.¹⁶

Louis continued to live at the Arkansas Post and is mentioned (as Louis Jordella) in regard to an acre of land that he owned at the Post which he sold to Jacob Bright who ran a trading house in Tennessee. A tavern was later built on this land which was called Montgomery's Tavern. Louis sold his trading house to Jacob Bright as well. After he sold his land and business, Louis went to work for Jacob Bright, whose trading house then became the largest and most important one on the Arkansas River. On a trip up the Arkansas River in 1806 to set up a site for a new trading post, Jacob Bright, his men and a few Osage hunters who were with them were attacked and Luis was killed:

At dawn on August 10, they were attacked by a war party, whom some of the traders believed were Choctaw. In the first volley one of the Osage hunters was killed and the other three fled. The Choctaw kept up their fire for about 15 minutes. They then ceased shooting and withdrew. When he mustered his force, Bright found that besides the Osage, the score of attackers had killed two of his men, Louis Jordella and Augustine Strong. Jordella, in attempting to escape by swimming the Arkansas, had been shot. The loss of Jordella was a severe blow. A native of Post of Arkansas, and an experienced trader and hunter, he had been placed by Bright in charge of the Osage trading house. Jordella was in the prime of life, and possessed of both modesty and integrity, and his loss would be a blow to the community, as well as the company.¹⁷