Ozeme Fontenot

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• Residence: 1860, Opelousas, St Landry, Louisiana, USA

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OZEME FONTENOT, Washington.-Ozémé Fontenot, planter and merchant, eight miles west from Washington, is a native of St. Landry parish, and was born where he now resides in 1846. He is the son of Alexandre Fontenot and Hyacinthe Jaubert, both natives of St. Landry parish. His father was a merchant and planter on quite an extensive scale. He purchased and operated during his lifetime, the plantation where his son Ozeme Fontenot now resides. He was one of St. Landry's most prominent citizens, and died in 1851, at the age of forty-six years. Mrs. Fontenot survived him until 1881.

The subject of our sketch was reared and received an academical education in St. Landry parish. In 1862, at the age of sixteen, he left school and enlisted in the Confederate States service, joining Company A, Second Louisiana Cavalry. His field of operations was principally in Louisiana, and he was in all the chief battles in which his department was engaged. He surrendered at Washington, Louisiana. After the war he returned home and took charge of his mother's plantation, which he purchased in 1881, and has since operated with success. He married, in November, 1865, Miss Ernestine Debaillon, daughter of Dr. Louis Debaillon, one of St. Landry's oldest and most honored citizens. Mr. Fontenot, though active
in political affairs, has never chosen to accept any position of trust, preferring to live a retired life. He is the father of one child. Alma, wife of Dr. James H. Parker, of Ville Platte, this parish. He and his family are all Catholics. Mr. Fontenot has a beautiful and fertile plantation of over a thousand acres of land,
which he cultivates in cotton. Mrs. Fontenot died in 1887, at the age of thirty-eight years.

Source: William Henry Perrin, Southwest Louisiana, Biographical and Historical (New Orleans: The Gulf Publishing Company, 1891), page 39. openlibrary.org.

Ozeme married Ernestine Debaillon on 23 Nov 1865 in Ville Platte, Evangeline, Louisiana, USA. Ernestine (daughter of Dr. Louis Debaillon and Aimee Toledano) was born on 9 Feb 1849 in Opelousas, St Landry, Louisiana, USA; died in 1887 in St Landry, Louisiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Alexandre married Hyacinthe Joubert. Hyacinthe was born in 1818 in St Landry, Louisiana, USA; died on 5 Jun 1881 in Washington, St Landry, Louisiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1860, Opelousas, St Landry, Louisiana, USA

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Also Jaubert