CARMOUCHE, William J., St. Landry (Acadia) Parish, Louisiana
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Carmouche, William Jeter, of Crowley, La., was born in St. Landry (now Acadia)
parish, Aug. 2, 1874; son of Capt. Emile A. Carmouche, a native of the parish
of Pointe Coupée, who was born Jan. 5, 1837, and who died July 3, 1885, in
Bossier parish.  Capt. Carmouche graduated at the Jesuits' college, Bardstown,
Ky., a few months prior to the beginning of the Civil war; he enlisted as a
soldier in the Confederate army, private in the 4th Louisiana volunteer
infantry, until the capture of New Orleans by the Union forces.  He then
organized an independent company, which he commanded in Pointe Coupée parish,
serving until the end of hostilities.  He removed to St. Landry parish and
conducted a plantation, after his marriage to Miss Annie Tinsley Jeter, a
native of Buckingham county, Va., and now a resident of Shreveport, La., later
Capt. Carmouche went to Bossier parish to take charge of a plantation owned by
his wife.  In 1872 he was elected a member of the Louisiana legislature.
Narcisse Carmouche, paternal grandfather of W. J. Carmouche, was born in
Pointe Coupée parish, and owned a plantation there.  He died at the home of
his son, Capt. Carmouche, in St. Landry parish, in 1875.  The Carmouche family
is of French origin, having emigrated to Louisiana in the middle of the 18th
century.  The Jeters, religious emigrants from England, settled in Virginia. 
Ambrose Jeter is the first of the name in America of whom there is any record
as a citizen of Virginia, born in or about the year 1750.  The maternal
grandfather of W. J. Carmouche was John Tinsley Jeter, born in Amelia county,
Va., Nov. 13, 1798, who emigrated to Cape Girardeau, Mo., whence after a
residence of 1 year, he removed to New Orleans, and owned a plantation in
Pointe Coupée parish.  He dwelt in his own residence in New Orleans.  The
building is now occupied by the Christian Woman's exchange, at the corner of
South and Camp streets.  When the Union soldiers invested New Orleans, Mr.
Jeter went to Memphis, Tenn., where he died of camp fever.  Ann Watkins, widow
by first marriage, of William Guerrant, and later, wife of John T. Jeter, was
the daughter of Nehemiah and Elizabeth W. (Agee) McAshan, and was the maternal
grandmother of W. J. Carmouche.  Her great-grandfather came from France in
about 1740; but the first of the name of Agee that settled in Virginia was
Matthew Agee, a French Protestant, who fled from persecution in 1690.  His an
son James married a Miss Ford, and James' son, John, wedded to Miss Sicily Ann
Hall.  Elizabeth, daughter of John, became Mrs. Nehemiah McAshan.  The subject
of this sketch, William Jeter Carmouche, was the youngest of a family of 5
children:  Annie Eliska, wife of Henry Purvis Middleston, residing in Pointe 
Coupée parish;  Mary Stella, now widow of John Christopher Griggs;  Bessie
Eulalie, wife of George Edwin Gilmer, residing in Shreveport, where her
widowed sister,  Mary Stella, also lives;  Emile Aloysius, who married Miss
Nuna Ogden, of Crowley, and  William J. Carmouche.  The latter was educated in
the public schools of Bossier parish.  In 1891 he entered St. Stanislaus law
school, graduating in 1893.  During 6 years he taught school in Bossier
parish, and in 1900 matriculated in the law department of Tulane university,
which conferred upon him the degree of bachelor of laws in 1902.  He located
in the practice of law at Crowley.  He is a member of the Louisiana State and
of the American Bar associations; is a believer in the Roman Catholic faith;
and in politics, supports the democratic party.  Mr. Carmouche is prominent in
the legal profession, attorney for the Crowley Bank & Trust Co., and one of
the directors of that financial institution.

Source:  Louisiana: Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events,
Institutions, and
Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form, volume 3, pp. 719-720.  Edited by Alcée
Fortier, Lit. D.  Published in 1914, by Century Historical Association.

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