Capt. J. P. Bourg,  Assumption Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller



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Capt. J. P. Bourg,   Assumption Parish, Louisiana 
    The parents of Capt. J. P. Bourg, planter, Lockport, La., Gilbert
and Rose (Ancoin) Bourg, were natives of Louisiana, the father born in
St. James parish in 1803, and the mother in Assumption parish.  The
elder Bourg followed planting principally, although he was also engaged
in merchandising in later years, but he finally retired from active
business altogether and resided with his son, Captain Bourg, until his
death on the 19th of April, 1883.  Capt. J. P. Bourg was born in
Assumption parish, La., in 1842, attended the public schools, and there
received a good practical education.  He started out for himself as a
clerk for his father in Assumption parish and remained thus employed
until 1862, when he enlisted in the confederate army under Gen. D.
Taylor.  He participated in the battles of Mansfield, Pleasant Hill and
in all the skirmishes on Red river but never received a wound.  He
entered the service as a conscript and returned home as an
orderly-sergeant.  Miss Julia Richard, who became his wife in 1871, was
also a native of Louisiana.  Of the seven children born to this union,
three were sons and the remainder daughters.  All are now living.  After
the war Captain Bourg began laboring in the field, was afterward in a
coffee house, and is now agent on a line of flatboats running in
connection with the Morgan railroad.  Captain Bourg is a member of the
school board and takes a very active interest in all educational
matters, as well as all local improvements.  He is also the originator
of the first fire company in Lockport known as the Bourg Bucket brigade,
which was organized the 22d of June, 1886.
 
 From Biographical and Historical Memoires of Louisiana, volume 2, p.
310. 
Submitted by Mike Miller