BOURQUE, Sasthene V., Assumption then Iberia Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller

Source: Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical
Section
Date: 21 Oct 1998



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SASTHENE V. BOURQUE, GREGG.--The subject of this sketch is a native of
Assumption parish, born September 28, 1859.  He is the son of Narcisse
and Melanare (Landry) Bourque, both natives of Assumption parish.

S. V. Bourque was reared in the parish of Iberia, and received his
education in its private schools.  He was for some time after leaving
school with his father on his plantation.  He subsequently engaged in
the construction of railroads.  He was for one year employed in the
construction of the New Orleans, City & West End Railroad, after which
he worked on the Southern Pacific for eight years.  For a time he
conducted a dray business in New Orleans.  In 1870 he purchased a
plantation in Iberia parish, and has given his attention to planting
since that time.  The chief products of his plantation are cotton,
corn and cane.  Mr. Bourque married, 1877, Miss Cora French, daughter
of Daniel and Lisa (Labonne) French; the former a native of England,
the latter of Iberia parish, Louisiana.  This union has been blessed
with six children.  Mr. Bourque and family are members of the Catholic
church.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section,
p. 99.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The
Gulf Publishing Company.