GARROT, Robert B., Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller




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Louisiana:  Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events, Institutions,
and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form (volume 3), pp. 614-615.  Edited
by Alc e Fortier, Lit.D.  Published in 1914, by Century Historical
Association.

Garrot, Robert Barbin, of Marksville, La., was born in that place March 2,
1895, and is a son of Leon and Florence (Barbin) Garrot, both of whom were
born in Avoyelles parish.  The paternal grandparents were S. and Eugenie
(Mayeux) Garrot, and the former was a native of France.  His wife was born
in the same locality as was their son, Leon.  The maternal grandfather,
Ludger Barbin, married a lady whose maiden name was Goudeau.  They were
both of French ancestry.  The maternal great-grandfather was sent to
Louisiana by Louis XIV, to dispose of stores for the French government, at
the time of the transfer of the Territory of Louisiana to the United
States, and after completing the business connected with this mission, he
located in Louisiana, and later married a Spanish lady.  Ludger Barbin
served in the Confederate army throughout the Civil war.  Leon Garrot began
business as a cotton planter on the family plantation, 3 miles from
Marksville, which has been in the family several generations.  After a few
years, however, he accepted office as a deputy sheriff and continued in
that capacity 11 years, when he engaged in mercantile business and
conducted a general store about 5 years.  Thereafter he occupied the office
of deputy assessor of the parish 8 years, after which he resumed the
business of growing cotton, as a main crop, on the family plantation.  This
plantation home, by the way, has an interesting history, and many stirring
events of Civil war times took place in its immediate vicinity.  Fort De
Rousse, the defensive works of which are still to be seen on the banks of
Red River, is on the Barbin plantation.  There are 2 forts, in fact--a
larger and a smaller one and both are at this time well preserved.  Robert
Barbin was the sixth of 11 children born to his parents, of which the
following are now living:  Angelica Ann, married and living in California;
L. Percy received the degree of B. S. at Louisiana state university with
the class of 1909, studied law at Harvard university during 1912-13, worked
as a sugar chemist in Cuba for a time, with the intention of finishing his
professional education at the Harvard law school;  Louise; a graduate of
the state normal, is now teaching at White Castle;  Virginia, graduated
from the local high school, later attended Louisiana State university and
the state normal, and is now teaching at Plaquemine;  Robert Barbin, the
subject of this sketch;  Leonora C., is now attending high school at
Marksville.  Robert Barbin received his earlier education at the public
schools of the locality in which he was born, graduating from the high
school.  He then attended the summer school of Louisiana State university,
and during the succeeding school year filled the position of principal of a
3-teacher school in Ascension parish, since which time he has occupied the
station of principal of Evergreen school in St. John the Baptist parish.
Mr. Garrot affiliates with the democratic party and the Catholic church.