HEBERT,     D.
                        Lake Arthur, LA.



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Source: Southwest Louisiana Historical and Biographical by William Henry Perrin
published in 1891; page 159.
Typed by Margaret Rentrop Moore

 
D. Hebert, Lake Arthur - D. Hebert  was born October, 1836, near where he
recides.  He is the son of Alexander and Clarisse (Broussard)Hebert, natives of
what was then Lafayette parish, Louisiana.  The Hebert family is purely of
French extraction.  Alexander Hebert was one of the first settlers of Calcasieu
parish, having located there when just a young man.  He was a large land
holder and an extensive stock riser; he died August, 1865, his widow surviving
him until December, 1890, being eighty-six years of age at the time of her
death.  They reared a family of ten children, eight sons and two daughters, only
three of whom are mow living, the subject of this sketch and two daughters, 
viz: Aspasie, wife of Napoleon Broussard, and Carmelite, wife of
Gustave Laurent.

D. Hebert owns over six thousand acres of land in this section and gives his
attention cheifly to stock dealing.  During the late war Mr. Hebert was on duty
in Texas, from 1862 until its close.  
Mr. Hebert is a liberal contributor to all laudable enterprise.  He is a
progressive and a good business man.  He has twice married, his first wife was
Miss Euphemie Hebert, whom he married in 1862.   Mrs. Hebert died in 1890, and
Mr. Hebert  afterward married Miss Osite Ledoux, of this parish.