CYR, (Madame) Emilie J., FR., then Iberia Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller
Source: Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical
Section




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MADAME EMILIE J. (HOFFHERR) LABAU CYR, JEANNERETTE.--Madame Labau Cyr is
a native of France, where she was reared and educated.  She removed to
this country and located in Louisiana in 1859.  In 1866 she married
Justin Labau, also a native of France, who had removed to Louisiana in
1857.  Mr. Labau after locating in Louisiana, was for some time engaged
as salesman in W. F. Hudson's general mercantile store. At the breaking
out of the war he joined an independent company of cavalry organized by
Capt. D. Kerr, and afterward commanded by Capt. A. A. Pecot, which was
afterward consolidated with Gen. Harrison's command.  Mr. Labau was a
gunsmith by occupation, and served in that capacity during a portion of
the war.  He was, however, in active service during the Red river and
Mississippi campaigns.  He served until the close of the war.  Before
coming to America he had served seven years as a soldier in the French
army.  The same year of his marriage he opened a general mercantile
store in Hubertville, about a mile above Jeannerette, on the Bayou
Teche.  In this he was engaged at the time his death, in 1870.  Mr. and
Mrs. Labau were the parents of a son, George J., born 1868.  Four years
after Mr. Labau's death Madame Labau married Joseph Cyr, a native of
Canada, who conducted the store until his death, 1880.  To this union
were born three sons:  Albert Joseph,  Louis Felix,  Paul Narciste. 
Since 1883 Madame and her son Labatt have carried on the business
successfully.  Though a native of a foreign country, Madame Cyr has
become very much attached to her adopted State, and although, through
the distinguished services of her husband in France, she is entitled to
a pension and her son to a free education in any college in that
country, she feels that she can not accept it at the cost of removing
from her adopted State.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section,
p. 100.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf
Publishing Company.