DELAHOUSSAYE, Gustave, St. Martin then Iberia Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller
Source: Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical
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GUSTAVE DELAHOUSSAYE, BURKE STATION.--Gustave Delahoussaye was born in
St. Martin parish, August 10, 1833.  He is the son of Edward and Desire
(Decuire) Delahoussaye, both of whom are natives of St. Martin parish. 
Edward Delahoussaye was born in 1814, and died in 1868.  The subject's
mother was born in 1816, and now resides near Cade.

Gustave Delahoussaye received a good business education, and began
planting in 1867, to which he has given his full attention since that
time.  He owns and controls one hundred and fifty-five acres of land in
St. Martin parish, and raises annually about two hundred bales of
cotton.  He married, in 1861, Miss Philomine Decuir, a native of St.
Martin parish, and daughter of Ovid Decuir and Adille Ozeme.  To them
have been born nine children:  Aliza,  Gaston,  Francois,  Adolphe, 
Cecile,  Constance,  Gustave,  Leonce and  Hirinne.  The family are
members of the Catholic church at New Iberia.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section,
p. 102.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf
Publishing Company.