FAGOT, J. A., St. Martin then Iberia Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller
Source: Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical
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J. A. FAGOT, NEW IBERIA.--The subject of this sketch is a native of St.
Martin parish, Louisiana, born in 1836.  He is the son of Charles and
Virginia (Bienvenu) Fagot.  Charles Fagot was born in 1792, and was a
successful planter. He died in 1872.

J. A.  Fagot received a limited education, being prevented from
attending school while young on account of delicate health.  He was for
twelve years a clerk in the courts of New Orleans.  During the war he
was in the Confederate service, from 1862 until its close.  The year
following his return from the army, Mr. Fagot engaged in steamboating
and continued in this for a period of two years.  He has always been
prominent in the local affairs of his parish, and is at present police
juror from his ward.  He is president of the Farmers' Alliance of Iberia
parish.  He is also a member of the Masonic fraternity of New Iberia. 
Mr. Fagot twice married; first, in 1859, Sophie Buisson of New Orleans. 
She died in 1864, having become the mother of one son, Edwin.  Mr. Fagot
married a second time, in 1868, Miss Ida DeBlanc, daughter of Lois C.
and Alix (Decuir) DeBlanc.  They are the parents of eight children: 
Albert,  Sophie,  Louis,  Louise,  Conrad,  Camille,  Frances and 
Edwin.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section,
p. 109.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf
Publishing Company.