SOUATHE, V. A., France, then Iberia Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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V. A. SOUATHE, LOREAUVILLE.--Mr. Souathe was born in the South of France, in
1851.  He was educated partly in Batherren College, France, and in the private
schools of Louisiana.  Leaving France in 1865, he arrived in St. Martinsville
at the age of fourteen years, where he remained for six years, engaged as a
clerk.  He then removed to New Iberia, where he engaged in the mercantile
business and continued it for six years.  In 1887 he opened a store in
Loreauville, beginning with a general stock of goods valued at two hundred
dollars.  He now carries a stock of from ten to twelve thousand dollars; his
business increases annually, and now amounts to about thirty-six thousand
dollars.

Mr. Souathe married, in 1879, Ernestine Muller, a native of Iberia parish. 
She is the daughter of Nicholas and Felice (Hebert) Muller; the former a
native of France and a prominent planter of Iberia parish, the latter a member
of one of the old Louisiana families.  They are the parents of four children,
viz.:  Rosa,  Marie,  Felice,  Rita.

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