WEEKS, Wm. F., Iberia Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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WM. F. WEEKS, NEW IBERIA.--William F. Weeks, a successful planter of Iberia
parish, was born in 1825.  His father, David Weeks, was a native of Maryland,
born 1780.  Removing to Louisiana in 1812 he became an extensive planter.  He
died in this State in 1834.  Our subject's mother, Mary C. Conrad, is a native
of Virginia, born 1845 and died 1862. They became the parents of six children,
the subject of this sketch being the oldest son.

He spent his school days in Louisiana and Virginia and received a liberal
education.  Mr. Weeks has given nearly his whole attention to planting, and he
is one of the largest land holders and most successful sugar planters in
Iberia parish.  His plantation consists of over seven thousand acres.  He also
gives special attention to raising a fine grade of stock.  He is the possessor
of Grand Cote Island, which contains about two thousand five hundred acres of
land.  Mr. Weeks is united in marriage with Miss Mary I. Palpry, a native of
this State.  They are the parents of two daughters.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 135. 
Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing
Company.