Joseph E. Bargas,  Iberville Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller



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    Joseph E. Bargas  Iberville Parish, Louisiana
    Joseph E. Bargas, merchant, Regina, La., a prosperous planter and
merchant at Grosse Tete, also postmaster at that place, was born July
21, 1857, to the union of Joseph E. Sr., and Uersel (Hotord) Bargas, the
father a native of New Orleans and the mother of Grosse Tete country.
Grand-father Bargas, who was a native of Mexico, died in New Orleans.
Joseph E. Bargas Sr., came to Grosse Tete country, which was then the
garden spot of Louisiana, when but eighteen years of age and engaged as
clerk in a mercantile establishment at that place.  He subsequently
embarked in business for himself and in connection carried on planting,
at which he was very successful.  He held the office of magistrate
before, during and after the war, and was also notary public for some
time.  His death occurred in Iberville parish in 1879, when forty eight
years of age.  His widow is still living and resides at Grosse Tete.
Mr. Bargas was married twice, three children being the fruits of his
first union and six of the last.  Joseph E. Bargas, the eldest child by
the second union, secured a liberal education in Iberville parish and
when yet a young boy began assisting his father in the store.  He had a
good preceptor and became thoroughly familiar with all the details of
the business, his father being considered a first-class business man.
Mr. Bargas was appointed postmaster under Harrison and is discharging
the duties of that office in a satisfactory manner.  He is the owner of
4,500 acres of swamp and improved land (on which grows some of the best
cypress in the world), and a considerable portion of which is very
productive.  In 1878 Mr. Bargas married Miss Mary Lelia Bush, daughter
of Joseph Alfred Bush of Iberville parish, and they are the parents of
two children, both daughters.  Socially Mr. Bargas is a member of the
Knights of Pythias and the Catholic Knights of America.  Although young
in years he is a wide-awake, enterprising business man, and merits the
success which has attended his efforts.
 
 From Biographical and Historical Memoires of Louisiana, volume 2, p.
261. 
Submitted by Mike Miller