BERNARD, Ernest, Lafayette Parish, Louisiana Submitted by Mike Miller ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** ERNEST BERNARD, LAFAYETTE. --Ernest Bernard, a prosperous planter and merchant of ward three, is a native of Lafayette parish, born April 13, 1839. He is the son of Gerassin and Eugenie (Mouton) Bernard, both natives of Louisiana. Gerassin Bernard was a successful planter of Lafayette parish. He died 1867. The mother of our subject is still living. Ernest Bernard is the fourth of a family of seven living children, viz.: Athenaise, Numa, Clemence, Alzina, Alcide, Blanche. Mr. Bernard received a common school education in Lafayette parish. He was a soldier in the late Civil War, having enlisted in 1862 in Company A, Twenty-sixth Louisiana Infantry. He participated in the battle at Vicksburg, and was in a number of skirmishes. He served until the close of the war, 1865. He has always been a planter, and in this vocation he has prospered. He owns one thousand acres of land where he resides, four hundred of which he cultivates. His plantation is well improved and he has a combined cotton gin and corn mill. Mr. Bernard was married in 1861 to Miss Laure Missonnié, of Lafayette parish. They are the parents of two children, viz.: Clara, wife of Dr. J. P. Francez; and Philomené, wife of D. Cayret Yuner. Mrs. Bernard died October 29, 1889. Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 208. Edited by William Henry Perrin. Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing Company.