BERTRAND, J. G., Lafayette Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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J. G. BERTRAND, DUSON.--J. G. Bertrand is a native of Lafayette parish, born
July 1862.  He is the son of L. G. and Celestine (DeValcourt) Bertrand, both
natives of Louisiana.  L. G. Bertrand was a stock raiser and planter during
the whole of his life.  Several years prior to his death he was engaged in the
grocery business in New Orleans, in which place he died from yellow fever in
1879.  His wife died the same year.

J. G. Bertrand was married at the age of eighteen years to Miss Azelie
Arcenaux.  Since his marriage Mr. Bertrand has followed the dual business of
merchant and farmer.  His store at Duson Station is well patronized.  Mr.
Bertrand has a good farm of a hundred acres of land at this place, which he
cultivates principally in cotton and corn.  Mr. Bertrand is an active
businessman, as the success which has attended his business undertakings
through life attests.  He and wife are the parents of five children, viz. : 
Ella M.,  Claud J.,  Leo,  Edward and  Daisy.  The family are all Catholics.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 208. 
Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing
Company.