BILLAUD, Martial, FR., then Lafayette Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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MARTIAL BILLAUD, LAFAYETTE.--Martial Billaud was born in France, August 25,
1834.  His father and mother were both natives of that country.  They
emigrated to America in 1836.

Martial Billaud is the fourth of a family of five children.  He was married in
1857 to Miss Lucy St. Julian.  To them have been born five children, three
boys and two girls.  He entered the Confederate army in 1863, and served
during the whole war in the Twenty-sixth Louisiana regiment, Major Legarde
commanding.  The subject is a planter, owning thirteen hundred acres of land. 
He cultivates principally sugar and cotton.  He has a large sugar mill, and
employs more than one hundred men on his place.  He is the importer of the
first Holstein cattle brought here, and is giving much attention to their
domestication.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p.210 . 
Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing
Company.