BREAUX, Numa, Lafayette Parish, Louisiana
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NUMA BREAUX, CARENCRO.--Numa Breaux was born in Lafayette parish, February 21,
1838.  He is the son of Pierre R. and Calice (Arceneaux) Breaux, both natives
of Lafayette parish.  Pierre R. Breaux died in 1864 at the age of sixty-two
years.  He was during his lifetime a large planter and stock raiser.  He
amassed a considerable fortune, and at the time of his death owned three
thousand acres of land, a large amount of stock, and one hundred and
twenty-five slaves.  The mother of our subject is still living, being now
eighty-six years of age.   She is well preserved and in good health, and
boasts of never having taken medicine.

The subject is the third child, and the only son now living of a family of
eight children.  His other brother, William, was killed during the war.  He
enlisted in 1861 in the Eighteenth Louisiana Infantry, Confederate States
Army, and was killed in Hentleyville in 1863.  He had been a participant in
twenty-eight active engagements prior to his death.

The subject of this sketch was educated at Cape Girardeau, where he pursued a
three years' course.  Upon his return home from college, he served as deputy
clerk for four years.  October 2, 1861, he joined the Second Louisiana
Cavalry, C. S. A., in which he served until the close of the war.  He
participated in the battles of Bisland, Berwick Bay, Bayou  Lafourche,
Mansfield and Pleasant Hill.  He was on picket duty from Berwick Bay to
Mansfield.  His regiment was disbanded at Alexandria, Louisiana.  After his
return from the war, Mr. Breaux located where he now resides and began stock
raising.  He at present owns three hundred and fifty acres, situated three
miles west of Carencro, which he cultivates principally in cotton.  His
plantation is a beautiful one, and well improved.  There are on it two mineral
springs--the only springs of the kind in this section.  The house in which Mr.
Breaux resides is an old mansion of truly Southern architecture, built one
hundred and fifty years ago.

Mr. Breaux has been active in local public affairs of his section, and served
for a while as police juror from his ward.   He was married, in 1861, to Miss
Marthe C. Mouton, daughter of Louis V. Mouton, a planter and member of the
distinguished Mouton family, a history of which appears in this work.  Mr.
Mouton died in 1861, and his wife in March, 1890.  Her children and
grandchildren at the time of her death numbered one hundred and sixty.  Mr.
and Mrs. Breaux are the parents of two children: Esdras, a planter of
Lafayette parish, and Eloise.  The family are Catholics.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, pp.
210-211.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf
Publishing Company.