BROUSSARD, Joseph Z., Vermilion then Lafayette Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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JOSEPH ZENO BROUSSARD, LAFAYETTE.--Joseph Zeno Broussard died March 2, 1881, at
his home in Lafayette parish, at the age of eighty-two years.  The Broussard family are well
known in this section of Louisiana, being among the most respected and largest families in this
portion of the State.  In a financial sense they have without almost an exception been successful.

The subject of this sketch was the son of Joseph Broussard, also a native of what was then
Vermilion parish.  Mr. Broussard was one of the most extensive and successful planters of
Lafayette parish; his plantation, which is now in the hands of his heirs, is an excellent one and
under his management was made to yield a handsome income.  He was a gentleman of remarkable
business capacity, and was characterized by his energy.  As a citizen he was benevolent and public
spirited, and, though uneducated in the high books, he had acquired, by reading and contact with
the business world, an education which fitted him for an active business life.  He married, early in
life, Miss Cleonise Savoie, also a native of this parish.  Mrs. Broussard died recently, being
eighty-two years of age.  There were born to this marriage five children, viz.:  Ophelia, 
Onezphore, who died in 1880, at the age of forty-two years;  Edmonia, wife of Joseph,  Dugas, a
planter of St. Landry parish; Joseph, died in 1881, at the age of thirty-three years.  All the children
received the benefits of a good education.  Onezphore Broussard served as a lieutenant in the C.
S. A., and at the battle of Shiloh received a wound, from the effects of which he was disabled, and
was unfitted for active service.  He had served as member of the police jury and justice of the
peace.  Ophelia Broussard resides on the old home plantation.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, pp. 203-204.  Edited by
William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing Company.