Guidry, Antoine, Lafayette Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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ANTOINE GUIDRY, LAFAYETTE.--Antoine Guidry was born in Lafayette parish,
Louisiana, in 1844.  He is the son of Antoine and Hortense (Broussard) Guidry,
both natives of Lafayette parish, where they were married, and became the
parents of seven children.  Hortense Guidry was a planter by occupation.  He
died in 1870.  Mrs. Guidry, his wife, died in 1875.

Our subject began life for himself at the age of twenty-one as a farmer, and
has followed this occupation ever since.  He was married in 1866 to Miss
Matilda Foreman, daughter of Nathan Foreman.  Mrs. Guidry died in 1875,
leaving one daughter, Mary E., who lived to be three years old, when she died. 
He then married Martha Singleton, in 1878.  To them have been born eight
daughters and one son:  Anna,  Hortense,  Corinne,  Cora,  Mamie,  Effie, 
Eunice,  Walter, deceased, and  Agnes, deceased.  Mr. Guidry owns four hundred
and forty acres of land, one hundred and sixty of which he cultivates,
principally in cotton and corn.  He also carries on a mercantile business on
his plantation, established in 1878, which is flourishing and lucrative.  Mr.
Guidry is a successful business man and farmer.  He has always been a liberal
contributor to schools, churches, and all laudable public enterprises.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, pp.
229-230.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf
Publishing Company.