LABBE, A. A., Lafayette Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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A A. LABBE, LAFAYETTE. --A. A. Labbé was born in Louisiana in 1841 his father,
Cesaire Labbe, married Miss Celimene Gondras, and to them were born six
children,  A. A. Labbe being the third child.

Our subject received the major part of his education in St. Martinsville.  He
enlisted in the Confederate army at the breaking out of the war, and served
until its close, in the Eighth Louisiana Infantry, under General Hayes and
General Taylor.  He married, in 1868, Miss Zulma St. Julien. They became the
parents of five children, three boys and two girls:  Albert,  Gaston,  Eugene
Cecile and  Lucy.  Mr. Labbe owns four hundred acres of fine land, upon which
he raises cotton principally.  Mr. Labbe in his religious views is a Roman
catholic.  In politics he is a democrat.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 234. 
Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing
Company.