LANDRY, R. C., Lafayette Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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R. C. LANDRY, LAFAYETTE.--R. C. Landry is a native of Louisiana, born 1838. 
His father was a native of Lafayette parish, born 1781.  He was a soldier in
the War of 1812.  Our subject's grandfather, Joseph Landry, was by birth a
Canadian.  He came to Louisiana and located in Lafayette parish in 1780.

R. C. Landry served for three years in the Confederate States army during the
civil war.  He enlisted as a private, and was subsequently made corporal.  Mr.
Landry is a successful sugar and cotton planter and owns a plantation of four
hundred acres of fertile land, all of which is under cultivation and well
improved.  Mr. Landry has twice married. His first wife was Miss Irma Bernard,
of Louisiana.  To this union three children were born.  His first wife died
and Mr. Landry married the second time, Miss Doucet, of Lafayette parish. 
They are the parents of four children.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 235. 
Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing
Company.