ROY, P. B., Lafayette Parish, Louisiana Submitted by Mike Miller ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** P. B. ROY, YOUNGSVILLE.--P. B. Roy, one of the wealthiest and most prominent planters and merchants of Lafayette parish, was born near the place where he now resides in 1840. He received his education at St. Charles College, Grand Coteau. His parents were both natives of this State, and died in 1848 and 1852, respectively. Young Roy was but twelve years of age when his mother died and he was reared by his elder brother Desire, who was accidentally killed by the explosion of a boiler in his gin in 1867. Another brother died in 1866. P. B. Roy was a soldier in the C. S. A. from 1862 until the close of the war. He served in the Eighth Louisiana Cavalry. Mr. Roy has been remarkably successful in life. He is the owner of twelve plantations in Lafayette parish, aggregating about twenty-one hundred acres; four in St. Martin parish, consisting of five hundred and twenty-five acres, and four in Vermilion, aggregating twelve hundred acres. All are under cultivation except the last three. Mr. Roy also conducts a large mercantile business at Royville and one at Broussardville, Louisiana. Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 245. Edited by William Henry Perrin. Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing Company.