H. P. Breazeale, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by: Gaytha Carver Thompson
Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Printing Company, Chicago & Nashville,  1890



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H. P. BREAZEALE

H. P. Breazeale, editor and proprietor of the Natchitoches Enterprise, is a
native born resident of this city, his birth occurring on November 13, 1856,
and although a young man, his career thus far has been both honest and praise
worthy.  The parents of Mr. Breazeale, Winter W. and Adeline (Prudhomme)
Breazeale, were natives, also of Natchitoches Parish, the father born on
September 5, 1827, and the mother in 1835.  He died here in October, 1878.

The paternal grandmother of our subject is still living in this city and was
born in this State on January 8, 1808.  Her father, William Winter, came to
Natchitoches in about 1816, and about the first of this century obtained a
grant of 3,000,000 acres of land in Arkansas from the Spanish Government.  He
died where Little Rick now stands.

H. P. Breazeale is the eldest of eleven children, ten of whom are living, and
was educated in the schools of Natchitoches.  He worked on the plantation
until twenty two years of age, and then in 1879 came to Natchitoches, where
for one year he filled the position of deputy sheriff.  After this he was
deputy clerk of the district court for a short time, and in the fall of 1882
he was elected clerk of the police jury and parish superintendent of public
schools, which offices he has since held.  He is popular with all, kind and
courteous in his intercourse with his fellow men, and is always willing to aid
any enterprise for the good of the parish.

In 1888 he established the Natchitoches Enterprise, and this he still
continues.  The paper is found to be  a welcome visitor in the numerous homes
into which it enters, and is a newsy, spicy sheet.

Mr. Breazeale was married in 1886 to Miss Cammilla Leacht, a native of
Vicksburg, Miss., born on January 10, 1865.  They have three Children: Hopkins
P., Winona and Cammilla.  Mr. Breazeale is a member of the Catholic Church,
and in his political views is a Democrat.