Le Roy Cockfield, M. D., Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller



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Le Roy Cockfield, M. D. While a highly educated and very
capable physician and surgeon, Doctor Cockfield has found
most of his time and energies absorbed in his plantation
management, the operation of a store, and his interests in a
number of affairs in his home locality of Bermuda in
Natchitoches Parish.

Mr. Cockfield was born at the old Cockfield homestead on
Red River, at the Roy postoffice, February 12, 1885.  He is a
son of Anglo P. and Marcia (Cockfield) Cockfield.  His mother
was born in Natchitoches Parish, and was of a Catholic family,
while Anglo P. Cockfield was born in South Carolina, and
adhered to the Baptist faith.  A. P. Cockfield, who died in
April, 1922, at the age of sixty-nine, came to Louisiana when a
young maim of twenty years, and first worked on the
plantation of E. C. Cockfield.  Later he became owner of the
Beuland and Durands plantations, and in connection therewith
operated a store at Roy.  He had the genius of trading as an
asset, and being a man of much energy and thrift was highly
prosperous.  For a period he was a member of the police jury,
though never a seeker of public office.  There were four
children in the family.  Doctor Cockfield; M. F.. Cockfleld, a
planter at Montgomery in Grant Parish; Stanley, manager of
the home plantation; and Miss Estelle.

Le Roy Cockfield was reared in the locality of his birth and
acquired a good education, attending the Louisiana Industrial
Institute at Ruston, the Louisiana State University, and in 1908
took his degree in medicine at Tulane University.  The first
location he chose for his professional work was at Swartz in
Ouachita Parish, where he handled an industrial practice for the
Swartz Lumber Company.  Three years later he came to his
present location on Cain River, where he owned Typo
plantation, twelve hundred acres of land, thoroughly cultivated
and managed in up-to-date, efficient style.  He grew up in his
father's store and has always had a liking for the mercantile
business.  In connection with his plantation he operates a store
and cotton gin, and also looks after the medical practice of his
own community.

He married in 1917 Noelia Prudhomme, daughter of J.
Alphonse Prudhomme, of the well known family of that name
in Natchitoches Parish.  They have one daughter, Martha
Elizabeth, Doctor Cockfield is a member in the Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 370, by Henry E.
Chambers.  Published by The American Historical Society,
Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.