Bio: Gervais L. Trichel, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana
Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
Nashville & Chicago, The Southern Publishing Company, 1890
Submitted by Gaytha Thompson




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GERVIS L. TRICHEL
Sheriff of Natchitoches Parish, La.

Gervis Trichel is a native born resident of this parish, and the confidence
which the people have in him is therefore intelligently placed, for they have
know him from infancy, and have had every opportunity to judge of his
character and qualifications.  He was born on December 21, 1842, and is a son
of Leonard and Zelia (Perot) Trichel, natives also of Natchitoches Parish, La.
The former was born in 1819, and was a farmer by occupation, he died here in
1887.  The mother was born about 1824, and now resides here.

Gervis L. Trichel, the eldest of eleven children, four of whom are now living,
was educated in the schools of Natchitoches.  In 1861 he enlisted in Company
D., Third Louisiana Infantry, Confederate States Army, and upon the re
organization of the company in 1862, he was elected first lieutenant of
Company D, which position he held until cessation of hostilities.  He was
wounded at the battle of Iuka, Miss., and was made a prisoner of war at the
siege of Vicksburg.

Returning to Louisiana after the war he engaged principally in farming, and
this he continued until 1880, when he became deputy sheriff of Natchitoches
Parish.  This position he held for four years, and in April, 1864, he was
elected to the position of sheriff.  Four years later he was reelected to the
same office, his present term expiring in 1892. Mr. Trichel is a capable and
efficient officer, and a popular man and citizen.

He was united in marriage to Miss Emma E. Owen, a native of Mississippi, in
Jackson Parish in 1865, and the result of this union has been four children: 
Annie Celeste, Martha Estelle, Lelia Ethel and Vivial Oleida.  

Mr. Trichel is a member of the Masonic fraternity, Lake village Lodge No. 196,
and a charter member of Natchitoches Lodge No. 89, K. of P..  He is a Democrat
in politics, and is one of the most popular and accommodating men in the
parish.