Biography of 	NUNEZ, E. E., St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by 	Mike MillerSeptember 2000

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E. E. Nunez, tax-collector and sheriff of St. Bernard parish, La., 
resides near the old New Orleans battle ground.  He was born in St. 
Bernard parish in 1846, a son of Vincent and Mary (Serpas) Nunez, also 
natives of this parish, where they spent all of their lives.  Mr. 
Vincent Nunez died in 1853, aged fifty years, in the prime of life. 
During his life he was a progressive merchant and planter.  He had a 
good public-school education, as good as was afforded at that early 
time.  He accumulated a large and fine property, and donated the land 
upon which is located the present parish seat of St. Bernard parish.  
During his early life he was captain of a militia company, and was 
quite active in all public local affairs.  He was twice married, and by 
his first wife had three children,  Vincent, Pierre Vincent and  
Celine, all of whom are now deceased.  He was one of the seven children 
born to Esteve Nunez, who was also born in St. Bernard parish, where he 
was all of his life a planter.  His parents were natives of Spain, and 
were among the early settlers of St. Bernard parish, and from them 
sprang many of the first and best citizens of the parish.  The mother
of our subject died in 1889, aged seventy-two years.  She was a 
daughter of Joseph Serpas (a native of this parish, whose parents were 
natives of Spain), and Marie Delile (of French descendants and belonged 
to the early and prosperous families of the parish).  They were all 
Catholic.

Mr. Serpas was a successful planter and reared a large family, many of 
the descendants of which are living in New Orleans and vicinity.  Our 
subject is the sixth of nine children, namely:  Odile, the wife of 
Cyprian Lefebre and mother of two children,  Constance and  Berthe 
Dumouchel, the issue from her first marriage to Charles Dumonchel 
(deceased) whose parents were French (after the death of her first 
husband,  Charles Dumouchel she married her present husband,  Cyprien 
E. Lefebre, of New Orleans, La.); Azema, the wife of Edgar Ruiz; Felix, 
for the war in Company D, Orleans cadets, when killed was a lieutenant 
in the Eighteenth Louisiana regiment);  Rosa, the wife of R. V. Ducros; 
Louisa, widow of Andre Rivet, the subject of this notice;  Victor, now 
deputy clerk of the civil district court of the parish of Orleans;  
Albert, justice of the peace of the First ward of the parish of St. 
Bernard and postmaster of Arabi post office, La., and Lovensky, now a 
member of the police jury of St. Bernard parish.  E. E. Nunez was 
educated at the public schools in New Orleans.  He began life for
himself at the age of seventeen, by cotton-planting, and was for some 
years a merchant.  He then served for six years as deputy sheriff, and 
then two years as tax-collector.  He has been sheriff for twelve years 
successively, having no opposition at the last election.  Mr. Nunez was 
first married in 1871 to Miss Pauline, daughter of Justin Aguilard, a 
native of New Orleans.

Her father was also a native of New Orleans, and served as tax-
collector before the war.  Mrs. Nunez died March 15, 1883.  Mr. Nunez 
married for his second wife Miss Acelie Roy, daughter of Frederick and 
Louise (Roche) Roy, natives, respectively, of France and Louisiana, Mr. 
Roy coming to Louisiana when a young man, and spent the rest of his 
life here.  He died in 1889 in St. Bernard parish.  During his life he 
was a planter and a manufacturer of bricks.  He was once a member of 
the city council of New Orleans, before the war, and was for many years 
a member of the police jury of St. Bernard parish, being president of 
that body for some years.  Mrs. Nunez was born in St. Bernard parish.  
Mr. Nunez is the father of four children, born to him by his first 
wife:  Nemours,  Berthe,  Lelia and  Fernand, all living, and from his 
second wife two children,  Pauline and  Esteve Joseph, both deceased.  
The family are all Catholics, and Mr. Nunez is a member of the Orion 
lodge, Knights of Honor, of New Orleans.  He is well known as a good
and honorable citizen, and enjoys the esteem of the people of his 
parish.

Biographical and Historical Memoires of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 287.
Published by the Goodspeed Publishing Company, Chicago, 1892.