Joseph Fitzpatrick, Rapides Parish Louisiana
Submitted by: Suzanne Shoemaker

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Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville,  1890

JOSEPH FITZPATRICK, manager of Luneburg plantation, Lloyd's Bridge, La.
This excellent and much esteemed citizen is of foreign birth, having first
seen the light of day in the Emerald Isle in 1842, and he came to the
United States when but a lad.  He was reared to manhood in Alexandria, and
at the breaking out of the war he enlisted in the Confederate Army, serving
four years and two months in the Second Louisiana Brigade.  He participated
in the battles of Malvern Hill and Richmond, all of Gen. Lee's campaigns
and was at Appomattox Court House.  He enlisted as a private, but so
faithful was he in the discharge of his duties that he was first made
second sergeant and later second lieutenant.  After the war he was engaged
in the saw milling business for some time, was then overseer of a
plantation near New Orleans for Morris Tasker & Co., of Philadelphia, and
carried on this plantation until 1882.  He then took charge of Luneburg
plantation near Lloyd's Bridge, has 800 acres of sugar cane and cotton, and
is a man one can trust and rely upon.  He was married in 1880 to Miss Laura
Miller and the fruits of this union are four children:  Elouise, Joseph,
Jr., Mary E. and Laura.  The excellent business ability of Mr. Fitzpatrick
is recognized by all who know him, and his integrity, expediency and push
have placed him in the front ranks as a business man.  He is sober and
industrious and an American in all his ideas of life.  In politics he
affiliates with the Democratic party, and takes an interest in county affairs.