BARRY, R. H., St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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R. H. BARRY, GRAND COTEAU.--R. H. Barry, planter, is the son of John C. and
Mary (Dunbar) Barry.  He was born in 1853.  His parents are natives of
Louisiana and Mississippi respectively.  J. C. Barry was a planter.  He
represented St. Landry parish in the Legislature at one time.  He died in 1877
at Grand Coteau.  His wife still survives him.

The subject of this sketch was reared and educated near where he now resides.
He has always been a planter.  He owns a plantation of about three hundred
acres one mile north of Grand Coteau.  Cotton and corn are the chief products.

He married, in 1875, Miss Lelia Hebert, daughter of Theogene and Julia
(Richard) Hebert.  They are the happy parents of five children,  John,
Richard,  Patrick and  Irene; one died in infancy.  Mr. Barry and wife are
members of the Catholic church.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 6.
Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing
Company.