BURLEIGH, James, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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JAMES BURLEIGH, GRAND COTEAU.--James Burleigh, a successful planter of St.
Landry parish, was born where he resides, September 29, 1830.  His parents,
James and Adelaide (Boudreaux) Burleigh, were also natives of St. Landry
parish.  They reared a family of twelve children, six of whom are deceased.
James Burleigh died in 1861. 

The subject of our sketch was reared and received his education here.  He was
married in May, 1851, to Miss Frances Cason, daughter of William L. Cason, of
Georgia.  They are the parents of ten children--five boys and seven girls,
viz:  James M.,  Frances A., wife of Charles Willis;  Elizabeth (deceased);
Sarah L., wife of John M. Bailey;  William L. (deceased),  Fountain D., and
Susan E. (deceased).  Mr. Burleigh enlisted in the Confederate army in 1862,
and was at the battles of Vicksburg and Chickasaw.  At the latter place he was
taken prisoner and exchanged at Vicksburg, after which he came to Alexandria,
La., and remained there until the war was over.  When he enlisted he was
sergeant of Company K, of the Twenty-eighth Louisiana Regiment, and he was
subsequently promoted to first lieutenant.  After the war he resumed farming,
and he now owns a plantation of about three hundred and twenty-five acres
adjoining the village of Grand Coteau.  His plantation is one of the finest in
St. Landry parish.  Besides raising varied products he is making a specialty
of stock raising.  He is one of the oldest settlers of the parish and is
highly respected.  He and his family are members of the Catholic church.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 8.
Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing
Company.