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


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JOSEPH BURLEIGH, ST. LANDRY.--Joseph Burleigh was born in St. Landry parish,
Louisiana, 1828.  He is the son of James and Adelaide (Boudreaux) Burleigh,
both of whom are natives of St. Landry parish, where they were reared and
married.  The Burleigh family is of direct English descent, the grandfather of
our subject having been born there.  He was a lineal descendant of Lord
Burleigh.

The subject of our sketch received a good business education in the schools of
this section.  He chose as his vocation planting, which he has closely
followed from his youth.  He owns a plantation of three hundred and twenty
acres, on which he raises principally cotton.  For a number of years he gave
his attention to the cultivation of sugar, but when sugar became so reduced in
price that it was no longer profitable, he abandoned the business, and has
since given his attention to cotton planting.  Mr. Burleigh has upon his
plantation a number of tenant houses, and gives employment to about fifteen
families.  He and his wife are members of the Catholic church.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, pp.
8-9.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf
Publishing Company.