BURR, C. F., St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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C. F. BURR, OPELOUSAS.--C. F. Burr was born in St. Landry parish, January 26,
1850.  The Burr family are originally from Springfield, Massachusetts, and
relations of Aaron Burr.  Freeman Burr, the father of our subject, was born in
Springfield, Massachusetts, 1808.  He followed something of a roving life,
having traveled over nearly the whole of the United States.  He studied
dentistry, and about 1837 he came to Louisiana, where he practised [sic] his
profession until 1859.  He was married in Opelousas to Miss Eugenia Thompson,
daughter of John Thompson, a native of Kentucky.

John Thompson was for many years an official under the different
administrations of Louisiana.  He was a large property owner, the present Burr
estate being a part of his domain.  He married, in St. Landry parish, Miss
Sydalyse De Lachesse, of Acadian French ancestry.  Mrs. Thompson was a woman
of rare intellectual attainments.  Having led an exemplary life, she died in
New Orleans at the advanced age of ninety-eight.  Mrs. Eugenia Burr, her
daughter, was born in the place where the family now reside.  She became the
mother of six children, three of whom are living; Mary, William and C. F., the
subject of our sketch, and reside on the old home plantation.  Mrs. Burr died
in 1882.

C. F. Burr received a fair education in the schools of his locality.  With the
exception of the time given to official duties he has devoted himself almost
entirely to planting.  He first served as deputy sheriff of St. Landry parish
in 1871.  He has served in this capacity at intervals ever since.  He is a
most vigilant officer; and the efficient manner in which he has performed his
official duties has given him something of a local reputation.  He has never
married.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, pp.
9-10.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf
Publishing Company.