COMEAU, H. P., St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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H. P. COMEAU, OPELOUSAS.--Mr. Comeau was born in Opelousas, July, 1866.  He is
the son of Clophas and Estelle (Roy) Comeau, both natives of Louisiana.  His
father, who is an extensive dealer in live stock, was born in St. Landry
parish in 1837.  He was reared here and educated in St. Charles College, Grand
Coteau, Louisiana.  He has been a planter and stock raiser all his life.  He
was colonel of a regiment from this parish, and served all through the civil
war in the Confederate army.  He operated east of the Mississippi, chiefly in
Virginia.  The whole Comeau family are Roman Catholics.  His great-grand-
father was one of the exiled Acadians who located in Louisiana.  Mrs. Comeau
died in 1868.

The subject of our sketch began life at the age of twenty-one years as a
butcher, in Opelousas.  In this business he has continued to the present time.
Mr. Comeau owns and operates the Opelousas Meat Market at this place, which
was built in 1880, at a cost of seven thousand dollars.  He is now acting as
deputy sheriff of St. Landry parish, having been appointed by T. S. Fontenot.
He is a young man of energy and enterprise.  He married, in 1890, Miss Felicia
Durio, daughter of D. and E. Durio.   

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 15.
Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing
Company.