DURIO, Diomel, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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DIOMEL DURIO, OPELOUSAS.--Mr. Durio is a planter living near Opelousas.  He is
a native of the parish in which he resides, born June, 1843.

Mr. Durio received the best education advantages in the schools of the
neighborhood in which he was reared.  At the age of eighteen years he enlisted
in the Confederate service, Company B, First Louisiana Artillery, in which
regiment he served for two years.  In 1863 he organized a company of home
guards in St. Landry parish, for defense against "bush whackers."  After the
war was over he purchased the land where he now resides and engaged in
planting.

He was married, in 1867, to Louisa Pitre, daughter of Charles and Arelel
(Joubert) Pitre.  They have four children.

Mr. Durio has for four years served as justice of the peace in his ward, and
for four years succeeding 1873 he served as deputy sheriff in St. Landry
parish.  He and his wife are members of the Catholic church.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, pp.
32-33.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf
Publishing Company.