FONTENOT, Ozémé, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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OZÉMÉ FONTENOT, WASHINGTON.-Ozémé Fontenot, planter and merchant, eight miles
west from Washington, is a native of St. Landry parish, and was born where he
now resides in 1846.  He is the son of Alexandre Fontenot and Hyacinthe
Jaubert, both natives of St. Landry parish.  His father was a merchant and
planter on quite an extensive scale.  He purchased and operated during his
lifetime, the plantation where his son Ozéme Fontenot now resides.  He was one
of St. Landry's most prominent citizens. and died in 1851, at the age of
forty-six years.  Mrs. Fontenot survived him until 1881.

The subject of our sketch was reared and received an academic education in St.
Landry parish. In 1862, at the age of sixteen, he left school and enlisted in
the Confederate States service, joining Company A, Second Louisiana Cavalry.
His field of operations was principally in Louisiana, and he was in all the
chief battles in which his department was engaged.  He surrendered at
Washington, Louisiana.  After the war he returned home and took charge of his
mother's plantation, which he purchased in 1881, and has since operated with
success.  He married, in November, 1865, Miss Ernestine Debaillon, daughter of
Dr. Louis Debaillon, one of St. Landry's oldest and most honored citizens.
Mr. Fontenot, though active in political affairs, has never chosen to accept
any position of trust, preferring to live a retired life.  He is the father of
one child, Alma, wife of Dr. James H. Parker, of Ville Platte, this parish.
He and his family are all Catholics.  Mr. Fontenot has a beautiful and fertile
plantation of over a thousand acres of land, which he cultivates in cotton.
Mrs. Fontenot died in 1887, at the age of thirty-eight years.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 39.
Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing
Company.