GREIG, Carlos, St. Martin then St. Landry Parish, Louisiana Submitted by Mike Miller ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** CARLOS GREIG, WASHINGTON.--Carlos Greig, editor and publisher of the Washington Advocate, Washington, Louisiana, was born in St. Martinsville [sic], Louisiana. The Greig family prides itself in being able to trace its ancestry to Charles Daymé de Noailles, who married, 1715, Marie Le Maret, to whom were born four children. One of the daughters, Catharine Dayme, married Pierre Harpin de la Gautrais. To them was born one son, Pierre René Harpin, who married three times, his third wife being Le Bienvenu. They had one daughter, Marie Louise Celeste Harpin, who married, 1779, Gonsoulin De Beaumelle. They became the parents of thirteen children, among whom was Marguerite Adelaide Gonsoulin, who married William Greig. This union was blessed with several children, William Greig, Jr., being one of the number. Wm. Greig, Jr., was a native of Louisiana, and was during most of his lifetime engaged in steamboating on the Teche, from St. Martinsville to New Orleans. During the war he served as Sheriff of St. Martin parish. He married when a young man Miss Emelie LeBlanc, and to them were born ten children, Carlos, the subject of this sketch, being of the number. Young Carlos spent his boyhood days at the place of his birth, receiving his principal education at Judice College, St. Martinsville, Louisiana. He began life as a book-keeper in a general mercantile house in St. Martinsville. This, however, did not prove congenial to his tastes and after following it a short time he began a mercantile business for himself. In 1884 he withdrew from this and founded " The St. Martinsville Reveille," a weekly newspaper, which he published until 1888, when be removed to Washington and founded the "Washington Advocate," a local weekly newspaper of merit. Mr. Greig has devoted much of his leisure time to music, and some of his compositions are well and favorably known. He has organized and instructed several brass bands at different places in the State. He married, 1879, Miss Laura, daughter of Colonel Valsin Fournet, a former prominent citizen of St. Martinsville. Mr. Fournet was Colonel in the Confederate States service. He was for thirty years Clerk of the Court in St. Martin's parish. He died 1879, at the age of fifty-eight years, revered by all who knew him. Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 43. Edited by William Henry Perrin. Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing Company.