HENRY, Andrew, St. Landry then Acadia Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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ANDREW HENRY, MERMENTEAU.--Andrew Henry, an extensive rice planter of Ward
5, is a native of Louisiana, born September 13, 1840.  He is the oldest of
a family of twelve hildren born to Lewis and Emma (Marsh) Henry.  The
father was a native of South Carolina.  He was a successful planter of St.
Landry parish, where he married.  He removed to Louisiana when a small boy,
and here he died in 1865.  The mother of our subject is a native of
Louisiana, and is at present a resident of Acadia parish.

The subject of this sketch received his education in the common  schools of
St. Landry parish.  He enlisted as a soldier in the Confederate States army
in Company A, Eighteenth Louisiana Regiment, and served until November,
1864, when he was discharged on account of ill health.  Returning home he
engaged in farming, in which he has been engaged since that time.  His
present plantation consists of four hundred and fifty acres of land, one
hundred and sixty of which are under cultivation, the principal products
being rice, corn and sweet potatoes.  Mr. Henry was elected, in 1888,
justice of the peace of justice ward No. 5.  He served as deputy sheriff
from 1869 until 1887 inclusive.  During this long period of service, by the
vigilance and promptness with which he executed his duties, he gained a
host of friends.  He was married in St. Landry parish, 1868, to Miss Amelia
Landry.  To this union have been born ten children, six of whom are living,
viz.:  Alc e,  Emma,  Andrew,  Albert,  Ida and  Alice.

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