LAFLEURE, Ertemon, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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ERTEMON LAFLEURE, OPELOUSAS.--Mr. Lafleure was born in the parish in which he
now resides, in August, 1850, and is one of a family of sixteen children born
to John B. and Domelise B. (Fontenot) Lafleure, natives of St. Landry parish.
Our subject's grandfather, Lafleure, was a native of France, and became one of
the pioneer settlers of Louisiana.  John B. Lafleure is still living, being in
his seventy-second year.  He has married twice.  His first wife, our subject's
mother, died in 1884.

Ertemon Lafleure began life as a farmer.  He bought a tract of land consisting
of one hundred and twenty acres, located nine miles west of Opelousas, where
he now resides, and to which he has since added one hundred and thirty acres.
He has been successful as a planter, and his plantation is one of the best
improved in this section.  He has also, in connection with his plantation, a
store, in which he does a good business.

Mr. Lefleure was married, in 1870, to Miss Estelle P. Pitre, daughter of
Francois and Ozelure. C. Pitre, their family consisting of ten children, viz:
Alide,  Emar,  Olivia,  Aladie,  Lena,  Lydia,  Omar,  Real,  Ertemon, and
Maese.  Mr. Lefleure was elected Justice of the Peace in the Second Justice's
Ward in 1888, and is the present incumbent of that office.  He and family are
Catholics.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, pp.
59-60.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf
Publishing Company.