LAZARO, Mark, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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MARK LAZARO, VILLE PLATTE.--Mr. Lazaro, a successful planter of St. Landry
parish, is a native of Louisiana.  He was born February 10, 1847.  His father,
Alexandre L., was a native of Russia.  His mother, Elizabeth Vidrene, of
Louisiana, of French extraction.  Alexandre Lazaro came to America in 1838,
and engaged in merchandising in Mobile, Ala.  In the early part of his life he
took an active part in politics.  For twenty years he was a sailor.  He was
married in St. Landry parish, and became the father of three children, Mark
(the subject of our sketch) being the only surviving member of the family.
Alexandre Lazaro died in 1884,  He was a member of the Greek Catholic church.
His wife died from yellow fever in St. Landry parish, in 1867.  She was a
member of the Catholic church.

Mark Lazaro was educated partially at St. Charles College, Grand Coteau,
having taken a three years' course in that institution.  In the latter part of
1864 he joined the State Militia, and in 1865 the artillery in the regular
army.  He served until the close of the war.  In 1866 he accepted a position
as clerk in a mercantile establishment in New Orleans.  He has for a number of
years been planting where he now resides and owns a tract of about eighteen
hundred acres of land, with six hundred acres under cultivation.  He also
conducts a mercantile business on his plantation.  Mr. Lazaro was married
November 8, 1886, to Miss Amelie Fontenot, of St. Landry parish.  They are the
parents of five living children:  Joseph, Amelie (wife of R. G. Stagg),  J.,
Luke,  Evangeline.  Mrs. Lazaro died, and Mr. Lazaro married a second time, in
1883, Miss Agnes Francis.  To them two children have been born:  Lilliss and
Mary.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, pp.
58-59.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf
Publishing Company.