PITRE, Charles, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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CHARLES PITRE, OPELOUSAS.--Mr. Pitre is a successful farmer who resides
four miles west of Opelousas.  He was born in St. Landry parish,
November, 1865.  His parents, Charles Pitre and Adele Joubert, were both
natives of St. Landry, where they were reared, married and spent most of
their lives.  To them were born eight children, five sons and three
daughters, of whom Charles, the subject of this sketch, is the youngest.

He was reared and received his education in St. Landry parish.  Having
made farming a practical study he adopted this as his lifetime vocation,
and has been successful in his attempts thus far.  He owns a plantation
of two hundred and fifty acres of land, where he cultivates cotton and
corn.  Mr. Pitre married, in 1885, Miss Ophelia Comeaux, daughter of C.
Comeaux.  They became the parents of three children, viz:  Estelle
(deceased), Laurent.  The first child died in infancy.  Both Mr. Pitre
and his wife are members of the Catholic church.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section,
p. 68.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf
Publishing Company.