SAVOY, Valentine, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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VALENTINE SAVOY, CHATAIGNIER.--Mr. Savoy is a native of St. Landry
parish, born in 1836.  He is the son of Valcour and Eugenia (Reyder)
Savoy, the former a native of St. Landry, and the latter of Rapides
parish.  Valcour Savoy is a son of Placide Savoy, also a native of St.
Landry.

The subject of our sketch received his education in the common schools
of St. Landry parish.  He began life at the age of twenty years, and was
first engaged in the manufacture of spinning wheels, which he followed
until 1868, when he began a mercantile business in Chataignier, at the
same time operating a plantation.  This dual business he conducted
successfully until 1879, since which time he has given his attention
chiefly to his plantation.  He is also operating in connection with this
a large gin, and for a portion of the time a saw-mill.  Mr. Savoy has a
fine plantation of about six hundred acres, and cultivates rice and
cotton principally.

He was married, in 1885, to Denise Fruger, a native of St. Landry
parish, born in 1838, and of one of the oldest families of the parish. 
To them have been born eight children, six of whom are now living, viz.: 
Agelas,  Catherine, wife of -Francois Savoy;  Valentine, wife of
Alexander Agelar;  Clara, wife of Numa Agelar;  Arras and  Louis.  Mr.
Savoy has filled different positions of trust with efficiency.  He is a
member of the Masonic fraternity.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section,
p. 80.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf
Publishing Company.