St Landry County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Debaillon, Judge Conrad February 25, 1907 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Mary K Creamr marykcreamer@yahoo.com January 1, 2015, 6:02 pm The Opelousas Courier (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, March 02, 1907, Image 1 Judge Conrad Debaillon, late judge of the Eighteenth Judicial District, died at his home in Lafayette at 2 a. m. last Monday, of acute Bright's disease, in the sixty-first year of his age. Judge Debaillon was born near Opelousas, St. Landry parish, and was educated at Grand Coteau College. He served gallantly in the Confederate army, and at the close of the war took up the study of law. He was admitted to the bar in 1870, and after practicing a while in St. Landry, located in Lafayette, where he formed a partnership with his father-in-law, C. H. Mouton. In 1884 Judge Debaillon was elected district judge, serving until 1889. In 1896 he was re-elected judge, and held office until 1904, when he declined to stand for re-election. Judge Debaillon stood high as a lawyer and as a judge. He possessed the respect and esteem of the entire community, and possessed many warm friends in the neighboring parishes and over the state. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/la/stlandry/obits/d/debaillo5401gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/lafiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb