BOUCNALT, Wm., St. Martin Parish, Louisiana Submitted by Mike Miller ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ WM. BOUCNALT, ST. MARTINVILLE.--Mr. Boucnalt, a native of St. Martin parish, was born in St. Martinsville, November 24, 1849. He is the son of Alphonse and Eliza (Frye) Boucnalt. His father was a native of Louisiana of French descent. He died at Richmond, Virginia, in 1862, while in the Confederate service, at the age of forty-four years. Eliza (Frye) Boucnalt, the mother of our subject, is a native of Mississippi, born in 1825. Having lost her father when quite young, she removed with her mother to Louisiana, where she was reared and married. She is still living in the town of St. Martinville, and is the mother of seven children, four sons and three daughters, of whom William is the eldest. William Boucnalt was reared in St. Martinville, where he received a common school education. Being left fatherless when quite young he began active business life ere his childhood days were past. At the age of eight he commenced to work at such labor as he was able to secure and perform, and all he has accomplished in his life is due to his own individual effort. He is now engaged in the retail liquor business. In February, 1880, he married Miss Albertine Horrent, daughter of Charles Horrent, whose parents were natives of France and resided in New Orleans at the time of their death. Mr. Boucnalt is conservative in political affairs, taking very little interest in such matters. He is a member of the Crescent City Association, a benevolent order. He and his wife are members of the Catholic church. Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 313. Edited by William Henry Perrin. Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing Company.