DELACROIX, F. P. D., Jefferson then St. Martin Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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F. P. D. DELACROIX, ST. MARTINVILLE.--The subject of this sketch was born in
Jefferson parish, Louisiana.  He is the son of Joseph Dusuan DeLaCroix, and
Estelle D. DeBlanc, both natives of Louisiana.  Joseph Dusuan DeLaCroix was at
one time a very extensive planter and land holder of St. Martin parish.  He
died in 1841, his wife surviving him until 1885.  The DeBlanc family has been
in this country since 1696; and the DeLaCroix since 1740.  The ancestor of the
DeBlanc family was Jussereau DeBlanc de St. Denis, who founded the city of
Natchitoches in 1703.

The subject of this sketch received a good education, and is a gentleman of
culture and intelligence.  He has been planting a great part of his life, and
now operates in this parish a plantation of thirteen hundred acres, belonging
to his sister, Miss Elizabeth D. DeLaCroix.  In the beginning of hostilities,
Mr.  DeLaCroix enlisted in the Confederate army and served for three years. 
He was married in 1878 to Miss Mary J. Frankford, of New Orleans.  They are
the parents of three children, viz.:  Albert,  Elizabeth,  Georgiana.  Mr.
DeLaCroix and family are Catholics.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, pp.
318-319.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf
Publishing Company.