GILLARD, Ernest J., St. Martin Parish, Louisiana Submitted by Mike Miller ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ ERNEST J. GILLARD, ARNAUDVILLE.--Ernest Gillard, a planter residing near Arnaudville, is a native of St. Martin parish, and was born March 18, 1837. His parents, Joseph B. Gillard and Celestine Robin, are natives of Louisiana, the former of Avoyelles and the latter of St. Landry parish. Ernest Gillard was attending school at St. Charles College when the war broke out, and he left school to enlist in the Confederate service. He enlisted as a private and was in the service for about fourteen months. After his return home he was engaged in the general mercantile business at this place. After having been engaged in this business for a short period he married Miss Aspasie, daughter of Valsin and Madeline Benard, of St. Martin parish. Since that time he has been engaged in agricultural pursuits. Mr. Gillard owns and controls a plantation of two hundred and twenty-five arpents of land, on which he raises a variety of crops. He has never taken any special part in politics, but is interested in all public affairs. Mr. Gillard and wife are the parents of ten children Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 333. Edited by William Henry Perrin. Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing Company.