GILLARD, Leon F., Rapides then St. Martin Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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LEON F. GILLARD, BREAUX BRIDGE:--Mr. Gillard was born in Rapides parish,
Louisiana, January 5, 1837.  He is the son of G. B. Gillard and Celestine
Robin, natives of Louisiana.

Leon F. Gillard at the age of nine years entered St. Charles College, Grand
Coteau, where he pursued a course of study for a period of four years;
afterward pursuing a private course, until the age of eighteen, when he
entered a general mercantile store at Washington, Louisiana, as a clerk.  Here
he remained for four years, when he returned to St. Martin parish and engaged
in planting, in which he continued until the breaking out of the war, when he
enlisted in the Confederate service, Company A, Fournet Battalion.  On the
organization of the company he was elected second lieutenant.  After having
served for a short period, he was discharged on account of ill health.  After
recruiting for awhile, he again volunteered in the cavalry service, and
remained until the close of the war.  After the war was over he resumed the
operation of his plantation at this place.  He now alternately gives his time
to school teaching and the management of his plantation.

Mr. Gillard is united in marriage with Miss Alzima David, of St. Martin
parish.  They are the parents of nine children.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, pp.
332-333.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf
Publishing Company.