JEANMARD, Jules, St. Martin Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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JULES JEANMARD, BREAUX BRIDGE.--Mr. Jeanmard was born in St. Martin parish
January 15, 1840.  He is the son of Francois and Eulalie (Artache) Jeanmard,
the former a native of Italy and the latter of St. Martin parish, Louisiana. 
Francois Jeanmard removed to Louisiana when quite a young man, and resided
here until the time of his death, in 1864.  His wife died in 1845.  At the age
of ten years Jules Jeanmard removed to Texas, where he remained until he was
eighteen years of age.  He received his education in the schools of Beaumont;
during this time he alternately went to school and tended a stock farm.  At
the breaking out of the war he came to Louisiana and joined the Declouet
Guards, which was afterward attached to the New Orleans Guard Battalion.  He
was in the engagements at Shiloh and Vicksburg, where he was prostrated with
measles and sent to the hospital at Jackson, Mississippi.  Having recuperated
he went to Camp Moore and received his discharge.  Later he entered the
Thirteenth Louisiana Regiment, Company A, and participated in the battles at
Baton Rouge and Port Hudson.  With his division he was ordered back to
Vicksburg, where they were detained until the 4th of July, and received orders
to return to Jackson, Mississippi.  Here they were engaged in the ten days'
bombardment.  They were then dispatched to Mobile, Alabama, and attached to
Longstreet's division to assist in the Tennessee campaign, and were in the
retreat from Atlanta.  At Jonesboro, Tennessee, Mr. Jeanmard was severely
injured and sent to the hospital at Montgomery, Alabama.  He was at home on a
furlough when the war ended.  He suffered a complete loss of property from the
effects of the war and had to begin life anew.  Shortly after the war was over
he entered an employment as ferryman for the parish of St. Martin, for which
he received five hundred dollars a year.  He was subsequently engaged in
running a private ferry for a short period.  He then removed to New Orleans,
and was engaged in an ice factory there for one year, when he returned to St.
Martin parish, and was there engaged as a mail carrier from Breaux Bridge to
New Iberia.  Shortly after this he began a mercantile business with his
brother-in-law, C. C. Brown.  In this they were not successful, and after
conducting business for a short while dissolved partnership.  He was assisted
by Levi Loeb & Co., and our subject reopened a store in which he has been
remarkably successful.  He also owns a store in West Melville, St. Landry
parish.  Mr. Jeanmard is the father of six sons and three daughters, viz.: 
Joseph R.,  Rosa,  Charles,  Frank,  George,  Jules, Jr.,  Anna,  Henry.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 337. 
Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing
Company.