POTIER, Chas., St. Martin Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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CHAS. POTIER, JR., ST. MARTINVILLE. --Mr. Potier is a native of St. Martin
parish, born August 25, 1828.  He is the son of Charles and Marcelete Potier,
both of whom are natives of this parish.  At the age of eighteen years Mr.
Potier entered a private school, where he pursued a four years' course of
study, upon the completion of which he engaged with his father in planting
until the latter's death, after which event he managed the estate for
twenty-five years.  In 1876 he bought a tract of two hundred and forty acres,
one hundred and eighty of which is under cultivation, and has since given his
attention to its operation.  He raises corn, cotton, potatoes and cane.  His
plantation is a productive one and yields him a good income.

Mr. Potier was married, 1855, to Miss A. Berard, a native of St. Martin
parish, born 1839.  She is a daughter or Hypolyte and Canence (Barras) Berard,
both of whom are natives of St. Martin parish.  To this union have been born
nine children, five sons and four daughters,  Clemence,  Benjamin,  Hypolite
(deceasd),  Cecile Corinne,  Lora,  Laurent,  René and  Charles.  
Mr. Potier served in the latter year of the war as sergeant under Captain
Holland Hayes, in the Fournet Battalion.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 345. 
Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing
Company.