THIBODEAU, Valery, St. Martin Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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VALERY THIBODEAU, BREAUX BRIDGE.--The subject of this sketch is a native of
St. Martin parish, born October 20, 1828.  He is the son of Narcisse Thibodeau
and Lucy Potier, both naives of St. Martin parish.  As a boy he attended the
public schools of this parish and afterward attended a private school at
Breaux Bridge for about two years.  He began life as a planter, first on his
father's plantation and subsequently on a plantation which he purchased
himself.  Mr. Thibodeau owns a plantation of about three hundred and twenty
acres of land upon which he raises chiefly cotton and corn.  He has also on
his place a saw-mill which he has operated for many years.  In 1860 Mr.
Thibodeau was elected justice of the peace and notary public of the fourth
ward, in which capacity he served for fourteen years.  In 1862 he enlisted in
Company A, of the Fourteenth Louisiana Battalion, of which company he became
lieutenant and after a year captain.  He served until the close of the war. 
In 1852 Mr. Thibodeau was married to Miss Emily Thibodeau, of St. Martin
parish.  She is the daughter of Treville Thibodeau and Aspasie LeBlanc, both
of whom were natives of St. Martin parish.  Treville Thibodeau was one of St.
Martin's most successful planters and prominent citizens.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 349. 
Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing
Company.