DUNESNIL, John T., St. Mary Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller
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JOHN T. DUNESNIL, BALDWIN.--John T. Dunesnil was born in St. Mary parish,
January 7, 1834.  He is the son of Theodore and Adele (Tenhold) Dunesnil, the
former a native of France and the latter of Lafourche parish.

John T. Dunesnil was reared in St. Mary parish, and at the age of ten years he
entered a private school and received a good education.  He began business
life as a planter, which he followed until 1886, when he engaged in the
butcher business and followed it for four years.  He then engaged in planting
and merchandising for eight years and subsequently gave his whole attention to
planting.  He owns one hundred and sixty acres of land, one hundred and thirty
being under cultivation.  He was married twice.  His first wife was Miss Emma
Butand, a native of St. Mary parish and daughter of Alexander and Emma Butand,
natives of France.  They were the parents of nine children.  His first wife
died after having been married twenty-two years, and our subject married the
following year Mrs. A. Bernard, a sister of his former wife, and six years
subsequent to this he died.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, pp.
365-366.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf
Publishing Company.