DUPLANTIAS, Toussainn, Terrebonne then Iberia Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller
Source: Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical
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TOUSSAIN DUPLANTIAS, PATOUTVILLE.--Toussain Duplantias was born Nov. 1,
1841, in Terrebonne parish, Louisiana.  He is the son of Joseph D. and
Frances Charpentier Duplantias, the former a native of St. John the
Baptist and the latter of Lafourche parish.

The subject of this sketch was reared in Terrebonne.  At the age of
sixteen years he began work for himself and was engaged in various
occupations until 1864, when he engaged with Jules Guidry on his
plantation as a farm hand, where he worked and attended a night school,
receiving what education he has.  He was subsequently engaged for a
short while with his uncle, after which he worked on a flat boat.  He
was for many years engaged in planting in Iberia parish.  In 1868 he
married Miss Aimy Pellegram, daughter of F. and Elizabeth (Lohoff)
Pellegram the former a native of Louisiana and the latter of Strasburg,
Germany.  To them were born ten children.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section,
pp. 104-105.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The
Gulf Publishing Company.