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Source: Southwest Louisiana and Biographical and Historical by
William Henry Perrin published in 1891;  page 281.


                        JOHN M. BEAUXIS
                         Abbeville, LA

John M.Beauxis was born in France, September, 1849. He emigrated
to America in 1866,1anding in Mexico, where he remained for six
months as interpreter for the French government custom
house  at Zacatecas. He was driven from there by the Juarez
government, after the battle of Queretaro. He thereupon came to
Eagle Pass, Texas, and was employed at this place for three
months in a saloon. In 1867 he located in New Orleans and
withstood a severe attack of yellow fever, which was then
carrying off from three to four hundred people a day. Later  Mr.
Beauxis was engaged in the dairy business in New Orleans, until
187O, when he located in Abbeville, at which place he has resided
up tothe present time. He was appointed deputy tax collector and
served for three years, 1873-74-75, and then clerk in the as-
sessor's office for three years, during which time he was
engaged in mercantile pursuits. Mr. Beauxis owns three hundred
acres of.fine land and about thirty town lots. He has the most
extensive grocery business in the town. He was married in 1873 to
Miss Marie Trahon. To them two children were born, a son and a
daughter, Fernand and Leontine. His wife's family were among the
first settlers of the parish. Her grandfather came to Louisiana
in 1792.   Mr. Beauxis is a member of the Masonic fraternity,
Oriental Lodge, also the I. O. O. F.   He and his wife are
members of the Catholic church.