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Source: Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical by
William Henry Perrin; published in 1891; page 286.



                        JOSEPH T. GUIDRY
                         Abbeville, LA
                                
Joseph T. Guidry was born in St.Martin parish, Louisiana,
December 22, 1837. He is the son of Joseph T. Guidry, a native of
St. Martin parish. Joseph T. Guidry, Sr., was a successful   
planter of St. Martin parish, and at the beginning of the war
possessed a large fortune, but as it consisted of slaves and
personal property to a great extent, he lost nearly everything by
the war. He died about 1875, at the age of sixty-eight years.
Joseph T. Guidry, Jr;, was the second of a family of six
children, and the only one now living. He received his education
in St. Martin parish, in the common schools, and remained with
his father on his plantation until he was twenty-one years of
age, when he removed to Vermilion parish, and located where he
now resides. His plantation is situated three miles west of
Abbeville, and is noted for its beauty and fertility. Shortly
after locating at this place Mr. Guidry married Miss Marie Nunez,
a sister of Adrien Nunez, whose sketch appears elsewhere. To this
union has been born a daughter, Rose Belle, wife of E. C. Kibbe.
Since beginning business in Vermilion parish Mr. Guidry has been
a stock raiser and planter, and being possessed of the energy
which characterizes the family he has been abundantly successful.
Mr. Guidly was a soldier in the late Civil War, having joined
Fournet's Battalion in 1862. Later he was transferred to the
Eighth Louisiana Cavalry, in which he served until the war
closed.