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Source: Southwest Louisiana and Biographical and Historical by
William Henry Perrin published in 1891;  page 293.



                      REV. A. M.  MEHAULT
                         Abbeville, LA
Rev. Father A.M. Mehault, parish priest of Vermllion, was born in
France, June, 1843. He was educated for the priesthood in France.
and emigrated to America in 1865, landing at New Orleans, where
he was ordained priest in 1867. The same year he was located at
Opelousas as vicar, and was also vicar at Abbeville for one year
and a ha1f, where, in December, 1868, he was sent. He became
parish priest in 1870, and in that capacity has continued till
the present time. Father Mehault is known throughout the parish
as a  high minded Chrstian gentleman. Under his able
administration, his parochial affairs have been in excellent
condition.   A  large $13,000 church house and $15,000 covent
have been erected, the latter of which is attended by a great
number of children.  Rev. Father Mehault was one of the heaviest
contributors to the building of these institutions, which by his 
untiring energy and  perseverance are free from debt.
The immense parish of which he has charge is soon to be
divided into three or four different ecclesiastical parishes. The
new church is now entirely too small and inadequate to the
growing population Ä population growing up from children
born there.