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Source: Southwest Louisiana and Biographical and Historical by
William Henry Perrin published in 1891;  page 294.


                          ELI MONTAGNE
                         Abbeville, LA
Eli Montagne was born in Iberia parish, Louisiana, February 20,
1834. He is a son of Eli and Arthemise (LeBlanc) Montagne. His
father was a native of France, who came to America when young.
Our subject's maternal grandparents removed to Louisiana from
Canada at a very early day, and were among the first settlers of
Louisiana. Here they reared a family of children, amongst whom
was the mother of our subject. She is still living. The father
died in 1888, at the age of eighty-three years. Eli Montague
received a common school education. The first business in which
he embarked was merchandising, in which he was engaged up to
the beginning of the war. In 1861 he enlisted in the Confederate
States army as second lieutenant in Captain Fuller's Independent
Company of Fournet's Battalion.  At the little of Bisland, and in
two subsequent engagements.  Mr. Montagne  received serious
wounds, from which he was rendered unfit for active service, and
was detailed to contract the manufacture of clothing for the
Confederate States army. In the latter part of the war he
conducted a tan yard at Natchitoches for a short period, and was
afterward engaged in steamboating on Bayou Teche for some time.
He subsequently opened a commission business in New  0rleans,
but was not successful; and after conducting it for a few
years he removed to New Iberia and engaged in merchandising, in
which he was more successful.  In 1874 he removed to Vermilion
parish and purchased at tax sales a large tract of land. He has
served as surveyor since 1878. Mr. Montague conducts a
grocery store in Abbeville. He was married, in 1856, to Odilie 
Segura, a descendant of the original settlers of the Spanish
colony at Iberia. To this union ten children have been born, five
of whom are living, viz: Fernand, Paul. Eli U.,
Henry,  Elmira.