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Source: Southwest Louisiana and Biographical and Historical by
William Henry Perrin published in 1891;  page 303.



                         MARTIN SARVER
                        INDIAN BAYOU, LA

Martin Sarver was born in Vermilion parish September I7, 1832. He
is the son of William and Denice (Rolen) Sarver .  His father was
born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and removed to Louisiana when a
young man. He located in Vermilion parish, where he married our
subject's mother. He afterward removed to St. Landry parish, and
was commcted with a tan-yard. In this he was engaged until the
time of his death in 1870. His wife died in 1878. Mrs. Sarver was
a lady of French descent, her parents having been natives of
France.  Martin Sarver is the eldest of a family of twelve
children. He received his education in the schools of St. Landry
parish, where he resided until 1851 or 1852. when he removed to
his present place of residence in Vermilion parish, which was
then a wild prairie. He has always given his attention chiefly to
farming and has been successful. He was elected a member of
the police jury before the war and served in this capacity for
seventeen consecutive years, a portion of which time he was the
president. He also served for many years as justice of the peace
from his ward. He is the present post-master at Indian Bayou,
which position he has held since 1882. Mr. Sarver served the
latter two years of the Civil War, having enlisted in the
Shreveport Battalion, or Seventh Louisiana Regiment, as sergeant,
in which he served until the close of the war. Two of his
brothers were privates in the same regiment.  Mr. Sarver
was married July 4, 1851, to Miss Altha Z. Morgan, of Vermilion
parish. They are the parents of six living children, three sons
and three daughters. The family are members of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South, in which he is steward.