LEROY : Vermilion Parish Towns & Cities, Louisiana
Submitted by Kathy LaCombe-Tell
Source: Jim Bradshaw; Lafayette (LA) Daily Advertiser, 6/24/1997
Submitted August 2004

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LEROY 

The community of Leroy was originally called La Butte Rouge, because 
the Abshire family residence there was painted red and could be seen 
from a distance. 

Its name was changed to Leroy when a post office was established to 
remember the young son of Dr. Theonis Abshire. Theonis was the son of 
the original settlers off this area and the first doctor to practice 
there. He had his practice in a home where the Breaux grocery store is now located. 

The doctor's son, Leroy, died in youth from tuberculosis. 

The Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help was established there in 1922, 
"to remove the danger from souls and to afford relief to the Catholic 
people of Leroy ... especially the old, the infirm, the poor and the 
young who cannot conveniently receive instructions on account of 
distance." 

Father Maurice Veekmans was first pastor.