THEALL  : 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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THEALL 

This settlement just west of Mouton Cove in the Seventh Ward of 
Vermilion Parish was named for the Theall family, probably after Joseph 
Theall, who was named the first postmaster of the community on March 
6,1888. 

Hebert Cove, Cypress Point, and Theall were three settlements which 
after the establishment of the post of rice gradually became 
consolidated under the one name of Theall. Roads through the settlement 
established a pathway from Mouton Cove to Forked Island, Cow Island, 
and Esther. 

The Thealls came from New England to the Teche country about 1800 and 
migrated to Vermilion later. John Benjamin Theall was appointed the 
first parish clerk of court when Vermillion Parish was created in 1844. 

In early Theall, there was a one room school, a grocery store, and a 
post office. The Theall post office was closed in 1954. 

Following the Civil War, Joseph Theall bought a house which was built 
upriver on the Vermilion at Campbell's Ferry. It was moved by float and 
slide to the Theall settlement by a team of 12 yoked oxen. It remained 
there until 1872, when it was purchased for $100 by Ambroise LaCour 
Jr., who moved it across Little Bayou to higher land at Mouton Cove.