Vermilion County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Gueydan, Jean Pierre - November - 1900 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Mary K. Creamer marykcreamer@yahoo.com December 31, 2016, 11:33 pm source: The Weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, December 01, 1900, Image 2 Word has been received by cablegram of the death of Mr. J. P. Gueydan, in France, where he was on a visit. Mr. Gueydan was the founder of the town of Gueydan, owner of a large portion of the town site and much land in Vermilion parish. He has done much to improve that parish, and his death is a loss to Southwest Louisiana. -- Crowley Mirror. source: The Lafayette Gazette. (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, December 01, 1900, Image 2 Mr. Jean Pierre Gueydan, father of H. L. Gueydan, editor of the Gueydan News, died in Paris last week. Mr. Gueydan was a very enterprising citizen and to him more than to anyone else is due the development of the country around the town of Gueydan. Though a native of France he had long since become thoroughly identified with this country and its institutions. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/la/vermilion/obits/g/gueydan6748gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/lafiles/ File size: 1.0 Kb