Bio: John T. Boyet, Webster Par., Louisiana
Source:  Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville, 1890
Submitted by: Gwen Moran-Hernandez
Date: April 2000



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===John T. Boyet has been interested in agricultural pursuits in this 
section of the country since 1859, and is the owner of a fine planta-
tion, which he has brought to its present state of farming perfection 
through his own management and energy.  He was born in Stewart County, 
Ga., September 23, 1839, to John Boyet, who was born in the Old North 
State.  At an early day the latter removed to Georgia with his father, 
John Boyet, Sr., and became a prominent citizen of Marion County, 
serving as high sheriff of that county for a number of years.  He was a 
soldier in the War of 1812.  John Boyet, the father of the subject of 
this sketch, grew to manhood in Stewart County, and when a young man 
went to Marion County, where he married Miss Eliza Chapman, a native 
of Pike County, Ga.  After farming in that State for a number of years 
he removed to Louisiana in 1859, and located on the farm on which he 
now resides in Webster Par., Louisianaand on this farm his wife passed from 
life in 1888.  John T. Boyet, whose name heads this sketch, grew to 
mature years in this parish, and up to 1861 made his home with his 
father.  In March, 1862, he enlisted in the Confederate Army, being 
mustered into the Twenty-seventh Louisiana Infantry at New Orleans, 
and served until the war was over, being in a number of important 
engagements:  Chichamauga, Grand Bluff, Port Gibson, Baker's Creek, 
Black River and the siege of Vicksburg.  He received two wounds, one 
in the shoulder by a piece of shell, and a gunshot wound in the thigh.  
After his parole and return home from Vicksburg he began farming, 
and made one crop, at the end of which time he received notice of 
his exchange, was ordered to his regiment, which he joined in 
Alexandria, where he was held in reserve until the close of the war.  
After the surrender he returned home, and once more proceeded to make 
a living by the cultivation of the soil.  He was without means and by 
working as a farm hand for some three years he managed to save some 
means, and purchased a piece of land on time for $1,500.  He was 
compelled to labor very hard for three years, but at the end of that 
time his farm was his own.  He then purchased enough more land to 
make his acreage 500, and after farming this place for ten years he 
bought the farm where he now resides.  The home tract consists of 500 
acres, with about 300 under cultivation, and besides a fine new house 
which is on his place, he has convenient and fair outbuildings.  He 
lost by fire a handsome residence a few years age, but has since rebuilt.  
By his own earnest endeavors he has acquired his present property, a 
fact that speaks well for his ability as a man of business.  He was 
married in this parish in February, 1867, to Miss Virginia Draper, a 
daughter of Philip Draper.  She was born and reared in this parish, 
and here her children have been born, their names being: Sarah V., 
Eliza, Philip M., Henry C., Maude, Thomas C. and an infant son.  
Francis S. Died at the age of seven years, and two children died in 
infancy.  Mr. and Mrs. Boyet are  members of Fellowship Church, and 
are well known throughout this region as hospitable, charitable people,
and excellent and obliging neighbors.