Bio: Noah H. Boyet, Webster Par., Louisiana
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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Noah H. Boyet is a merchant and farmer, and both callings have been 
remarkably successful.  He is a native of Georgia and was born in 
Marion County on March 23, 1845, coming to this State and county with 
his parents in 1859, and from here enlisted in the Confederate Army, 
in 1862, when but seventeen years of age.  He served in the Twenty-
seventy Louisiana Infantry until the close of the war, participation 
in the siege of Vicksburg and in several skirmishes.  After the close 
of the war he returned to Webster Parish and turned his attention to 
tilling the soil, an occupation that received his attention exclusively
for a number of years.  In 1880 he engaged in the dry-goods business, 
his establishment being near the south line of the parish, but upon 
the building of the Vicksburg, Shreveport & Pacific Railroad Mr. Boyet 
started a branch store at Dubberly.  In 1885 he moved to this place, 
and here has followed merchandising up to the present time.  He has a 
large store-room and an excellent line of goods, which he disposes of 
at a very reasonable rate.  He purchased a strip of land near the town,
erected thereon a substantial residence, and has it otherwise improved.  
Mr. Boyet commenced the battle of life empty handed at the close of 
the war, but by the free exercise of brain and brawn and a judicious 
amount of economy he has accumulated a competency.  Although his 
school days were very limited he has acquired a fair business 
education, and is sufficiently versed in the affairs of the every-day 
life to become a successful man of business.  He was married on 
January 16, 1868, to Miss Mary Ann, a daughter of David Lard, she 
being a native to Louisiana and of Webster Parish.  Mr. Boyet and 
his worthy wife have had a family of eight children born to them: 
Daniel W., Benjamin, Shelly B., Anna, Louisa, Elizabeth, James B. and
Mandil.  Mr. Boyet has always been public spirited, and at all times 
has shown himself to be honorable in every particular, and a keen and 
far-seeing business man.