DeSoto County MsArchives Biographies.....Lebauve, Felix November 16, 1809 - 
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Author: Dunbar Rowland

Labauve, Felix, was born at Vanziers, France. Nov. 16, 1809.  His father died
when he was a child, and he was sent by his mother, who was poor, to her
brothers at Camden, S. C to be reared by them. He became a clerk in their store;
came to Mississippi in 1835; carried on a mercantile business among the Indians
in DeSoto county; moved to Hernando in 1838; became a lawyer and an ardent
Democrat; was one of the editors of the Phoenix in 1841-42; was elected to the
legislature in 1813 and to the State senate in 1845. He served as a county
official for two years; was an ardent secessionist; and while too old to be a
regular soldier, was in the Confederate service part of the time. On one
occasion he captured, single handed, four of the enemy. He served in the
legislature in 1866, and was the State commissioner to the Paris exposition in
1877. He never married and when he died, at an advanced age, his will gave
$5,000 to Miss Bertha Ponsin, of France, his only relative living; generously
remembered a number of widows; gave some property for the building of a Catholic
church; and gave the rest of his estate for the creation of scholarships in the
University of Mississippi to bear his name.

Additional Comments:
source:
Encyclopedia of Mississippi History
Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, 
Institutions and Persons
Planned and Edited by Dunbar Rowland, LL.D.
Director, Mississippi Department of Archives and History;
Member American Historical Association
In Two Volumes
Vol. II
Madison, Wis., Selwyn A. Brant, 1907
pg. 17

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