Letter from Josephine Murchison Cooksey on April 23, 1987:
(Lucy Haile lived in Baton Rouge and at one time was well known there as
the writer of poetry for Christmas cards and such. One of her children
was a professor at the University of Baton Rouge)

Obituary from The Morning Advocate newspaper page 3 on September 14, 1939:
(FINAL RITES HELD FOR MRS. ST. AMANT -
Funeral services for Mrs. Francis
Alfred St. Amant, member of a family widely known in this section, were held
yesterday afternoon from the Rabenhorst parlor with the past of the
Methodist officiating. Interment was in Magnolia cemetery. Mrs. St.
Amant died yesterday morning at the home of her son, Alfred D. St. Amant
on Park drive, Southdowns. She was 85 years old.
Mrs. St. Amant, the
former Sarah Lucy Haile, was born in Crockett, Texas, the daughter of Samuel
Chester Haile and Lucy Ann Parker. She was the granddaughter of Elder John
Parker, friend of Sam Houston and one of the founders of the Texas
Republic. She was the great-granddaughter of Elder John Parker, builder
of Fort Parker and victim of an Indian massacre at the fort. At the time
his baby granddaughter, Cynthia Ann Parker, was captured by Cherokee
Indians. Elder Parker and his father-in-law, Benjamin White of Virginia,
were among the several antecedents of Mrs. St. Amant who took an active
part in the American revolution. Elder Parker founded the First Baptist
Church in the territory of Texas. Mrs. St. Amant was the widow of Francis
Alfred St. Amant, a native of St. John the Baptist parish, and had
numerous relatives in Ascension and other parishes, all of whom are
connected through Jean Francois Daspit de St. Amant, who came to New
Orleans in 1720. The late F.A. St. Amant was a steamboat captain for
35 years on the Mississippi River. Mrs. St. Amant leaves one sister,
Mrs. John Murchison of Craig Place, San Antonio, Texas, and four children:
Samuel Edgar of New York City; Mrs. Thomas G. McQuillen of Long Beach,
California, Alfred D. of Baton Rouge, and Chester P. of Baton Rouge;
13 grancdhildren and four great-grandchildren, three of whom are the
children of Dr. and Mrs. E.L. Bradsher of this city. Mrs. St. Amant
came to Baton Rouge in 1884 and had resided here since that time. She was
known for her literary ability and wrote during her active lifetime a
number of poems and some prose. She was a member of the Methodist Church.
Since the death of Captain St. Amant in 1921, she has resided with her
sons, Alfred D. and C.P., the last several years of her life having been
spent in the home of Alfred D. St. Amant.)

Sarah Lucy Haile and Francis Albert St. Amant were married 22 July, 1874, Houston Co. Texas.
1910 Census; Shows they had 10 children, only 4 living.

Louisiana Genealogical Register; Volume XX, Number 4, December, 1973;
Louisiana Genealogical and Historical Society, P.O. Box 3454, Baton Rouge,
Louisiana 70821:
BURIALS IN MAGNOLIA CEMETERY, EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH:
(ST. AMANT, MRS. LUCY HALE - Died September 12, 1939, age 84 years; lot
158)

Borrowed from records of Miss Eliza Bishop, deceased, and her co-copyright partner, Billie Nichols Bennett.

Son; Alfred D. St. Amant 1882-1951

Sister; Texanna Haile Simpson buried in the Glenwood Cemetery in Crockett, Texas.)