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Francois Armand Biossat Sr.

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Francois Armand Biossat Sr.

Birth
Colfax, Grant Parish, Louisiana, USA
Death
20 Dec 1880 (aged 58)
Boyce, Rapides Parish, Louisiana, USA
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Pineville, Rapides Parish, Louisiana, USA Add to Map
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BIOSSAT, François Armand, steamboat agent, merchant, general collector of cotton at Cotile (now Boyce) before Civil War. Born, Colfax, La., April 6, 1822. Married Annette Abby Allen, granddaughter of Lt. Gov. Simeon Martin of Rhode Island and daughter of Capt. Noah Henry Allen, U. S. Naval Rep. to Pensacola, Fla., in Natchitoches, February 8, 1842. Children: six died in infancy and interred in Rapides Cemetery. Four remaining: Mary Louise (b. 1844), married Dr. Robert Walker Beers; Harriet Martin (b. 1847), married Edward L. Pierson; Henry Antoine (b. 1848), married Martha Laulette Hunter, daughter of Benjamin Kitchen Hunter; and François Antoine, Jr. (b. 1852), murdered in 1876 at Cotile Landing. Died, Boyce, La., December 20, 1880. S.B.A. Sources: D.A.R. membership numbers 453251, 144294, 82953, 589653; Patsy K. Barber, Historic Cotile (1967); Walter Marvin Hunter, The Hunters of Bedford Co., Virginia (1975); Records of Annette Beers of Robeline, La., 1933; Records of Susan Abby (Biossat) Ford; and Records of Martha L. (Hunter) Biossat; U. S. Census, Rapides Parish
BIOSSAT, François Armand, steamboat agent, merchant, general collector of cotton at Cotile (now Boyce) before Civil War. Born, Colfax, La., April 6, 1822. Married Annette Abby Allen, granddaughter of Lt. Gov. Simeon Martin of Rhode Island and daughter of Capt. Noah Henry Allen, U. S. Naval Rep. to Pensacola, Fla., in Natchitoches, February 8, 1842. Children: six died in infancy and interred in Rapides Cemetery. Four remaining: Mary Louise (b. 1844), married Dr. Robert Walker Beers; Harriet Martin (b. 1847), married Edward L. Pierson; Henry Antoine (b. 1848), married Martha Laulette Hunter, daughter of Benjamin Kitchen Hunter; and François Antoine, Jr. (b. 1852), murdered in 1876 at Cotile Landing. Died, Boyce, La., December 20, 1880. S.B.A. Sources: D.A.R. membership numbers 453251, 144294, 82953, 589653; Patsy K. Barber, Historic Cotile (1967); Walter Marvin Hunter, The Hunters of Bedford Co., Virginia (1975); Records of Annette Beers of Robeline, La., 1933; Records of Susan Abby (Biossat) Ford; and Records of Martha L. (Hunter) Biossat; U. S. Census, Rapides Parish

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