De La Croix, F. P. D.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, pp.
318-319. Edited by William Henry Perrin. Published in 1891, by The Gulf
Publishing Company.

F. P. D. DELACROIX, ST. MARTINVILLE.--The subject of this sketch was born in Jefferson parish, Louisiana. He is the son of Joseph Dusuan DeLaCroix, and Estelle D. DeBlanc [married in St. Martin on 4 Apr 1821], both natives of Louisiana. Joseph Dusuan DeLaCroix was at one time a very extensive planter and land holder of St. Martin parish. He died in 1841, his wife surviving him until 1885. The DeBlanc family has been in this country since 1696; and the DeLaCroix since 1740. The ancestor of the DeBlanc family was Jussereau DeBlanc de St. Denis, who founded the city of Natchitoches in 1703.

The subject of this sketch received a good education, and is a gentleman of culture and intelligence. He has been planting a great part of his life, and now operates in this parish a plantation of thirteen hundred acres, belonging to his sister, Miss Elizabeth D. DeLaCroix. In the beginning of hostilities, Mr. DeLaCroix enlisted in the Confederate army and served for three years.  He was married in 1878 to Miss Mary J. Frankford, of New Orleans. They are the parents of three children, viz.: Albert, Elizabeth, Georgiana. Mr. DeLaCroix and family are Catholics.