Bio: Valery Gaiennie, Natchitoches Parish
Submitted by: Gaytha Carver Thompson
Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville,  1890



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VALERY GAIENNIE

Valery Gaiennie, deceased, owned one of the largest and best farms in
Natchitoches Parish.  He was born in New Orleans, June 2, 1816, and
removed to this parish in 1835, at the age of nineteen, with his father, Gen.
Francois Gaiennie, adjutant general of Louisiana Militia, where he continued
his farming pursuit.  January 27, 1843, Miss Heloise Metoyer, a native of this
parish and daughter of Benjamin and Aurora (Lambre) Metoyer, became his wife,
their union being blessed by the following children: Amanda, Mathilda, Denis,
Louise, Aurora, Heloise, Emeline and Valery, the third and last being
deceased.  As he is one of the representative citizens of this parish he was
nominated to the office of police jury (before the war of 1861, an office of
honor without salary).  He died April 1, 1877, leaving a sorrowing family and
many warm friends to mourn their loss.

His widow is a very energetic woman, and after his demise under took the
management of the plantation, and has been very successful, now owning 700
acres of land, 250 acres under cultivation, and a farm well stocked.  Her
grandfather came to Louisiana at the time the French took possession, they
being among the pioneers of the State.  The family are all members of the
Catholic Church.