Highland
Cemetery (EBR31)
Baton Rouge
Pictures by
Martin Gauthier
PIERRE JOSEPH DE FAVROT
1749 - 1824
French Creole soldier 42 years in service of France and
Spain in Louisiana. On Galvez expedition, 1779. Commandant of
Spanish fort at Baton Rouge, 1779 - 1781, later at Mobile, Natchez, and
Plaquemines. Member of early Louisiana legislature, 1814. Planter
of West Baton Rouge.
PIERRE
JOSEPH
DE FAVROT
T. P. FAVROT LOUISIANA 1 LIEUT.
24 INF. WAR OF 1812 FEBRUARY 11, 1822
HENRY BOUVIER FAVROT 1799 - 1881
Private, 8th Regt, Meriam's Co., War of 1812. Capt., 11 th Regt.,
La. Militia, 1836. Organizer of company of free black volunteers
for Confederate States Army. Operator of first regularly established
ferry service at Baton Rouge, beginning 1836.
JOHN STEPHEN HUGUET, M.D. C.
S. A.
MEMBER LA. LEGISLATURE 1825 ––– 1891
"Huguel, J., Pvt. Co. 2, 3rd Regt. European Brig. (Garde
Francaise) La. Mil. Appears on Roll not dated."
Above from Records of Louisiana
Confederate Soldiers by Andrew B. Booth
JOHN STEPHEN HUGUET, M.D. 1827
- 1891
Son of Baton Rouge's Spanish hardware merchant, Juan Huguet, he was
educated at Jefferson College. Became doctor of medicine. Through his
wife, Mary Elvira Kleinpeter, he became part owner if Hard Times
Plantation and a planter of the highlands. He served in elite French
Guard, C. S. A.
JOHN RANDOLPH WAR OF 1812 1777
–– 1837
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