Lewis John Mayeux, Allen Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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Lewis John Mayeux was in France as an American soldier during the World 
War, and since its close has resumed his profession as a lawyer and is 
one of the leading attorneys of the Allen Parish bar with home and offices 
at Oberlin.

He was born at Plaucheville, in Avoyelles Parish, November 18, 1893.  His 
father, Pierre Alzide Mayeux was also a native of Avoyelles Parish and has 
been a farmer and stockraiser.  The mother bore the maiden name of Stella 
Plauche of a pioneer family in Avoyelles Parish.

Lewis John Mayeux attended the Convent High School at Plaucheville, graduated 
in 1909 from St. John's College, and following that became a clerk and 
stenographer in the law office of his uncle, Thomas C. Plauche, at Lake Charles.  
In 1915 he was admitted to the bar, and for a time served as deputy clerk of 
court and law student at Leesville in Vernon Parish.

He gave up a promising position as a lawyer in June, 1917, to enter the 
Officer's Training School, and was commissioned second lieutenant of infantry 
with the Fourth Company of the Twelfth Provisional Battalion at Fort Root, 
Arkansas.  He was then sent to Camp Pike, Arkansas, attached to the Three 
Hundred and Forty-fifth United States Infantry, was promoted to first lieutenant, 
and on August 15, 1918, sailed for France.  In France he was given intensive
training in the army school at Langres.  After his return home he was discharged 
from Camp Dix, New Jersey, January 23, 1919, and subsequently for four years 
held the rank of first lieutenant of infantry in the Officer's Reserve Corps.  
He is a member of the A, P. Griffith Post No. 56 of the American Legion at Oakdale.

Mr. Mayeux after the war resumed practice with the firm of Plauche & Mayeux 
with offices at Lake Charles and Oberlin, and since March, 1923, has been in 
general practice alone in the latter town.

He married at Baton Rouge, August 22, 1923, Miss Katie Morgan, daughter 
of Daniel T. Morgan, a prosperous planter of Baton Rouge Parish.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 276, by Henry E. Chambers.  
Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.