Biography

Private Octave Legier served in the United States Civil War.
Enlisted: 1861
Mustered out: 1865
Side: CSA
Regiment(s): 5th Field Battery, Louisiana Artillery

Octave was born in 1846. He was the son of Jean Legier and Barbe Newman. ^[1]</div></div>

Civil War

Octave served with the Bridge's Battery, Louisiana Light Artillery. ^[2]

He married Marie Odeide Drouet in 1870. ^[3]

He passed away in 1905.^[4]</div></div>

1900 US Census

New Orleans, Lousiana^[5]

• Name: O Legier
• Age: 54
• Birth Date: Mar 1846
• Birthplace: Louisiana
• Home in 1900: New Orleans Ward 5, Orleans, Louisiana
• Occupation: Bookkeeper
• O Legier Head M 54 Louisiana
• Odide Legier Wife F 52 Louisiana
• Odide Legier Daughter F 27 Louisiana
• Adele Legier Daughter F 25 Louisiana
• Marie Legier Daughter F 20 Louisiana
• Rene Legier Son F 17 Louisiana
• Woodie Legier Son F 14 Louisiana

Sources

1. ↑ Ancestry Record 6587 #9756 Original data: State of Louisiana, Secretary of State, Division of Archives, Records Management, and History. Vital Records Indices. Baton Rouge, LA. New Orleans, Louisiana Birth Records Index, 1790-1899; Volume: 12; Page Number: 104
   Name: Octave Hippolyte Legier

   Gender: Male

   Race: White

   Birth Date: 3 Mar 1846

   Birth Place: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

   Father: Jean Francois Legier

   Mother: Barbe Octavie Newman</li>
2. ↑ United States Civil War Soldiers Index, 1861-1865," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FS2P-7M7 : 4 December 2014), O. Legier, Private, Company , Bridge's Battery, Louisiana Light Artillery, Confederate; citing NARA microfilm publication M378 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 17; FHL microfilm 881,473.</li>
3. ↑ "Louisiana, Parish Marriages, 1837-1957," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKJ8-JYKD : 13 March 2018), Octave Hyppolite Legier and Marie Odéide Drouet, 02 Jun 1866; citing Orleans, Louisiana, United States, various parish courthouses, Louisiana; FHL microfilm 906,311.</li>
4. ↑ Ancestry Record 6606 #282396 Original data: State of Louisiana, Secretary of State, Division of Archives, Records Management, and History. Vital Records Indices. Baton Rouge, LA, USA. Orleans Death Indices 1894-1907; Volume: 134; Page: 666
   Name: Octave Legier Junior

   Gender: M (Male)

   Age: 58

   Birth Year: abt 1847

   Death Date: 11 Feb 1905</li>
5. ↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MS5J-572 : accessed 27 February 2019), O Legier, 7th Precinct New Orleans city Ward 5, Orleans, Louisiana, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 49, sheet 4B, family 71, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,572. </li></ol>