Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 126, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 3, 2008 Page: 3 of 16
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POLK COUNTY ENTERPRISE • THURSDAY, JANUARY 3,2008 » PAGE 3A
From The Archives
By Wanda Bobinger, curator,
Polk County Memorial Museum
www.livingston.net/museum
Labadie was physician, Civil War
surgeon, Polk County land owner
Nicholas Qescomps Labadie,
born in 1802 in Ontario, became
a physician, pharmacist and en-
trepreneur. He was the son of a
fur trader who died when Nicho-
las was only five years old. His
older siblings helped to send him
to the parish school where he ex-
celled. When he was twenty-one
he traveled to Missouri to be-
come a priest.
There he studied with two
priests who later would lead the
Catholic Church in Texas.
However, Labadie decided to
become a doctor. He mastered
both the medical and pharmaco-
logical practices of the day.
In 1831 he made a visit to Ana-
huac, Texas where a garrison had
been established.
His prospects seemed good so
he traveled to New Orleans where
he purchased medicines.
He was employed as post sur-
geon and was given a town lot
on which to build his home and
office to treat his civilian neigh-
bors. He also became a partner in
a mercantile business for several
years.
Angered because his position
as post surgeon was terminated,
Labadie sided with the insurgents
in June 1832 during the Anahuac
Disturbances.
Between 1833 and 1838, Laba-
die live on his plantation on the
shore of Lake Charlotte, a site
that connected with the Trinity
River north of Waliisville where
he raised hogs, corn, cattle and
honey for market. He also contin-
ued with his medical practice.
He marched to join Sam Hous-
;, ton’s army with the Liberty ,'mili- .,
tiaon March 11, 1836.
/ At the Groce family’s Bernardo
Plantation he was appointed sur-
geon of the first regiment of regu-
lars on April 6 and treated vari-
ous camp illnesses.
He later fought under General
Sidney Sherman and tended the
wounded at San Jacinto.
He recorded his reminiscences
of that campaign in the Texas Al-
manac.
John Forbes, commissary gen-
eral of the Texas Army at San
Jacinto, sued Labadie for libel in
the district court of Nacogdoches
County, and the suit was not fi-
nally dismissed until 1867.
Labadie returned to his planta-
tion in May 1836 to find it had
been ransacked by looters, his
wife and children having fled to-
ward the Neches River.
In September 1838, under
orders from Secretary of War
Thomas J. Rusk, Labadie moved
his family to Galveston, where he
continued to practice medicine
and pharmacology.
He invested in real estate, con-
ducted a boarding house and built
the first Catholic church on the
island.
In 1851 he traded his planta-
tion on Lake Charlotte to Michel
B. Menard for Galveston wharf
rights and build Labadie’s Wharf
near the foot of 26th Street. Here
he operated a line of sailing ves-
sels the imported lumber from
Pensacola, Florida.
During the Civil War, Labadie
served as examining physician
for draftees in 1863 and a sur-
geon of the First Regiment, Texas
Militia in Galveston.
His wife Mary had died dur-
ing the yellow fever epidemic in
1839. He married Mrs. Agnes Ri-
vera pf New York pneyeftr jitter.
She bore him a son In 1841 but
she died in 1843 during another
fever epidemic.
Labadie married a third time to
N.D. LABADIE hopped
around the state working as
a physician, pharmacist and
enterpreneur - even report-
edly mustering troops in Polk
County during the Civil War.
Julia Seymour, a native of Con-
necticut. They had no children.
Labadie received a land grant
from the Republic of Texas by
patent dated Sept. 30, 1844. The
N.D. Labadie Survey in Polk
County (4,511 acres) was pur-
chased by Caraway Oates in
1857.
Although an exhibit at the
Star of the Republic Museum
in Brenham states that in 1836
Dr. Nicholas Labadie mustered
troops in Polk County,.as does a
book entitled, “Scalpels and Sa-
bers” by Sylvia Van Voast Ferris,
documentation was not found to
support these statements.
EDITORS NOTE: Beginning
next week, 'From the Archives'
will take a brief hiatus while the
author is on medical leave.
First deer for local 6-year-old
COURTESY PHOTO
FIRST BUCK BROUGHT DOWN by six-year-old Callie Loper of Livingston dur-
ing opening weekend of hunting season. Callie’s parents are Charlene Loper and the
late Michael IjXtper of Livingston. Grandparents are Ronnie and Maryanne Loper of
Livingston. v
OFFICIAL RECORDS
JUSTICE COURT
* Precinct 1
Judge Darrell Longino
presiding.
' Criminal Docket
’ Lou Ann Hicks, hindering ap-
< ‘ prehension/prosecution of known
‘ felon. -
Edward Allen Dobson, hinder-
ing apprehension/proMcution of
I known felon. ^
* Donna Gayle Malnar, hinder-
1 ing apprehension/prosecution of
\ known felon.
Shawn Steven O’Bannon, hin-
* dering apprehension/prosecution
I of known felon.
t Mark Glenn Mordecai, unau-
thorized use of a vehicle.
Dana L. Bledsoe Isom, parent
contributing to non-attendance.
Tiffany Aliese Isom, failure to
attend school.
Joshua Christian McCaffety,
failure to attend school.
Bonds set
Summer Marie Lewallen, hin-
dering apprehension/prosecution
of known felon, $5,000.
Ronnie Glen Seagroves, assault
family violence, $2,000.
Mark Edward Brown, pos-
session of controlled substance,
$2,000.
James Bart Jordan, revocation
of probation/possession of con-
trolled substance, $350 cash.
James Bart Jordan, bond forfei-
ture/evading arrest/detention, no
bond.
James Bart Jordan, driving
while license invalid with previ-
ous conviction.
MARRIAGE LICENSES
Christopher Shaun Blackwell,
19, Onalaska and Schyler Lynn
Findley, 18, Livingston.
Simon Dean Prince, 22,
Onalaska and Holly Iris Barton,
20, Onalaska.
James M. Roberts Jr., 50,
Onalaska and Virginia Bassler, 46,
Onalaska.
Richard H. Lewis, 21, Hunts-
ville and Michelle L. Steimle, 23,
Huntsville.
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Reddell, Valerie. Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 126, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 3, 2008, newspaper, January 3, 2008; Livingston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth659245/m1/3/?q=%22%22~1&rotate=90: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Livingston Municipal Library.