Louis J. DeSabla

        L. J. de Sabla, farmer and gardener, was born June 11, 1832, at Pointe a Pitre, Guadeloupe, West Indies. He is the third of five children born to Marquis de Joly de Blayon de Sabla and Eugenie Gallois.   The father was a soldier in the 100 days' service under Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. He died in 1865, in Panama, where be was buried. The mother was born in 1812 in Pointe a Pitre, Guadeloupe, West Indies; she died in Panama in 1870. Our subject had most excellent educational advantages, and finished at Henry IV College, at Paris, France. He also secured a good medical education, and practiced his profession one year in Pointe, Guadeloupe, West Indies. In 1840, he went with his father to Panama and engaged in civil engineering on the Panama Canal. In 1853, be came to New Orleans, La., and from there went to a health resort, on the Cumberland Mountains, for the benefit of his health. He married Miss Paulene Nancy Narramore, daughter of Judge Narramore, of Cumberland County, Tenn. Mrs. de Sabla was born January 4, 1841, in Cumberland County, Tenn., and by her union with our subject, became the mother of six children Catherine Helen, Joseph Ernest, Mary Octavia (Mrs. George H. Cushman), James Theodore, Fielding Eugene and Matilda Alice. Mr. de Sabla was elected and served as civil engineer of Cumberland County, Tenn., eight years, was also county court clerk of the same county for several years, and served as clerk and master under Hon. D. McKey. Mr. de Sabla has been quite successful, and owns 120 acres of fine laud just beyond the city limits on the south; 170 acres in Georgia, and 3,700 acres in Cumberland County, Tenn. Mrs. de Sabla and children are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and Mr. de Sabla is a member of the Catholic Church. He was formerly a Whig, but since the war he has voted with the Republican party.

  Goodspeed's "History of East Tennessee" 1887