Jose Bibiano Sepulvado was born in 1829 in Nacogdoches, Nacogdoches County, Texas. Bibiano married Georgonia Estrada (1836-1876) on March 17, 1851 in Nacogdoches, Nacogdoches, Texas. They had Jose O. (1852-1930), Jenny (1861-), Jacob Jeronymo Sepulvado (1854-1915).

Josephine Joseppa Ezernack (1848-), daughter of Jose Antonio “Tony” and Lucia Chepeta Mora. Josephine Ezernack and Bibiano married July 25, 1864 in Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, Natchitoches, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana. They had the following children: Marie Guadalupe “Sally” (1876-), Raphael (1866-), Maria Antonia (1875-), Mary A. (1880-), Mary Lucia (1879-), John (1881-), Luciano (1881-), Juan Antonia (1882-), Hilaria Elidia Sepulvado (1872-1941).

Bibiano married Regina “Jenny” Procell on October 21, 1884 at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, Zwolle, Sabine Parish, Louisiana. They had Maria Macedonia (1890-), Margarita (1887-), Maria Louise (1889-), and Tiburcio “Bush” Sepulvado (1893-).

According to Vivian Sepulveda’s Confederate Pension Application (dated August 7, 1900) he was born in 1829 in Nacogdoches, Nacogdoches, Texas. He enlisted in the fall of 1862 at Many, Sabine, Louisiana in Captain Carey’s Company. He served in the Infantry, 28th Regiment (Gray’s), Company B (Carey’s Company). Comrades include Robert Rivers, Manuel Cortinez, Jose Leone, all of Zwolle. Vivian served until the end of the war and was in Shreveport at the time of surrender.

Vivian states he has been a resident of Bayou Scie in Sabine Parish, Louisiana for 65 years. He is married, wife age 45, has six children, 4 girls and 2 boys. Sepulveda states he farms a little, made 350 lbs. of cotton and 100 bushels corn last year (1899). He owns no land, states “two years ago I sold my land in order to get something to live on”. He owns 1 mare, $15, 2 cows, and calves, $20. He states he can no longer farm because he has “rheumatism in my hip and my right arm has been broken and have something like a weird growing on it”.

Jose Bibiano Sepulvado died October 13, 1903 in Zwolle. He is buried in St. Joseph Catholic Church Cemetery in Zwolle, Sabine Parish, Louisiana.

Reference

Confederate Pension Application: Vivian Sepulveda. Reel CP1.125, Microdex 4, Sequence 8. Index available online http://www400.sos.louisiana.gov/archives/gen/cpa-alpha.htm