{{Infobox officeholder
| name=Hewitt Leonidas Bouanchaud​
| image=Hewitt Bouanchaud of LA.jpg
| birth_date=August 18, 1877​
| birth_place=Poydras Plantation<br>
From his first marriage in 1905 to the former Emma Campbell Kearney (1876-1914), Bouanchaud had three children. After Emma's death, he married in 1916 the former Eustatia Morrison (1891-1976) and had another child.<ref name=lahist/> Bouanchaud is interred beside his second wife at St. Marys Cemetery in New Roads. The first wife is interred in the same cemetery.<ref name=findagrave/>
Because of its natural beauty and location, New Roads has been called "the [[Naples]] of Louisiana" and "the most ideally situated town in the United States."<ref name=naplesofla>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylhcv.com/new-roads-once-likened-as-the-naples-of-louisiana/|title="New Roads once likened as the Naples of Louisiana|publisher=," ''The Pointe Coupee Banner,'' on mylhcv,com|author=Bryan J. Costello, ed.|date=April 10, 1909|accessdate=June 10, 2020}}.</ref>
Mayor Joseph Lamartine Bouanchaud (1872-1951), an older brother of Hewitt Bouanchaud,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/191511293/joseph-lamartine-bouanchaud|title=Joseph Lamartine Bouanchaud|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=June 10, 2020}}</ref> served at the turn of the 20th century and is credited with much of the progress made by New Roads.<ref name=naplesofla/> Many Bouanchaud descendants still live in New Roads. James Madison Bouanchaud (1931-2020), a great-nephew of Hewitt Bouanchaud, was a civic figure and [[automobile]] dealer in New Roads, who branched out into Zachary in East Baton Rouge Parish and Gonzales in Ascension Parish.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://obits.nola.com/obituaries/nola/obituary.aspx?n=james-madison-bouanchaud&pid=196311253&fhid=5614|title=James Madison Bouanchaud|publisher=''The New Orleans Times-Picayune''|date=June 7, 2020|accessdate=June 10, 2020}}</ref>
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