Private Farrell J. Vice

Farrell Vice grew up in the Henry community, went to Henry High School and helped on his family's farm and dairy, baling hay for neighbors to earn extra money. He served in the Army in Vietnam, where he was awarded the Silver Star for valor. He was killed on May 24, 1969, at 21, and was survived by his wife, Carolyn. In 2007 the Acadian Museum in Erath inducted him into its Legends program, and his memorial stands in front of the museum on South Broadway Street.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Jungle Gardens and Avery Island — 8.1 mi
  A 170-acre garden and wildfowl refuge on a Gulf Coast salt dome, founded by Edward Avery McIlhenny, on an island that was a Marsh sugar plantation worked by enslaved people before Tabasco and the 1862 salt works.
• Shadows-on-the-Teche — 14 mi
  A National Trust site in New Iberia built 1831 to 1834 for sugar planters David and Mary Weeks, now interpreted around the 1,112 people the Weeks family enslaved, among them Charity Polk, Amos, Patty, Isaac and Louisa.
• St. Martin de Tours Catholic Church — 17 mi
  The Mother Church of the Acadians, founded in 1765 on St. Martin Square in St. Martinville, with a late 1870s Lourdes grotto and, a block away, the Evangeline Oak on Bayou Teche.
• African American Museum, St. Martinville — 17 mi
  A museum in the St. Martinville Cultural Heritage Center on the arrival of Africans in Southwest Louisiana, slavery, the free people of color and Reconstruction, with the fourteen-panel exhibit The Shackles of Memory.

More markers nearby

• First Lt. Brandon R. Dronet — steps away
• The 1964 Fall of the Erath Water Tower — steps away
• The Erath Sugar Company — steps away
• Acadian Prairie Settlement — 1.1 mi