Felix Simoneaux

'''Felix Simoneaux Jr. '''(born May 24, 1905) is an American supercentenarian who is at the age of 110, the 2nd oldest living man in the United States behind 111-year old Wash Wesley.

Biography
Felix Simoneaux Jr. was born on May 24, 1905 in Montz in Louisiana but his family moved near the Bonnet Carre Spillway when he was a boy. Mass was celebrated at a Catholic chapel in Montz. He said his father had a farm, and he often helped, causing him to miss school. As a result, he only has a third-grade education, and he quit school at the age of 13.He was self-taught carpenter and also made sugar towers for sugar plants and major contractors.He also built Higgins landing boats and used the discarded lumber to make his house in 1941, before that he lived in a two-room house.He met his wife Myrtle at a dance in Luling and they married c.1934, he had 6 children,13 grandchildren and 26 great-grandchildren and 2 great-great-gradchidlren, they married for 70 years until Myrtle died at the age of 90 in 2004.

He also did farming, he grew carrots, spinach, greens (collard, mustard and turnip), mush melons, mirlitons, eggplants and other produce on three of his four acres of land. He also raised cows, chickens and fruit trees. He would sell his produce in the French Quarter.