Born April 12, 1891, John Frank Cieutat was the third child and second son born to Victor Cieutat and Josephine Spitzfaden. He grew up in St. Bernard Parish, LA.
John was working as a salesman (at a wood factory) by the age of 19. He had taken a job in a paper factory by the age of 29. He was still living with his mother and several siblings in 1930 (at the age of 39), working as a wholesale salesman.
John died in May of 1944 at the age of 53.