Bio: Henry Barnacastle, Bossier Parish La
Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville,  1890

Submitted by: Suzanne Shoemaker



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     HENRY BARNACASTLE, of the firm of Barnacastle & Murff, general merchants
and druggists at Haughton, established their business in September, 1889.
Mr. Barnacastle was born in Bertie County, N. C., in 1830, a son of James
and Harriet (Barber) Barnacastle, who were also born in the same county of
North Carolina, where they married and lived until 1848, when they removed
to Florida, in which State Mr. Banacastle died in 1852, his widow afterward
removing to Mississippi, where she passed from life during the war, both
being members of the Baptist Church, and the former a planter by
occupation.  Beverly Barnacastle, the paternal grandfather, was of Irish
descent, and died in Bertie County, N. C.  The Grandfather Barber was a
sailor by calling, and the most of his life was spent on the ocean, his
death occurring while at sea.  Henry Barnacastle was the third of nine
children, and in his youth became familiar with farm life, obtaining a
common-school education.  Since 1849 he has been a resident of Bossier
Parish, and here he was married in 1856 to Miss Patience P., daughter of
Henry and Rhoda Herring, natives of Georgia, who removed to Bossier Parish
in 1850, and spent the rest of their lives here, Mr. Herring dying before
the war and his widow about 1885, the former being a farmer by occupation
and one of the early settlers of this region.  Mrs. Barnacastle was born in
Twiggs County, Ga., and has borne Mr. Barnacastle four children-one son and
three daughters.  Mr. Barnacastle farmed until 1866, then engaged in
merchandising at Old Fillmore, where he continued four years, then removed
a few miles south, and when Haughton was established he removed to that
place, where he has since been in business, being one of the leading
merchants of the place.  In 1862 he joined Company B, Twenty-eighth
Louisiana Infantry, and operated in Lower Louisiana until the close of the
war, being in several severe skirmishes, and surrendered at Shreveport,
after which he returned to the farm.  He was justice of the peace some
years, and since 1888 has been a member of the police jury from Ward 6.  In
1880 he took the census of Wards 6 and 1, and for one year was mayor of
Haughton.  He is a member of the A. F. & A. M., Bellevue Lodge No. 95, and
was master of Fillmore Lodge some years.  He was made a Mason in 1854, and
Royal Arch Mason in 1865.