W. E. McDade, Bossier Parish, Louisiana
Contributor: Frances Ball Turner



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History of Louisiana by Chambers
Vol. II, pg. 199

W. E. McDade.  The McDade family has been one of exceptional prominence on
Northwest Louisiana, particularly in Bossier Parish, where many of them
have been among the most successful and wealthy citizens, with planting as
their chief occupation, though some have also ranked high in merchandising
and banking and in public affairs.

As a family they represent the best type of the Scotch race.  The first
American ancestors on coming to this country located in Virginia.  J. G.
McDade, one of the founders of the family in Bossier Parish,  was a pioneer
settler in Texas, serving with Texas troops in the Confederate army.  Soon
after the war he moved to Louisiana and settled in the Fillmore community
of Bossier Parish, north of Haughton.  He married Miss Sallie Connell.  One
of their sons is Mr. J. G. McDade of Haughton, president of the police jury
of Boosier (sic) Parish.

Mr. W. E. McDade, son of J. G. and Sallie (Connell) McDade, was born at the
family homestead in the Fillmore community of Bossier Parish in 1870.  He
grew up in that locality, received his education in the local schools, and
from early manhood has been identified with farming and planting.  Like the
other McDades, he is a lover of the land and the country, a keen judge of
good soil and a thoroughly progressive farmer.  On the lookout for rich
land, he moved from Bossier Parish in 1913 to Belcher , in Caddo Parish,
where he acquired some tracts of the rich land for which that community is
famous.  Since then he has become one of the largest and most successful
planters in the region, an important individual grower of cotton.  Mr.
McDade is also one of the directors of the Bank of  Belcher, and was a
member of the building committee of the bank which erected a handsome new
structure, completed in 1925.  For several years he was also in the
mercantile business at Belcher.

Mr. McDade married Miss Mariah Butler, a sister of Mr. A.P. Butler of
Belcher and member of a distinguished family of South Carolina, her
grandfather having been a soldier and governor of that state, and her
great-grandfather a major-general in the War of the Revolution.  Mr. and
Mrs. McDade have two children:  P.D. McDade and Mrs. Sadie Burden, the
latter a resident of Baton Rouge.

Frances (Ball) Turner
Vancouver, WA