Bio: Thomas G. Pickett, 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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THOMAS G. PICKETT, although just in the prime of life, has made his way to
the front ranks among the energetic farmers of Bossier Parish, and owing to
the attention he has always paid to each minor detail he has accumulated a
fair share of this world's goods.  He was born in the parish in which he is
now living, his birth occurring in 1846,  and was the eleventh of twelve
children born to Nathan and Catherine (McIntire) Pickett, who were born in
South Carolina, but were married in Mississippi, and from that State came
to Bossier Parish, La., first settling in the Point, but afterward in
different parts of this parish.  Mr. Pickett was a worthy tiller of the
soil, and died in 1855, his wife having passed to her long home two years
earlier, both members of the Christian Church.  Thomas G. Pickett inherits
Scotch and Irish blood of his father, and his youth was spent on the
latter's plantation in Louisiana, his education being received in Yazoo
County, Miss.  At the age of sixteen years he joined Company E.,
Twenty-eighth Mississippi Cavalry, and was in all the engagements of the
Tennessee campaign and the Georgia and Atlanta campaigns, receiving a wound
in the engagement at Atlanta.  He surrendered at Gainesville, Ala., in May,
1865, then spent the following year in Mississippi, at the end of which
time he returned to Bossier Parish, where he was married in 1874 to Miss
Eula, daughter of Sidney and Sallie Pope, who came thither from Bossier
Parish before the war.  Mr. Pope died, however, in Texas during the war,
but his widow is now living in this parish, the widow of James D. McDade.
Mr. Pickett was so unfortunate as to lose his wife in 1880, she having
borne him two sons, one son now living.  Since his marriage Mr. Pickett has
resided on his present farm of 1,400 acres, of which about 475 acres are
under cultivation, two-thirds of which he has cleared himself.  The most of
his property has been obtained by his own efforts, and the cotton he
annually raises, which amounts to about 300 bales, brings him in a handsome
sum for his labor.  For some time he was engaged in merchandising with E.
S. Dortch, but since 1889 he has been following this calling on his own
account, his establishment being located on his plantation and is well
fitted up.  His wife was a member of the Methodist Church.