Bio: G. A. G. Poole, 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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  G. A. F. POOLE has been a tiller of the soil throughout life, and the
attention he has given to each minor detail of his calling has placed him
in the front ranks of the agriculturists of this section.  He is a
Tennesseean, his birth occurring in Giles County, Tenn., in 1830, but his
parents, Armstead and Sallie (Craddock) Poole, were born, reared and
married in South Carolina, but afterward removed to Tennessee, and about
1837 to Marshall County, Miss., where the father passed from life the
following year.  His widow afterward married a Mr. Arnold and removed to
Texas, in which State she passed from life in 1858, a member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church.  Mr. Poole was of Irish descent, a farmer by
occupation, and being an upright and honorable man commanded the respect
and esteem of all who knew him.  David Craddock, the maternal grandfather,
was a farmer, a soldier in one of the early wars, and died in Mississippi.
The subject of this sketch is the eldest of two sons and three daughters,
he and two sisters, who reside in Texas, being the only members of the
family now living.  His youth was spent on his father's farm, and after
securing a common school education he began farming for himself at the age
of eighteen years, and form 1849 to 1854 he followed this calling in the
State of Texas, at the end of which time he came to Bossier Parish, where
he was married, in 1857, to Mrs. Jane E. Bryant, a daughter of William and
Sarah E. Bates, who came to Bossier Parish in 1838, purchasing land on Red
River, but locating at Minden, where he spent the rest of his days as a
wealthy planter, dying before the war, he and his wife being members of the
Methodist Episcopal Church.  After his marriage Mr. Poole settled on a
portion of his present farm, which then consisted of 200 acres, but by good
management and industry he has now become the owner of 3,000 acres of land,
nearly all of which is tillable, about 1,300 acres being under cultivation,
and about two-thirds of which he has cleared himself.  He raises from 600
to 700 bales of cotton annually, and raises corn enough for home use.  He
is one of the oldest settlers now living in his present neighborhood, and
is one of the most extensive and successful planters in the Red River
Valley.  From about 1859 he served four years as justice  of the peace, and
after the expiration of his term he joined the Twenty-second Louisiana
Infantry, and when that command crossed the Mississippi River he joined the
State Guards, of which he was a member until the close of the war.  To him
and his wife a family of eight children was born, one son and five
daughters now living.