Bio: Samuel Whit Vance, 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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  SAMUEL WHIT VANCE.  In no part of Louisiana is agriculture in a more
flourishing condition than in Bossier Parish, and Mr. Vance is considered
one of its most successful young planters, he being a member of a prominent
old family of this parish.  He is the second of three children-two sons and
one daughter-born to Samuel Whit and Sallie E. (James) Vance, who were born
in South Carolina and Alabama, respectively, and were married in Bossier
Parish, La., settling first at Plain Dealing, and afterward where the
subject of this sketch is now living, on which place Mr. Vance died in
1877, having been a prosperous planter.  Socially he was a member of the A.
F. & A. M. at Benton, a son of Mr. Daniel Vance, who died in South
Carolina.  Mrs. Vance is still living, and is a true Christian lady and a
worthy member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  Samuel Whit Vance was
born at Plain Dealing, La., in 1864, and his youth was spent in learning
the "halling" of a farm and in attending the school at Shreveport.  Upon
leaving school he spent three years in a store on Shady Grove plantation,
and since that time has resided on the farm on which he is now living,
which comprises several thousand acres of excellent farming land, on the
cultivated portion of which he raises some 400 bales of cotton annually.