Bio: James C. Belcher, Bossier, & Caddo Parish La Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville, 1890 Submitted by: Suzanne Shoemaker ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** James C. Belcher is a native of Abbeville District, S. C., his birth occurring September 20, 1842, his parents, James M. and Mary Frances (Nesley) Belcher, being also born in that State. James C. received his education in his native State and in Augusta, Ga., and in April, 1861, he joined the Confederate army, being a member of Company C, Seventh Regiment, from that State. After remaining in the infantry fourteen months, Lee's army was reorganized, and he became a member of Company G, Second South Carolina Cavalry, of Lee's army, participating in many battles, among which may be mentioned first Manasses, Yorktown, where he was accidently wounded by one of his comrades, and in a number of other minor engagements. After the close of the war he farmed some, then gave his attention to the mercantile business, and later was engaged in purchasing cotton. He came to Bossier Parish, La., in 1867, and followed farming until 1884, when he entered the employ of Capt. J. H. Nattin, with whom he has since been connected, having charge of the store and plantation of Wild Lucia. In 1875 he was married to Miss Elizabeth R. Gleadney, who was born in 1851, and died in 1884, and to them two children were born: Gertrude and Mary M. Mr. Belcher is a Democrat, and is acknowledged to be one of the most enterprising citizens of Caddo Parish. His father was a wholesale merchant in Augusta, Ga., and died in July, 1857, at the age of thirty-nine, his wife dying in 1844.