Bio: George W. Musser,  Caddo 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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GEORGE W. MUSSER,  planter of Ward 8, Caddo Parish, La., is the subject of the
present sketch, and a gentleman well liked both by his friends and neighbors,
and also popular with the visitors who have occasion to partake of his
hospitality and kindly welcome.  His birth occurred in Bedford County, Tenn.,
in 1844, being the son of Ewing and Mary (Wade) Musser, natives of the
Blue-Grass State, and Shelby County, Tenn., respectively.  They were married
many years ago, and in 1858 moved to Newton County, Mo., where the father was
killed by the bushwhackers in 1862, and the mother had breathed her last the
year previous.  Mr. Musser's paternal grandfather, George Musser, was of
German descent and died in Kentucky.  His maternal grandfather Wade died in
Shelbyville, Tenn.  The subject of this sketch was the eldest of the six
children born to his parents.  He passed his youth on a plantation, and
received only a very moderate amount of educational training.  In 1861,
when only seventeen, he joined Company D. of Gordon's regiment of Fagan's
division of Arkansas Cavalry, and took part in the battles of Praitie
Grove, Mark's Mill, and was in the Price raid, in Missouri.  He was severely
wounded at Poison Springs and surrendered at Shreveport when peace was once
ore restored throughout the country.  He first settled at Bossier Parish,
and in 1879 married Miss Nancy C. Moss, daughter of J. C. C. and Emily
Moss, natives of Alabama and Arkansas, respectively.  Mrs. Musser was born
in Alabama, and to her union have been born two sons.  In 1879 Mr. Musser
crossed the river into Caddo Parish, near Robson, P. O., and here owns a
fine plantation of 200 acres of highly cultivated land.  His present
plantation is about sixteen miles from Shreveport, and he is showing good
judgment in the cultivation of his land, and is meeting with truly
wonderful success in all his agricultural undertakings.