Bio: Anchew S. Reisor, M.D., 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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     ANCHEW S. REISOR, M.D.  The subject of the present sketch is not only a
practicing physician and surgeon, but is also a prominent merchant, and is
postmaster at Reisor.  His birth occurred on the same farm upon which he
now resides, in 1849, and his parents were E. Madison and Charlotte (Scott)
Reisor, natives of Alabama, who were married here, and settled in the
woods, near what is now Reisor.  Here, in 1860, the father breathed his
last, his widow is yet surviving him, now in her sixtieth year.  They were
both members of the Missionary Baptist Church, and devout Christians.  Mr
Reisor was a successful planter, and was the only one of his family who
came to Louisiana.  They were of German descent.  The grandfather, Andrew
Scott, and his wife, Matilda Jones Scott, were born in North Carolina and
South Carolina, respectively.  They moved from South Carolina to Alabama,
and in 1847, came to Caddo Parish.  Mr. Scott died in 1873, and his wife in
1870, belonging at the time of their death to the Missionary Baptist
Church.  Their son, Capt. William J. Scott, was one of the best
schoolteachers in Louisiana in the early days.  He joined the Confederate
army, serving as first lieutenant and afterward as captain.  Dr. Reisor was
the eldest of the eight children born to his parents, of whom, at the
present writing, three sons and one daughter are living.  He was educated
int eh neighborhood school of this place, and in McKenzie, Col., and at
Clarksville, Tex.  After finishing his studies, he was for some years a
teacher in Panola  and Hunt Counties in the Lone Star State, and in the
meantime he devoted much time to the study of medicine, and in 1887
attended the Kentucky School of Medicine, at Louisville, graduating from
there in 1890.  He is now one of the leading practitioners of the parish,
as well as one of the prominent planters.  Reisor Station was named for
him, and he has been postmaster there since the office was first
established.  Dr. Reisor is a member of, and junior warden of, Land Mark
Lodge No. 214, A. F. & A. M., Keithville, and is a member of Charity Lodge,
A. O. U. W., of Shreveport.  In 1870 he was married to Miss Alabama Scott,
daughter of William Scott, a native of North Carolina, and Elizabeth Scott,
a native of Alabama, who came here in 1860.  Mr. Scott died in 1882, and
Mrs. Scott is still living.  To the subject of this sketch and his wife
have been born one son and one daughter.  The family belong to the
Missionary Baptist Church, and are at all times active in trying to advance
worthy causes.