Bio: Van Hoose & Terrell, 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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     VAN HOOSE & TERRELL.  

R. H. Terrell is a member of the well-known firm whose name forms the caption
of this sketch, who are planters and general merchants of Grigsby Island and
Shreve Island, where they are owners of about 970 acres on one and 800 acres
on the other.  They have about 1,200 acres under cultivation, produce about
800 bales of cotton annually and corn sufficient to run them.  They also
conduct a general supply store and are wide-awake, enterprising business men. 
Mr. Terrell owes his nativity to Grimes County, Tex., in 1860, and his
parents, John H. and Susan (White) Terrell, were born in Georgia and Alabama,
respectively.  The parents were married in Texas, and there the father died in
1868.  The mother died in 1889.  Both were members of the Missionary Baptist
Church.  The father was a successful tiller of the soil, and during the late
civil war served in the Confederate army.  The paternal grandfather, Robert
Terrell, the second of four children, was reared to the arduous duties of the
farm, and educated at the Agricultural and Mechanical College at Bayou, Tex. 
After this he clerked about five years and in 1881 came to his present farm, a
fine property, all the result of his own efforts.
     

James H. Van Hoose, a partner of the above mentioned firm, was originally from
Fayetteville, Ark., his birth occurring in 1854, and is a son of Peter P. and
Annie A. (Gregg) Van Hoose, the father a native of the Blue Grass State and
the mother of Alabama.  The parents were married in Washington County, Ark.,
and there the father died in 1865.  He was a lawyer for many years and a man
of considerable prominence.  He served in the Confederate army  and was on
Masonic parole at Springfield, Mo., at the time of his death.  He was a very
prominent Mason.  The mother is still living and is a member of the
Presbyterian Church.  Her father, John Gregg, died in Marshall, Tex.  James H.
Van Hoose was the eldest of six children born to his parents.  He moved to
Marshall, Tex., with his mother in 1869 and from there to Shreveport, La., in
1870.  He received his education at Marshall and Shreveport, and was married
in 1882 to Miss Anna White, a native of Shreveport and the daughter of Reuben
and Martha White.  She died on February 22, 1890, and left three children. 
Mr. Van Hoose is a member of the Presbyterian Church, and socially is a member
of the K. of P., Kalantha Lodge, Shreveport; L. of H., Magnolia Lodge, and K.
of H.