DENNIS E. BAGGETT DRY CREEK, Calcasieu, LA ** ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ Source: Southwest Louisiana and Biographical and Historical by William Henry Perrin published in 1891; page 140. Contributed by Margaret Moore Dennis E. Baggett was born in Harrison county, Mississippi, in 1847. He spent his boyhood days and received his education in Mississippi. At the age of seventeen years he moved to Louisiana and located in Calcasieu parish, where he has since been engaged in farming. His father was a native of Florida and his mother of Mississippi. The father moved to Mississippi early in life, where he was engaged in lumbering. He died August, 1861, and his widow survived hem only a year. Dennis E. Baggett was married, in 1867, to Miss Ellen Nicolas, a native of Calcasieu parish. They are the parents of nine children, seven of whom are living.