E. H. BURLESON
                       Lake Charles, LA 
                      Parish of Calcasieu


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Source: Southwest Louisiana and Biographical and Historical by
William Henry Perrin published in 1891;  page 141.

Contributed by Margaret Moore                         

E. H. Burleson, a large saw-mill owner on Priens Lake, is a native of
Mississippi, born 1845.
He is the son of Alias and Sarah (Goff) Burleson. His father was a native of
Mississippi, born 1813, and his mother of Mississippi, born 1818. They were
married in Jackson county, Mississippi, and became the parents of ten children,
five sons and five daughters, only two of whom are now living. Elias Burleson
was a planter in Mississippi. He died in 1865, his wife surviving him
until 1874. Both were members of the Methoclist Episcopal church.
The subject of this sketch received his education in Jackson
county, Mississippi. At the age of six-teen years, in 1861, he enlisted
in Company L,  Twenty-seventh Mississippi Infantry, and was in the battles
of Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge and Lookout Mountain. At the host named
place he was taken prisoner and kept in confinement until the close of
the war.
He removed from Mississippi to Texas in 1868 and came to
Louisiana in 1879, and embarked in the saw-mill business with his
brother in 1881.  In 1889 his brother sold out his interest to C. Granger. 
He died in 1890, having been connected with the business for one year 
prior to 1890.  He was succeeded by Joseph V. Duhon. The present firm 
are energetic business men, and their business is large. Their mill has a 
capacity for cutting from twenty to twenty-five thousand feet of lumber per 
day. Mr. Burleson has never married.