A. L. COLE
                        West Lake, LA. 
                       Parish of Calcasieu

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Source: Southwest Louisiana and Biographical and Historical by
William Henry Perrin published in 1891;  page 144.

Contributed by Margaret Moore                         



Abson L. Cole is a native of Calcasieu parish, born in 1862. His 
parents were both Louisianians. His father was a successful
planter. He died in 1865. Our subject's mother is still living.
Mr. Cole grew to manhood and received his education in Calcasieu
parish.  
He is now and has been since beginning business life a planter
and stock raiser. He owns a plantation of two hundred and
twenty-five acres of land, well improved and fertile. Mr Cole
married in 1880, and is the father of three children.