William H. Mount, Lawrence Co., AR., then Catahoula Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller
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Date: Aug. 2001




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William H. Mount, proprietor of the Glade plantation in Catahoula Parish, is a native 
of Arkansas, and has spent most of his life in Louisiana and his people have been 
southern planters for several generations.

Mr. Mount was born in Lawrence County, Arkansas, June 21, 1869, son of William C. 
and Josephine (Smith) Mount.  His father spent his early life in Washington County, 
Mississippi, and enlisted and served in the Confederate Army, being in the service 
four with only one furlough.  He participated in many battles and just three days 
before the surrender of Lee, was captured.  One of his brothers who was killed in 
the war owned a grist mill near Powhatan, Arkansas, and after the war W. G. Mount 
moved to Arkansas to take charge of the operation of this property.  He married in 
Arkansas, Miss Josephine Smith, who was visiting there.  She was born and raised in 
New Orleans. daughter of James Smith, owner of the extensive plantation in Black River 
in Catahoula Parish, where his son William H. Mount now lives.  In 1878, the Mount 
family moved from Arkansas to this plantation, locating at the village of Security.  
Mrs. Josephine Mount died there at the age of forty-two, and her husband subsequently 
returned to Mississippi and died at the age of sixty-two at Lake Providence, Louisiana.  
After the war he served as deputy county clerk in Lawrence County, Arkansas, and was 
a Justice of the Peace in Catahoula Parish.

William H. Mount is one of two sons.  His brother Fred S., lived at Lismore in Concordia 
Parish and died in Natchez, Mississippi.  William H. Mount since the age of eleven years 
has had his home in Louisiana.  After finishing his education, he was employed in 
government work and in saw-mills and in l900 began farming on Horse Shoe Lake.  In 
1901 he took management of the plantation left by his mother which has been a part 
of the old Security plantation.  Since 1918 he has been proprietor of the Glade 
plantation, and has one of the highly productive properties and is one of the 
substantial men of business in the parish,

Mr. Mount married in 1903, Miss Ella Cross, daughter of Jonathan Cross.  She is a 
native of Texas.  Their children are Hobart S., Eugene, Whitlock, Murthys and Katherine 
Bell.  Mrs. Mount is a member of the Baptist Church.  W. H. Mount is affiliated with 
the Masonic fraternity and from 1912 to 1916, served as a member of the Police Jury 
at Catahoula Parish representing Ward Seven.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 381, by Henry E. Chambers.  Published by The 
American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.