Bio: Richard H. Cleveland, Claiborne Parish, LA
Source:  Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville, 1890
Submitted for the LAGenWeb Archives by: Gwen Moran-Hernandez, Jan. 2000


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Richard H. Cleveland, planter, Homer, La.  This prominent and much esteemed
citizen was originally from Franklin County, Ga., his birth occurring on June
28, 1823, and was fourth in a family of nine children, who are named as
follows: Araminta (became the wife of George Garner, of Franklin County, Ga.,
but is now deceased), James M. (resides in Stewart County, Ga.), William (died
in infancy), Martha (became the wife of C. Allen, of Georgia), Louisa (married
Jack Williams, of Georgia), Oliver C. (resides in Stewart County, Ga.),
Benjamin F. (was killed in the battle of Richmond during the war), John G.
(was supposed to have been slain in the Mountain Meadow massacre), and Harriet
(became the wife of Thomas Johnson, of Stewart County, Ga., but is now
deceased).  The father of these children, Benjamin Cleveland, was born in
Franklin County, Ga., about 1788, and was a son of John Cleveland, who was a
native of Virginia.  The mother, whose maiden name was Amelia Hooper, was also
born in Franklin County, Ga., and was the daughter of Richard Hooper, who was
an old Revolutionary soldier.  Richard H. Cleveland received a common-school
education in Georgia, and later started out in life as a planter.  He was
married, in 1846, to Miss Sarah A. Frost, daughter of Johnson Frost, of Troup
County, Ga., and the fruits of this union were ten children, viz.: W. H. (who
died in 1882), Josephine H. (now Mrs. H. L. Featherston, of Homer, La.), John
G. (is a resident of Texas), and the following children are deceased: Benjamin
L., Judge T., James J., Henry F., Emma C., Sallie R. and Richard H.  During
the war Mr. Cleveland was a detailed farmer, and managed three big
plantations, the proceeds to be sold at scheduled prices to soldiers. 
Politically he has been a Democrat from boyhood, and cast his first
presidential vote for James K. Polk.  He has been a member of the Masonic
fraternity for more than forty years.  He owns a plantation of 860 acres, and
has as good a one as is to be found in Northwest Louisiana.

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