Bio: William Wirt Culpepper, Claiborne Parish & Jackson 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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William Wirt Culpepper, M. D., is a Georgian by birth, born in Houston County,
October 8, 1834, to Charles S. and Nancy (Cunyus) Culpepper, who were born,
reared and married in Georgia, removing to Louisiana about 1850, and settling
in Jackson Parish.  The mother having died in 1848, the father married again
and reared a family by his last wife.  He passed from life in 1872.  Dr.
William Wirt Culpepper attained manhood in Jackson Parish, La., and in 1861,
left home to enlist in the Confederate Army, becoming a member of the Second
Louisiana Infantry, and served until he received his discharge for disability
from a wound which he had received.  He was in the engagement of the Great
Bethel Church and Malvern Hill, and on the last day of the seven days' fight
he was wounded in the right knee by grape shot and permanently disabled. 
After being in the hospital for some time he was furloughed home, where he was
afterward elected sheriff of Jackson Parish, and this position he held for two
years.  Soon after arriving at mature years he began the study of medicine,
and took his first course of lecture at New Orleans in 1855, and had practiced
some prior to the opening of the Rebellion.  He once more began practicing,
after finishing his duties as sheriff, going soon after to Rapides Parish,
where he remained some three years.  In 1869 he again went to New Orleans and
took a second course of lectures, and in the spring of 1870 was graduated as
an M. D., locating soon after in Webster Parish, where he remained for some
ten years.  On January 7, 1880, he moved to Claiborne Parish, and has been
practicing in the vicinity of Athens ever since, and has become widely and
favorably known in his social life as well as professional capacity.  In
connection with his practice he has of late years also carried on a farm, at
which he is doing well.  He was married in Jackson Parish, On February 14,
1865, to Miss Anna I. Barnes, a native of Mississippi, but reared in
Louisiana, by her father, James Barnes.  She died in 1873, leaving two sons:
James Curran and William Tell.  The Doctor's second marriage took place in
1876, to Miss Anna Isabelle Hise of this State and parish, a daughter of Aaron
Hise, by whom he has four children: Charles Stewart, Joseph Hiram, Vernon Hise
and Winfred Wirt.  The Doctor and his wife are members of the Missionary
Baptist Church, and he is an A. F. & A. M.

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