Bio:  H. M. Drew Ferguson, 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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H. M. Drew Ferguson was born in Drew County, Ark., April 16, 1848, and is a
son of Jonathan Ferguson, a native of Chester County, S. C., and Sarah
(Hyatte) Ferguson, also a native of that county and State, the father of Irish
and the mother of German descent.  The elder Ferguson removed from South
Carolina to Mississippi, resided there for about two years, and in 1846 went
to Arkansas, locating in Drew county.  In 1864 he removed from Arkansas to
Louisiana and settled in Claiborne Parish, twelve miles north of Homer, and
after residing there for two years removed to that town.  He now makes his
home with his son Drew Ferguson.  He is a Royal Arch Mason and is a prominent
member of that body.  Although eighty-seven years of age, time has dealt
kindly with Mr. Ferguson, and he is in comparatively good health.  His wife
died December 8, 1881, in her sixty-ninth year.  They were the parents of a
large family of children-nine sons and three daughters-all of whom grew to
mature years.  Six sons served in the Confederate Army, and three never
returned.  H. M. D. Ferguson enlisted in his fifteenth year (in 1863(and
served in the Trans-Mississippi Department until the close of the war.  Coming
to Claiborne Parish, Mr. Ferguson entered Homer College, where he remained for
nearly two years.  After this he engaged in various business pursuits until
November, 1876, when he was elected clerk of the district court, which
position he has held to the present, his term of office expiring in April,
1892.  Mr. Ferguson is a Royal Arch Mason, having joined that organization in
1877, and is also a member of the Knights of Pythias, an Odd Fellow and a
member of the American Legion of Honor.  Mr. Ferguson was married in Homer in
April, 1872, to Miss Bettie Otts, a native of Greene County, Ala., and the
daughter of William P. Otts, whose sketch appears elsewhere in this work. 
Mrs. Ferguson was educated principally in Mount Lebanon College.  Mr. Ferguson
is a member of the Baptist and his wife a member of the Presbyterian Church.

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