Bio: Hon. William F. Moreland, 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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Hon. William F. Moreland, planter, Homer, La.  No name is justly entitled to 
a more enviable place in the history of Claiborne Parish than the one that head 
this sketch, for it is borne by a gentleman who has been usefully and honorably 
identified with the interests of this parish and with its advancement in every 
worthy particular.  He was born in Putnam County, Ga., September 26, 1816, and 
although past the age, usually allotted to man, he is in possession of a competency 
fully sufficient to warrant him in passing the remainder of his days in peace 
and comfort.  He was seventh in a family of eleven, who are named as follows: 
Joseph (died in Claiborne Parish in 1852), Ann (married Samuel Reed, of Troup 
County, Ga., where she died), Elizabeth T. (became the wife of Thomas Hightower, 
of Claiborne Parish, and is now deceased), Martha (became the wife of Charnold 
Hightower, of Monroe County, Ga., and died about 1828), Sarah (became the wife 
of Henry West and died in Troup County, Ga.), Susan (married Thomas Bustin and 
died in Troup County, GA.), Isaac (died in Houston, Tex.), Jane B. (married 
Seburn J. Thompson and died in Mississippi), Mary B. (married John C. Henderson, 
of Putnam County, Ga., and died in Macon County, Ala.), and Amelia (married 
Thomas C. Miller and died in La Grange, Ga.).  The father of these children, 
Isaac Moreland, was born and reared in Dinwiddie County, Va., and was a son of 
Thomas Moreland, who owned the land where a portion of Petersburg now stands.  
The Moreland family were originally from England.  The mother of the above 
mentioned children, Nancy (Turner) Moreland, was born in Dinwiddie County, Va., 
and was a classmate of Gen. Winfield Scott's in his early educational career.  
Experience has been Mr. Moreland's school, and that he has made the most of it 
can not be questioned.  He was thrown upon his own resources practically, taking 
care of his own affairs at the age of fourteen, and came to Claiborne Parish in 
1853, locating where he now lives.  He was first married in 1839 to Miss Susan L. 
Ferrell, daughter of Bennett Ferrell, of Jackson County, Fla.  She died in Macon 
County, Ala., in 1849.  In January, 1852, Mr. Moreland was married to Miss Elizabeth 
White, daughter of James White, of Sumter County, Ga., And unto this union were born 
six children: Sidney T. (now a resident of Lexington, Va., and professor of physics 
in Washington and Lee University of that place), Isaac N. (a resident of Claiborne 
Parish), William W. (married and residing on the old home place), F. Kate (at home), 
Ida S. (also at home) and Lelia M. (now Mrs. James G. Meadows, of Tennessee).  Mr. 
Moreland has been a conspicuous man in the interest of his parish, and was elected 
to the Legislature in 1859, serving four years.  After the war he was re-elected to 
the House and served until the reconstruction.  He was again elected to that position 
in 1874 and served one term.  In 12879 he was a member of the Constitutional 
Convention, and since that time he has declined office of any kind.  He was for 
many years an active member of the Masonic fraternity, and has been a worthy member 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church South since 1840.  He is progressive in his ideas 
and tendencies, and has been a representative man in the community.

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