Bio: George R. Wafer, Claiborne Parish, Louisiana
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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George R. Wafer, farmer, Arizona, La.  It is doubtless owing entirely to the 
industrious and persevering manner with which Mr. Wafer has adhered to the 
pursuit of agriculture that he has risen to such a substantial position in 
farm affairs in this parish.  Born in Claiborne Parish, La., on June 29, 1856, 
he is one of six children-five sons and one daughter-two sons now living, born 
to the union of T. M. and Amanda (Melone) Wafer, both natives of Georgia.  T. M. 
Wafer went to Alabama when a child with his father, J. T. Wafer, who was a native 
of South Carolina, but whose father was a native of the Emerald Isle, and was 
there reared to manhood.  He has been twice married, the first time when quite 
young, and the second time to the mother of our subject.  He settled in Claiborne 
Parish, followed farming, and there his death occurred in 1864.  He was an exhorter 
in the Methodist Episcopal Church, was well educated, and was a very influential 
citizen.  He was a fine orator, and it was mainly due to his power of eloquence 
that Claiborne Parish voted against secession for delegates to the State Convention, 
he having advocated to stay in the Union.  He was a council Mason, and was very 
prominent in Masonic affairs.  George R. Wafer received a good education in the 
best schools of Claiborne Parish, and after completing his studies, engaged in 
stock trading and farming at which he was very successful.  He still continues 
to cultivate the soil and although but a young man, he is the owner of a fine 
farm, and his farming operations are conducted in a manner indicative of a 
progressive, thorough agriculturist.  Rev. T. M. Wafer, brother of the above 
mentioned gentleman, was born in Claiborne Parish on July 31, 1864, and received 
a good education in the schools of Arizona.  In 1886 he began teaching school and 
was licensed to preach in the Methodist Episcopal Church South in 1889.  He has 
been a member of that church since thirteen years of age, and is a young man of 
great piety and a true Christian in every sense of the term.  He is a teacher in 
the Arizona school, and in that capacity ranks among the best educators in the 
county.  He was married in his native parish on December 6, 1888, to Miss Laura 
Corry, a native of this parish, where she received her education, and the daughter 
of J. W. Corry.  One child has been born to this union, Albert.  Mrs. Wafer is also 
a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.  The two brothers and the mother 
reside together in Arizona.

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