Bio: James W Ethredge,  Grant Parish Louisiana
Submitted to USGENWEB By: Kay Thompson - Brown
Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
              Nashville and Chicago: the Southern Publishing Company 1890




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JAMES W. ETHREDGE

James W Ethredge is a farmer, miller and ginner of Ward 7, Grant Parish, La,
but was born in Conecuh County, Al. In 1852 to Lewis and Jan (Presley)
Ethredge, the former being also born in that county in 1828 and the latter in
Butler County, Ala. They were married in 1850 and made their home in Alabama
until 1873 when they came to Grant Parish where they are still residing.

The father was tax assessor in Alabama when he left the State. He served four
months in Company H First Georgia Artillery at Fort Haines, Ala. In 1863 and
also in other ways assisted the Confederate cause. He is a member of the A.F.
& A.M. and is a son of John and Jane (Chitty) Ethredge, who spent their
latter years in Alabama.

Mrs. Ethredge was a daughter of Elias and Polly Presley who died in Butler
County, Ala.

James W. Ethredge is the eldest of five children born to his parents and
obtained his early education in the common schools. He was married in 1873 to
Alpha J, daughter of John and Rebecca Barker the former of dying during the
war while in a Northern prison, the latter bing still a resident of Georgia.

Mrs. Ethredge was born in this State and has borne her husband one son and
four daughters.

Immediately after their marriage they came to Grant Parish, La and settled on
a woodland farm being now the owners of 180 acres of fertile farming land of
which 100 acres are river bottom land. In addition to this Mr. Ethredge is
the proprietor of an excellent grist mill and cotton gin.

He Started in life for himself with nothing but now commands a comfortable
competency. He is a shrewd and far seeing financier and gives every
promise of one day becoming wealthy.

He and his wife are Methodists and for over two years he was constable of
Ward 7.