Walter D. Lurry, b. 1876, Grant Parish, Louisiana
Submitted to USGENWEB by Greggory E. Davies
120 Ted Price Lane
Winnfield, LA  71483



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Walter D. Lurry


Walter D. Lurry was born near Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee, May 8, 1876,
son of T. W. and Mary Wilson Lurry.  His father was a mill man and farmer, and
the parents spent all their lives in Shelby County.  T. W. Lurry served as a
member of the park commission at Memphis for many years and was an active
democrat and Baptist.  He died July 11, 1924, at the age of seventy-eight, his
wife dying in 1902.  They had eleven children, including Walter D.

Walter D. received his early and high school education in the Memphis public
schools and as a youth apprenticed as a machinist with Binghampton Company,
whose successor is the American Car & Foundry Company.  He spent two years in
machine shops then went with the Central Coke, Coal, & Lumber Company at
Texarkana as planing mill superintendent.  About a year later, he became
superintendent of manufacturing for a lumber corporation at Fort Lynn,
Arkansas.  He resigned his position when the Spanish-American War began in
1898, volunteering with Company D of the Fourth Texas Regiment.  He trained at
San Antonio, Texas, and Miami, Florida, being a corporal of his company and at
the end of eighteen months was discharged at San Antonio.  He then resumed his
former position at Fort Lynn, Arkansas and from 1901 to 1904 was with the Big
Pine Lumber Company at Boggy, Arkansas.  This same corporation sent him to
Colfax, Grant Parish, Louisiana as superintendent of their mill at that place. 
He soon went to Alexandria, Louisiana where he became manager of Caddo-Rapides
Lumber Company.  He remained there until 1908 when he returned to Colfax as
secretary-manager of Iatt Lumber Company.

During his long residence at Colfax, he has been a member of the Town Council
and Grant Parish School Board.  He and his family are Catholic.  He married
Vida Corry, daughter of Hugh Corry of Alexandria, she being born at Texarkana,
Arkansas.  Their children were Walter, Hugh, Vida, Teresa, Sarah Frances, and
Margaret. 


(Source:  Chambers' History of Louisiana, 1925.  Submitted to USGENWEB by Greggory Ellis
Davies, Winnfield, Winn Parish, La.)