Bio: William J. Tison, Grant Parish, Louisiana
Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
Nashville and Chicago, The Southern Publishing Company, 1890
Submitted to USGENWEB by: Gaytha Carver Thompson




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WILLIAM J. TISON

William J. Tison, a representative citizen of Ward No. 2, Grant Parish, was
born in Rapides Parish, La. (Now Grant Parish), on August 15, 1840, and is the
son of William and Sarah (Roe) Tison, natives of Georgia dn Louisiana,
respectively.  The father was born in 1812, and was but six years of age when
he came to Louisiana with his father, William Tison, who made his advent into
this State in 1818.  The father of our subject was a raftsman on Black and
Little Rivers for many years.  He died in 1863.  The mother was born in 1825
and died in 1865.  Both were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South,
and he was a Democrat in his political views.  Six children were the fruits of
their union: Rosana A., Sarah Eliza, Neoma, Job H., Susan and William J.  he
latter secured a fair education in Grant Parish, La., and when yet a boy, or
in 1864 he enlisted in the Twenty seventh Louisiana Infantry, Company F, in
which he served until he close of the war.

Afterward he commenced to work for himself as a farmer, and this has been his
chosen calling ever since.  He has been unusually successful, and is the owner
of 1,400 acres of land in this parish and 200 acres in Rapides Parish, 300
acres in Grant Parish being under cultivation.  For twelve years he was a
member of the police jury, filling that important position with satisfaction
to all.

In 1865 he wedded to Miss Elizabeth La Croix of Rapides Parish, who died in
1874.  She was the mother of six children, two now living: Euretta (wife of
John Rice, a farmer in Grant Parish), and James E. (At home); William V. (died
at the age of thirteen), and the remainder died while quite young.

In December, 1874 Mr. Tison married Miss Laura E. Salctius of Grant Parish,
and they are the parents of eight children, five now living: Laura O., Maude,
Alice, Armor and Willie W. 

Mr. Tison is a Democrat in politics, and aims to support men of principle.  He
and Mrs. Tison are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.