HOGSETT, Robert, Carroll County, MS., then Iberia Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller
Source: Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical
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ROBERT HOGSETT, NEW IBERIA.--Robert F. Hogsett was born in Carroll
county, Mississippi, in 1844.  He is the son of George A. Hogsett and
Maria McCarroll.  George A. Hogsett is a native of Virginia; his wife of
Mississippi.  They became the parents of five children, of whom Robert
F. is the third.  Robert F. Hogsett was educated in the public schools
of Mississippi, and at the age of fourteen began life as a telegraph
operator.  In 1862, he enlisted at Jackson, Mississippi, in Company A,
Withers Artillery Regiment, under Col. W. T. Withers.  He served until
the close of the war.  After the war he resumed telegraphy and was for
some time engaged at Holly Springs, Mississippi.  He was subsequently
engaged in the same business in different places in Louisiana until
1882, when he removed to New Iberia, and is now engaged in the livery
business and is owner of a telegraph and telephone line between New
Iberia, Abbeville and St. Martinsville.  Mr. Hogsett's first wife died
December 3, 1870, and in 1881 he married Miss Laura Culpepper, daughter
of Mr. J. E. Culpepper, of Mississippi who is descended from the
Culpepper family of Virginia.  Her father's family came to this country
in 1800 and settled in Mississippi.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section,
p. 113.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf
Publishing Company.