Battle, Rev. Charles A., born 1882, Jefferson Davis, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller
Source:  Louisiana:  Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, 
Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form 
(volume 3), p. 39. Edited by Alcée Fortier, Lit.D.  Published 
in 1914, by Century Historical Association.
Submitted: January 1998
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************************************************Battle, Rev. Charles Alexander, son of C. W. Battle, a native of 
Culloden, Ga., and Laura D. (Thompson) Battle, was born in Culloden, 
Ga., April 8, 1882. The Battle family lived in the same little 
Georgia town for generations, and were very prominent people there 
before the Civil war.  C. W. Battle was a planter and cotton 
merchant most of his business life, but also conducted a general 
mercantile establishment in Alexander City, Ala., from 1900 to 1903, 
and then returned to his native town in Georgia and continued his 
old line. Laura D. Thompson was the daughter of C. A. Thompson, of 
Perry, Ga.  She was married to Mr. Battle, Dec. 30, 1880, and died 
Feb. 27, 1894.  Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Battle were the parents of 5 
sons, viz.: C. A., the subject of this sketch; William R., Calvin 
W., Jr., Buford D. and Laurie I. H.  Charles A. Battle spent his 
youth in Culloden, Ga., until 16 years of age.  During 9 years of 
this time, he pursued the studies of common school, and then went 
to Emory College, at Oxford, Ga., for a short time and afterward 
attended and graduated at Young Harris college, in 1901, with the 
degree B. A., when 19 years old. He was then for some time at the 
head of the store in Alexander City, Ala. 

After the family moved back to Culloden, Ga., Mr. Battle went to 
Vanderbilt university, which he left in 1907 and received from 
that institution the degree B. D.  He also took some work in the 
University of Chicago.  In Dec., 1907, he entered the Louisiana 
conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, and was 
appointed pastor at Jennings, La., which church he served 3 years.  
Then he went to the church at Lafayette for one year, when he was 
called to the Felicity Street Methodist Episcopal church, in New 
Orleans, where he has been for 2 years  as  pastor.  Mr. Battle 
is a member of the Masonic order.  

He was married Sept. 2, 1909, to Miss Annie Laura of Lafayette, 
Ala., daughter of' Zach Schuessler, a leading merchant in that town, 
who died in 1909 leaving a large estate to his family.  Mr. and Mrs. 
Battle have one son, Charles A., Jr.