WALIS, S. R., Terrebonne then Lafayette Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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S. R. WALLIS, LAFAYETTE.--S. R. Wallis was born in Terrebonne parish,
Louisiana, in 1843.  His father, J. C. Wallis, was born in Maryland, 1805, and
removed to Louisiana early in life, where he married Miss Elizabeth R.
Creighton, 1836.  Seven children were born to this marriage, the subject of
our sketch being the youngest living.  J. C. Wallis was an extensive sugar
planter at the time of his death in Terrebonne.

S. R. Wallis grew to maturity in Lafayette parish, and received a fair
education.  He was a soldier in the Civil War, enlisting, 1861, in Company C,
Eighth Louisiana Regiment of Volunteers, Confederate army.  He served during
the whole war and received but one slight wound.  Mr. Wallis is the owner of
two hundred arpents of land where he resides, and which he cultivates in
cotton and corn.  He gives a part of his attention to his plantation
interests.  He is united in marriage with Miss Josephine Dyer, of Lafayette
parish.  They are the parents of three living children:  Robert L.,  Ruby and 
Hugh C.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 249. 
Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing
Company.