JOHN W. BABERS, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by: Gaytha Carver Thompson
Source: Bigraphical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana, 1890



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JOHN W. BABERS

John W. Babers is another honest, progressive and successful agriculturist,
and although his plantation comprised only 366 acres, he has 220 acres under
cultivation, the yield from which, owing to its admirable management, is much
larger than on many more extensive tracts.  It was purchased in 1888, and is
situated on the right bank of the Cane River, and is a piece of land of which
any one might well be proud to possess.

Mr. Babers was born near Meridian, Miss., October 31, 1853, to A. J. and
Elizabeth (Stokes) Babers, she was born in Winn Parish, La., and Mississippi,
being sixty five and fifty eight years of age, respectively.

John W. Babers is the eldest in a family of eleven children, nine of whom are
living, and his youthful days, in addition to being spent in the common
schools, were given to farm work.  He came with his parents to Louisiana in
1865, and settled in Bienville Parish, but removed to Winn Parish in 1873, but
has been a resident of his present farm since the fall of 1889, on which he
expects to make his future home.  His marriage to Miss M. E. Watson took place
in 1876, she being a native of Claiborne Parish, La., born in 1858.  

To their union seven children have been born: William A., Lula, Lee A.,
Nettie, Pearl, Ella Jack and Mary M.  Mr. Babers and his wife are earnest
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and in his political views he is a
Democrat, and socially belongs to Montgomery Lodge No. 168 of the A. F. & A.
M.