Bio:  H. S. Bosley,  M.D., Red River, Caddo and Natchitoches Parish La
Source:  Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville, 1890
Submitted by: Gwen Moran-Hernandez



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H. S. Bosley.  Among the pioneer families who early cast their fortunes in 
the region, which now comprises Red River Parish was that to which the 
subject of this sketch belongs, his parents, Peyton and Catherine (Saunders) 
Bosley, braving the dangers and hardships of life in a new and uninhabited 
region, coming here in 1833.  They were born in Davidson and Sumner Counties, 
Tenn., respectively, the former's birth occurring in 1803, and his death in 
Natchitoches Parish, La., in 1859, his wife also dying in this State in the 
latter part of 1836, she and her children having joined the husband and 
father here the same year of her death.  Mr. Bosley was an enterprising man, 
and did much to bring the parish to its present admirable state of 
cultivation and civilization.  He built the first cotton-gin in this region, 
and became a very extensive land owner.  He cleared up, owned and cultivated 
the land where the flourishing little town of Coushatta now stands.  He also 
built the first saw-mill in what is now known as Red River Parish.  Of two 
children born to him, the subject of this sketch, H. S. Bosley, is the only 
one living.  Although he resides in Springville, he is the owner of 400 acres 
of his father's old plantation, also two other plantations on Red River, 
which he is very successfully conducting.  He has always been very honorable 
and upright in his business transactions, and no man in the parish is more 
highly esteemed or respected than he.  He has always voted the Democratic 
ticket since attaining his majority, and had done all in his power to promote 
the interest of his party as well as to aid in the development of this 
section.  He was married in 1855  to Miss Mary Powell, who was born in what 
was then Caddo Parish, and died on November 20, 1883, leaving the following 
named six children to mourn their loss:  Marion P., Milton H., Anna, Hubbard 
S., Percival L. and Walter W., all of whom are still living.