Bio: A. N. Timon, Natchitoches Parish Louisiana
Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
Nashville & Chicago, The Southern Publishing Company, 1890
Submitted by Gaytha Thompson



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A. N. TIMON

A. N. Timon, one of the successful farmers of Ward 3, this township, is a
native Mississippian, born in Wilkerson County April 13, 1847, the son of John
and Mary (Jackson) Timon, the father a native German, and the mother from
Tennessee.  The father emigrated to Mississippi from Germany when quite young,
and was here married in 1830.  The union was blessed with seven children, five
still living.  He followed the merchandising business the greater portion of
his life, and died in 1851, his widow dying in 1853. She was a member of the
Baptist Church.

A. N. Timon received his education in the private schools of Mississippi, and
at the age of fourteen years started to work on a farm, remaining there three
years, when he took up the confederate cause, and enlisted as a private with
the sixty day troops, which disbanded after a short time.  Later he entered
Company D Twenty first Mississippi, under Capt. Brandon, and was in the
engagement at Berryville, where he was wounded very severely, carried to Mount
Jackson was there furloughed and returned home, where he was at the time of
surrender. 

He then accepted a position as manager of a farm, and January 20, 1879, was
united in wedlock to Miss Alberta Chapman, a native Louisianan, and their
union was blessed with two children: Benjamin F. and Sarah L. 

Our subject now owns 1,600 acres of land, 1,000 under cultivation and 500
acres rented, which he superintends himself.  His farm is well stocked, and
contains five gins and one grist mill.  He is a very liberal man, and
contributes largely to all public enterprises.