Bio: Ben Franklin Timon, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller



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Ben Franklin Timon is manager of the group of plantations comprised in the A.
N. Timon estate in Natchitoches Parish at the village of Timon.  These
comprise nine small plantations united into two large groups lying in
Natchitoches and Red River parishes.  The Timon plantation was purchased by
Alonzo Napoleon Timon in 1881 from members of the Breazela family.

Alonzo Napoleon Timon was born near Fort Adams, Mississippi.  At the age of
fourteen, being large for his age, he left home and followed the army to
Virginia, and after repeated efforts was accepted in a Virginia regiment.  In
the battle of Berryville, Virginia, he was shot four times, his ribs being
broken and it was expected that he would die.  He recovered and after the war
went to New Orleans and then into the Black River district of Concordia
Parish.  He became a planter and a dealer in cotton seed.  His career as a
plantation manager began in Louisiana in 1873.  It was in 1881 that he moved
into Natchitoches Parish and bought the Timon plantation.  He served as a
member of the parish school board part of one term, this being the only public
office he ever accepted.  He was regarded as a very successful planter and
business man, and conducted a store at Lake End in Red River Parish, and also
had a store at Timon until the ravages of the Boll Weevil caused him to close
out this branch of his business.  He had made his own way from boyhood, and
was fully deserving of the high respect and esteem in which he was held.  He
was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

A. N. Timon died in 1914, at the age of sixty-seven years.  He married Alberta
Chapman, a native of Macon, Georgia, and is now sixty-four years of age.  Her
people came from Georgia to Mansfield, Louisiana.  A. N. Timon and wife had
two Sons and two daughters.  One son, Dr. A. N. Jr., received his education in
Centenary College in the Louisiana State University, attended the Medical
Department of Tulane University and finished his professional education at
Nashville, Tennessee, and also took advanced work in Vienna, Austria.  He was
in the Medical Corps during, the World war and is now in practice in New York
city, specializing in diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat.  The two
daughters were Miss Sallie, at home, and Annie, who was educated at Mansfield
in the Natchitoches State Normal School, and is now a teacher in New Orleans.

Ben Franklin Timon was born October 21, 1879, and finished his education in
New Orleans, where he attended college and also the Soule Business School. 
His father being practically an invalid, he took charge of the plantation and
for many years has been the business head of time Timon estate, having the
responsibility of looking after three thousand acres.  He is unmarried.  Mr.
Timon is the present postmaster of Timon.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 24, by Henry E. Chambers.  Published by
The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.