Bio: Albert G. Thompson, Point Coupee, Parish, Louisiana
Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
Nashville and Chicago, The Southern Publishing Company, 1890
Submitted by: Gaytha Carver Thompson



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ALBERT G. THOMPSON

Albert G. Thompson; a prominent citizen and extensive planter on Red River, is
a native of Louisiana, his birth occurring in Pointe Coupee Parish, October
14, 1848, and is the son of A. B. and Isabella (Gayle) Thompson, natives of
Mississippi and Louisiana, respectively.  They are now living and the father
is a successful planter, although he lost heavily by the war, having his
cotton burnt and his slaves taken away.  He came to Louisiana about 1846, and
has been a resident of that State ever since.  He is now seventy six years of
age and the mother then years younger.

Albert G. Thompson is one of the three children born to his parents; Mrs.
Alice Lombard is the widow of J. C. Lombard, and Mrs. Mary Wilcox resides in
West Feliciana Parish, La., and is the wife of George Wilcox, a successful
agriculturists of that parish.

Albert G. Thompson became a soldier in the Confederate Army, in March, 1862,
enlisting in the Pointe Coupee Battery, at Fort Pillow, Tenn., and continued
to serve in the artillery till the close of the war, May, 1865.  He received a
good education in St. Mary's college, Kentucky, and supplemented the same by
an attendance at Washington and Lee college, Virginia, where he remained until
in the senior class.  At the time he commenced to teach school in West
Feliciana Parish, where he remained a few months, and then taught in
Alexandria one session.  After this he came to Grant Parish, La., bought 1,200
acres of land which was then unimproved, and immediately commenced making
improvements.  He has been industrious and saving and is now in very
comfortable circumstances.  Everything about his place indicates to the
beholder the presence of a thrifty and enterprising owner.  Mr. Thompson is a
Democrat in his political principles, and is one of the county's best
citizens.