James A. Hyde, Rapides Parish Louisiana
Submitted By: Kay Thompson - Brown

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Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Norwest Louisiana
              Nashville and Chicago: the Southern Publishing Company 1890

James A Hyde is a general merchant and farmer of Ward 1, Grant Parish, La but
was born in Coosa County, Ala in 1853 to Hartwell and Sarah (Little) Hyde who
were born in North Carolina and Alabama respectively, their marriage taking
place in the latter State, where they made their home until about 1854, then
came to what is now Grant Parish La, settling on an unimproved farm near
Montgomery. Here they are still residing, the father being about sixty years
of age and the mother fifty one both members of the Methodist Church.

Mr Hyde served about two years in the Confederate Army in Louisiana and
inherits Scotch Irish blood from his father, Stephen Hyde, who was soldier in
one of the early wars. The mother's father, James Little, died in Alabama, a
farmer by occupation.

The subject of this sketch is the second of nine sons and five daughters,
twelve of whom are living and although he was reared to the duties of
plantation life he was given the advantages of schools of Montgomery.

At about the age of twenty three years he began farming for himself and in
1884 opened a mercantile establishment in Ward 6 but has been located at his
present stand since 1887 and this as well his 160 acres of good river land has
been earned by his own efforts.

He was married in 1879 to Margaret, a daughter of James and Sarah A Ketsoe,
the former born in Georgia, in 1832 and the latter in Alabama in 1836, their
removal to Grant Parish La being in 1875 of which they are still residents.

Mr. Ketsoe served in the Confederate Army from 1862 until the close of the war
in the Army of Tennessee.

Mrs Hyde was born in Butler County, Ala. And has borne her husband five
children four of whom are living.

She and Mr Hyde are worthy members of the Methodist Church.