T.G. Morgan, Rapides Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by: Suzanne Shoemaker

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Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville,  1890

     T. G. MORGAN, planter, Boyce, La.  Georgia has given to Louisiana many
prominent citizens, but she has contributed none more worthy of respect and
esteem than the subject of this sketch.  He was born in November 21, 1824,
and is a son of Thomas Morgan, who was also a native of Georgia.  The
father spent his whole life engaged in farming in Georgia, and was one of
the largest and most prominent farmers in Chattooga County.  He was a
member of the Missionary Baptist Church and died some time before the Civil
War.  T. G. Morgan received the ordinary education of the country boy in
Georgia, and when nineteen years of age he began working for himself,
raising the first year two bales of cotton, which he hauled 150 miles to
Wetumpka, Ala., and sold for 41 cents per pound.  After coming back he
hauled his bacon to Rome, Ga., and sold it for 41 cents per pound.  He
afterward operated a jug factory, and in connection with it continued his
farming operations.  In this he was quite successful, and accumulated
considerable property.  He was married in 1845 to Miss Arminda, daughter of
John Martin, of Cherokee County, Ala.  Mrs. Morgan died in 1875.  In 1862
Mr. Morgan enlisted in a Tennessee Cavalry Regiment, Capt. Ragan, of Col.
McKinzey's regiment, of Scott's brigade, and was principally engaged in
guarding Cumberland Gap.  He was in no battles, and surrendered near
Lafayette, Ga.  He returned to Louisiana in 1872, and shortly afterward
purchased the farm where he now resides on Red River, about fifteen miles
above Alexandria.  He is now justice of the peace.  His family consists of
five living children-three sons and two daughters.