Albert H. Nanney, Rapides Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller

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Albert H. Nanney as a youth determined to make his life one of service to humanity, 
and he is an ordained minister of the Baptist Church, but for the greater part of his 
mature career has been engaged in school work.  He has the responsibilities of principal 
of the city schools of Leesville, where there are 700 students enrolled.  There are two 
school buildings, and under his supervision there are a staff of twenty teachers.

Mr. Nanney was born in Western, North Carolina, July 4, 1880, son of Thomas and Mary 
(Morgan) Nanney, natives of the same state.  His paternal grandfather, Thomas Nanney, 
was born in North Carolina. of a family that settled in that state from Virginia before 
the Revolutionary war.  Thomas Nanney was a soldier in the Confederate army.  The maternal 
grandfather, Porter Morgan, was born in North Carolina, son of one of the old-the preachers 
of that state.  Thomas C. Nanney has been a farmer all his life and resides in North 
Carolina, his wife now deceased.  He is a Baptist and a democrat.  Of his eight children 
seven are living, Albert H. being the oldest child.

Albert H. Nanney was educated in the Round Hill Academy at Union Mills, North Carolina, 
and subsequently entered the Wake Forrest College, one of the best known institutions of 
higher learning in his native state.  He was graduated in 1907, but prior to that the as 
early as 1903 had become a teacher.  He also studied for the ministry and preached in 
several localities of North Carolina and later in Georgia.

Coming to Leesville, Louisiana, in 1910, Mr. Nanney was assistant principal of schools 
two years.  Then for eight years he was principal of the schools at Pitkin, Louisiana, and 
since his return to Leesville has been principal of the city schools.  This is a position 
taking practically all his the and energies, but he maintains an interested attitude toward 
all causes for the general welfare of the community and as a Baptist minister has preached 
in some country churches of Louisiana.


He married, in 1909, Delaney O'Neill, who was born at Eton, Georgia, and was educated in 
the high school at Hickman, Kentucky.  Three children were born to their marriage:  Vivian, 
now attending the eighth grade of the public schools;  A. H., Jr., who died when one month 
old; and  Marjorie, also in school.  Mr. Nanney is affiliated with the Masonic Lodge, Royal 
Arch Chapter, Junior Order of the United American Mechanics, and both he and his wife are 
members of the Eastern Star.  He is a democrat in politics.

NOTE:  The sketch is accompanied by a black and white photograph/drawing of the subject.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), pp. 351-352, by Henry E. Chambers.  Published by The 
American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.