Christopher Lewis Ransdell, Rapides Parish, La
Submitted by: Suzanne Shoemaker

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

     CHRISTOPHER LEWIS RANSDELL,  deputy district clerk.  He was born in the
parish in which he is now residing June 1, 1855, being a son of John
Hickman and Amanda Louisa (Terrell) Ransdell, the former of whom was born
in Frankfort, Ky., being reared to the profession of journalism, graduating
in that calling from the office of the Louisville Courier, which afterward
became the Courier Journal.  In the early history of Rapides Parish, La.,
he came thither, and a for a time conducted the Red River Whig, but
subsequently engaged in merchandising, and still later turned his attention
to planting and was following this calling at the time of his death, which
occurred in 1869, he being accidentally killed.  He was a son of
Christopher Ransdell and Martha (Hickman) Ransdell, the latter a daughter
of Parson William Hickman, a member of the well known Hickman family of
Kentucky, who accompanied Daniel Boone to that Sate and left an undying
name and fame upon the pages of the history of the Blue Grass State.  On
both sides of this family they are found to be connected with Revolutionary
War times, the Hickman family being particularly famous during that time.
Christopher Lewis Ransdell is the sixth child and fourth son in a family of
five sons and four daughters born to his parents, of whom four sons and two
daughters are now living.  He grew to manhood on his father'' plantation in
this parish, receiving meager educational advantages on account of the war;
was sworn in as deputy parish clerk on his twenty-first birthday, a
position he has very acceptable filled ever since, being faithful,
efficient, and a true and trusty officer.  His marriage, which occurred in
the city of New Orleans in December, 1887, was to Miss Cordelia, daughter
of Joseph and Cordelia (Bowles) Hoy, of Rapides Parish, natives of Ohio and
Louisiana, respectively.  Mr. Ransdell is vice chancellor of Alexandria
Lodge No. 3, of the K. of P., and he and his family worship in the Roman
Catholic Church.