W.W. Whittington, Sr., 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


     W. W. WHITTINGTON, SR., is a man whom nature seems to have especially
designed to be a planter, for he has met with excellent success in pursuing
that calling, and has been ever ready to adopt new and improved methods in
connection with his work.  He was born in Snowy Hill, Worcester County,
Md., in 1812, in which state his parents, Judge William and Sallie (White)
Whittington, were also born in 1770.  Judge Whittington, was given a
collegiate education, and was a practitioner of law in Worcester and
adjoining counties for many years.  In 1800 he was appointed district
judge, and served continuously until his death, in 1826, making a faithful,
zealous and conscientious official.  He and his wife, who died in 1819,
were earnest members of the Episcopal Church.  W. W. Whittington received a
thorough academic training at Snowy Hill, and after leaving school was
engaged in the mercantile business in Philadelphia for three years.  In
1836 he removed to Rapides Parish, La., and here two years later was
married to Mrs. Ann C. (Holt) Manadue, a daughter of William Holt, and
after his marriage he practiced law about six months in Alexandria, La.,
then gave it up to engage in planting, as this, he thought, would be more
congenial to his tastes.  He has an excellent plantation, about seventeen
miles west of Alexandria, on which he expects to make his home the rest of
his life.  In 1846 he was elected to the Lower House of the State
Legislature, serving one term, after which, in 1852, he was elected a
delegate to the Constitutional Convention.  He was one of the electors for
Douglas in 1860, and was a candidate for election as a delegate to the
convention to decide whether or not the state should secede, he being
opposed to that measure.  Since the war he has lived quietly on his
plantation, but has always been deeply interested in, and ready to support,
with influence and purse, worthy measures for the good of his parish.  His
first wife died in 1849, and in 1853 he wedded Sophronia E., daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Roberts, she as well as himself being a worthy member
of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  His first union resulted in the birth
of four children:  W. W., Jr., (an attorney of Alexandria), Robert H. (a
planter of this parish), Mrs. Sallie G. Smith and Mrs. Anna C. Sanford, who
also reside here.  Five children were born to his last union:  John R. (a
farmer), Mrs. Emma Hamilton (of Austin, Tex.), Mrs. Eugenia Trimble,
Clinton R. (a planter) and Mrs. Maud Texada, all of this parish.