Bio: T. R. Armistead, Red River Parish
Source:  Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville, 1890
Submitted for the LA GenWeb Archives by:  Gwen Moran-Hernandez, Feb 2000.

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T. R. Armistead, one of the leading planters and well-known merchants of Ward
5, Red River Parish, was born in Mississippi December 5, 1845, his parents
being William W. and Mary (White) Armistead.  The father was originally from
North Carolina, being born in that state October 3, 1803, and the mother a
native of Mississippi.  Their marriage , which occurred in 1842, resulted in
the birth of seven children, four of whom are living, our subject being second
in order of birth.  In 1849 his parents left Mississippi to go to Louisiana
choosing as their location Red River Parish, where they continued to reside
until their deaths, the mother dying July, 1862, and the father on January 7,
1875.  Socially, he was a Master Mason, and also served in the capacity of
police juror for a number of years.  T. R. Armistead received his education at
the Louisiana Seminary, in Alexandria, and deciding, in 1869, to start out in
the world for himself, he engaged as a civil engineer, which occupation he
followed but a few months, when he turned his attention to farming, and having
no capital began this work on shares, persevering till he became the owner of
a 1,400 acre plantation, 700 acres of which are in a high state of cultivation
and well stocked.  He is also owner of a gin, grist and oil-mill, the oil-mill
being located on his plantation, and, in connection with these various
pursuits, he conducts a mercantile business with a capital of $7,000, which
invoices about $10,000 annually.  Our subject first married Sadie I. Longmire,
a native Alabamian, who died January 3, 1883, and on December 5, 1888, he
again took to wife Jennie M. Butter, a daughter of J. W. Butter, of Louisiana/ 
As an award of the unbounded respect of his fellow-citizens, he has been
elected to the office of police juror, an office which he still holds.  He is
thoroughly awake to the interest of his parish, being a liberal contributor to
all public enterprises.

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