Bio:  Daniel M Giddens, 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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Daniel M. Giddens is a worthy tiller of the soil residing three miles below
Coushatta, and his plantation, which comprise 500 acres, is well adapted to
raising all the products of the South in abundance, and everything about it
indicates that a man of thrift; 250 acres are under cultivation, and in
addition to tilling this Mr. Giddens is quite extensively engaged in stock
business, which is proving a remunerative enterprise.  He was born in Alabama,
November 9, 1835, and was the third of seven children, four of whom are
living, born to Abram and Sarah (Smith) Giddens, natives of North Carolina,
the former born in 1798 and the latter about 1802.  They died in Alabama, the
former passing from life in August, 1878, his wife having departed this like
in 1847.  Daniel M . Giddens was reared to a farm like and was a student in
the country schools.  In 1857 he went to Texas but the following year came to
Louisiana, and settled is what is now Red River Parish.  Here, June 1, 1861,
he joined Company A, Twelfth Louisiana Volunteer Infantry, Confederate States
army, and was in the service until the close of the war, being wounded at
Atlanta, Ga., in 1864.  After the war he retruned to this part of the State,
and since January, 1876, has resided on his present plantation, which has been
acquired through his own exertions, as when he started in life for himself he
had nothing.  In the month of April, 1868, he was married to Miss Mary J.
Armistead,  who died in October, 1873, of yellow fever, leaving two children:
Robert and Albert.  Two years later Mr. Giddens united his fortunes with that
of Miss Marietta Brown, who was born in Louisiana, in 1850, and the following
six children have blessed their union:  Daniel, Brown, Ethel, Grover, Eloise,
and Mattie.  Mr. Giddens is a stanch Democrat, and socially is a member of
Silent Brotherhood Lodge No. 146, of the  A. F. & A. M of Coushatta.

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