Alfred W. Lewis       1890         Grant & Red River Parish, Louisiana
Submitted for the LA GenWeb Archives By: Kay Thompson-Brown, Jan 1998.

Source: Biographical and historical memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
          Nashville and Chicago: The Southern Publishing Company 1890

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Alfred W. Lewis, planter, Fairmount, La.  Although but a young man, Mr. Lewis
has made his way to the front ranks among the energetic farmers of Grant
Parish and owing to the attention has always paid to minor details, he has
accumulated a fair share of this world's goods.

He is a native born resident of the parish, his birth occurring February 29,
1860 and he is the son of Alfred C and Martha E (Starns nee Cannon) Lewis, who
were also well known here.

The father was born in North Carolina in 1812 and died in Grant Parish on
December 16,1888. He came to Louisiana in 1840 and was successfully engaged in
tilling the soil in this State until his death. He was magistrate for six
years and was a member of the Catholic Church.

He was married three times our subject's mother being his second wife. His
first wife was Ann Chesson, his second, Mrs. Martha E (Cannon) Starns, who was
a widow, and his third wife was Mrs. Julia Farond.

Alfred W Lewis passed his school days in Grant Parish and when nineteen years
of age he started out as an agriculturist, having perhaps naturally inherited
a taste for that occupation, his ancestors before him for many generations
having followed that calling. He is the owner of 150 acres of land in Red
River Parish.

In 1885 he selected Mrs. Rosa Layssard as his life companion and to this
marriage have been born two children: Nena and Amber Lee. Mrs. Lewis was the
daughter of B.W. Bullitt and widow Archer Layssard.

Mr. Lewis is a Democrat in his political views and he and his wife are worthy
members of the Catholic Church.

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