Bio:  W. H. Wamsley, Red River Parish
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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W. H Wamsley is the assessor and deputy sheriff of Red River Parish, La., and
is a man well fitted to fill each position, for he is conscientious in the
discharge of every duty and faithful to every trust.  He was born in what is
now Red River Parish, La., January 2, 1855, being the eldest of five children
born to T. C. and Alice P. (McKinney) Wamsley, the former of whom was born
September 12, 1822 and died in 1886, and the latter born in Mississippi, and
died in 1874, when about forty years of age.  They were early settlers of this
parish, and the father filled the office of justice of the peace here for some
twenty years, and was a man whom to know was to like and respect.  W. H.
Wamsley received a common-school education, and upon commencing the battle of
life for himself he engaged in farming, continuing until 1880, coming in
February, 1881, to Coushatta, and serving from that year to 1888 as deputy
sheriff of this parish.  On January 2, 1888, he was appointed to the position
of assessor by Gov. Nicholls, and has filled the office with ability up to the
present time.  He has always supported the men and measures of the Democratic
party, and being one of the best known and most intelligent young men of the
parish, possessing numerous admirable qualities, he is sure to make a success
of his life.  Socially he is a member of the Silent Brotherhood Lodge No. 146,
of the A. F. & A. M., of Coushatta.

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