Bio: Harvey M. Gandy, Sabine Parish, Louisiana

Source: Biographical & Historical Memories of Northwest Louisiana

Nashville & Chicago, The Southern Printing Company, 1890

Submitted by: Gaytha Carver Thompson
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HARVEY M. GANDY



Harvey M. Gandy is a worthy tiller of the soil, and is a member of the police

jury from Ward 3.  He is a native ob Bibb County, Ala, born in 1847, and is a

son of Harvey M. and Mary Caroline (Martin) Gandy, who were born in Georgia

and North Carolina, their marriage and subsequent deaths occurring in  Bibb

County, Ala., in 1847 and 1854 respectively, both being worthy members of the

Baptist church at the time of their deaths.  Mr Gandy being a successful

tiller of the soil.  His father, John Gandy, was a Georgian, and did in Bibb

County, Ala., when the subject of this sketch was a small boy.  He was of

Scotch Irish descent, a farmer and a minister of the Baptist Church.  The

mother's father, Robert Marin was born in North Carolina, and died about 1852

in Bibb county, Ala., a planter by occupation.



The subject of this sketch is the youngest of six children, and he and a

brother, D. P., are the only ones now living.  He was reared by and uncle,

Wiley R. Gandy, of Bibb county, but received but little early schooling.  At

the age of fourteen he left the shelter of his uncle's roof and joined company

B, Forty fourth Alabama Infantry, Army of Virginia, and was in all the leading

battles in which ish regiment participated, being with Longstreet at

Chickamauga, where he was wounded, and incapacitate for duty for some months. 

He was captured twice, but was paroled immediately each time, and at the close

of the war surrendered as sergeant with Gen. Lee at Appomattox court House. 

He returned immediately to Alabama, and in 1868 came to Sabine Parish, being

married here in 1872 to Miss Mary J., a daughter of Elijah Self, she being

born in this parish and dying eleven months after her marriage.



Mr. Gandy's second union took place in 1874, his wife being Mary Caroline

Sibley, a daughter of William and Minerva Sibley, who were born in St. Helena

Parish, La., the former dying in Sabine Parish, La., in 1883, and the latter

in 1887.  Mrs. Gandy was born in Sabine Parish and died in 1896, having borne

a family of six children, four living.



Mr. Gandy's third marriage took place in 1888 to Winnie, daughter of J. A. and

Matilda Addison, the former born in St. Helena and the latter in Sabine

Parish, their marriage taking place here, where Mrs. Addison died and Mr.

Addison is engaged in tilling the soil. Mrs. Gandy first saw the light of day

in this parish and has borne Mr. Gandy a daughter.  The latter has resided on

his present farm of 650 acres since 1868, and has 250 acres cleared, nearly

all of which he has accomplished by himself.  For two years he has been a

member of the police jury, and for many years has been a member of the Baptist

Church, in which he is a deacon.



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