Bio: Joshua Malcom Paul, Sabine Parish Louisiana

Source:  Biographical & Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana, The

Southern Publishing Company, 1890, Nashville and Chicago

Submitted by:  Thelma Shields

e-mail: shields@eufaula.lib.ok.us
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JOSHUA MALCOM PAUL

Planter, San Particio, La..  



Mr. Paul is a typical Louisiana farmer, substantial , enterprising and

progressive, and such a man as wields no small influence in the community

where he makes his home.  He was originally from Shelby County Texas, born on

October 26, 1850, and was reared and educated there.  When nineteen years of

age he started out for himself as a farmer, and is now the owner of 700 acres

of as good land as is to be found in the parish.  He is one of the most

extensive planters in Ward 6, and although he started with limited means, he

is now in very comfortable circumstances indeed.  He was married in 1879, to

Miss Elizabeth Holt, Of Sabine Parish who died in 1884.  She was the mother of

eight children, four now living:  Alice, John, Henrietta and Ozella.  Those

deceased were William at the age of six years, and Joshua at the age of four

years.  Two others died in infancy.  In 1886 Mr. Paul's nuptials with Miss

Susan Lynch, a native of Natchitoches Parish, were celebrated, and they have

two children:  Banks and Laura.  Mr. Paul is a member of the Methodist Church,

and has been steward in the same.  He is a member of the Alliance, and in

politics is Democratic.  He raises considerable stock, cattle, hogs, and

horses, but in farming makes a specialty of no one occupation.  Mr. Paul is

the eldest of five children born to Samuel B and Mary (Schamburger) Paul, the

father, a native of Georgia, and the mother of Alabama.  They moved to Alabama

at an early date, from there to Texas in 1849, and in 1861 to Sabine Parish,

locating near where our subject now resides.  The father was a successful

tiller of the soil.  While in Shelby County, Texas, he was justice of the

peace several years.  He was a member of the Baptist Church, and in politics

was a Democrat.  He died in 1880, at the age of about fifty-eight years, but

the mother is still living and is fifty seven years of age.  She is a member

of the Baptist Church.



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