ASHFORD, Wm. R., St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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WM. R. ASHFORD, CHATAIGNIER.--Mr. Ashford is a native of St. Landry parish,
born in 1849.  He is the son of Butler J. and Sara (Barker) Ashford, the
former a native of Wilmington, N. C., the latter of South Carolina.  Mrs.
Ashford's grandfather, Col. Barker, was an officer in the revolutionary war.
The subject of our sketch is one of a family of two brothers.  When he was
about five years of age his father died, and his mother married the second
time.  He began life teaching in the public schools.  In this he was engaged
for a period of about four years, when he took charge of a stock farm and was
engaged in that business for about eight years.  During this period he kept a
ferry on the Nepizcupez [sic].  Since that time he has conducted his
plantation, and taught private school.  He has a plantation of over three
hundred acres, on which he raises principally rice.  Mr. Ashford was married
in 1852 to Miss D. Hebert, a native of St. Landry parish, and daughter of
Joisin and Devine Fontenot.  To this union have been born six children, two
sons and four daughters.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, pp.
3-4.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf
Publishing Company.