FOOTE, J. W., St. Mary Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller
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J. W. FOOTE, IRISH BEND.--J. W. Foote was born in St. Mary parish, Louisiana,
in 1849.  He is the son of J. N. and Caroline (Dunesnil) Foote.

J. M. Foote was a native of Tennessee, who removed to Louisiana early in life,
where he married and engaged in sugar planting.  He died in 1863, and his
widow
still survives him.

The subject is one of a family born to the above union, six of whom are
living;  A. J.,  Mrs. Catherine Queen,  J. W., Jr.,  Mrs. Mary  Moffitt,  N.
J. and  F. T.   J. W. Foote received a limited education, and when young
learned the carpenter trade, which he followed until 1881, since which time he
has been chiefly engaged in planting.  He took charge of the Oak Lawn
plantation in 1887, and under his management it has been extremely successful.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 367.
Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing
Company.