ZENOR, G. G., Adams County, MS., then St. Mary Parish, Louisiana
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G. G. ZENOR, PATTERSON.--G. G. Zenor is a native of Adams county, Mississippi,
born October 18, 1833. He is the son of M. and S. M. (Waller) Zenor, the
former a native of Kentucky and the latter of Louisiana.  They removed to
Concordia parish, Louisiana, when G. G. Zenor was a child.  He received his
finishing education in the High School of Natchez, Mississippi, after which he
assisted his father in planting until 1868.  He then removed to St. Mary
parish and engaged in sugar planting on his own account, and has become one of
the most successful sugar growers of the State.  He has seventeen hundred
acres of land under cultivation, two-thirds of which is in cane and the rest
in corn.  He has a five-roller mill, made by the Reading Iron Works, of
Pennsylvania, which is the same mill that was on exhibition at the Exposition
at New Orleans.  He can grind four hundred toils of cane in twenty-four hours,
and has one vacuum pan with a capacity for fifteen thousand pounds of white
clarified sugar, or eighteen thousand pounds of yellow sugar at a strike,
which requires about four hours.  He operates the centrifugal process has four
Winston and six German centrifugals.  Mr. Zenor was married in St. Mary
parish, in 1855, to Miss Lucretia Robbins, a native of this parish.  They are
the parents of seven children, viz:  Webb,  Sallie,  Inez (deceased),  Millie,
Lulu,  Oscar,  George.


Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 388.
Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing
Company.