USGENWEB PROJECT ARCHIVES: TENSAS PARISH LOUISIANA
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Wade A. Netterville, Wilkinson Co., MS., then Tensas Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller
AUG 2001



Wade A. Netterville.  One of the representative men of Tensas Parish, 
Louisiana, whose interests have been centered here for more than a 
quarter of a century, is Wade A. Netterville, manager of Panola 
Plantation near the beautiful little city of St. Joseph.  Richly 
experienced and well informed, Mr. Netterville has borne his part in 
the marvelous developments of recent years that through drainage, 
timber clearing and intelligent production management have opened up 
new sources of agricultural wealth.

Wade A. Netterville is a native of Mississippi, born near Woodville, 
Wilkinson County, .August 28, 1876, son of Charles and Mattic (Morris) 
Netterville.  For many years his father was a cotton planter near 
Kingston, Adams County, Mississippi, and died there in 1906, at the age 
of fifty-five years.  His mother survives and resides at Natchez.  Of 
their family of five sons and one daughter all are living except one 
son, W. B., who died on his cotton plantation at Kingston at the age of 
forty-three.

A public school education was all that Mr. Netterville could give his 
sons, but it has proved entirely adequate, all having developed into 
substantial, self-reliant business men, well known and esteemed 
throughout the Delta today.  After coming to Tensas Parish, Wade A. 
Netterville took charge of the Winter Quarters Plantation store for 
Dr J. M. Gillespie, and spent six years there and in the Store at 
Panola Plantation, at the end of which the he became manager of Wyoming 
Plantation a Panola property, where he remained two years, coming then 
to his present post as manager of Panda Plantation near St. Joseph, now 
being manager of 1,000 acres of some of the finest land in the whole 
parish.  This land is owned by the Panola Company, Ltd., a corporation 
composed of local capitalists who operate plantations under this name, 
comprising about 11,000 acres in Tenses Parish, about two-thirds of 
their land being planted in cotton and the rest in grain.  It is an 
enterprise of vast importance to this section and it has the capital to 
make it worth while for such men as Mr. Netterville to devote their 
entire the and energies to the management of their plantations, thus 
ensuring profitable returns.  One interesting item in this connection 
may be cited relating to the statement made by the president of Panola 
Company, Ltd., that in 1917, on 1,460 acres of the company land, 
approximately a bale of good quality cotton was produced to the acre, 
still better returns being realized on other cotton tracts.  The 
fertility of the land under its present efficient management has brought
about a pleasing company dividend of 135% for the stockholders for the 
past three years.

Mr. Netterville married Miss Susie Hair, daughter of Jacob Hair, and 
they had one son, Howard, who survived his mother.  A graduate of the 
St. Joseph High School, he is preparing to enter Washington and Lee 
University.  Since boyhood Mr. Neterville has been a member of the 
Christian Church.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 372, by Henry E. Chambers.  
Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., 
Chicago and New York, 1925.