Bio: William M. Coyle, Webster Par., Louisiana
Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville, 1890
Submitted by: Gwen Moran-Hernandez
Date: April 2000



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===William M. Coyle is one of the pioneers of Northern Louisiana, who has 
accumulated a competency by hard work and good management in tilling 
the soil.  He was born in East Feliciana Parish, La., March 14, 1825, 
to William and Elizabeth (Clark) Coyle, the former a native of 
Mississippi and the latter of Louisiana.  Mr. Coyle was a farmer, but 
after a short residence in this State he returned with his family to 
Mississippi.  He came back to Louisiana once more in 1836, and 
settled in what is now Webster Par., Louisianawhere he opened a farm on 
which he resided until his death in 1856.  He was a soldier in the 
War of 1812, and was a participant in the battle of New Orleans.  
His first wife died in Mississippi in 1836, but afterward married 
again.  William L. Coyle came to this State and parish with his 
father in 1836, and remained with him until he arrived at mature 
years.  He was first married in 1844 to Miss Nancy Jane Crownover, 
a native of Louisiana, but she died two years after their marriage.  
Mr. Coyle purchased the farm where he now lived in 1844, his land 
now amounting to 600 acres, of which 250 acres are under cultivation.  
Besides this he owns other lands in the county, making some 3,000 acres 
all together.  He is one of the largest land owners of Ward 2, if not 
of the parish, and as he began life a poor boy, empty handed, his 
present possessions are the result of individual effort.  He married 
his second wife in this parish, she being Miss Anna Delafield, a 
native of Tennessee.  
He unfortunately lost this wife also in 1862, she leaving him with 
three children to care for.  He married his present wife in Arkansas 
in 1873, her maiden name being Cassandra Fain, a native of and reared 
in Mississippi.  One child was left him by his first wife: Mary Jane, 
and the names of those born to his second union are Sarah Ann (wife of 
R. E. Cox), John M. (married), and Celestia E.  Mr. Coyle has nine 
grandchildren, one of whom resides with him.  He has served on the 
parish board, has been a member of the police jury for three terms, 
and is a active member of the Farmers' Union, having served as 
president of the Parish Union, and in the same capacity in the local 
union.  He and his wife and daughters are members of the Missionary 
Baptist Church.