Bio: Capt. Thomas W. Fuller, Webster Par., Louisiana
Source:  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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Capt. Thomas W. Fuller.  Among the best known men of Webster Parish 
is Mr. Fuller, who was born in Houston County, Ga., March 4, 1828, 
to John M. and Sarah Frances (Walker) Fuller, the former a native 
of North Carolina and the latter of Georgia, their marriage being 
consummated in the last named State.  They removed from Georgia to 
Louisiana in 1838, and after a residence of one year in Red River 
Parish, they settled in Minden, which place was their home until 
their respective deaths in 1854 and 1842.  At his death he owned 
a large plantation in Bossier Parish, on Red River, on which he 
made from 500 to 600 bales of cotton each year.  Capt. Thomas W. 
Fuller is the only survivor of a family of two sons and two daughters 
that grew to mature years, and his youth and early manhood were spent 
in Minden, his early education being acquired in the common schools 
and Minden College, but was supplemented by a three years' course in 
the Cumberland University of Tennessee.  After finishing his collegiate 
course he returned to Minden, and after a short time spent in the study 
of law he was admitted to the bar in 1849.  He then began practicing 
at Bellevue, and during a five years' residence at that place he became 
widely known, and as he had a large and paying practice he saved about 
$7,000, with which he purchased a farm of 900 acres, which he has 
cleared, improved and stocked.  In 1861 he entered the Confederate 
Army, becoming a member of a company of Louisiana Cavalry, and served 
as captain of a company for three years.  He participated in a great 
many skirmishes, but served as an officer's escort the most of the 
time.  After the war he served as district attorney for seven years, 
and his thorough and exhaustive knowledge of law thoroughly fitted him 
for the successful discharge of the duties of this position.  He has 
been a worthy tiller of the soil for the past thirty-eight years, and 
boasts that he has never bought either bread or meat, always raising 
his own wheat and corn, cattle and hogs.  The propagation of horses 
and mules also receives considerable attention at his hands.  About
one-half of his cultivated land he devotes to the culture of cotton, 
and from this his annual profits are large.  On March 12, 1856, he was 
married to Miss Margaret Wafer, a daughter of W. Wafer, of Claiborne 
Parish.  Mrs. Fuller was born and reared in this parish and entered 
and graduated from the Minden Female College.  This estimable lady 
died January 25, 1880, leaving four children, all of whom are grown 
and are graduates of good schools and colleges.  The names of the 
children are: Lettisie (wife of T. H. Doyle, a large merchant at 
Murrell's Point, Webster Parish), Margaret, Thomas W., Jr., (now 
editor of the Minden Signal, a paper published at Minden, La.; he 
is a graduate of Centenary College, Jackson, La.), and Cornelia, all 
of whom are actively engaged in business.  Mr. Fuller is a thorough
 business man, is an excellent manager and a very pleasant gentleman 
to meet.  He has an extensive library, and now spends his time in the 
companionship of his books.