Bio: Jacob J. Hartman, 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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===Jacob J. Hartman, a well-known tiller of the soil of this parish, was 
born in South Carolina on August 13, 1825, to John G. Gospel Hartman 
and wife, the former also being a South Carolinian, in which State he 
grew up and married, Miss Christina Mets becoming his wife.  In 1825 
the removed to Georgia and settled in Crawford County, where Mr. 
Hartman opened up a farm, dying on the same in 1838.  His widow 
survived him a number of years and came to Louisiana with her family,
but passed from life in Webster Parish about 1863.  Mr. Hartman was 
one of a family of seven sons and three daughters that grew to mature 
years, four sons and two daughters being alive.  Jacob J. Hartman grew 
up a stout healthy boy in Alabama, and remained faithfully with his 
mother until he attained his majority, after which he followed 
overseering for about fifteen years in the State of Georgia.  In the 
spring on 1857 he came to Louisiana, purchased land, and the next year 
engaged in farming, opening up quite a tract, on which he built a 
house and which he farmed up to the opening of the war.  He at once 
joined the Confederate Army, becoming a member of Company A, Fourth 
Arkansas Regiment, under Col. Price, afterward under Gen. Kirby Smith 
till the fall of Vicksburg, when he returned to the west side of the 
river and joined Price, participation with this famous general in his 
Missouri raid, being in the fight at Prairie Grove, Corinth, 
Murfreesboro, Knoxville, and numerous engagements in Missouri 
during his term of service.  He had removed to Caddo Parish in 1859, 
and after the war returned there, but came the same year to where he 
now resides; his farm consisting of 1,400 acres of land with some 300 
acres fenced and under cultivation, on which is a good residence and 
a first-class cotton-gin and corn grist-mill.  This place in thirteen 
miles from Minden and is a valuable property.  He was married in 
Webster Parish in 1858, to Miss Georgia Ann Deck, a native of 
Louisiana, and a daughter of Pinkney Deck.  By her he became the 
father of one son, Wesley (who is a married man).  Mr. Hartman's 
wife died in 1859, and he was afterward married in Bienville Parish 
to Miss Sylvania Wilkerson, a daughter of Greenberry Wilkerson.  She 
was born in Alabama, but was reared in Louisiana, and in Webster 
Parish her marriage with Mr. Hartman was celebrated, and has resulted 
in the birth of four children: Charles, William and Lloyd (twins), 
and Allen B.  Mr. Hartman and his wife are members of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church, and since its organization in this parish Mr. Hartman 
has been a member of the Farmers' Union.