John Wesley Boyette, Jr. ; Winn Parish, Louisiana.
Greggory E. Davies
120 Ted Price Lane
Winnfield, LA  71483
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John Wesley Boyett, Jr.
Was born and reared in Winn Parish and educated in her schools and has forged 
his way to the front, and is now and growing more, one of the potent agencies in 
our best progress.  His father's name was John William Boyett, who was born in 
Alabama, but who came to Louisiana early.  He was a farmer and married Cynthy 
James, which family is well known also in this section.  They are the parents of 
twelve children.  

John was born in 1875, and is therefore quite a young man now.  He is a farmer, 
reared there and that has been his vocation.  

When the Farmers Union organized a State Union, Mr. Boyett was chosen as
Secretary-Treasurer, and has held that responsible office continuously since, 
and the farmers could probably do not better in the entire state.

In 1888 he married Josie Jordan, a daughter of John Jordan, well known, whose 
wife is a daughter of William Jones, mentioned elsewhere [in The Guardian].  
They have two children, and Mr. Boyett has acquired a neat competency in his 
farm and now has an elegant new home in Winnfield.  He is one of the busiest 
of men and all he handles is growing all the time.  Besides being elected three 
successive times to the office of secretary-treasurer, Nov. 1, 1906 he began the 
publication of the Union Banner, as a state publication, which has been a distinct 
success from the beginning and is still growing.  He has greatly assisted in the 
erection  of a warehouse for cotton.  Besides all this the Farmers State Bank 
has been organized in Winnfield and Mr. Boyett is its president.  It has the most 
flattering prospects and will no doubt be a great success and help Winnfield duly 
and also the farmers in our section.  In all the roles played by Mr. Boyett The 
Guardian extends to him the glad hand.

He is a Baptist, a Mason, and Woodmen of the World and counts his friends by 
the score.

Motto:  "To do all I can for the emancipation of labor."

(The above article was copied from The Guardian newspaper, Volume XXVII, 
No. 8-9, published September-October, 1907 at Winnfield, LA.  This copy was 
found at the Watson Memorial Library, Cammie Henry Archives, Northwestern 
State University, Natchitoches, LA., and submitted by Greggory Ellis Davies, 
Winnfield, LA.)