The Gamble Family.  Winn Parish, Louisiana
Submitter: Greggory E. Davies
120 Ted Price Lane
Winnfield, LA  71483
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The Gamble Family of Winn Parish


E. J. Gamble was born and reared at Sparta, White County, Tennessee, and came to Louisiana as a school 
teacher.  Subsequently he engaged in the mercantile business and planting at St. Maurice and served as 
parish surveyor before retiring in 1910.  He was active in parish politics and served on the parish 
Democratic executive committee.  He and Mrs. Gamble had six children, one dying in childhood.   

One son, Harry P., served with the rank of captain in the Spanish-American War at Cuba, later 
graduating from Louisiana State University where he played football.  He finished his law degree at 
Tulane University and was assistant attorney general of Louisiana during Governor Pleasant's 
administration.  He also served Winn Parish in the legislature and eventually headed the most prestigious 
law firm in New Orleans.  The three daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Gamble were  Mrs. C. H. Mann, Mrs. 
Carl Jackson, and Mrs. Z. T. Gallion. 

The Gamble's youngest son, Robert C., was born November 27, 1890 near St. Maurice.  He graduated 
from Winnfield High School and took a commercial course at Louisiana State University and was a 
stenographer for the Germain-Boyd Lumber Company at Atlanta, Winn Parish for several months before 
joining the DeSoto Abstract Company at Mansfield, DeSoto Parish.  He eventually left that position to 
become deputy clerk of court under DeSoto Parish Clerk of Court L. H. Bell, Jr.  

In May, 1917, Robert Gamble entered the First Officers' Training Camp at Camp Logan H. Roots, 
Arkansas, and on completing the course was commissioned second lieutenant.  He remained at Camp 
Pike, Arkansas with the Three Hundred Forty-sixth Infantry in the Eighty-seventh Division  until ordered 
to Camp Dix and then overseas.  He was stationed at St. Nazaire in France before transferring to the 
Twenty-sixth or Yankee Division.  He returned to the states in 1919 and was discharged at Camp Pike, 
Arkansas.

Following the war, Robert returned to his former duties in the DeSoto clerk's office and in 1920 was 
elected Clerk of Court.  He was reelected in 1924.  He was a member of the American Legion, was a 
Mason and Knight of Pythias.  He married Ellen Landers, daughter of  L. W. Landers of Union Parish, 
Louisiana.

(The above was submitted by Greggory Ellis Davies, Winnfield, Winn Parish, Louisiana.  Source:  
Chambers' History of Louisiana, 1925.)