Bios: Satterwhite Family, 1946, Winn Parish, LA. Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483 ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** >From the April 26, 1946 Winn Parish Enterprise Slave Born Darky Lived 112 Years Negro Family Owns Century Old Bible A tattered New Testament whose pages are patched with age and worn by more than a hundred years of constant use is the treasured possession of M. S. Satterwhite, an aged and well known Winnfield negro who has faithfully served his Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church here since 1908. Parents Together Lived 219 Years Born to a pious old negro mammy who lived 107 years and to a slave born darky died at 112, Satterwhite, with 17 brothers and sisters, was "reared through the instructions that came from this (his father's, 'grand old Book'), according to a religious history of this remarkable family. Three aged sons and a daughter, whose combined ages total 396 years, are the survivors of 10 children born to the old slave's first wife and eight to his second. Eight of the children were boys and three of these became preachers, including Joe and Orange Satterwhite and Charles Satterwhite, Jr., and the lives of all were characterized by long service with negro churches throughout Louisiana, according to the family history. Church Member 58 Years Satterwhite himself joined the Star Light Missionary Baptist Church in Red River Parish in 1888, there serving as secretary for 15 years and as deacon for seven, and moved to Winn Parish in 1908. He then joined the Morning Star Church and has since served as deacon and superintendent of the Sunday School, chairman of the Trustee board and chairman of the "Poor Saints fund," which position he presently occupies. He is the father of eight children, neither of whom "has been convicted of crime nor summoned to court," the history states. One of his boys, Rev. C. M. Satterwhite, became a member of the Morning Star Church by baptism, transferred to the Evergreen Missionary Church in Caddo Parish where he was ordained, and now is a missionary of the Thirteenth District Progressive Baptist Association. Father A Church Man 85 Years Of his father, Satterwhite wrote: "The exact date of his birth is unknown to me, however, he told me that he remember when the stars fell, and he was a large boy at that time....He was a member of the church eighty-five years, and was never excluded, and never had a church trial." Satterwhite's mother was Susan Hendrix Satterwhite, who was an organic member and a deaconess of the churches served by her husband. Under the title "A Concise Religious History of the Satterwhite Family," the history was completed with deep gratitude "to God for having enabled me to pen these words and hand them down to the latest posterity," and was signed: "M. S. Satterwhite, historian."