Col. William L. Smylie, Winn Parish, Louisiana
Contributed by Greggory E. Davies
120 Ted Price Lane
Winnfield, LA  71483
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Col. William L. Smylie

Editor of The Comrade


The family lived in Mississippi.  His father was a farmer and accountant and died in Jackson,
Miss., in 1855.  His mother in 1890.  The Colonel was born in Jefferson County, Miss., in 
1844, and was educated in Jackson.  In 1869 he married Miss Rosa Parker and is the father 
of three children, two of whom are living.  

Mr. Smylie is a publisher and printer and is now the editor of The Comrade, in Winnfield, 
which is a weekly newspaper of good standing.  He began his career in 1858 and has had a 
goodly experience in his line.  His ambition now is to make the Comrade the capstone of 
his life work here in Winnfield.

The Colonel has great confidence in the future of this section and an abiding faith in a wide
development.  He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, is a a Mason and 
Knight of Pythias.  He was in the Confederate army as a private and lieutenant.  He joins in 
the belief that good roads and intensive farming are feasible in north Louisiana, and especially 
in Winn Parish, and is absolutely necessary to her best development.  He is gentle in manner 
and much beloved.

Motto:  "To keep my obligations, to do all the good I can and make the world better 
and happier all my life."


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