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Submitted: 3/31/09 • Approved: 8/24/23 • Last Updated: 8/27/23 • R172808-G0-S3
Husband of Nettie Slade
May 4, 1846 - September 14, 1921
W. L. Slade, merchant, planter and millman, Champagnolle, Ark. Mr. Slade is one those progressive men who is not satisfied to run in the same old ruts traversed by so many, but branches forth and tries new enterprises and new ideas. He was born in Georgia, in May, 1846, and is the son of Joseph H. and Elizabeth (Dumas) Slade, both natives of Georgia, the father born in 1824. Eleven children were born to this union: Lucy A., John T., George, Ellen C., Samuel J., Jerry D., Wherry, James, Elizabeth and Ernest E. The father has followed farming, and has also been engaged in merchandising, carrying on both occupations the principal part of his life. In 1858 he emigrated from Georgia to Arkansas, settled in Union County, and here he has since resided. He is a prominent citizen, and he and wife are members of the Baptist Church. He is a royal Arch Mason. W. L. Slade attended school, and remained in Union County until the breaking out of the late war, when he enlisted in the Confederate army, under Gen. Harrison, Company I, Thirty-first Louisiana, and his first hard battle was at Chickasaw Bayou. At Vicksburg he was captured, and paroled, after which he returned home, and in a few days returned to the company. He was in several other engagements, and remained with his company until the surrender. After this he returned to his home, resumed farming, and was there married, in December, 1867, to Miss Florence Burk, a native of this county. Nine children have been born to them: Edgar E., John M., Lizzie, Anna, Ada, Linnie, Effie, George C. and Ethel. Mr. Slade is now engaged in merchandising and farming, and is a prominent business man, carrying a stock of goods valued at $2,000. He has also a fine gin, and this has all the latest improvements. His farm consists of 640 acres, with 218 acres under cultivation. He and Mrs. Slade are members of the Missionary Baptist Church. (Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Southern Arkansas - Goodspeed Publishing Company - Chicago, Nashville and St. Louis - 1890)
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