Warlick, Ashley W.

Submitted by Mike Miller 8/01

Ashley W. Warlick, who has been superintendent of the East Carroll Parish Schools since 1920, has given practically all the years since early manhood to school work and school administration. He took his B.A. degree at the Louisiana State University in 1913.

Mr. Warlick was born at Shady Dale, near Atlanta, Georgia, August 22, 1891, son of Rev. Thomas Jesse and Elizabeth (Nicholson) Warlick, the Warlicks being of German and the Nicholsons of Schotch [sic] ancestry. The former taught school when a young man, was a graduate of Emory College in Georgia, and joining the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Conference in Georgia, served pastorates at Hartwell, Lawrenceville, St. Luke's Church in Augusta, Social Circle and Chipley. In 1902 he was transferred to the Louisiana Conference, and was pastor at Minden, presiding elder of the New Orleans and Shreveport districts, pastor of the First Church at Baton Rouge and the First Church at Lake Charles and also held pastorates at Homer, Bogalusa, Columbia and Lake Providence. He is now superannuated and lives at Rayville, Louisiana. They had three children: Frances, wife of Doctor James Hinton, professor of English in Emory College at Atlanta, Georgia; Ashley W.; and Harold Jesse, who is engaged in farming at Rayville, Louisiana.

Ashley W. Warlick was a small boy when his parents came to Louisiana, and continued his public school education in the Minden High School, the New Orleans High School and attended Centenary College at Shreveport. He graduated from the Louisiana State University, taught two years in the Homer High School, was for three years principal of the Rayville High School and for one year was teacher in the Boy's High School at Atlanta, Georgia. In 1920 he took up his duties as superintendent of the East Carroll Parish schools. His home is at Lake Providence. The schools in Lake Providence are well supplied in the matter of material facilities and curriculum, offering courses in French, Latin, English, history, the sciences, home economics and manual training. The parish high school has membership in the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools.

Mr. Warlick married Miss Ruby Knapp, of Denver, Colorado. She finished her education in the New England Conservatory of Music at Boston. They have a daughter, Edwina, born in 1920. Mr. and Mrs. Warlick are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. He is a Master Mason, and a member of the Eastern Star, and is a member also of the Knights of Pythias and the Kappa Alpha college fraternity. He belongs to the State Teacher's Association and the National Education Association.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 363, by Henry E. Chambers. Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.