Ibzan Porter, Winn Parish, LA Contributed 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 ********************************************** Ibzan Porter Is one of the representative men among the farmers of Winn Parish. He has remained on his farm and made a living, reared a large family in respectability and saved money all this time. The family came from South Carolina. His father's name was Starks and he was born and reared in the State mentioned. He was also a farmer. He married Miss Sarah Bevill, whose brother was the father of Winnfield's present Mayor. Mr. Porter died in Franklin Parish in January, 1858; Mrs. Porter died in Winn many years later. Ibzan was born in South Carolina, November 4, 1842. His parents came to Alabama later where he was reared and where most of his education was secured. Yet later they came to Louisiana and his fortunes have been entirely here. He is a farmer, "to the manor born;" has never been anything else. He has practically lived in the same community all these years and enjoys the confidence of the people. He has served his section on the Police Jury on important committees of arbitration and is a man of most excellent judgment. He is a most reliable object lesson for this section, demonstrating what can be done here in the line of farming in the straightforward usual way. He married Miss Hannah Cockerham and they have eleven children, three of whom are dead. They have a neat new farm home five miles east of Winnfield. He is a Baptist, a Mason, and belongs to the Farmers Union. He was a Confederate soldier in the infantry and is now living in comfort and in the esteem of all the people. He is among the very salt of the earth. Motto: "To do my full duty, advocate right and justice and to help my fellow man." (The above article appeared in The Guardian newspaper, Volume XXVII , No. 8-9, published in October-November at Winnfield, LA. The above article was copied from this newspaper which was located at the Watson Memorial Library, Cammie Henry Archives, Northwestern State University, Natchitoches, LA. Submitted by Greggory Ellis Davies, Winnfield, LA.)