Biography - Walter T. Colquitt

WALTER T. COLQUITT. This well-known and successful young agriculturist of Bossier Parish has resided on his present farm of 350 acres, situated four miles above Shreveport since 1881, and now cultivation and improvement, his annual yield of cotton being from 225 to 270 bales. On his property he has erected a good steam cotton-gin and plantation store, and he has the full satisfaction of knowing that what he has, has been earned by his own efforts. He was born in Lee County. Ala., in 1861, being the youngest of three sons, and remained with his father after coming to Bossier Parish, attending the common schools of his native State, until fourteen years of age. At the age of twenty, he began doing for himself with the abovementioned results, and is now accounted, and justly so, one of the leading agriculturists of this section. He is a member of the Missionary Baptist Church, and has always shown himself to be public spirited, enterprising and honest. His two brothers are William Homer and Robert Kellam Colquitt, sons of Francis Marion and Mary E. (Kellam) Colquitt, who were born in Georgia, March 21, 1828, and Alabama, December 29, 1834, their deaths occurring in Bossier Parish. La., and Alabama, July 28, 1884, and June 23, 1865, respectively. They were married in Alabama, and after the mother’s death, the father, in 1876, came to Bossier Parish, where he followed planting until his death. He served as an officer throughout the Rebellion, and was a warm supporter of the cause of the Confederacy. He was a Mason, socially, and was a prominent member of the Baptist Church, was fairly educated, an able writer and a deep thinker. He was very genial in all his ways, and was loved by all who knew him for his many worthy traits of character. The mother’s father, Judge Robert Kellam, was a prominent politician of Alabama, a farmer by occupation, and died in that State.

Contributed 29 Aug 2020 by Norma Hass, extracted from Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana, published in 1890, page 130.