Biography - W. C. Keith

W. C. KEITH, a planter of Ward 5, was born in South Carolina in 1820, being the second of six children-four sons and two daughters-born to Littleton and Mary (Coker) Keith, both born in the Palmetto State, in 1798. They were also married in that State, followed the occupation of farming there, but Mr. Keith died in Alabama in 1833, and Mrs. Keith in Bossier Parish in 1872, both being members of the Baptist Church. The boyhood days of W. C. Keith were spent on a farm in Alabama, but in 1865 he removed to Bossier Parish, La., and purchased the farm of 360 acres on which he is now living, which is a finely improved tract, with 250 acres in an enviable state of cultivation. He was married in Troy, Ala., in 1851, to Miss Martha A. E. Urquhart, a daughter of Henry S. and Martha (Scott) Urquhart, both native Georgians. The father was a judge of the county court of Pike County, Ala., for a period of several years, and in that State passed form life in 1884, his wife dying in Georgia in 1842, he being a member of the Baptist Church and she of the Presbyterian Church. W. C. Keith is a member of the A. F. & A. M., Bellevue Lodge No. 95, and also belongs to the Farmers' Alliance at Rocky Mount. To himself and wife a family of six children have been born-four sons and two daughters-only one of whom is now living: J. L. (who is married, and lives on a farm in Ward 5), and Emma A. (a daughter, married a Mr. McKinney, and at the time of her death, in 1886, was the mother of five children).

Contributed 29 Aug 2020 by Norma Hass, extracted from Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana, published in 1890, page 135.