1925 Biography - W. E. McDade

W. E. McDade. The McDade family has been One of exceptional prominence ill Northwest Louisiana, particularly in Bossier Parish, where many of them have been among the most successful and wealthy citizens, with planting as their chief occupation, though some have also ranked high in merchandising and banking and in public affairs.

As a family they represent the best type of the Scotch race, The first American ancestors on coming to this country located in Virginia. J. G. McDade, one of the founders of the family in Bossier Parish, was a pioneer settler in Texas, serving with Texas troops in the Confederate army. Soon after the war he moved to Louisiana and settled in the Fillmore community of Bossier Parish, north of Haughton. He married Miss Sallie Connell. One of their sons is Mr. J. G. McDade of Haughton, president of the police jury of Bossier Parish.

Mr. W. E .McDade, son of J. G. and Sallie (Connell) McDade, was born at the family homestead in the Fillmore community of Bossier Parish in 1870. He grew up in that locality, received his education in the local schools, and from early manhood has been identified with farming and planting. Like the other McDades, he is a lover of the land and the country, a keen judge of good soil and a thoroughly progressive farmer. On the lookout for rich land, he moved from Bossier Parish in 1913 to Belcher, in Caddo Parish, where he acquired some tracts of the rich land for which that community is famous. Since then he has become one of the largest and most successful planters in the region, an important individual grower of cotton. Mr. McDade is also one of the directors of the Bank of Belcher, and was a member of the building committee of the bank which erected a handsome new structure, completed in 1925. For several years he was also in the mercantile business at Belcher.

Mr. McDade married Miss Mariah Butler, a sister of Mr. A. P. Butler of Belcher and member of a distinguished family of South Carolina, her grandfather having been a soldier and governor of that state, and her great-grandfather a major-general in the War of the Revolution. Mr. and Mrs. McDade have two children: P. D. McDade and Mrs. Sadie Burden, the latter a resident of Baton Rouge.

Contributed 2021 Nov 04 by Mike Miller, from A History of Louisiana, by Henry E. Chambers, published in 1925, Volume 2, page 199.