Biography - A. R. Thompson

A. R. THOMPSON is the sheriff and tax collector of Bossier coming to Bossier Parish in 1858, where the death of the former occurred in 1881, his widow being still alive and in good health, aged about sixty-five years. Mrs. Thompson was born in South Carolina, and died in the month of June, 1887, at Bellevue, La., in her thirty-third year, having borne four children, one son and two daughters now living, viz.: William A., Lila A. and Mamie A. Thompson. In addition to farming, Mr. Thompson has managed a warehouse on Red River, but discontinued these callings in 1880, being elected to the position of clerk and ex officio recorder of this parish, serving by re-election until November, 1889, when he was appointed sheriff to fill the unexpired term of R. E. Wyche. Mr. Thompson has been reasonably successful in all his business operations, and is now the owner of 2,090 acres of land in different tracts, all the result of persistent and intelligent labor. Socially, he is a worthy member of the A. F. & A. M., Cypress Lodge No. 89, of Benton, having been master of the same for some time, and also belongs to the K. of P. at Dixie, and the A. L. of H. Bellevue Lodge No. 1120.

Contributed 29 Aug 2020 by Norma Hass, extracted from Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana, published in 1890, page 147.