Biography - Samuel W. Vance

SAMUEL WHIT VANCE. In no part of Louisiana is agriculture in a more flourishing condition than in Bossier Parish, and Mr. Vance is considered one of its most successful young planters, he being a member of a prominent old family of this parish. He is the second of three children - two sons and one daughter - born to Samuel Whit and Sallie E. (James) Vance, who were born in South Carolina and Alabama, respectively, and were married in Bossier Parish, La., settling first at Plain Dealing, and afterward where the subject of this sketch is now living, on which place Mr. Vance died in 1877, having been a prosperous planter. Socially he was a member of the A. F. & A. M. at Benton, a son of Mr. Daniel Vance, who died in South Carolina. Mrs. Vance is still living, and is a true Christian lady and a worthy member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Samuel Whit Vance was born at Plain Dealing, La., in 1864, and his youth was spent in learning the "halling" of a farm and in attending the school at Shreveport. Upon leaving school he spent three years in a store on Shady Grove plantation, and since that time has resided on the farm on which he is now living, which comprises several thousand acres of excellent farming land, on the cultivated portion of which he raises some 400 bales of cotton annually.

Contributed 29 Aug 2020 by Norma Hass, extracted from Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana, published in 1890, pages 147-148.