Kent, Thomas D.

Thomas D. Kent, junior member of the above mentioned firm, was born in----county, Miss., in 1848, and is the son of Jesse T. and T. C. (De Almond) Kent, natives of Georgia and Tennessee, respectively.  Both are now deceased.  They were married in Mississippi and remained in that state until 1852, when they moved to Baton Rouge.  They subsequently moved from there to Livingston parish and there received their final summons.  The father was a cotton planter and followed that occupation up to the time of his death, which occurred in 1887 at the age of seventy-three years.  The mother died in 1861 at the age of forty-six years. Both were church members, he a member of the Baptist and she of the Methodist.

Thomas D. was the sixth of ten children, and received his education in thecountry schools and in the schools of Baton Rouge.  Soon after the war he branched out as a planter in Baton Rouge parish, where he remained until 1873, and then came to La Fourche parish.  There he became overseer for John Williams and other individuals.  His first purchase in the way of a plantation was in 1885, when he formed a partner ship with Mr. Whitehead. 

In 1879 Mr. Kent was married to Miss Fanny Carver, of Assumption parish and to them has been born one child, a daughter.  Mrs. Kent is a member of the Catholic church.  Mr. Kent holds membership in the A. F. & A. M., the K. of P. and the I. O. O. F., being noble grand of the last named order.  In politics he is a stanch democrat.