Joseph Welsh Texada (1831 - 1902)

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John Augustus and Lucy’s son, Joseph Welsh Texada (1831-1902), was a graduate of Princeton. He and his siblings received land holdings from their father and he received China Grove plantation. In 1853, he married Margaret Ker Davidson (1835-1926) of Kentucky, the daughter of physician John Pintard Davidson (1812-1890) and Laurette Ker. They lived in Rapides Parish, Louisiana from 1864-1876. Joseph Welsh served as a captain in the 8th Louisiana Cavalry, served with the Crescent Regiment in the Battle of Shiloh, was a state representative, and served on the Louisiana Police Jury. Joseph Welsh and Margaret had two sons, Joseph William (Jody) and Davidson Ker. Joseph Welsh’s and Margaret’s son, Davidson Ker Texada (1874-1938), married Mary Vance Hickman (1878-1944) and had four children: Margaret Ker Texada, Blanchard Hickman, Anita Dolores, and Mary Vance. ^[1]

Capt. Joseph W. Texada was born near where he now resides in 1831 to Capt. John A. and Lucy (Velsh) Texada. the former of whom was born in Mississippi about 17851. and the latter in Kentucky in 1794. The father was educated in the common schools of his native State, and when a young man came to this parish, and was married here in IN 12, giving his attention to cotton planting soon after his marriage, and continuing it during the whole of his life. He was a captain in the State Militia, which was called out during the War of 1812, and during that time was under Jackson at Now Orleans. His father, Manuel Garcia Texada. was born in Castile, Spain, but his mother was a Tennessean. He died in 1809, and his wife in 1845. The subject of this sketch is the eighth of eleven children, eight sons and three daughters, and be and his sister, Mrs. Dr. Robert Cruikshank are the only ones of the family now living, she being also a resident, of Rapides Parish. Capt. Joseph W. Texada graduated from the college of New Jersey, at Princeton, in June, 1852, and was is a classmate of Don Cameron of Pennsylvania; Congressman Phelps, of Maryland; James T. Jones, of Alabama (also a congressman): Col. Charles C. Jones, of Georgia, and others. After his return home from college be was married to Margaret, daughter of Dr. John Pintard Davidson, both natives of the State of Louisiana. Dr. Davidson was one of the most eminent physicians of the State at the time of his death, which occurred at New Orleans in March, 1889, his wife having passed from life in 1805. After his marriage Mr. Texada devoted his time to planting, and has since been a resident of his present fertile farm. In 1800 he was elected a member of the Lower House, of the State Legislature, serving one term, and he is now a member of the police jury of this parish.

He is a Royal Arch Mason, and in his religions faith claims to be an Episcopalian. In 1862 he joined the Confederate Army as a private in Crescent Regiment, under Col. Marshall J. Smith, find was in the battle of Shiloh, but afterward returned to the Trans-Mississippi Department, being commissioned captain in the Eighth Louisiana Cavalry in 1863 serving as such until the close of the war, taking part in the engagements tit Mansfield and Pleasant Hill, besides numerous skirmishes, and surrendering at Alexandria. He and his wife are the parents of two children; J. W.. Jr. (who farms with his father), and Davidson Ker. Lewis M. Texada, planter, Boyce, La. The Texada family has resided in Rapides Parish. La., for many years and is one of the representative families of this community. The parents of our subject, Lewis E. and Pleasant (Hunter) Texada, were both born in Rapides Parish, La., the father in 1818 and the mother in 1831, and both reared there. The father completed his literary education and graduated in the law school of the University of Virginia, after which he returned to Louisiana and the same year was married to Miss Annie B. Lyon, of Charlottesville, Va. Mrs. Texada being fin invalid, Mr. Texada could not devote his time to the practice of his profession and consequently he purchased a farm, where his son, Lewis M., now resides.

Here be carried on agricultural pursuits and here Mrs. Texada died in 1849. in 1850 Mr. Texada married Miss Hunter, mother of subject. He represented Rapides Parish in both houses of the Legislature several terms, was one of the leading members, and has au enviable State reputation. He was always identified with any measure that was for the good of the section He represented. He lacked only three votes of receiving the nomination for lieutenant governor on the ticket with Gov. Wilkes, but was defeated by the famous New Orleans ring. He was a Master Mason, and he and Mrs. Texada were members of the Episcopal Church. His death occurred in August, 1884. Lewis M. Texada is also a native of Rapides Parish, La., and was born in the house where he now resides, in 1853. He completed his education at Lexington, Va., and since then has devoted his entire time and attention to tilling the soil. In 1880 he was married to Miss Blanche Preot, daughter of Prof. Aruand and Elizabeth (Hammatt) Preot, natives respectively of Lyle, France, and Petersburg, Va., and born, the first in 1820 and the last in 1830. Prof. Preot came to the United States when twenty- one years of age and in 1839 was married to Mrs. Texada's mother, after which, in 1840, he took charge of the Buckingham Female College as one of the principals. He was afterward a professor in Farmville Female Institute and was (hen made president. In 1870 he removed to Danville, Va., where he was associated with the Methodist and Roanoke Female Colleges until 1873, when his death occurred. Mrs. Preot is now residing in North Carolina with her daughter. Mrs. Texada is an accomplished find finely educated lady, having attended several different institutions of learning, completing her education at Petersburg Female College. in 1888 Mr. Texada was appointed by Gov. Nicholls as a member of the police jury from his ward, and in that capacity has been of much benefit, to the people. He is the father of four children, all daughters. Mr. Texada is the second of eight children, four sons and four daughters.^[2]

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1. ↑ http://www.lib.lsu.edu/sites/default/files/sc/findaid/5119.pdf
2. ↑ http://laahgp.genealogyvillage.com/Bigraphicalmemoirs13/rapidesparishbh3.html

1870 US Census, Louisiana

Joseph W Texada M 39 Louisiana

Margarette Texada F 34 Louisiana

Joseph W Texada M 11 Louisiana

Georgeanna Sullivan F 12 Louisiana

Ruth Short F 60 Kentucky

Citing this Record

"United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M87N-N4Q : 17 October 2014), Joseph W Texada, Louisiana, United States; citing p. 22, family 197, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 552,027.