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Rev. T. M. Wafer

Rev. T. M. Wafer, brother of the above mentioned gentleman, was born in Claiborne Parish on July 31, 1864 and received a good education in the schools of Arizona. In 1886 he began teaching school and was licensed to preach in the Methodist Episcopal Church South in 1889. He has been a member of that church since thirteen years of age, and is a young man of great piety and a true Christian in every sense of the term. He is a teacher in the Arizona school, and in that capacity ranks among the best educators in the county.

He was married in his native parish on December 6, 1888, to Miss Laura Corry, a native of this parish, where she received her education, and the daughter of J. W. Corry. One child has been born to this union, Albert. Mrs. Wafer is also a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. The two brothers and the mother reside together in Arizona.

Biographical Sketches| Claiborne Parish

Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana, Southern Publishing Company, 1890