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George R. Wafer

George R. Wafer, farmer, Arizona, Louisiana. It is doubtless owing entirely to the industrious and persevering manner with which Mr. Wafer has adhered to the pursuit of agriculture that he has risen to such a substantial position in farm affairs in this parish.

Born in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana, on June 29, 1856, he is one of six children, five sons and one daughter, two sons now living, born to the union of T. M. and Amanda (Malone) Wafer, both natives of Georgia. T. M. Wafer went to Alabama when a child with his father, J. T. Wafer, who was a native of South Carolina, but whose father was a native of the Emerald Isle, and was there reared to manhood. He has been twice married, the first time when quite young and the second time to the mother of our subject. He settled in Claiborne Parish, followed farming, and there his death occurred in 1804. He was an exhorter in the Methodist Episcopal Church, was well educated, and was a very influential citizen. He was a fine orator, and it was mainly due to his power of eloquence that Claiborne Parish voted against secession for delegates to the State Convention, be having advocated to stay in the Union. He was a council Mason, and was very prominent in Masonic affairs.

George B. Wafer received a good education in the best schools of Claiborne Parish, and after completing his studies, engaged in stock trading and farming, at which he was very successful. He still continues to cultivate the soil and although but a young man, he is the owner of a fine farm, and his farming operations are conducted in a manner indicative of a progressive, thorough agriculturist.

Biographical Sketches| Claiborne Parish

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