He was the son of Stephen Southard HEARD and Mary Ann WRIGHT. He married Martha Frances TATUM in 1862.
Charles Anderson Heard was a lawyer in Farmerville, LA before the Civil War. He served in the Confederate Army as a Private in Company K, 2nd La. Infantry. According to the muster rolls, May & June 1862, he was listed as wounded and in the hospital at Richmond, Va. During November and December 1863, he was listed as "absent and wounded"; January and February 1864, he was listed as "wounded and on furlough". He was crippled thereafter, and always used a cane. After the war, he practiced law in Dubach, La. He was known to be very kind-hearted.
Besides their own children, Charles and Martha raised a Negro named Mary. She lived with them until they died. At one time she lived in Shreveport, and went by the name Mary Heard.
Charles Anderson Heard was a lawyer in Farmerville, LA before the Civil War. He served in the Confederate Army as a Private in Company K, 2nd La. Infantry. According to the muster rolls, May & June 1862, he was listed as wounded and in the hospital at Richmond, Va. During November and December 1863, he was listed as "absent and wounded"; January and February 1864, he was listed as "wounded and on furlough". He was crippled thereafter, and always used a cane. After the war, he practiced law in Dubach, La. He was known to be very kind-hearted.
Besides their own children, Charles and Martha raised a Negro named Mary. She lived with them until they died. At one time she lived in Shreveport, and went by the name Mary Heard.
He was the son of Stephen Southard HEARD and Mary Ann WRIGHT. He married Martha Frances TATUM in 1862.
Charles Anderson Heard was a lawyer in Farmerville, LA before the Civil War. He served in the Confederate Army as a Private in Company K, 2nd La. Infantry. According to the muster rolls, May & June 1862, he was listed as wounded and in the hospital at Richmond, Va. During November and December 1863, he was listed as "absent and wounded"; January and February 1864, he was listed as "wounded and on furlough". He was crippled thereafter, and always used a cane. After the war, he practiced law in Dubach, La. He was known to be very kind-hearted.
Besides their own children, Charles and Martha raised a Negro named Mary. She lived with them until they died. At one time she lived in Shreveport, and went by the name Mary Heard.
Charles Anderson Heard was a lawyer in Farmerville, LA before the Civil War. He served in the Confederate Army as a Private in Company K, 2nd La. Infantry. According to the muster rolls, May & June 1862, he was listed as wounded and in the hospital at Richmond, Va. During November and December 1863, he was listed as "absent and wounded"; January and February 1864, he was listed as "wounded and on furlough". He was crippled thereafter, and always used a cane. After the war, he practiced law in Dubach, La. He was known to be very kind-hearted.
Besides their own children, Charles and Martha raised a Negro named Mary. She lived with them until they died. At one time she lived in Shreveport, and went by the name Mary Heard.
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