Dr. William Wirt Culpepper
Sheriff, CSA Soldier, Physician
1834 - Aft. 1900
William Wirt Culpepper, M. D., is a Georgian by birth, born in Houston
County, 8 Oct 1834, to Charles S. and Nancy (Cunyus) Culpepper, who were
born, reared and married in Georgia, removing to Louisiana about 1850, and
settling in Jackson Parish. The mother having died in 1848, the father
married again and reared a family by his last wife. He passed from life in
1872.
Dr. William Wirt Culpepper attained manhood in Jackson parish, La., and
in 1861, left home to enlist in the Confederate Army, becoming a member of
the second Louisiana Infantry, and served until he received his discharge
for disability from a wound which he had received. He was in the engagements
at Great Bethel Church and Malvern Hill, and on the last day of the seven
days' fight he was wounded in the right knee by grape shot and permanently
disabled.
After being in the hospital for some time he was furloughed home, where
he was afterward elected sheriff of Jackson Parish, and this position he
held for about two years.
Soon after arriving at mature years he began the study of medicine, and
took his first course of lectures at New Orleans in 1855, and had practiced
some prior to the opening of the Rebellion. He once more began practicing,
after finishing his duties as sheriff, going soon after to Rapides Parish,
where he remained some three years. In 1869 he again went to New Orleans and
took a second course of lectures, and in the spring of 1870 was graduated as
an M. D., locating soon after in Webster Parish, where he remained from some
ten years. On January 7, 1880, he moved to Claiborne parish, and has been
practicing in the vicinity of Athens ever since, and has become widely and
favorably known in his social life as well as professional capacity. In
connection with his practice he has of late years also carried on a farm, at
which he is doing well.
He was married in Jackson parish, on February 14, 1865, to Miss Anna I.
Barnes, a native of Mississippi, but reared in Louisiana, by her father,
James Barnes. She died in 1873, leaving two sons: James Curran and William
Tell. The Doctor's second marriage took place in 1876, to Miss Anna Isabelle
Hise of this State and parish, a daughter of Aaron Hise, by whom he has four
children: Charles Stewart, Joseph Hiram, Vernon Hise and Winnfred Wirt. The
Doctor and his wife are members of the Missionary Baptist Church, and he is
an A. F. & A. M.
(Source: History of Louisiana, pages 413-414. Thanks to
Douglas O. Stewart for sending this.)
Culpepper Ancestry: Dr. William Wirt Culpepper was the son of
Charles Stuart Culpepper (1813-1875, GA/LA), son of James Mallory Culpepper
(1788-1842, GA), son of Sampson Culpepper (1737-1820, NC/GA), son of Joseph
Culpepper (1698-1745, VA/NC), son of Robert Culpepper (1664-1742, VA).
Last Revised: 18 Nov 2001
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