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{{Infobox officeholder
| name=Wade Walker Burnside, Sr.
| party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]
| birth_date=December 24, 1882
| birth_place=Bryantsville, Garrard County,<br>[[Kentucky]], [[United States|USA]]
| death_date=January 1, 1966 (aged 84)
| death_place=
| religion=[[Methodist]] (Newellton Union Church)
| occupation=[[Cotton]] planter]]
| office=[[Mayor]] of [[Newellton, Louisiana|Newellton]], [[Tensas Parish, Louisiana|Tensas Parish]], [[Louisiana]]
| term_start=1924
| term_end=1940
| preceded=Leon Kullman
| succeeded=Edwin Randolph McDonald, Sr.
| spouse=(1) Hester Patton<br>
(2) Mary Kirk Newell Burnside
| children=From first marriage:<br>
Jane Burnside Earnest<br>
[[Frank Burnside|Frank Robinson Burnside, Sr.]]<br>
Ben Patton Burnside, Sr.<br>
From second marriage:<br>
W. W. Burnside, Jr.
| parents=James and America P. Walker Burnside
}}
'''Wade Walker Burnside, Sr.''', known as '''W. W. Burnside''' (December 24, 1882 – January 1, 1966), was a large-scale [[cotton]] planter and civic figure who served from 1924 to 1940 as the [[mayor]] of Newellton in Tensas Parish in northeastern [[Louisiana]].<ref name=mayors>{{cite web|url=http://files.usgwarchives.net/la/tensas/court/elec0001.txt|title=Public elected officials: Tensas Parish|publisher=files.usgwarchives.net|accessdate=July 22, 2013}}</ref>
==Biographical sketch==
Burnside was born to James Burnside (1843-1931) and the former America P. Walker (1855-1931)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://records.ancestry.com/Wade_Walker_Burnside_records.ashx?pid=41744157|title=Wade Walker Burnside|publisher=records.ancestry.com|accessdate=July 22, 2013}}</ref> in rural Bryantsville in Garrard County in central [[Kentucky]]. He came to Newellton in 1913 at the age of thirty with his first wife and a daughter, later Jane Burnside Earnest (1911-1973), wife of J. Claude Earnest (1906-1984).<ref name=graves/> Burnside purchased Newellton Grain Elevator<ref name=eastla/> and had interests as well in lumber, feed, and the O'Neal and McNamara Hardware Company in Vicksburg, [[Mississippi]]. He was a director of the large Panola Company in St. Joseph, the Tensas Parish seat of government.<ref name=obit/> At his peak, Burnside owned 8,500 acres of land. He was the president of the Tensas State Bank and a director of the First National Bank of Vicksburg.<ref name=eastla>Frederick W. Williamson and George T. Goodman, eds. ''Eastern Louisiana: A History of the Watershed of the Ouachita River and the Florida Parishes'', 3 vols. ([[Monroe, Louisiana|Monroe]]: Historical Record Association, 1939, pp. 955-956.</ref> Burnside was a [[Methodist]] and was also affiliated with Rotary International and the Masonic lodge.<ref name=obit>Obituary of W. W. Burnside, ''Tensas Gazette'', January 7, 1966, p. 1.</ref>
His twin sons from the first marriage, [[Frank Burnside|Frank Robinson Burnside, Sr.]] (1915-2018),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thenewsstar/obituary.aspx?n=frank-burnside&pid=190635058&fhid=20713|title=Frank Burnside obituary|publisher=''The Monroe News-Star''|date=November 2, 2018}}</ref> and Ben Patton Burnside, Sr., known as "Little Boy" (1915-1991),<ref name=graves>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gsr&GSiman=1&GScid=197122&GSfn=&GSln=Burnside|title=Grave Search Results: Burnside|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=July 22, 2013}}</ref> continued the family agricultural holdings with the Franklin Plantation, established in 1949 in Newellton and also known as Delta Gin Company.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.manta.com/c/mmfr9t7/franklin-plantation|title=Franklin Plantation|publisher=manta.com|accessdate=July 22, 2013}}</ref> Like his father, Frank Burnside was also the mayor of Newellton, having served from 1958 to 1966, prior to Edwin G. Preis.<ref name=mayors/>
In 1956, Ben Burnside erected at the Franklin Plantation a 14-foot tall giant mailbox which sets atop a thick blue pedestal. Burnside purchased the mailbox in [[Houston, Texas|Houston]], [[Texas]]. It is located three miles north of Newellton off U.S. Highway 65.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/8593|title=Newellton: Louisiana: Giant Mailbox|publisher=roadsideamerica.com|accessdate=July 22, 2013}}</ref>
Burnside's second wife, the former Mary Kirk Newell (1903-1974), was a daughter of Cornelia Irene McMillan (1878-1968) and Ross Wade Newell (1874-1965),<ref>The common name "Wade" of W. W. Burnside and his second father-in-law is apparently a coincidence.</ref> a member of an old-line Tensas Parish family. Edward D. Newel], one of Mary Kirk's ancestors, named Newellton for his father, John Newell. From the second marriage, Burnside had a namesake son, Dr. W. W. Burnside, Jr. (born c. 1929), who became a [[pediatrician]] in Fayetteville, [[Arkansas]].<ref>Obitaury of Mary Kirk Newell Burnside, ''Tensas Gazette'', April 25, 1974.</ref>
Burnside's daughter-in-law, the former Marguerite Brown (1913-2009) of St. Joseph, the wife of Frank Burnside, was a member of the first graduating class of what is now the University of Louisiana at [[Monroe, Louisiana|Monroe]]. She taught school for a time in Newellton and [[Sunday school]] at Newellton Union Church. An avid gardener, she and her sister-in-law, Virginia Williams Burnside (1916-2010), wife of Ben Burnside, published the first cookbook of the Newellton Garden Club.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.usgwarchives.net/la/ouachita/obits/dec2009.html|title=Obituary of Marguerite Brown Burnside|publisher=usgwarchives.net|accessdate=July 22, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://nhsrecr.com/NHS/pg1a9.htm|title=Obituary of Virginia Williams Burnside|publisher=nhsrecr.com|accessdate=July 22, 2013}}</ref>
Burnside, his second wife, and several family members are interred at Legion Memorial Cemetery in Newellton.<ref name=graves/> There is no cemetery record on his first wife, her full name, place and day of birth and death. Nor is the first wife mentioned in Burnside's obituary.
Ben Patton "Benny" Burnside, Jr. (1944-2016), son of Ben, Sr., and Virginia Burnside and grandson of W. W. Burnside, continued to operate Franklin Plantation until his death. He raised [[Charlois]] [[cattle]] and farmed cotton, [[corn]], [[soybean]]s, and [[wheat]]. He and his wife, the former Carolyn Wallace, have a son, Ben, III, and wife, Jennifer, of Newellton, and two daughters, Dr. Virginia Burnside Correil and husband, Dr. Kemp Correil of [[Lafayette]], Louisiana, and Hester Jane Burnside of West Monroe.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thenewsstar/obituary.aspx?n=ben-patton-burnside-benny&pid=179416858&fhid=20713|title=Ben Patton "Benny" Burnside, Jr.|publisher=''The Monroe News-Star''|accessdate=March 29, 2016}}</ref>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Burnside, W. W.}}
[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:Kentucky]]
[[Category:Farmers]]
[[Category:Business People]]
[[Category:Mayors]]
[[Category:Democrats]]
[[Category:Methodists]]
| name=Wade Walker Burnside, Sr.
| party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]
| birth_date=December 24, 1882
| birth_place=Bryantsville, Garrard County,<br>[[Kentucky]], [[United States|USA]]
| death_date=January 1, 1966 (aged 84)
| death_place=
| religion=[[Methodist]] (Newellton Union Church)
| occupation=[[Cotton]] planter]]
| office=[[Mayor]] of [[Newellton, Louisiana|Newellton]], [[Tensas Parish, Louisiana|Tensas Parish]], [[Louisiana]]
| term_start=1924
| term_end=1940
| preceded=Leon Kullman
| succeeded=Edwin Randolph McDonald, Sr.
| spouse=(1) Hester Patton<br>
(2) Mary Kirk Newell Burnside
| children=From first marriage:<br>
Jane Burnside Earnest<br>
[[Frank Burnside|Frank Robinson Burnside, Sr.]]<br>
Ben Patton Burnside, Sr.<br>
From second marriage:<br>
W. W. Burnside, Jr.
| parents=James and America P. Walker Burnside
}}
'''Wade Walker Burnside, Sr.''', known as '''W. W. Burnside''' (December 24, 1882 – January 1, 1966), was a large-scale [[cotton]] planter and civic figure who served from 1924 to 1940 as the [[mayor]] of Newellton in Tensas Parish in northeastern [[Louisiana]].<ref name=mayors>{{cite web|url=http://files.usgwarchives.net/la/tensas/court/elec0001.txt|title=Public elected officials: Tensas Parish|publisher=files.usgwarchives.net|accessdate=July 22, 2013}}</ref>
==Biographical sketch==
Burnside was born to James Burnside (1843-1931) and the former America P. Walker (1855-1931)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://records.ancestry.com/Wade_Walker_Burnside_records.ashx?pid=41744157|title=Wade Walker Burnside|publisher=records.ancestry.com|accessdate=July 22, 2013}}</ref> in rural Bryantsville in Garrard County in central [[Kentucky]]. He came to Newellton in 1913 at the age of thirty with his first wife and a daughter, later Jane Burnside Earnest (1911-1973), wife of J. Claude Earnest (1906-1984).<ref name=graves/> Burnside purchased Newellton Grain Elevator<ref name=eastla/> and had interests as well in lumber, feed, and the O'Neal and McNamara Hardware Company in Vicksburg, [[Mississippi]]. He was a director of the large Panola Company in St. Joseph, the Tensas Parish seat of government.<ref name=obit/> At his peak, Burnside owned 8,500 acres of land. He was the president of the Tensas State Bank and a director of the First National Bank of Vicksburg.<ref name=eastla>Frederick W. Williamson and George T. Goodman, eds. ''Eastern Louisiana: A History of the Watershed of the Ouachita River and the Florida Parishes'', 3 vols. ([[Monroe, Louisiana|Monroe]]: Historical Record Association, 1939, pp. 955-956.</ref> Burnside was a [[Methodist]] and was also affiliated with Rotary International and the Masonic lodge.<ref name=obit>Obituary of W. W. Burnside, ''Tensas Gazette'', January 7, 1966, p. 1.</ref>
His twin sons from the first marriage, [[Frank Burnside|Frank Robinson Burnside, Sr.]] (1915-2018),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thenewsstar/obituary.aspx?n=frank-burnside&pid=190635058&fhid=20713|title=Frank Burnside obituary|publisher=''The Monroe News-Star''|date=November 2, 2018}}</ref> and Ben Patton Burnside, Sr., known as "Little Boy" (1915-1991),<ref name=graves>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gsr&GSiman=1&GScid=197122&GSfn=&GSln=Burnside|title=Grave Search Results: Burnside|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=July 22, 2013}}</ref> continued the family agricultural holdings with the Franklin Plantation, established in 1949 in Newellton and also known as Delta Gin Company.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.manta.com/c/mmfr9t7/franklin-plantation|title=Franklin Plantation|publisher=manta.com|accessdate=July 22, 2013}}</ref> Like his father, Frank Burnside was also the mayor of Newellton, having served from 1958 to 1966, prior to Edwin G. Preis.<ref name=mayors/>
In 1956, Ben Burnside erected at the Franklin Plantation a 14-foot tall giant mailbox which sets atop a thick blue pedestal. Burnside purchased the mailbox in [[Houston, Texas|Houston]], [[Texas]]. It is located three miles north of Newellton off U.S. Highway 65.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/8593|title=Newellton: Louisiana: Giant Mailbox|publisher=roadsideamerica.com|accessdate=July 22, 2013}}</ref>
Burnside's second wife, the former Mary Kirk Newell (1903-1974), was a daughter of Cornelia Irene McMillan (1878-1968) and Ross Wade Newell (1874-1965),<ref>The common name "Wade" of W. W. Burnside and his second father-in-law is apparently a coincidence.</ref> a member of an old-line Tensas Parish family. Edward D. Newel], one of Mary Kirk's ancestors, named Newellton for his father, John Newell. From the second marriage, Burnside had a namesake son, Dr. W. W. Burnside, Jr. (born c. 1929), who became a [[pediatrician]] in Fayetteville, [[Arkansas]].<ref>Obitaury of Mary Kirk Newell Burnside, ''Tensas Gazette'', April 25, 1974.</ref>
Burnside's daughter-in-law, the former Marguerite Brown (1913-2009) of St. Joseph, the wife of Frank Burnside, was a member of the first graduating class of what is now the University of Louisiana at [[Monroe, Louisiana|Monroe]]. She taught school for a time in Newellton and [[Sunday school]] at Newellton Union Church. An avid gardener, she and her sister-in-law, Virginia Williams Burnside (1916-2010), wife of Ben Burnside, published the first cookbook of the Newellton Garden Club.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.usgwarchives.net/la/ouachita/obits/dec2009.html|title=Obituary of Marguerite Brown Burnside|publisher=usgwarchives.net|accessdate=July 22, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://nhsrecr.com/NHS/pg1a9.htm|title=Obituary of Virginia Williams Burnside|publisher=nhsrecr.com|accessdate=July 22, 2013}}</ref>
Burnside, his second wife, and several family members are interred at Legion Memorial Cemetery in Newellton.<ref name=graves/> There is no cemetery record on his first wife, her full name, place and day of birth and death. Nor is the first wife mentioned in Burnside's obituary.
Ben Patton "Benny" Burnside, Jr. (1944-2016), son of Ben, Sr., and Virginia Burnside and grandson of W. W. Burnside, continued to operate Franklin Plantation until his death. He raised [[Charlois]] [[cattle]] and farmed cotton, [[corn]], [[soybean]]s, and [[wheat]]. He and his wife, the former Carolyn Wallace, have a son, Ben, III, and wife, Jennifer, of Newellton, and two daughters, Dr. Virginia Burnside Correil and husband, Dr. Kemp Correil of [[Lafayette]], Louisiana, and Hester Jane Burnside of West Monroe.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thenewsstar/obituary.aspx?n=ben-patton-burnside-benny&pid=179416858&fhid=20713|title=Ben Patton "Benny" Burnside, Jr.|publisher=''The Monroe News-Star''|accessdate=March 29, 2016}}</ref>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Burnside, W. W.}}
[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:Kentucky]]
[[Category:Farmers]]
[[Category:Business People]]
[[Category:Mayors]]
[[Category:Democrats]]
[[Category:Methodists]]