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| name=Wade Walker Burnside, Sr.​

| name=Wade Walker Burnside, Sr.​

| party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]​

| party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]​

'''Wade Walker Burnside, Sr.''', known as '''W. W. Burnside''' (December 24, 1882 &ndash; 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>​

'''Wade Walker Burnside, Sr.''', known as '''W. W. Burnside''' (December 24, 1882 &ndash; 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==​

==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>​

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>​

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