I was browsing through Dr. Williams’ book, “Founding Families of the Ouachita Valley” Part Three and there was a section about Col. William Wood. He was the grandfather of William Wood Farmer and great Grandfather of W.W. Farmer, Jr. Dr. Williams states that Col. Wood, during the War of 1812 organized a unit of Ouachita Parish men to defend Louisiana from the British. They saw service near Baton Rouge. Dr. Williams gave a list of names of Ouachita men under Col. Wood’s command in late 1814 and there are some big ones:
William Wood, Capt.
Lewis Lillard, 1st Lieut.
John Wood, 2nd Lieut.
William Weathersby, Surgeon (This is Senator Solomon Weathersbee Downs’ father)
Mills Farmer, Sergeant (Would later marry William Wood’s daughter Sarah. Their son William Wood Farmer, Sr. would become Lieut. Gov. of Louisiana.)
Allen Collins, Corporal
Lewis Perry, Corporal
Privates:
Alexander Alexander
John Arnold
William Arnold
John B. Bassinet
Needham Boone
Spencer Breedlove
James Bron
Joseph Cavet
Pierre Cavet
Jeremiah Cloud
James C. Cooper
Edward Doughty
John Dowell
Francois Duval
William Hartley
John Hicks
James Grisham
John Grisham
Thomas James
Aaron Kirkland
Louis Francois Lamy (This is Judge Lamy, brother of Louisa Lamy McGuire. He was only about 13-14 when he served!)
Ebenezer Lacey
Samuel Lofton
Samuel Leek
Louis Letourno
John Liles
Joseph McCarroll
Jonathan Morgan (of the Morgan/Morhouse feud)
Abraham Pipes
John T. Faulk (would be wounded in the leg during battle)
Benjamin Pool
David Powell
John Roberts
Joseph Roi
John Segers
Joseph Segers
Charles Smith
Hardy Stow
John Trent
William Trent (The founder of the town of Trenton)
James Walls/Watts (a son in law of Jean Filhiol)
George Wicks
Ouachita Parish History Tidbits 