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Pages in category "People from Vidalia, Louisiana" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C.
Wiley disappeared on November 15, 2001. The official coroner's report stated that Wiley died after falling off a bridge near Memphis, Tennessee; his body was found in the Mississippi River 300 miles (480 km) downstream in Vidalia, Louisiana a month later and his death was ruled to be an accident.
Vidalia was founded by Don José Vidal, when he was secretary to Manuel Gayoso de Lemos, the Spanish Governor of the Natchez District from 1792 to 1797. This was in a brief period of Spanish rule of former French territory west of the Mississippi River. Napoleon took it back and he sold it to the United States in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803.
Williams (sometimes billed as Spencer Williams Jr.) was born in Vidalia, Louisiana. He moved to New York City as a teenager and secured work as call boy for the theatrical impresario Oscar Hammerstein. During this period, he received mentoring in comedy from the African-American vaudeville star Bert Williams. [2]
Pages in category "Vidalia, Louisiana" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. * Vidalia, Louisiana; C.
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David Young (February 4, 1836 – April 19, 1907) was a farmer, businessman, minister and state legislator who served in the Louisiana House of Representatives and the Louisiana State Senate during the Reconstruction era. [1] After the civil war during which he came a free man, he became a prosperous farmer, businessman, politician and minister ...
The Concordia Eagle was an African-American newspaper published in Vidalia, Louisiana.Founded in 1873, it was a four-page weekly aligned with the Republican Party, aiming to provide a platform for African-American perspectives and advocate for civil rights during the Reconstruction era.