| Gary's Genealogy |
| Notes for Joseph William Ferguson |
| Joe and family came to Shreveport, Louisiana from Texas around 1897. He was a fireman for Kansas City Southern Railroad for many years in Shreveport. ................................................................... Found in the 1900 Census, La., Caddo Parish, Shreveport, ED 47, sh. 27, img. 53. His occupation was listed as "engine hostler". I learned that a hostler's job was to go into the yard and get an engine which had been left running by the engineer and move it into the roundhouse. .................................................................... Joe Ferguson and family were found in the 1910 Census, Louisiana, Caddo Parish, Shreveport, District 52, Ward 9, Sheet 11B. Joe W. Ferguson Head 53 Mo. Mo. Mo. Laura Ferguson Wife 43 Tex. Ala. Miss. Leonard Ferguson Son 18 Tex. Mo. Tex. Raymond Ferguson Son 10 La. Mo. Tex. Joe Allen Ferguson Son 7 La. Mo. Tex. Verda Ferguson Dau. 4 La. Mo. Tex. Eveline Melton M. I. L. 68 Miss. Miss. Miss. Laura's mother Eveline Melton was also part of the household. .................................................................... Obituary for Joseph William Ferguson: Sunday March 29, 1942, page 15, Shreveport Times Joseph W. Ferguson "Joseph W. Ferguson, 85, of 1958 Walnut Street, died Friday afternoon at a local sanitarium. A retired K.C.S. fireman, Mr. Ferguson has been a resident of Shreveport for 45 years. Funeral services will be held at 4:30 p.m. today at Osborn Funeral Chapel. Officiating will be the Rev. T.C. Pennell, pastor of the Ingleside Baptist Church, and the Rev. B.F. Wallace, pastor of the Lake Shore Baptist Church. Burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery. Survivors are his wife; three sons, J.A. Ferguson, Shreveport, L.W. Ferguson, Port Arthur, Texas, and R.L. Ferguson, Dallas, Texas; one daughter, Mrs. W.R. Wyatt, Shreveport; two sisters, Mrs. R.L. Morgan, Leesville, and Mrs. L.C. Mahaney, Fort Worth; three grandsons, five granddaughters and three great-grandchildren. A member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engineers for 40 years, Mr. Ferguson is a past president and financial secretary of the local organization." ...................................................................... |
| Revised: 18-Mar-07 12:58 PM |
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