Henry Wheat of Amite, Louisiana

Henry Wheat
Photo Courtesy of 
Gordon Richardson Deliverance C.O.G.I. C

He was born in Tangipahoa Parish, in 1919 to Saul and Corrine Harrison  Wheat.  His siblings were: Booker S. Wheat, Rosa Wheat, Beatrice Wheat, Melissa Wheat, Bennie Wheat, Bertha Wheat, Mattie Wheat, and Roy Wheat.  According to the U. S. World War II Draft Card, he was employed by the W.P.A. and his wife Doris Harrell Wheat was his next of kin. He was about 5'6 and dark skin.  He and wife was the parents of Henry Wheat, Jr, Ernest Wheat, Earl C. Wheat, Bobby Ray Wheat and Bruce Wheat.  In 1950 he was working on his own account farming and owned his own business. He died in 1992 in Amite, Louisiana.