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Plantation manager
Shortly after the start of the 20th century, Netterville came to Tensas Parish, where he was first a clerk in the plantation stores of C. B. Muir and then William O'Kelley at Somerset. From these starting positions, he obtained the training to become a plantation manager whose job was to maximize profits with minimum input. In 1907, Netterville began employment for the Panola Company, an agricultural business that controlled some eleven thousand acres, two thirds planted in cotton and the other third in grains. Panola was based in the parish seat of St. Joseph; among its principal founders was William Mackenzie Davidson, the mayor of St. Joseph from 1901 until his accidental death in 1930. Netterville became general manager of three highly profitable Panola properties, the Balmoral, Blackwater, and Wyoming plantations, in which capacity he supervised 125 African-Americantenant farming families on some of the richest farmland in the United States.[1]
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Netterville's brother, Wade A. Netterville (1876 – February 20, 1936)[3] was also a plantation manager in St. Joseph for the Panola Company. He began his career as the manager for six years of the store at Winter Quarters Plantation, located between Newellton and St. Joseph. He was employed in that capacity by Dr. J. M. Gillespie. Wade Netterville then ran the store at Panola Plantation prior to becoming the manager for two years of the Wyoming Plantation. He subsequently assumed the management of the 1,000-acre Panda Plantation, a Panola property near St. Joseph. Wade Netterville and his wife, the former Susie Hair (died 1909), named their son "Howard" for his uncle, Netterville's younger brother. Considering her early year of death, the marriage was presumably brief, as Wade would have become a widower by the age of thirty-three.[4]
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Netterville died in Newellton two weeks after his 64th birthday. He, his brother Wade, his wife Bessie, and daughter Mattie and son-in-law William Roundtree, are interred at Natchez City Cemetery in Natchez, Mississippi.[5] Wilson and Elizabeth Coit, however, are buried at Legion Memorial Cemetery in Newellton.[8]
1 2 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: Historical Record Association, 1939), pp. 985–986
1 2 Obituary of Wilson Lindsey Coit, Natchez Democrat, November 10, 1999
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