Jeremiah S. Bacon

Jeremiah S. Bacon, known as J. S. Bacon (September 16, 1858 – August 3, 1939),^[1] was a Democrat from rural Heflin, Louisiana, who represented Webster Parish in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1926 to 1932.^[2]

A notary public and a justice of the peace,^[3] Bacon won a special election to complete the second term of State Representative J. Frank Colbert, later the mayor of Minden, the Webster Parish seat of government. Colbert resigned when Governor Henry Fuqua appointed him to the Louisiana Tax Commission, a position that he continued under Governors Oramel H. Simpson and Huey P. Long, Jr.^[4] After election to a term of his own in 1928, Bacon was succeeded in 1932 by fellow Democrat E. N. Payne of Springhill in northern Webster Parish.

Bacon's wife, the former Martha Jane Heflin (1859-1942), referred to in another source as Hattie Heflin Bacon,^[5] was the daughter of Charles Buckner Heflin (1829-1910) and his first wife, the former Fannie Susan Laird, who died in 1870. The Bacons had four children, Susan, Fannie, Sallie, and Jeremiah Martin Bacon (1894-1970), who was married to Z. Thelma Bacon. Martha Bacon was previously married to John Wesley Russell, by whom she had three children, Webb, Dena and Bertha.^[6]

The community of Heflin is named for Charles Heflin, an Alabama native and a veteran of the Confederate Army who operated a cotton gin and engaged in the mercantile business there after the American Civil War. J. S. Bacon's brother-in-law from Charles Heflin's second marriage, William Thomas Heflin (1868-1936), was a businessman engaged in the timber industry who in 1916 was elected sheriff of Winn Parish in North Louisiana.^[5]

Bacon, his wife, son, and other family members are interred at Fellowship Cemetery in Dubberly in south Webster Parish.^[1]

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