The Wells
- Samuel Wells II, delegate to the Louisiana Constitutional Convention 1811. Father of James Madison Wells and Thomas Jefferson Wells.
- James Madison Wells (1808–1899), Sheriff of Rapides Parish, Louisiana; Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana 1864-1865; Governor of Louisiana 1865-1867; Surveyor of the Port of New Orleans, Louisiana 1874-1880. Son of Samuel Wells II.
- Thomas Jefferson Wells, candidate for Governor of Louisiana 1859. Son of Samuel Wells II.
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Famous quotes containing the word wells:
“Here we’ll strip and cool our fire
In cream below, in milk-baths higher;
And when all wells are drawn dry,
I’ll drink a tear out of thine eye.”
—Richard Lovelace (1618–1658)
“‘But where can we draw water,’
Said Pearse to Connolly,
‘When all the wells are parched away?
O plain as plain can be
There’s nothing but our own red blood
Can make a right Rose Tree.’”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)