Career
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, Junior. After election to a term of his own in 1928, Bacon was succeeded in 1932 by fellow Democrat East. North. Payne of Springhill in northern Webster Parish. 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.
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.
