This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4gC.2ACE/1392.1 Message Board Post: You're probably correct...I live about 15 miles from Shongaloo in Webster Parish, Louisiana and oral tradition around here says that "Shongaloo" is Choctaw for "cypress trees".