Would someone please give me the link for Shreve Memorial Library again. Evelyn

Hi Cuz! I spoke to my Mom today because I remembered a Mrs Barras who lived near my grandma when we were young. I remembered eating her homemaid bread!! Our cousin Nello Shay took care of her before she died. I cant recall the year. She didnt have any kids and we dont know if she was kin. Mom said she would get back to me on this. Our cousin Elaine Lemille Powers aunt Eugenia Shay Lemille's daughter is very sick in LA.Calf. Mom is going up there to be with her. Keep her in mind when you pray. I'll get back to you soon. >From: [email protected] >Reply-To: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Subject: [LA-LGHS-L] Looking for a long lost cousin- BARRAS >Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 19:00:12 EDT > > I'm looking for a man by the name of Wilfred Barras >(Barra). He was born an only child in 1916 somewhere in Southwest >Louisiana. >He is the son of Eugene Clebert Barras and Lena or Elea (Elodea) >Catalon. > > When Clebert married Elea (Elodie) Catalon 5 April 1893 >in >Maurice, Louisiana (Lafayette Parish), he claimed that his father was >Julien >Barras. They only had one child who was named Wilfred Barras bn ca. 1816 >possibly in Iberville Parish where the 1920 census found the family. > > The family story has it that Clebert's wife died sometime >while Wilfred was very young at which time Clebert pursued and possibly >married Elea's sister Lena Catalon. Clebert died 25 Oct 1939 in a hospital >in >Lafayette. His death certificate stated that he was a resident of Ridge, >Louisiana in Vermillion Parish. Shortly after the death of his >father, family stories say that Wilfred joined the military. >He was not seen or heard from since the death of his father with the >exception of coming home once or twice for the funeral of a favorite >relative. He was supposed close to a pair of cousins, Lazaird LaSalle and >Oliver Daigre LaSalle, the sons of his >father's sister Marie Louis Fontenot. Descendants of Wilfred Barras have >not >been >located thus far. The family is not sure if he ever married. Wilfred would >be >about 83yrs by now. He has not been found in the SSDI and the military >won't >give me any information on him so he must be still living. > > I most certainly hope anyone can help me with finding >him. > >Cherryl > > >==== LA-LGHS Mailing List ==== >LGHS: Serving Louisiana Genealogist since 1953. >To submit an article to be considered for publication in The Register, >contact David Howell at <[email protected]> > _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com

Thanks, Cherry. This has been a very frustrating brickwall made even more difficult by the fact that I'm in Central TX and what I need to look at is in LA. Thanks for your ideas. It's given me some direction Charlotte Turner Merrifield

In a message dated 8/11/99 6:24:34 PM Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: << The slave schedules I've looked at only list the numbers not the names. Is there a way I might find the names? >> Charlotte, According to Tony Burroughs, a nationally renowned instructor on African American Genealogy, the 1850 & 1860 US Census listed names of slave owners only. In a few cases did the census taker make a mistake and listed the slaves by name. If you go back and look at the census schedule instructions, where there are several owners only one is listed. If a person or family employed or rented out a slave then the employing family got credited with the number of slaves, not the real owner. Many small poor farmers rented slaves. They were not the owners. The Slave schedule doesn't prove who the slave owner is. You have to look elsewhere for proof. The schedule can be a guide. If the owning family you are looking for was a large slave owning family, them perhaps a library, history society, university or family may still have some old plantation papers. If you know who the family is, maybe they can tell you who may still have the plantation owner's papers. Bibles, diaries and plantation log books, day books, or personal letters may help. Hope I've helped, [email protected] Baker, LA Researching Southwest Louisiana Parishes surnames of MERCIER, WILTZ, ESCLAVON, DECLOUET, MASSE, JEAN LOUIS, SHAY (CHAIX), GUIDRY, BASILE(CHIASSON), BARRAS, LeBLANC, FONTENETTE, BROUSSARD and HENRY. Also researching old west Florida Parishes surnames of FORBES, DUNN, CARTER, SCOTT, DeARMOND, EVANS, GAINES, CURRY and PATTERSON.

In a message dated 8/10/99 1:41:57 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: << notsure what you mean by Burned but all the slave sch are avaialbe in the Archives and the Bluebonnet lib here in Baton Rouge >> By burned, I mean, the courthouse was burned (along with about everything else) when federal troops came through. This is my problem. My 4GGrandfather, Thomas J. HOOPER was married to Mary Henrietta Wells Fulton. I can find all sorts of documentation for the time he spent in LA. On the 1850 census he says he was born in GA. There was a group of Hoopers in GA that moved to TN. I'm trying to find Thomas J.s parents. I believe that he was Churchwell Hoopers son that was named in his will and left his choice of two slaves, Lamb or Lewis. The reason for this assumption is Thomas J. named his only son Churchwell, not a common name. So in order to give some credence to my assumption, if I could find some documentation that named his slaves and there was a Lamb or a Lewis then there would be a link, weak but a link none the less. The slave schedules I've looked at only list the numbers not the names. Is there a way I might find the names? If anyone else has a suggestion, I'm all ears. Thanks, Charlotte Turner Merrifield

I may have made the error below, and I appologize to anyone who it may have offended. I get used to the way we hear things pronounced around this area. Sorry Chris [email protected] wrote: > > Please, people, it's obits not orbits and obituaries, not orbituaries. Even > if you're saying it as a joke, people in other parts of the country may just > assume we are dense! > > ==== LA-LGHS Mailing List ==== > LGHS: Serving Louisiana Genealogist since 1953. > To submit an article to be considered for publication in The Register, > contact David Howell at <[email protected]>

A "burned county" or in our case in Louisiana a "burned parish" is a county/parish where the courthouse burned and the records were destroyed or partially so. Anna Hayes -----Original Message----- From: Karen <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, August 10, 1999 3:42 PM Subject: Re: [LA-LGHS-L] Slave schedules >notsure what you mean by Burned but all the slave sch are avaialbe in the >Archives and the Bluebonnet lib here in Baton Rouge > > >==== LA-LGHS Mailing List ==== >LGHS: Serving Louisiana Genealogist since 1953. >To submit an article to be considered for publication in The Register, >contact David Howell at <[email protected]> > >

Cindi, East Baton Rouge was created in 1810. I would first check the archives in the basement of the courthouse there. If you do not find it, then I would check the courthouse in Clinton. And, if you don't find it there, try St. Francisville. Martha On Tue, 10 Aug 1999 12:28:02 -0500 Dale Jacobs <[email protected]> writes: >Does anyone know where I can look for a probate record of Nehemiah >Powers for 1818, in Feliciana Parish? I know that this parish was >divided in 1824 into East and West Feliciana Parishes. I think he >lived in what is now East Baton Rouge parish. Which place would have >the records? >Cindi

notsure what you mean by Burned but all the slave sch are avaialbe in the Archives and the Bluebonnet lib here in Baton Rouge

Please, people, it's obits not orbits and obituaries, not orbituaries. Even if you're saying it as a joke, people in other parts of the country may just assume we are dense!

Does anyone know where I can look for a probate record of Nehemiah Powers for 1818, in Feliciana Parish? I know that this parish was divided in 1824 into East and West Feliciana Parishes. I think he lived in what is now East Baton Rouge parish. Which place would have the records? Cindi

I found a new place for orbits and they get posted daily from the Times-Picayune here in New Orleans. www.nola.com/t-p/orbituaries

Could someone tell me whether or not there are slave schedules for the burned parishes in LA, specifically Rapides Parish. Thanks, Charlotte Merrifield

Thanks again. evelyn

Hi Evelyn, Here is the newspaper link you requested. <A HREF="http://www.newspaperlinks.com/">NewspaperLinks.com, hosted by the Newspaper A...</A> <A HREF="http://www.newspaperlinks.com/">http://www.newspaperlinks.com/</A> Regards, Bill Austin

I lost my link to the newspaper site. Could someone please give it to me again. Evelyn

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The following URL will provide you with a list of library's throughout the US that has excellent research facilities. http://www.greenheart.com/rdietz/gen_libs.htm Stephanie

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Darryl my Person is Martha Ann "Mattie" Person she married Lewis Edward Rowell June 15 1886 in Bienville, LA they had eight children. No other information do I have on her. Looking for her parents name or birth and death dates. Anyone you know? Thanks Julie -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, August 04, 1999 3:24 PM Subject: Re: [LA-LGHS-L] Family Roll Call >Julie, > >I am researching the family of Samuel PEARSON who married Martha COLKMIRE in >Tangipahoa Parish. Their children were: Alice Alfreda PEARSON mar. Dave >LINDSEY; John Henry PEARSON mar. Pamela Elizabeth VILLAR; May Augusta PEARSON >mar. (1) Vincent LECHE, (2) Daniel LECHE, (3) Drew RYAN; and William Winfield >PEARSON married Melinda Aurelle GORE. They lived in the parishes of >Tangipahoa, Ascension and Livingston. > >I don't know if this is the same family you're researching. Let me know if it >is. > >Darryl Andrews >Livingston,LA > > >==== LA-LGHS Mailing List ==== >LGHS: Serving Louisiana Genealogist since 1953. Yearly dues are $25. >To learn more about us, visit our website at > http://www.rootsweb.com/~la-lghs/lghs.htm >