Friday -- November 24, 2000 [DAILY-UPLOADS] New files between Thu, 23 Nov 2000, at 2:10 AM and Fri, 24 Nov 2000, at 2:10 AM ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/assumption/cemetery/cemlist.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/lafourch/cemeteries/cemlist.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/rapides/court/districtcourt.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/rapides/miscella/masonicball_1859.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/rapides/tax/tax1885.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/tangipahoa/cemeteries/cemlist.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/tangipahoa/cemeteries/cemlist2.txt

I found much valuable information about family in visiting the cemetery postings in East and West Feliciana, but I need more detailed locations if you can help: MULFORD CEMETERY on Retreat Plantation. Where is Retreat and what family is it most closely connected to? I am trying to learn more about the COBB family. Sarah MULFORD was a BINGAHAM, first married to Stephen COBB, who was the son of Arthur COBB who was in Natchez District as early as 1783. Early Natchez court records show a son named William and connections with the children of Jedediah SMITH. In the late 1780s, early 1790s Israel, Josephus and Calvin Smith married three COB sisters--Sara (Sallie), Patience and Priscilla--supposedly from Wilkinson County. Sara died early as did her brother-in-law Josephus. Patience married 2nd John BAKER, and they lived in West Feliciana. No one has ever determined who the parents of the COBB sisters were; so all COBB leads help. DOHERTY CEMETERY: Members of the DOHERTY family married descendants of Courtland SMITH of West Feliciana, my ggg-grandfather. Who were the early DOHERTYS and where did they live? Where is the cemetery located? Does anyone know where in West Feliciana the Courtland SMITH cemetery is located? According to the book, The Rev. Henry Smith (Puritan Pastor) and His Family by Brady, SMITH and five sons are buried at his plantation, which was called "The Oaks." Supposedly this was a land grant obtained at the same time his brother Luther got Locust Grove and his friend John BOON[E] also settled in the Felicianas. (Courtland m. 1st Catherine COOPER, 2nd, Narcissa BOON, 3rd, Jane BOON. The Oaks is said to have adjoined Luther SMITH's and BOON's land and to have been located on the west side of Thompson's Creek between St. Francisville and Jackson. There is a house pictured on page 57 In the little book, Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow, published by the Jackson Assembly, that shows Monte Bello, "originally called Oaks Plantation. . . Locally, many of the old times remember it as the Smith place." Is this the family home? And does anyone know the location of the BOON property? I appreciate any and all help. E. W. Prichard

Thanks, Jim, for including my information about Grimmer in your column today. The 1897 Universal Dictionary defines a coffee house as a "house of entertainment where persons are supplied with coffee and other refreshments." Those "other refreshments" in the Acadiana area coffee houses were alcoholic beverages. In 1854, Eugene I. Guegnon was sued by Antoine Raggazoni and Ursin Hebert's widow. Hebert and Raggazoni had owned a coffee house in Vermilionville, "for the purpose of retailing spirituous liquors and of keeping a Billiard Table," according to the lawsuit. Guegnon had run up a huge tab from 1850 to 1853, when a glass of liquor, and a cigar cost 5 cents each; a game of billiards cost 20 cents. Judgment was in favor of the plaintiffs. Guegnon was the proprietor and editor of the Vermilionville Impartial, at that time. He founded the Abbeville Meridional, in 1856. In 1871, Abbeville's town council set its municipal license fees. Coffee houses were to pay $75. The next highest fee, $25, was to be collected from hotels and livery stables. Physicians and attorneys were to pay only $20, which was the same for retail merchants, unless they sold liquor in smaller amounts than "an ordinary wine bottle." In such cases, their fee was the same as for "coffee house keepers." A billiards table in a coffee house cost an extra $10. Acadiana's coffee houses later came to be called saloons, but I don't know when.

Wednesday -- November 22, 2000 [DAILY-UPLOADS] New files between Tue, 21 Nov 2000, at 2:10 AM and Wed, 22 Nov 2000, at 2:10 AM ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/desoto/land/land1.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/desoto/land/land2.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/desoto/land/land3.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/desoto/land/land4.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/desoto/land/land5.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/desoto/land/land6.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/desoto/vitals/marriage/jacobs-bridges.t xt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/desoto/vitals/marriage/p6240001.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/orleans/deaths/1872dla.txt Louisiana.........348088 K's

Tuesday -- November 21, 2000 [DAILY-UPLOADS] New files between Mon, 20 Nov 2000, at 2:10 AM and Tue, 21 Nov 2000, at 2:10 AM ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/e-batonrouge/cemeteries/sharon.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/orleans/deaths/1871dla3.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/orleans/deaths/1900dla.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/sthelena/cemeteries/cemlist.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/sthelena/family/mercer.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/tensas/census/1840fed.txt Louisiana.........347960 K's Texas...............442644 K's Ohio.................302812 K's

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Sunday -- November 19, 2000 [DAILY-UPLOADS] New files between Sat, 18 Nov 2000, at 2:10 AM and Sun, 19 Nov 2000, at 2:10 AM ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/lasalle/cemeteries/schmidt.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/lasalle/cemeteries/thompson.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/lasalle/cemeteries/virgin.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/lasalle/cemeteries/walker.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/lasalle/cemeteries/whrock.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/lasalle/news/ref102.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/lasalle/news/ref103.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/lasalle/obits2/a180.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/lasalle/obits2/a181.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/lasalle/obits2/b310.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/lasalle/obits2/d175.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/lasalle/obits2/d176.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/lasalle/obits2/e151.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/lasalle/obits2/g179.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/lasalle/obits2/g180.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/lasalle/obits2/h271.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/lasalle/obits2/l162.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/lasalle/obits2/mc162.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/lasalle/obits2/p227.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/lasalle/obits2/r204.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/lasalle/obits2/s270.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/lasalle/obits2/s271.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/lasalle/obits2/s272.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/lasalle/obits2/t192.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/lasalle/obits2/t193.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/lasalle/obits2/w287.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/lasalle/obits2/y119.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/orleans/deaths/1900dla.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/orleans/deaths/1838di.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/orleans/deaths/1870dla4.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/orleans/deaths/1871dla1.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/orleans/deaths/1866dla3.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/orleans/deaths/1871dla2.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/tangipahoa/obits/aguillar.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/tangipahoa/obits/arrettei.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/tangipahoa/obits/bankst12.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/tangipahoa/obits/beattyj.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/tangipahoa/obits/bellavia.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/tangipahoa/obits/breaudj.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/tangipahoa/obits/burnsf.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/tangipahoa/obits/herringo.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/tangipahoa/obits/johnson5.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/tangipahoa/obits/kinchene.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/tangipahoa/obits/parrinon.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/tangipahoa/obits/richard6.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/tangipahoa/obits/rollinsj.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/tangipahoa/obits/rowes.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/tangipahoa/obits/scimecaj.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/tangipahoa/obits/tolleh.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/tangipahoa/obits/vincentl.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/tangipahoa/obits/zitzmann.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/tangipahoa/towns/genesee.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/tangipahoa/towns/gulletts.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/tangipahoa/towns/leesland.txt

Be sure to check today's out: http://www.theadvocate.com/enter/story.asp?StoryID=3832 Louisiana Ancestors Don

Subj: searching..... Date: 11/18/00 10:09:42 AM Pacific Standard Time From: jaydale@InfoAve.Net (Jay C Stine) Reply-to: <A HREF="mailto:jaydale@infoave.net">jaydale@infoave.net</A> To: LGHS@aol.com I am seeking information re: the family of Cicero M.Allen, who, along with his twin, Columbus H. Allen, were soldiers in the confederate army. They were in the Briarfield Rebels commanded by Col. W.F. Slemons. Columbus enlisted in April l861, (the Crescent Rifles Co.A.) in New Orleans and Cicero in June of that year, joining the company at Youngs Mills. They also served under a Gen. Magruder. George McCarroll was their cousin, I believe, and served with them. I have inhereted a portrait (dated approximately 1810-1820 by an appraiser), and as the family was from La. I want to identify the subject. I believe it may be of the grand-father of Cicero and Columbus, and perhaps his name was Stokes. I have a copy of a writing to Col. J. A. Chalaron, chairman of the Southern Historical Committee of Louisian, in l901, by Columbus in which he has written of his experiences while in the Briarfield Rebels. Apparently there was other facts given by a Sgt. Ed. Newman to Col. Chalaron at the same time. I have my ancestors letters plus a bill of sale for a parcel of land in Carroll(?) parrish to Sarah McCarroll by S. D. Oliver on January 8, l863. Cicero died in l868, and was the father of my grandfather, Augustus Cicero Allen. Isn't there a group called the Sons of the Confederacy which might lead me to the names of Cicero and Augustus' father and grandfathers. Any help you might offer would be greatly appreciated! Most sincerely, Mary Allen Stine

some Killian/Kemp/Tate Ancestors in the 'Killian Family History': http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/k/i/l/Ed-R-Killian/ Other Area Families Linked. Womack Fletcher Kemp Etc

Linda, My mother and I lived in Merryville, Beauregard, LA; later in life, she lived in Pineville and I live in Ohio. She died in Pineville and was buried in Merryville. My computer map has Maryville in Al, IA, IL, MO, SC and TN but none in LA. Jane P McManus of Alexandria, LA knows more about cemeteries in central Louisiana than any one in the world: janemcmanus@gateway.com ----- Original Message ----- From: <DW9JOHNSON@aol.com> To: <LA-LGHS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 7:49 AM Subject: [LA-LGHS-L] Maryville: > Subj: Can you help? > Date: 11/16/00 7:58:14 PM Pacific Standard Time > From: maninthemoon2k@email.msn.com (maninthemoon2k) > To: LGHS@aol.com > > Hi, > > I am researching an ancestor who is buried in Pineville, but who died in > Maryville, LA in 1913. However, I can't seem to find any record of a > Maryville, only Merryville in Beauregard Parish. Can someone possibly tell > me if there WAS a Maryville and the name of the town was changed? Any help > you can offer will be greatly appreciated. > > Linda Higgins > maninthmoon2k@msn.com > > > ==== LA-LGHS Mailing List ==== > LGHS: Serving Louisiana Genealogist since 1953. > Visit our website at > http://www.rootsweb.com/~la-lghs/lghs.htm > >

The SWLGS will hold its regular meeting on Saturday, November 18, beginning at 10:00 a.m. in the Carnegie Library Meeting room, 411 Pujo St., Lake Charles. The program will be "Research in Area Libraries" presented by Debby Williamson of Frazar Library, McNeese State University; and Shirley Burwell of SW LA Genealogical & Historical Library. Members are reminded to bring canned goods or monetary contribution for Thanksgiving Basket. Thanks.

Friday -- November 17, 2000 [DAILY-UPLOADS] New files between Thu, 16 Nov 2000, at 2:10 AM and Fri, 17 Nov 2000, at 2:10 AM ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/orleans/deaths/1870dla3.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/orleans/deaths/1857dla.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/ouachita/cemetery/Roselawn.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/ouachita/obits/alvinson.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/rapides/obit/obL.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/rapides/obit/obM.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/rapides/obit/obN.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/rapides/obit/obO.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/rapides/obit/obPQ.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/rapides/obit/obR.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/rapides/obit/obS.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/rapides/obit/obT.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/rapides/obit/obUV.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/rapides/obit/obW.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/rapides/obit/obXYZ.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/wcarroll/military/wardead.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/wcarroll/misc/jamesj.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/wcarroll/obits/pevytoeo.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/wcarroll/obits/pevytoer.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/wcarroll/obits/dollarrh.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/wcarroll/obits/myersann.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/wcarroll/marriage/bookb.txt Louisiana.........344244 K's Texas...............442032 K's Ohio................302412 K's

Subj: Can you help? Date: 11/16/00 7:58:14 PM Pacific Standard Time From: maninthemoon2k@email.msn.com (maninthemoon2k) To: LGHS@aol.com Hi, I am researching an ancestor who is buried in Pineville, but who died in Maryville, LA in 1913. However, I can't seem to find any record of a Maryville, only Merryville in Beauregard Parish. Can someone possibly tell me if there WAS a Maryville and the name of the town was changed? Any help you can offer will be greatly appreciated. Linda Higgins maninthmoon2k@msn.com

I am attempting to find information on a Benjamin L. WHITE born approximately 1815. I am told his mother was Elizabeth White. Benjamin left Louisiana in approximate 1823 and moved to Sabine County, Texas; he later become the first sheriff of Trinity County, Texas. Interestingly enough, one of his daughters, Elizabeth Jane White married a son of Jesse James. Any insight or information is greatly appreciated. Amy McCroskie Denver, CO

Hi Benjamin L. White was the son of Reuben White and Elizabeth ?. He was b. @1815, prob in LA, where the family arrived before 1784. Reuben and Elizabeth were from Craven Co. SC, which no longer exists, not far from the highly-mobile NC state line. I guess the area is generally known as Cheraw. Reuben b. 1765 in SC, died prob in Catahoula Parish LA before 1830. Elizabeth b. @1770, died in either Sabine Co. or Houston Co. TX before 1850. I have Benjamin L. listed, so far, as the 7th of 7 kids. There may be some missing. Nancy Matilda White, Reuben b. abt 1793 and d. young, Martin D. White, James Taylor White b. abt 1798, Elizabeth White b. 1805, Reuben b. 1808. It appears that all of them ended up in the Trinity and Sabine Co. TX areas. Two married Earl and Dollarhide family members. Benjamin L. White m. ? (she d. bef 1847, it appears) and they had at least five kids, Elizabeth Jane abt. 1838, William Thomas 2/24/1840, Jamese Augustus b. 2/5/1844, Nancy A. b. 1845, Matilda b. 1747. Perhaps others. Back to Reuben again...His father was James White b. abt 1736 in VA d. abt 1784 in Natchez, MS. His mother was Jerusha, believed to be a Davenport family member but it's not proven, b. VA abt 1740. She would be the sister to Sophia Davenport, wife of William White, Reuben's brother. James and William were two of six children belonging to James Taylor White and Elizabeth Powe. The genealogy of their family was covered in a highly-researched book by Gifford White, which is where this data is from, for the most part. I'm related to the White family through a couple White cousins and also the Dunman family, who were also cousins. Jan G. AmyWM@aol.com wrote: > > I am attempting to find information on a Benjamin L. WHITE born approximately > 1815. I am told his mother was Elizabeth White. > > Benjamin left Louisiana in approximate 1823 and moved to Sabine County, Texas; > he later become the first sheriff of Trinity County, Texas. Interestingly > enough, one of his daughters, Elizabeth Jane White married a son of Jesse > James. > > Any insight or information is greatly appreciated. > > Amy McCroskie > Denver, CO > > ==== 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

Thursday -- November 16, 2000 [DAILY-UPLOADS] New files between Wed, 15 Nov 2000, at 2:10 AM and Thu, 16 Nov 2000, at 2:10 AM tp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/e-felici/cemetery/willwoodard.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/e-felici/cemetery/woodardpoole.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/e-felici/cemetery/worsham.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/orleans/births/1884bla.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/orleans/cemetery/carrolcm.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/orleans/deaths/1860di.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/orleans/deaths/1867dla7.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/rapides/obit/obD.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/rapides/obit/obE.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/rapides/obit/obF.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/rapides/obit/obG.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/rapides/obit/obH.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/rapides/obit/obIJ.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/rapides/obit/obK.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/rapides/obit/obA.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/rapides/obit/obB.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/rapides/obit/obC.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/tangipahoa/obits/carterf2.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/tangipahoa/towns/amite2.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/tangipahoa/towns/zemurray.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/tangipahoa/vital/m112499.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/tangipahoa/obitsind/e112499.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/vernon/obits/vatt00.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/westfeliciana/cemetery/concordcem.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/westfeliciana/cemetery/dohertycem.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/westfeliciana/cemetery/mulfordcem.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/westfeliciana/cemetery/riddlecem.txt ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/westfeliciana/cemetery/smithmontsims.tx t Louisiana......343940 K's

Subj: White in St.Helena Parish, LA Date: 11/16/00 9:35:47 AM Pacific Standard Time From: <A HREF="mailto:AmyWM">AmyWM</A>@aol.com To: I am trying to locate Benjamin L. White, born approximately 1815. I know he was born in Louisiana, but not sure where. His mother was Elizabeth White but I don't have father's name. Benjamin L. White went from LA to Sabine County, TX with his mother about 1823; was in Cherokee County, TX by 1845 and Houston/Trinity Counties, TX by 1850. I suspect Benjamin L. White could have been from St. Helena Parish because of the Richardsons, Womacks and Watson names. A lot of those same families ended up in Trinity County, TX. Amy McCroskie Denver, CO

November: 2000 16 PONCHATOULA CHRISTMAS LIGHTING CEREMONY Downtown Ponchatoula, "America's Antique City" - 6 PM Mary Barbara Kinchen 386-6275 18 HOLIDAY PRANCE 5K Run/Walk and 1 Mile Run - SLU Alumni Center - 8 AM Sylvia Bush 345-6269 18 KENTWOOD DAIRY FESTIVAL Downtown Kentwood - Parade 10 AM Bruce Simpson 229-6400 18 SLU HOMECOMING SLU Alumni Center - Parade, B.B.Q. & Basketball game-Open to public Kathy Pittman 549-2150 18 & 19 CAMP MOORE'S "ANNUAL CIVIL WAR LIVING HISTORY ENCAMPMENT" Camp Moore - Tangipahoa - Opens 9:30 AM both days Mike Neal 229-2438 or 229-5216 22-26 NATIVE AMERICAN POW-WOW Hidden Oaks Family Campground 345-9244 25 TICKFAW CHRISTMAS LIGHTING CEREMONY Tickfaw, LA - 6 PM Rosee Loewentahl 542-7159 26- Dec 2 CHRISTMAS IN THE PINES Apostolic Campground - Independence, LA Pop Cooksey 878-3772 or Murry Owens 775-5818 DECEMBER 2000 December: 2000 2 INDEPENDENCE CHRISTMAS PARADE Downtown Independence - 10 AM Jill Anderson 878-4145 2 CHRISTMAS IN THE BAG Shopping Extravaganza in Downtown Hammond - 10 AM to 4 PM Hammond DDD 542-3471 2 HAMMOND CHRISTMAS PARADE Downtown Hammond - 5 PM Hammond Chamber of Commerce 345-4457 2-23 "ZEMURRAY CHRISTMAS LIGHT EXTRAVAGANZA" Zemurray Park - Hammond Hammond City Hall - Alma Mitchell 542-3403 8 SANTA'S WORKSHOP Hammond Regional Arts Center-Hammond - 6:30-9:00 PM Ann Stohl 542-7113 9 ARTISANS DECEMBER BAZAAR Hammond Regional Arts Center-Hammond - 1:00-9:00 PM Ann Stohl 542-7113 9 PONCHATOULA CHRISTMAS PARADE "America's Antique City" Downtown Ponchatoula - 1 PM Kathy Rinker 429-9325 10 PONCHATOULA HOLIDAY TOUR OF HOMES Ponchatoula Area Homes - 1 to 5 PM Kathy Rinker 429-9325 16 CAROLING IN THE SQUARE Cate Square - Downtown Hammond - 6 PM Gina Anthon 542-8983

The historical Mile Branch Settlement > (located on the Franklinton Fairgrounds) [Franklinton,Louisiana] > ushers in the Christmas season each year > with the "Pioneer Christmas in the Country" Celebration. > This is a nostalgic affair that delights young and old alike. > Each cabin is decorated for Christmas as the early pioneers would > have decorated. Ladies and gents are in the area in clothing > appropriate for the period. Hot apple cider, taffy, cheeses and > baked goods; crackling fires and carolers, too; enhances > the warmth of the Christmas season. In addition, local artisans > and crafters gather to show and sell their beautiful Christmas > decorations and creations, (homemade and handmade; wreaths, > pictures, quilts, etc). > "Pioneer Christmas-Thanksgiving in the Country" is held > each year on the Friday, Saturday and Sunday following Thanksgiving. > Join us this year and give your holiday season a heartwarming start. > For more information call, (504) 839-5822. Call your friends and make plans to meet them there! ,.,.,.,..,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,