Cynthia, Thank you for posting the RABORN Bienville Parish Deeds! Among them was a deed showing when my great-grandmother bot land in the parish in 1878: T. Raborn to Z.A. HODGES (Zilla Ann HODGES) This may be the approximate year that her husband (James Madison HODGES) died in Winn Parish and she moved closer to her five married children to rear her five younger children. The five married daughters were: Melissa D. HODGES who married James L. BARRON Laura Henrietta HODGES who married William B. SHIVELY Amanda HODGES who married David B. RICKS Lydia HODGES who married William Mathiew NORRED Mary Alice HODGES who married Jefferson S. SHIVELY After Melissa D. HODGES died in 1880, James L. BARRON married Maria T. RABORN. Zilla Ann HODGES died 9 Feb 1882 in Bienville Parish leaving her five minor children to be reared by their older married siblings. The details of the estate settlement were published in a newspaper called "THE RURAL TIMES." Does anyone on this list know if copies of this publication have been preserved for the 1882 period - and where I could get a copy to read? I am also related to the PULLEN family in Bienville Parish. Three GRAHAM sisters of my grandfather, French G. GRAHAM, married PULLEN brothers - so you see I have many connections to Bienville Parish. Keep sharing useful information because you never know who will be helped! Gratefully, Shirley B. Alexander