This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Maddox Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/CCB.2ACE/185 Message Board Post: I work in the genealogical section of the Webster Parish Library and am calling on our neighbors for a little help. Our Mayor received an inquiry letter from a descendent of William Alexander Maddox that he passed on to me. W. A. Maddox moved to Claiborne Parish in 1858 and left in 1873. Maddox was the first commander of the Claiborne Invincibles and at least one of his eleven sons, Walter, served in a Claiborne Parish unit. The descendent is seeking information about the location of W.A. Maddox's plantation. I have found some conflicting information and need a little help. The descendent said the plantation was in the Hightower area and located on Rapides Bayou. The Hightower name I know, as a son of that family was a pharmacist in Minden from the 1890s through the 1940s. But I don't know where an area by that name would have been located in 1858. As to Rapides Bayou, I've never heard of that in CIaiborne Parish. I have W. A. Maddox on the Family Tree Maker Census Index as living in the area of the Forrest Grove P.O. in Claiborne Parish in 1860. But, on the Census Microfilm, he is on a page where the header indicates he resided in the Homer P. O. area. Where was the Forrest Grove P.O.? By 1870, the Maddox family had moved into Homer and I have that information, but am stuck on the location of the plantation. Another statment made by this descendant is giving me quite a bit of confusion. He states, "The Union Army took over their (the Maddox's) house in May 1864, the 13th Corps under General Lawler. An artillery duel between Union and Confederate indigenous artillery took place for a short exchange on the property." I may be way off, but to my knowledge no combat action took place inside Claiborne Parish during the Civil War, and so far as I knew the first Union troops entered the parish in May 1865 after the cessation of hostilites. If anyone can shed light on this story I would appreciate the help.

I don't know if this is information you need or not but there is a Bayou Rapides in Alexandria. There is also an old plantation home now owned by Judge Rae Swent. Bobby and I were participants several years ago in a Civil War Re-enactment group. We held a battle in the yard of the plantation as this was a site where there had been an actual battle during the war. Right now I can't think of the name of the plantation but it is out on Bayou Rapides Road. This is fairly close to where England Air Base was. I tried to call but there is no one home right now. If you like I can try to call later today and find out the name of the plantation and if it was ever owned by Maddox family. Nola Ellington