Teri, Do we connect? 1 Eddie" Harold Eugene WELCH b: February 21, 1912 in Monroe, Ouachita Parish, LA d: November 24, 1977 in Alexandria , Rapides Parish, LA .. +Odile Bernardine THIELS b: August 22, 1911 in Alexandria , Rapides Parish, LA m: October 21, 1941 in Alexandria, Rapides Parish, LA d: December 31, 1998 in Alexandria , Rapides Parish, LA ... 2 Donald WELCH ....... +Carol Diana MELDER ......... 3 Jennifer Colleen WELCH ......... 3 Jason Edward WELCH ......... 3 Adam Corey WELCH ... 2 Ronald Eugene WELCH b: March 11, 1948 ....... +Virginia Claire BRUYNINCKX b: December 02, 1951 in Alexandria, Rapides Parish, LA m: January 31, 1975 in Alexandria, Rapides Parish, LA ......... 3 Wesley Eugene WELCH b: October 12, 1977 ......... 3 Clint Daniel WELCH b: March 08, 1982 ... 2 Brenda WELCH ....... +Wayne Charles GREMILLION ......... 3 Chad Michael GREMILLION ......... 3 Blake Aaron GREMILLION ... 2 Peggy Ruth SCARBOROUGH ....... +Ancel C. IRBY b: October 07, 1939 ......... 3 Karl Randal IRBY ............. +DEBBIE b: in Mississippi ......... 3 Lisa Nadine IRBY ......... 3 Curtis Ivan IRBY ......... 3 James Eric IRBY ... 2 Glynn Lamar SCARBOROUGH, Sr. ....... +Alice VAUGHN ......... 3 Susan K. SCARBOROUGH ......... 3 Glen Lamar "Scooter" SCARBOROUGH, Jr. ............. +DEBRA ............... 4 Amanda SCARBOROUGH ............... 4 Melissa SCARBOROUGH Ben Mertens mertensb@bright.net 740-477-3830 -----Original Message----- From: Teri Welch [mailto:schmooey@bellsouth.net] Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 8:02 PM To: LARAPIDE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [LARAPIDE] Amiable Baptist Church was 175 years old Saturday, September 6, 2003 Hi there, I just had to let you know how much I enjoyed reading this post. I am researching Welch and Purser lines from around Cheneyville - they moved there from Copiah County, Mississippi in 1873. My great-grandfather, A.C. Welch and his family were Baptist and belonged to the Beulah congregation, as did my grandfather, W.W. Welch and his wife Kate. My father was baptized at Beulah and became a deacon there at an early age. A.C. Welch's wife was a Purser before marriage. Her cousin (with whom she was raised) was named Robert Higdon Purser. I found and old obituary he wrote about her and was convinced from reading it that he must have been a Baptist minister - and later found out I was correct. From what I have learned, there were many Pursers who were Baptist minister. In any event, my own family are Baptists here at First Baptist in Lafayette ( don't know if it came from Vermilion Baptist) - but it seems my family has benefited from the work done by Rev. Willis for over 100 years and I certainly enjoy reading the history of it. Where do you find the book about Baptist History in La.? It sounds interesting as well. Again, thanks for the posts - they are very interesting. Teri Welch ==== LARAPIDE Mailing List ==== Have you backed up your data lately?

Teri, John T. Christian wrote in his "History Of Baptists of Louisiana" (published 1923) that: "Rev. D.I. Purser was called to the pastoral charge of the Valence Street Church and his brother, Rev. John F. Purser, was called to the First Church." [Both in New Orleans ca. 1895]. There are other mentions of these two preachers. Rev. David Ingram Purser, D.D. has a brief biographical sketch in Durham and Ramond's "Baptist Builders in Louisiana." (1934 pp. 418). He also mentions children of his named: Rev. D.I. Purser and Rev. F.M. Purser of Oxford, Mississippi. I'm personally very familiar with the Welch surname in Louisiana Baptist history but would have to re-read my files to bring back to memory all the reasons why. Thanks for your words. Most of the books I have quoted are in the Baptist Building in Alexandria, La. from the Louisiana Baptist Association. Randy Willis ----- Original Message ----- From: Teri Welch To: LARAPIDE-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 7:01 PM Subject: Re: [LARAPIDE] Amiable Baptist Church was 175 years old Saturday, September 6, 2003 Hi there, I just had to let you know how much I enjoyed reading this post. I am researching Welch and Purser lines from around Cheneyville - they moved there from Copiah County, Mississippi in 1873. My great-grandfather, A.C. Welch and his family were Baptist and belonged to the Beulah congregation, as did my grandfather, W.W. Welch and his wife Kate. My father was baptized at Beulah and became a deacon there at an early age. A.C. Welch's wife was a Purser before marriage. Her cousin (with whom she was raised) was named Robert Higdon Purser. I found and old obituary he wrote about her and was convinced from reading it that he must have been a Baptist minister - and later found out I was correct. From what I have learned, there were many Pursers who were Baptist minister. In any event, my own family are Baptists here at First Baptist in Lafayette ( don't know if it came from Vermilion Baptist) - but it seems my family has benefited from the work done by Rev. Willis for over 100 years and I certainly enjoy reading the history of it. Where do you find the book about Baptist History in La.? It sounds interesting as well. Again, thanks for the posts - they are very interesting. Teri Welch ==== LARAPIDE Mailing List ==== Have you backed up your data lately?

Hi there, I just had to let you know how much I enjoyed reading this post. I am researching Welch and Purser lines from around Cheneyville - they moved there from Copiah County, Mississippi in 1873. My great-grandfather, A.C. Welch and his family were Baptist and belonged to the Beulah congregation, as did my grandfather, W.W. Welch and his wife Kate. My father was baptized at Beulah and became a deacon there at an early age. A.C. Welch's wife was a Purser before marriage. Her cousin (with whom she was raised) was named Robert Higdon Purser. I found and old obituary he wrote about her and was convinced from reading it that he must have been a Baptist minister - and later found out I was correct. From what I have learned, there were many Pursers who were Baptist minister. In any event, my own family are Baptists here at First Baptist in Lafayette ( don't know if it came from Vermilion Baptist) - but it seems my family has benefited from the work done by Rev. Willis for over 100 years and I certainly enjoy reading the history of it. Where do you find the book about Baptist History in La.? It sounds interesting as well. Again, thanks for the posts - they are very interesting. Teri Welch

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/WEB.2ACI/436 Message Board Post: I would appreciate any information on Ed Pembrook. He was the father of Denis Pembrook. He was married to Caroline Lamott in 1868 in Alexandria, LA. They appear in the 1880 census for Rigolette, Rapides, Louisiana.

Amiable Baptist Church was 175 years old Saturday, September 6, 2003 Amiable Baptist Church was organized by Rev. Joseph Willis on September 6, 1828, near Glenmora, Rapides Parish, Louisiana. Louisiana Baptist historian, W. E. Paxton, wrote of Rev. Joseph Willis: "…he was a simple-hearted Christian, glowing with the love of Jesus and an effective speaker." His youngest son, Aimuewell Willis, said before his own death in 1937 "the secret of his father's success was personal work." He also said that "as a boy he saw his father go to a man in the field, hold his hand and then witness to him until he surrendered to Christ." One grandchild said he would be reading the Bible and talking to them. A few of them would slip away and he would say "children you can slip away from me, but not from God." Joseph constituted a church called Calvary at Bayou Chicot, Louisiana on November 13, 1812. Calvary Baptist Church is still active today. Louisiana had been a state barely seven-months and was in a state of turmoil. Great Britain did not consider the Louisiana Purchase legally valid and Congress had declared war on Great Britain the past June; The War of 1812. Once when he was traveling and preaching, he stayed at an Inn. There were several other men staying there. One of these men was sick and Joseph read the Bible to him, prayed with him and witnessed to him about Christ. The next morning all of the men were gone very early except the man who was sick. He told Joseph that the night before he had overheard the men talking about Joseph and that they had gone ahead to ambush him. He told him about another road too take and Joseph’s life was spared. According to Paxton: "Joseph was never ‘daunted’ for his was a high calling, a single-mindedness of purpose." Those who loved him called Joseph Willis the "Apostle to the Opelousas" and "Father Willis." According to family tradition, strong determination and profound faith were his shields. He would often work barefooted, walking great distances too visit and preach to small groups. He rode logs in order to cross streams or travel downstream. He would sometimes return home from a mission tour as late as one o'clock in the morning and awaken his wife to prepare clothes that he might leave again a few hours later. Paxton wrote "The zeal of Father Willis, as he came to be called by the affectionate people among whom he labored, could not be bounded by the narrow limits of his own home, but he traveled far and wide." By 1818, when Joseph and others founded the Louisiana Baptist Association at Cheneyville, he had been instrumental in founding all five charter member churches. They were Calvary, 1812; Beulah, 1816; Vermillion, 1817; Aimwell, 1817 (also called Debourn); and Plaquemine, 1817. Aimwell was about five-miles southeast of Oberlin, Beulah at Cheneyville, Calvary at Bayou Chicot, Vermillion at Lafayette, and Plaquemine near Branch. In 1824 he helped establish Zion Hill Church at Beaver Dam along with William Wilbourn and Isham Nettles. He went "far and wide" establishing a church October 21, 1827, just seventeen-miles from Orange, Texas, and the Texas State line near Edgerly, Louisiana named Antioch Primitive Baptist Church. Joseph kept a diary. These notes were arranged in 1841 by W. P. Ford and copied by Paxton in 1858. Paxton admits most of his facts concerning Central Louisiana Baptists are from this manuscript and Louisiana Association Minutes. This manuscript is lost today. Mr. Ford also made remarks in this manuscript. One of Ford's observations made in 1834 is recorded by Paxton and is very revealing concerning Joseph: "Nearly all the churches now left in the association were gathered either directly or indirectly by the labors of Mr. Willis. Mr. Ford remarks of this effort: ‘It was truly affecting to hear him speak of them as his children; and with all the affection of a father allude to some schisms and divisions that had arisen in the past and to warn them against the occurrence of anything of the kind in the future. But when he spoke of the fact that two or three of them had already become extinct, his voice failed and he was compelled to give utterance to his feelings by his tears; and surely the heart must have been hard that could not be melted by the manifestation of so much affection, for he wept not alone." Baptist historian John T. Christian wrote in his book "A History of Baptist of Louisiana" (1923): "It must steadily be borne in mind that in no other state of the Union have Baptists been compelled to face such overwhelming odds; and such long and sustained opposition...The wonder is not that at first the Baptists made slow progress, but that they made any at all." Because of Joseph’s failing health, his son Lemuel went and got him and took him to his home in Oakdale, where he lived the remainder of his life. On a bed, in an ox wagon used for an ambulance, he sang as the wagon rolled along to Lemuel’s home. Lemuel had two men with him too help and Joseph witnessed to them while lying in the back of the wagon. He preached to his last breath, either from a chair in the church or from his bed at the home. See http://www.randywillis.org for more on Rev. Joseph Willis. Randy Willis

Thanks, I'll be in Alexandria the first half of October '03. Maybe you and I can meet and discuss our common kinfolk. Ben Mertens mertensb@bright.net 740-477-3830 -----Original Message----- From: Elaine Nagel [mailto:Elainenagel@earthlink.net] Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 7:05 AM To: LARAPIDE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [LARAPIDE] Campground I might suggest that you write to or call. Rapides Parish 318-487-8556 Alexandria Historical & Genealogical Library 503 Washington Street Alexandria, LA 71301 Ask them your questions. They work from Grants, etc and love helping people. I have a lot of kin in Campground also. ----- Original Message ----- From: <LARAPIDE-D-request@rootsweb.com> To: <LARAPIDE-D@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 5:01 AM Subject: LARAPIDE-D Digest V03 #121 ==== LARAPIDE Mailing List ==== Have you backed up your data lately?

Good Morning List, I neglected mentioning the time frame on my John Chrisitopher Marsh family in my previous query. John C. Marsh married Marzelie Boniol in 1839. She was born in 1823 to Pierre Boniol and Anne Merchiol, allegedly in Alexandria. John C died in 1880 and Marzalie in 1917. Their son George Russell Marsh b 1843 d 1920 married Martha Hilton and he was at one time pilot on the river, subsequently ran the sugar refinery at Oak Lawn in St. Mary Parish. John C. was a skilled machinist and had a business in New Orleans and was a U.S. Customs Inspector. Any help appreciated. Patricia Snyder Shadancer@aol.com

I might suggest that you write to or call. Rapides Parish 318-487-8556 Alexandria Historical & Genealogical Library 503 Washington Street Alexandria, LA 71301 Ask them your questions. They work from Grants, etc and love helping people. I have a lot of kin in Campground also. ----- Original Message ----- From: <LARAPIDE-D-request@rootsweb.com> To: <LARAPIDE-D@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 5:01 AM Subject: LARAPIDE-D Digest V03 #121

Alma, I've seen the location for some of my Belgian ancestors but I don't know anything about the cemetery. Ben Mertens mertensb@bright.net 740-477-3830 -----Original Message----- From: JohnR25442@aol.com [mailto:JohnR25442@aol.com] Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2003 10:55 PM To: LARAPIDE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [LARAPIDE] Campground Cemetery Ben, I will let you know what I learn. I'm afraid it will be very little since I have been unable to unearth any information for years. I have pictures, but do little to answer the important questions. Alma ==== LARAPIDE Mailing List ==== Have you backed up your data lately?

Ben, I will let you know what I learn. I'm afraid it will be very little since I have been unable to unearth any information for years. I have pictures, but do little to answer the important questions. Alma

Alma, I'm interested in the same information. Please contact me if you learn anything. Ben Mertens mertensb@bright.net 740-477-3830 -----Original Message----- From: JohnR25442@aol.com [mailto:JohnR25442@aol.com] Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2003 3:33 PM To: LARAPIDE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [LARAPIDE] Campground Cemetery I am interested in the Campground Cemetery (once called Methodist Campground Cemetery) near Gardner, LA. I found the list of burials online, but I am curious about the history of this cemetery. What church(es) funded it? Who has the burial records from the cemetery (not the list of headstones)? Have recent burials taken place there? If so, whom does one contact to purchase a plot? I ask these questions because there is a group of Herring/Herrin headstones there. I am researching this elusive family and since my gggrandfather, Stephen A. Herring, was interred at Campground, I am curious about the cemetery's origins. Thanks, Alma Reed ==== LARAPIDE Mailing List ==== Have you backed up your data lately?

I am interested in the Campground Cemetery (once called Methodist Campground Cemetery) near Gardner, LA. I found the list of burials online, but I am curious about the history of this cemetery. What church(es) funded it? Who has the burial records from the cemetery (not the list of headstones)? Have recent burials taken place there? If so, whom does one contact to purchase a plot? I ask these questions because there is a group of Herring/Herrin headstones there. I am researching this elusive family and since my gggrandfather, Stephen A. Herring, was interred at Campground, I am curious about the cemetery's origins. Thanks, Alma Reed

Good Morning List, I am looking for any descendants of John Christopher Marsh and Marzalie Boniol. Their children married into the Hilton and Moore families. If any of these names ring any bells for anyone please contact me. Patricia Snyder Shadancer@aol.com

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Clark ; Greer; Kennedy; Halbert; Chandler; Horn; Ogle; Ownby; Smith; Mize; Price; Corley; Capel; Eddins; Woolard; Moore; Tallent; Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/WEB.2ACI/193.1 Message Board Post: Caleb;did you ever find anything else about the Taylor's or Clark's? My husbands grgrandfather Isaac Newton Greer married a Mary Catherine Clark in Rapides Parrish. in July 1865 , I am looking for her parents. I want to assume that if they married in 1865 she was with her parents in that parrish until then but haven't a clue who they were. I know she was born in Orleans Parrish. So please tell me about your Clark's jewell@brightok.net Thanks Jewell

YES IN PINEVILLE, LA

I found it. Thanks anyway. DeAnn Monroe Steely ----- Original Message ----- From: "DeAnn Monroe Steely" <dsteely@direcway.com> To: <LARAPIDE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 4:30 PM Subject: Military cemetery? > Is there a military cemetery in Rapides Parish? > > Thanks. > > DeAnn Monroe Steely > >

Is there a military cemetery in Rapides Parish? Thanks. DeAnn Monroe Steely

Louisiana Confederate Pension Applications Index http://www.sec.state.la.us/archives/gen/cpa-alpha.htm NameReel MicrodexPages Target Card Willis Surname WILLIS, A. CP1.1484, seq. 930 WILLIS, AMUELL WILLIS, AMUELL CP1.1484, seq. 930 WILLIS, AMUELL WILLIS, AUGUSTUS B.CP1.1484, seq. 1819 WILLIS, MARGARET JANNETT WILLIS, B.CP1.1484, seq. 1919 WILLIS, MARY ANN WILLIS, BENARD R.CP1.1484, seq. 1919 WILLIS, MARY ANN WILLIS, BENJAMINCP1.1484, seq. 1919 WILLIS, MARY ANN WILLIS, CAROLINECP1.83 4, seq. 343 LEE, CAROLINE WILLIS WILLIS, DANIEL H.CP1.1484, seq. 147 WILLIS, JULIA A. WILLIS, EGARIA L.CP1.18 1, seq. 116 BROOKS, EGERIA L. WILLIS, HOLMES NATHANCP1.1484, seq. 104 WILLIS, HOLMES N. WILLIS, JACOB E.CP1.1484, seq. 114WILLIS, JACOB E. WILLIS, JACOB ELHE'LE'SCP1.1484, seq. 114WILLIS, JACOB E. WILLIS, JAMESCP1.1484, seq. 124WILLIS, JAMES WILLIS, JAMESCP1.1484, seq. 2114WILLIS, SARAH (STRAIN) WILLIS, JAMES N.CP1.1484, seq. 2114WILLIS, SARAH (STRAIN) WILLIS, JAMES S.CP1.1484, seq. 136WILLIS, JAMES S. WILLIS, JOHN W.CP1.1484, seq. 222WILLIS, SICILY ANN WILLIS, JULIA A. (GRAHAM)CP1.1484, seq. 147WILLIS, JULIA A. WILLIS, L. C. (MC KINNEY)CP1.1484, seq. 166WILLIS, L. C. (MC KINNEY) WILLIS, L. D.CP1.1484, seq. 166WILLIS, L. C. (MC KINNEY) WILLIS, LEMUELCP1.1484, seq. 178WILLIS, LEMUEL S. WILLIS, LEMUEL S.CP1.1484, seq. 178WILLIS, LEMUEL S. WILLIS, LEMUEL S.CP1.1484, seq. 207WILLIS, OLIVE (RAY) WILLIS, MARGARET JANNETT (ROBARDS)CP1.1484, seq. 1819WILLIS, MARGARET JANNETT WILLIS, MARGARET JEANETTE (ROBARDS)CP1.1484, seq. 1819WILLIS, MARGARET JANNETT WILLIS, MARTHA E.CP1.1431, seq. 124WALKER, MARTHA E. (WILLIS) WILLIS, MARY ANN (CARPENTER)CP1.1484, seq. 1919WILLIS, MARY ANN WILLIS, NANCY M.CP1.43 2, seq. 208DUNN, NANCY M. WILLIS, NANCY M.CP1.1463, seq. 248WHITEHEAD, NANCY M. (WILLIS) WILLIS, OLIFCP1.73 3, seq. 348JOHNSON, OLIVE WILLIS WILLIS, OLIVECP1.73 3, seq. 348JOHNSON, OLIVE WILLIS WILLIS, OLIVE (RAY)CP1.1484, seq. 207WILLIS, OLIVE (RAY) WILLIS, SARAH (STRAIN)CP1.1484, seq. 2114WILLIS, SARAH (STRAIN) WILLIS, SICILY ANN (NICHOLSON)CP1.1484, seq. 222WILLIS, SICILY ANN WILLIS, SUSAN C.CP1.1272, seq. 175SIKES, SUSAN (WILLIS) WILLIS, THOMAS N.CP1.1484, seq. 234WILLIS, THOMAS N. WILLIS, V.CP1.1484, seq. 1919WILLIS, MARY ANN WILLIS, W. F.CP1.1484, seq. 246WILLIS, WILLIAM F. WILLIS, WILLIAM F.CP1.1484, seq. 246WILLIS, WILLIAM F. WILLIS, WILLIAM H.CP1.1484, seq. 266WILLS, ELIZABETH CATHERINE

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/WEB.2ACI/14.81.5 Message Board Post: MichelDeville and Margueitte Katzenburghad the followingchildren: 1st. Louis(Filo)born1769 and died March $,1843. He married Marie Louise Johnson.2nd. Marie Euphronsine Born 1771. She married Jean Baptiste Bellgarde. 3rd Valentine born 1773 died 1840-1850. He married Margueritte Etienne. 4th. Auguste born Dec. 9,1775. 5th Nicholas Born 1776. 6th. Etienne born Dec. 15,1777. He married Marie Louise Vasseur. 7th. Margueritteborn 1779 died 1830-1840. She married Nicholas Adam Huffman. 8th. Marie Louise born May 9,1781. 9th John (Jean) T. (Gentil) born Feb. 15,1787 died 1850-1860 He married Felicitty Jeannot.The Rapides Cemetery is the oldest cemetery in the Pineville area. Many of the graves caved in the river in the early days before the leeve.It is believed that Michel and Margeuritte are buried here.I hope that this helps some. If I can help in any way please let me know. Sincerely,Billy Deville

Recent uploads to the Louisiana USGenWeb Archives edited to include only the Rapides Parish data. -----Original Message----- From: DW9JOHNSON@aol.com [mailto:DW9JOHNSON@aol.com] Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2003 8:40 AM To: LAGENWEB-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [LAGENWEB] Daily Uploaded Files - August 23, 2003: New files between Fri, 22 Aug 2003, at 2:10 AM and Sat, 23 Aug 2003, at 2:10 AM Uploaded/changed file list http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/rapides/biographies/rosenthal.txt http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/rapides/military/civilwar/rosenthalm .txt