I came across this info this week in the Rapides Parish Courthouse... Houston Judgment, Suit # 22618 (Original now housed at the LA State Archives in Baton Rouge, may not yet be available to the public) 16 Dec 1928 It is Ordered, Adjudged and Decreed that there be a judgment herein favor of Mrs. D. H. Willis Jr., Plaintiff and against Machen Dyer, Defendant, recognizing said plaintiff, together with the heirs of D.H. Willis Jr. (not named in this judgment, filed in Conveyance Book 118, page 18), to be the owners in indivision of the NE 1/4 of the SW 1/4, Section 34, T 1 N, R 2 W, Rapides Parish, La. [signed] Leven L. Hooe, Judge One Land Patent in Rapides Parish was made in the names of William DYER and Jemimah WILLIS of Rapides Parish, as joint tenants (co-owners) on 5 Oct 1841 for the SE 1/4 of Section 20, T 1 N, R 3 W, containing 160.20 acres. I have these people as husband and wife and having been born about 1795 in my Central La. Database, but no marriage record has been found. I also show that they had at least 5 children born 1830-1839: Roland, Joseph, Elijah, Elizabeth and Jemima DYER. Info from a descendant only. They show this family lived near Master's Creek and Calcasieu River. The above patent would place them on a branch of Lemeuse Creek in the middle of nowhere. No roads today pass within a couple of miles from this quarter section.