Thanks for the link, Hazel. I want to mention to everyone that several future Union Parish residents are listed here. Colonel Matthew Wood was extremely influential in the early affairs of the parish. He married Hannah Payne and was a tavern keeper in Fort Dale, northwestern Butler County Alabama between about 1818 and the early 1830s. He was elected colonel of the Butler County militia in 1823. In the early 1830s, he moved from Fort Dale into southern Lowndes County (just north of Butler). In early 1835, he traveled to north Louisiana and bought land in what is now Union Parish. He remained there that year, and in December 1835 again purchased land. About three weeks later, he had returned to Lowndes County, sold his plantation there, and led a large group of Butler & Lowndes County settlers to north Louisiana. This is the first known migration of a large group of Alabama settlers into what is now Union Parish. They settled along Bayou D'Loutrein eastern Union Parish. Wood later served as the first president of the Union Parish Police Jury. His son-in-law John Taylor was the first parish judge, and son-in-law William Cleaton Carr was the first sheriff. In the link Hazel gave, notice that on 19 December 1817, the Georgia Legislature changed the following names and legitimatized these children of Matthew Wood: [Paine should be Payne] Jane Paine to Jane Wood Samuel Paine to Samuel Wood Thompson Paine to Thompson Wood Willis Paine to Willis Wood I knew of this act before, but I did not know that these children were officially "legitimatized". Here is the tradition I have heard - this is all tradition; until now I've not had any verification of this: Matthew Wood was married to another woman in Georgia, and about 1812 he went to south Louisiana with Daniel Payne. I've been told that he returned to Georgia about 1815, divorced his first wife, then married Hannah Payne (sister of Daniel), who had borne him the four children named above. The Georgia legislature then legally changed the children's names from "Payne" to "Wood", but there was no real proof that Wood was their biological father. I have always wanted to know if this tradition is correct. Thanks to Hazel, looks like we have a pretty good idea that Wood was the natural father. For the Georgia Legislature to take this action, he undoubtedly went before them and declared he was their father. Wish we could get a copy of this act of the Georgia Legislature. Jane Wood (formerly Payne) married Union Parish Judge John Taylor in Alabama and moved with her father to what is now Union Parish in February 1837. She was buried in the Taylor/Liberty Hill Cemetery. The other Woods lived in Union, Lincoln, and Claiborne Parishes. Thanks, Hazel!! Tim -----Original Message----- From: hazelcraig@bellsouth.net [mailto:hazelcraig@bellsouth.net] Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 12:00 PM To: LAUNION-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [LAUNION] ROLL CALL - MCMURRAIN Tim: Thank you so much for taking over our site.. While everyone's attention is high. Just today received following from a County Coord. in Ga. (A McMurrain connection) Go to: http://www.westberry-moses.com/main/files/namechange.pdf What a find. It is a list of legal name changes in Georgia. Good luck finding your missing relative. Many, many worked their way from VA, NC thru GA, to AL, MS, LA etc. Hazel Welch Craig hazelcraig@bellsouth.net P.O. Box 291 Camden, TN. 38320 ==== LAUNION Mailing List ==== List manager launion-admin@rootsweb.com ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237

Tim: Thank you so much for taking over our site.. While everyone's attention is high. Just today received following from a County Coord. in Ga. (A McMurrain connection) Go to: http://www.westberry-moses.com/main/files/namechange.pdf What a find. It is a list of legal name changes in Georgia. Good luck finding your missing relative. Many, many worked their way from VA, NC thru GA, to AL, MS, LA etc. Hazel Welch Craig hazelcraig@bellsouth.net P.O. Box 291 Camden, TN. 38320

There are many who delete without opening. It isn't that we don't care but some get as many as 3-4 hundred a day and can't open each one if it doesn't pertain to our lines or allied lines we can help with. Thanks.

I am researching the BARRETTS, also the PORTERS. They married into many of the Union Parish families. Need anything and will share what I have. Joyce, Carthage, TX

My Powells are found in the 1910 census in precinct 8. I'm not sure where that is. Haven't found them in 1900 yet. My husband's father grew up in Berry, perhaps that's the area. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gaylon L Powell" <gaylon@flash.net> To: <LAUNION-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 12:23 AM Subject: Re: [LAUNION] LAUNION Roll Call > Karen, > > It appears that Margie has a different set of Powells. She had listed some > of their names, and they did not look familiar. > > My 3rd great grandfather, William J Powell, moved to Union Parish in the > early 1870's from Western Georgia. He left Union Parish shortly after his > late-in-life marriage to Mrs. Elizabeth Edwards in 1879. They settled first > just north of Austin in Williamson County, and then went farther west. My > 2nd great grandfather, John Thomas Powell, was about 16 or 17 was left with > an older sister, Jennie Powell Burson, in Lincoln Parish. John T Powell > first married Ida May Fuller in Lincoln Parish. After her death, he married > Annie E Coplen in 1887 in Union Parish. Annie died in 1890, and JT married > Nina Shaw later that year. JT left Union Parish alone in 1896 to Williamson > County, Texas, where the Bursons were living by then, and helped the Bursons > raise a crop. A year later, JT moved his family to Brown County, Texas. > > When our Coplens left Union Parish, they moved to the western side of > Navarro County to a community named Dresden. There is a town in eastern > Navarro County named Powell. Perhaps this is where Margie's family had > moved to. > > Gaylon > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Karen Rice" <kmrice@mchsi.com> > To: <LAUNION-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 9:05 PM > Subject: Re: [LAUNION] LAUNION Roll Call > > > > Margie, Gaylon - > > Isn't this they same family as your Powells, Gaylon? And what's the > > significance that this family moved to Navarro Co TX at about the same > time > > our Copelands did? > > Karen > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Margie Powell" <mbpowell@cox.net> > > To: <LAUNION-L@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 4:55 PM > > Subject: [LAUNION] LAUNION Roll Call > > > > > > > I am reasearching in Union Parish: > > > > > > William H Powell (1817 - ?), married Chastity Creed (1820 - ?) > > > > > > son, William Daniel Powell ( Oct 1855 - after 1930), married Sallie E > > Segrist (1859 - after 1930) > > > Children: Ida M POwell > > > Lonnie Lloyd Powell > > > Henry Segrist Powell > > > Pearl Ada Powell > > > Katie Clarice Powell > > > Lena Irene Powell > > > Sallie Ruth Powell > > > > > > William D Powell moved with his family to Navarro Co TX between 1896 and > > 1898. > > > > > > > > > ==== LAUNION Mailing List ==== > > > List manager > > > launion-admin@rootsweb.com > > > > > > ============================== > > > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > > > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > > > > > > > > > ==== LAUNION Mailing List ==== > > List manager > > launion-admin@rootsweb.com > > > > ============================== > > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > > > > > > ==== LAUNION Mailing List ==== > Visit the Union Parish Archives at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/la/union.htm > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > >

Karen and Gaylon, The information I have so far is very limited and I can't connect the two families yet. If either of you have any information that might connect them, please let me know. You can email me at mbpowell@cox.net. Thanks! Margie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karen Rice" <kmrice@mchsi.com> To: <LAUNION-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 10:05 PM Subject: Re: [LAUNION] LAUNION Roll Call > Margie, Gaylon - > Isn't this they same family as your Powells, Gaylon? And what's the > significance that this family moved to Navarro Co TX at about the same time > our Copelands did? > Karen > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Margie Powell" <mbpowell@cox.net> > To: <LAUNION-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 4:55 PM > Subject: [LAUNION] LAUNION Roll Call > > > > I am reasearching in Union Parish: > > > > William H Powell (1817 - ?), married Chastity Creed (1820 - ?) > > > > son, William Daniel Powell ( Oct 1855 - after 1930), married Sallie E > Segrist (1859 - after 1930) > > Children: Ida M POwell > > Lonnie Lloyd Powell > > Henry Segrist Powell > > Pearl Ada Powell > > Katie Clarice Powell > > Lena Irene Powell > > Sallie Ruth Powell > > > > William D Powell moved with his family to Navarro Co TX between 1896 and > 1898. > > > > > > ==== LAUNION Mailing List ==== > > List manager > > launion-admin@rootsweb.com > > > > ============================== > > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > > > > > ==== LAUNION Mailing List ==== > List manager > launion-admin@rootsweb.com > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > >

Researching - Lynds Sterling bca 1800 & Wife Rachel Feazell, son John Sterling & wife Sophia Freeman, Edward Freeman & wife Elizabeth Stevens, Pleasant Etheridge & wife Amanda Sterling. Paul R. DAFFT (PDafft@Juno.Com) 1605 Cottonwood Road Carrollton, Texas, 75006-3856

James Russell Coplen (Copland), Demetrius C. Coplen and Susan Annie Moore.

Karen, It appears that Margie has a different set of Powells. She had listed some of their names, and they did not look familiar. My 3rd great grandfather, William J Powell, moved to Union Parish in the early 1870's from Western Georgia. He left Union Parish shortly after his late-in-life marriage to Mrs. Elizabeth Edwards in 1879. They settled first just north of Austin in Williamson County, and then went farther west. My 2nd great grandfather, John Thomas Powell, was about 16 or 17 was left with an older sister, Jennie Powell Burson, in Lincoln Parish. John T Powell first married Ida May Fuller in Lincoln Parish. After her death, he married Annie E Coplen in 1887 in Union Parish. Annie died in 1890, and JT married Nina Shaw later that year. JT left Union Parish alone in 1896 to Williamson County, Texas, where the Bursons were living by then, and helped the Bursons raise a crop. A year later, JT moved his family to Brown County, Texas. When our Coplens left Union Parish, they moved to the western side of Navarro County to a community named Dresden. There is a town in eastern Navarro County named Powell. Perhaps this is where Margie's family had moved to. Gaylon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karen Rice" <kmrice@mchsi.com> To: <LAUNION-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 9:05 PM Subject: Re: [LAUNION] LAUNION Roll Call > Margie, Gaylon - > Isn't this they same family as your Powells, Gaylon? And what's the > significance that this family moved to Navarro Co TX at about the same time > our Copelands did? > Karen > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Margie Powell" <mbpowell@cox.net> > To: <LAUNION-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 4:55 PM > Subject: [LAUNION] LAUNION Roll Call > > > > I am reasearching in Union Parish: > > > > William H Powell (1817 - ?), married Chastity Creed (1820 - ?) > > > > son, William Daniel Powell ( Oct 1855 - after 1930), married Sallie E > Segrist (1859 - after 1930) > > Children: Ida M POwell > > Lonnie Lloyd Powell > > Henry Segrist Powell > > Pearl Ada Powell > > Katie Clarice Powell > > Lena Irene Powell > > Sallie Ruth Powell > > > > William D Powell moved with his family to Navarro Co TX between 1896 and > 1898. > > > > > > ==== LAUNION Mailing List ==== > > List manager > > launion-admin@rootsweb.com > > > > ============================== > > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > > > > > ==== LAUNION Mailing List ==== > List manager > launion-admin@rootsweb.com > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 >

my names are Holloway, Heard, Brown, Burton. I also have some Goynes in the family Pam Holloway

Hi everyone, My surnames for Union Parish are Greer, Brunson, Post, Merritt/Merrell. Cindy

My main research line are the Hintons. Thomas Hinton came from Laurens Co., SC, married Mary Cox in Clarke, Co., AL and came to Union Parish before 1850. Many lines from GA and AL married into this family and have spread out in LA and TX. Would be happy to exchange with anyone researching these lines. I had put my "dad's side" down for the last couple of years, as I had been knocking down brickwalls on my mom's side. Time to pick up on dad's again. Lisa Cotten

Margie, Gaylon - Isn't this they same family as your Powells, Gaylon? And what's the significance that this family moved to Navarro Co TX at about the same time our Copelands did? Karen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Margie Powell" <mbpowell@cox.net> To: <LAUNION-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 4:55 PM Subject: [LAUNION] LAUNION Roll Call > I am reasearching in Union Parish: > > William H Powell (1817 - ?), married Chastity Creed (1820 - ?) > > son, William Daniel Powell ( Oct 1855 - after 1930), married Sallie E Segrist (1859 - after 1930) > Children: Ida M POwell > Lonnie Lloyd Powell > Henry Segrist Powell > Pearl Ada Powell > Katie Clarice Powell > Lena Irene Powell > Sallie Ruth Powell > > William D Powell moved with his family to Navarro Co TX between 1896 and 1898. > > > ==== LAUNION Mailing List ==== > List manager > launion-admin@rootsweb.com > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 >

Yeah, but don't overwhelm him! He's like a kid with new toys at Christmas - let's keep him in that frame of mine! I'm still researching MABRY, COPELAND (COPLEN), COOK, MOORE. Those are my main lines, and they intermarried with Shacklefords and Barrets and Williamses and Lewises and many more. For those of you that contributed to the purchase of the 1930 images, they are in the hands of the powers that be, and I hope we'll see them soon! Karen Mabry Rice ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jan Craven" <jancraven@bellsouth.net> To: <LAUNION-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 6:43 AM Subject: Re: [LAUNION] New materials on the Union Parish Archives! > I'm here and thrilled that Tim has stepped up and taken this job. > I know you will do a great job for us all. > Now, If everyone would send just one more file to Tim for the archives, we > can keep him out of trouble for a day or two!! > Jan > FARRAR, CRAVEN, COLE, GATHRIGHT, JAMISON, and a couple others I can't > remember this early in the morning. > > > At 11:10 PM 3/8/2004, Timothy D. Hudson wrote: > > >Hello! > > > >I'm writing to let everyone know that I have taken over as the File > >Manager for the Union Parish Louisiana USGenWeb Archives site. Please > >consider donating transcriptions of any Union Parish records or > >photographs to be posted on the site. I will make every attempt to post > >materials in a timely fashion. > > > > ==== LAUNION Mailing List ==== > Visit the Union Parish Archives at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/la/union.htm > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 >

HARRIS Marion M. Harris came to Union County from Pike County, GA. He married Sarah (last name unknown) and then Georgia Wynn. His sister Margaret Harris accompanied him. She married Enoch Jones in Union County. (He was killed during the Civil War) She then married Joseph Tugwell. I will be happy to share information. Nancy Harris Wilkerson

Good evening gentle folks, I look at the names of these kinds of roll calls and take lessons on variations of spellings. As genealogist it is always a good reminder to us that names were spelled so many different ways for many different reasons! Take note! Happy Hunting, Jan ps. The Confederate pension index has been updated at the Louisiana State Archives site. To reach the archives library, go to http://www.sec.state.la.us/archives/archives/archives-library.htm then click on "Confederate Pension Applications" There you will find a searchable database that gives the name of the applicant, in the case of a widow, the soldier's name, and the parish where application was made. This can be very helpful in identifying which soldier is the one you are looking for. I hope that this will be helpful to you. At 07:19 PM 3/9/2004, JO COX wrote: >I am researching the Auld family. > >Jo Cox

I am researching the Auld family. Jo Cox

Hi Ley, Mary Ann Murray b.ca.1823 Warren County, Georgia . She married Henry B. T. Goyne Sept 9, 1845 in Houston County, Georgia They moved to Union Parish, Louisiana and she died bet. 1880-1884 Union Parish, Louisiana There is also, a William D. Murray b.ca 1823 in Liberty.GA. "I am interested in . I believe he is a brother to Mary Ann Murray. He married Elizabeth ( Betsey) Goyne. Elizabeth is a siser to Henry B. T. Goyne. William D. Murray and Elizabeth name their first child Hiram Davis Murray the name od Elizabeth and Henry B. T. Goynes father.. Robbie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ley O'Connor" <casheley@hotmail.com> To: <genealogy101@bellsouth.net> Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 6:22 PM Subject: Murray Union Parish > Who are your Murrays, Ley > > > > Ley K O'Connor > CasheLey@hotmail.com > > Flying with an Angel on my shoulders, my Da and one at my feet, Katie > Scarlet > > Join us for the 2004 True Crime Readers, Writers, and Photographer's > Conference > http://truecrimefanatic.com/true_crime_conference_writers_ph.htm > > _________________________________________________________________ > Fast. Reliable. Get MSN 9 Dial-up - 3 months for the price of 1! > (Limited-time Offer) http://click.atdmt.com/AVE/go/onm00200361ave/direct/01/ > >

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I am reasearching in Union Parish: William H Powell (1817 - ?), married Chastity Creed (1820 - ?) son, William Daniel Powell ( Oct 1855 - after 1930), married Sallie E Segrist (1859 - after 1930) Children: Ida M POwell Lonnie Lloyd Powell Henry Segrist Powell Pearl Ada Powell Katie Clarice Powell Lena Irene Powell Sallie Ruth Powell William D Powell moved with his family to Navarro Co TX between 1896 and 1898.