We had the same problem with my great-grandfather, John J. Futrell, who died of cancer in 1933. My father wrote to the state archives and inquired about parish records and was repeatedly told that there was no death certificate. He finally asked an older relative who was a teenager at the time, and he told the following story. John J. Futrell had some type of cancer and had spent several months in a hospital in Shreveport. When the doctors there decided that nothing more could be done, he was sent to one of his daughters' home near Downsville where he died a short time later. Since this was during the Depression and money was scarce, no doctor was called to verify the death and he was buried out of the home, meaning no funeral home was involved. It sounds terrible, but I guess they did what they had to. There's also no record of a death certificate for his wife, Mathilda Sanford Futrell, who had died in 1932 so I assume that she also died at home. This is possibly why you can't find a death certificate for your relative. Looking in the newspaper is a good idea. I wonder if the local library will do a search for a fee. If so, I would be interested. Does anyone know if that service is available? Julia Healey

Midge I have the cemetery book that lists some burials at the Bethel Cemetery. Do you have a name for me to look up? Deb Burgess Midge Willis wrote: > > Does anyone know who is in charge of the little church in Lily, La. Union Parish, called Bethel? I think they still have regular services there and I am hoping they might have records of who has been buried there over the years. > > Thanks > > ==== LAUNION Mailing List ==== > Visit the Union Parish Archives at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/la/union.htm > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

Does anyone know who is in charge of the little church in Lily, La. Union Parish, called Bethel? I think they still have regular services there and I am hoping they might have records of who has been buried there over the years. Thanks

I have been to Marion and taken pictures of the headstone for Annie (nee Owens b.Oct. 12, 1862) Baker who died May 2, 1928. In 1998 I sent a request to the archives in Baton Rouge for a copy of her death certificate and received back that it couldn't be found. In May of this year, I was in La. and went by the archives and looked at the film myself and couldn't find one either. If anyone on this list could tell me if there may be a parish death certificate and who to write for it, I would appreciate it. And maybe someone who lives there could look at a newspaper for that time and see if there is an obituary for her or her sister, Jane (Jamima Jane nee Owens b. Oct. 11. 1859), died July 12, 1928 and is buried next to Annie. Because they died so close together and Annie was visiting her sister at the time from MS, I have wondered if there was some kind of epidemic during that time. Thank you for any help you can give with this "brick wall". Ruth Taylor

I came across these two obits today in a book called Marriage and Death Notices From the South Western Baptist Newspaper. I copied them because they were both from Union Parish. I have copied them below. Debbie Died on the 17th of October 1850 at the residence of her husband in Union Parish, LA, Mrs. Ann, wife of the Rev. Elias George. Sister George was born in Wayne County, NC on the 18th of June 1812, married Elias George of Perry County, AL, January 10, 1828, and immigrated to LA in 1847. Died on the 17th of August 1851 at the residence of her husband in Union Parish, LA, sister Permela Rimer.

Hello! I went to Union Parish Courthouse yesterday and came across something with the name of Stephen H. McGill written on it. Anyone researching him? Debbie

There seems to be a lot of misunderstandings on this mail list recently. I am the list manager for the Union Parish mail list. If there is a problem with the list contact me privately at any time. The tag lines have my address. launion-admin@rootsweb.com I have contacted several of you privately but I thought this would be a good time to remind everyone that this mail list is for the discussion of Union parish genealogy. We do not "gossip" on this mail list. We also do not post virus warnings or off topic subjects. Message boards for Union parish are managed by Charlotte Sehon. The archives(http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/la/union.htm) and web site for Union parish (http://www.rootsweb.com/~launion are handled by Alvin Jones <wallace1970@juno.com>. Anything that you wish to contribute to the archives or the web site can be sent to Alvin. As most of you know, Alvin had a serious car accident last Nov. and has been working with rehab to regain full use of his legs since then. But he is still uploading to the archives regularly. If by chance he is unable to load a file he contacts James Lee or myself to help out. (I am also the LAGenWeb State Archives coordinator) Rhonda Smith Union parish mail list manager

Message forwarded by list manager. Please reply directly to: amox@earthlink.net -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Cecil, LA Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 23:51:54 -0500 From: "Mary Jo & Jarel Amox" <amox@earthlink.net> To: <launion-admin@rootsweb.com> Could anyone please tell me where Cecil, LA is located. My ancestors the Joiners and Remores lived there in the last 1800's. Mary Jo

I too have had the same problem. I'm loading stuff to my own site...there's a great Stripling Family Bible...they were very early settlers in Union Parish. I've spent 40+ years trying to find the parents of my Peyton Hardy who lived in Union Parish..have sent some things to this site which were never used, or acknowledged....yes, I'm frustrated too!! Jan Parsons Armstrong El Paso, Texas JArmstr904@aol.com http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~janarmstrong

Good Evening all. This mailing list SHOULD have the list manager as a member of the list. I manage several parish lists and I thought you had to be sub'd to the list as a requirement. Perhaps the ones of you who have had problems could all contact rootsweb and let them know of your problems. They know who the list owner is and hopefully will contact them and see if there is a problem. There are guidelines that we all are supposed to follow and if we don't, then it seems that actions should be taken The same goes with the Union Archives site or any other parish/county site where the folks are not responsive. Karen, it is so good to have you back and seeing things clearly! ;o) Back to my hole, Jan At 09:03 PM 07/01/2003 -0400, JArmstr904@aol.com wrote: >I too have had the same problem. I'm loading stuff to my own site...there's >a great Stripling Family Bible...they were very early settlers in Union >Parish. I've spent 40+ years trying to find the parents of my Peyton >Hardy who >lived in Union Parish..have sent some things to this site which were never >used, >or acknowledged....yes, I'm frustrated too!! > >Jan Parsons Armstrong >El Paso, Texas >JArmstr904@aol.com >http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~janarmstrong > > >==== LAUNION Mailing List ==== >List manager >launion-admin@rootsweb.com > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, >go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

Hi Tim and Judy and all, Sorry about the e-mail mix-up. I wrote you after my surgeries & wondered why you didn't answer. They went just fine. They did one eye right before Christmas and one right after. For the first time in my life since I was 7 I had great eyesight without thick glasses! Then my sight started to go again and soon it was just as bad as before the surgeries. The Dr. said, "Oh, no biggie. A few people get the same protein fibers in the tissue that holds the lens in place as those that caused the cataracts." He just went zap-zap-zap in each eye with his little laser and I can see clearly again. Then in May my spouse had gall bladder surgery, and they discovered a hiatal hernia. We're just starting to get a little bit back to normal. I just signed back on the mailing list this week. I just want everyone to know I've sent the 1930 images to Josh and they should be available for the archives very soon. They are also looking for the 1870 transcription that Shawn Martin and her daughter did a couple of years ago ( ! ) and the 1920 transcription that Shawn and I (mostly Shawn) did that same summer. Those should also be available for the archives soon. Shawn and I may have to redo a couple of wards for the 1870, but that shouldn't take too long. I'm truly sorry. I requested to get the archives and the mailing list back after I recovered from the surgeries, but I can't have them back as long as the present volunteer wants them, and he did volunteer to take them when I had to abandon you guys. How are Roy and Sherry and Harold and Gloria and Gaylon and everyone out there doing? I've missed you guys. Karen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hudson, Timothy" <HUDSONT@MAIL.ECU.EDU> To: "'Karen Rice '" <kmrice@mchsi.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 6:45 PM Subject: RE: [LAUNION] Re: LAUNION-D Digest V03 #26 > Hi Karen!!!!!!!!!!! > > It's Tim...how are you? You must have changed email addresses, for last > winter I wrote you to ask how your surgery went and the message didn't get > through. What's going on with you these days. > > I'm fine, but absolutely SICK of the situation with the ARchives site. It is > horrid. He has destroyed it, almost. I volunteered, but they don't respond > to my requests. Not sure if I want to do it, though, even if they offered > (not sure how much time it takes). > > I miss your being the coordinator!!!! > > HOpe you're well. Write when you can. > > Tim > > -----Original Message----- > From: Karen Rice > To: LAUNION-L@rootsweb.com > Sent: 7/1/03 7:40 PM > Subject: Re: [LAUNION] Re: LAUNION-D Digest V03 #26 > > Hi Nancy, > I thought the File Manager for Union Parish was also the moderator of > this > mailing list. Sorry I can't put things on the archives for you anymore, > but > as Bella was my great aunt too I would really like to have a copy of the > letter and newspaper article. I'll gladly pay postage if you don't have > it > in a computer file. > Karen Mabry Rice > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <nwilliford@aol.com> > To: <LAUNION-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 5:03 PM > Subject: [LAUNION] Re: LAUNION-D Digest V03 #26 > > > > I have copy of a letter and a newpaper article on Lizzie Neel Bella > Coplen > > (Copeland) Fomby. I have been trying to have this put on the Union > Par. > site. I > > don't get any answer from anyone. Is there some Fomby that would like > a > copy > > of these items? In the article Bella Fomby was living in Bastrop and > she > was 91 > > years old. Bella Coplen (Copeland) was born Feb. 02, 1871, in Bernice, > LA, > > and died 1968 in Bernice, Union Par. LA. It's a real interesting > article, > she > > tells about traveling in a cover wagon on way from Texas back to > Louisiana. > > nwilliford@aol.com > > > > > > ==== LAUNION Mailing List ==== > > Visit the Union Parish Archives at: > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/la/union.htm > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy > records, > go to: > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > ==== LAUNION Mailing List ==== > Visit the Union Parish Archives at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/la/union.htm > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy > records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

I have had the problem with the site too. I have tried repeatedly to adopt the "Cole" family listed in the first families section, but can never get anyone to reply. I, too, am frustrated with this situation. It is such a good web site, just seems to be missing a little tlc. Judy Cole

Hi Nancy, I thought the File Manager for Union Parish was also the moderator of this mailing list. Sorry I can't put things on the archives for you anymore, but as Bella was my great aunt too I would really like to have a copy of the letter and newspaper article. I'll gladly pay postage if you don't have it in a computer file. Karen Mabry Rice ----- Original Message ----- From: <nwilliford@aol.com> To: <LAUNION-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 5:03 PM Subject: [LAUNION] Re: LAUNION-D Digest V03 #26 > I have copy of a letter and a newpaper article on Lizzie Neel Bella Coplen > (Copeland) Fomby. I have been trying to have this put on the Union Par. site. I > don't get any answer from anyone. Is there some Fomby that would like a copy > of these items? In the article Bella Fomby was living in Bastrop and she was 91 > years old. Bella Coplen (Copeland) was born Feb. 02, 1871, in Bernice, LA, > and died 1968 in Bernice, Union Par. LA. It's a real interesting article, she > tells about traveling in a cover wagon on way from Texas back to Louisiana. > nwilliford@aol.com > > > ==== LAUNION Mailing List ==== > Visit the Union Parish Archives at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/la/union.htm > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

I have had the same exact trouble getting materials loaded on the Union Parish Archives site. Are there others out there who have attempted to contribute materials but never receive a response? Is anyone else as frustrated as I am about this situation? Thanks, Tim Hudson -----Original Message----- From: nwilliford@aol.com To: LAUNION-L@rootsweb.com Sent: 7/1/03 6:03 PM Subject: [LAUNION] Re: LAUNION-D Digest V03 #26 I have copy of a letter and a newpaper article on Lizzie Neel Bella Coplen (Copeland) Fomby. I have been trying to have this put on the Union Par. site. I don't get any answer from anyone. Is there some Fomby that would like a copy of these items? In the article Bella Fomby was living in Bastrop and she was 91 years old. Bella Coplen (Copeland) was born Feb. 02, 1871, in Bernice, LA, and died 1968 in Bernice, Union Par. LA. It's a real interesting article, she tells about traveling in a cover wagon on way from Texas back to Louisiana. nwilliford@aol.com ==== LAUNION Mailing List ==== Visit the Union Parish Archives at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/la/union.htm ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

I have copy of a letter and a newpaper article on Lizzie Neel Bella Coplen (Copeland) Fomby. I have been trying to have this put on the Union Par. site. I don't get any answer from anyone. Is there some Fomby that would like a copy of these items? In the article Bella Fomby was living in Bastrop and she was 91 years old. Bella Coplen (Copeland) was born Feb. 02, 1871, in Bernice, LA, and died 1968 in Bernice, Union Par. LA. It's a real interesting article, she tells about traveling in a cover wagon on way from Texas back to Louisiana. nwilliford@aol.com

Concord Cemetery is indeed located 3 miles west of Marion on Union Parish Road #6202. Several Calloways buried there, including Abner J. Tim Hudson -----Original Message----- From: Doc Calloway To: LAUNION-L@rootsweb.com Sent: 6/30/03 7:43 PM Subject: [LAUNION] Concord Cemetery Is there a cemetery in Union Parish Called Concord, I can't find out any details of it, I have visited a cemetery which is about 4 or 5 miles west of Marion. Maybe there another name. Am trying to find out more about it. Doc ==== LAUNION Mailing List ==== Visit the Union Parish Archives at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/la/union.htm ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

Is there a cemetery in Union Parish Called Concord, I can't find out any details of it, I have visited a cemetery which is about 4 or 5 miles west of Marion. Maybe there another name. Am trying to find out more about it. Doc

Dear Mr. Callaway, That 160 acres is located roughly 8 miles east of Farmerville, just south of present-day Highway 2. If you know where the Ward's Chapel Road intersects with Highway 2, this land is precisely one mile south of that intersection. Tim Hudson -----Original Message----- From: Doc Calloway To: LAUNION-L@rootsweb.com Sent: 6/29/03 10:17 PM Subject: [LAUNION] Land Records Just noticed a location in Union Parish, I also have one of a homestead for my grandfather issued in 1862. Can someone locate this area for me? The location given from the register of Land Office is: West half of the Southeast quarter and the South half of the North east quarter of section nine in township twenty North of range two east of Louisiana Meridian in Louisiana containing one hundred and fifty nine acres and eighty one hundredth of an acre. Doc Calloway ==== LAUNION Mailing List ==== List manager launion-admin@rootsweb.com ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

Just noticed a location in Union Parish, I also have one of a homestead for my grandfather issued in 1862. Can someone locate this area for me? The location given from the register of Land Office is: West half of the Southeast quarter and the South half of the North east quarter of section nine in township twenty North of range two east of Louisiana Meridian in Louisiana containing one hundred and fifty nine acres and eighty one hundredth of an acre. Doc Calloway

Dena, That land was two miles west of Marion, making it in Ward 2. Unlike Arkansas, Louisiana parishes were not subdivided by the local governments into named townships, but rather into numbered wards. So if you are searching for these people in a census, 1850-1930, you should search through Ward 2. Best wishes, Tim Hudson -----Original Message----- From: JUNEIRENE@aol.com To: LAUNION-L@rootsweb.com Sent: 6/29/03 4:32 PM Subject: [LAUNION] Land Records Greetings All, Can anyone tell me the name of the township in Union Parish, LA. this land was located in? SESW & NESE, Sec. 17, Twp 22-N, Range 2-E? This is where Thomas Brantley purchased land on Sept 1, 1852. Thanks millions! Dena Calbert-Jordan Pittsburg, California ==== LAUNION Mailing List ==== Visit the Union Parish Archives at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/la/union.htm ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237