Hi, gang, One new obit tonight - James L. Burns, Sep. 15, 2000 - thanks to Ann Pearson. Also, I have never kept track of who is new on this list and welcomed them before, and I'm not guaranteeing that I'm starting now - but I just want to make note that we do have a new member who lives in Union Parish - Mary A. Williams, and I invited her to share her info with us, but I'm going to just steal the march on her and copy what she wrote me earlier here: "I just joined the Union Parish mailing list. I didn't even know anything like this existed and I just happened on it while searching for something else at work. I was into geneology real heavy while I was laid off work for 6 months in 1979 and did most of my research then. Since that time I have not really had much time to do anything else with it. My brother in Indiana just completed a trace on our mother's side of the family from Desoto Parish. He had been working with me on our father's side years ago and we hit a dead end with our great-grandfather-A. A. Carroll. We had heard that he was a marshall or some type of law officer in Marion and that he was "waylaid" on his way home and ambushed and killed and two brothers were killed at the same time. I am not sure of the exact circumstances. We saw the gravesites of the two brothers who each died on the same day as our great-grandfather, but we do not know much about anything else. My father (Robert Lee Carroll) only knew what he had heard from his father (Robert Garland Carroll) and didn't remember much about it. Do you know Mary (Mrs. Gordon) Day? She was a Carroll, I believe. It has been so long since I worked on this I can't remember all the connections. I am related to Vera Thomas and Maggie Langston-on my grandmother's (Mary Willie Kenley) side. I had a great-uncle, Carl Carroll, who had a store between Huttig and Marion somewhere close to Litroe. I remember as a child riding down there and you could see the where the old railroad crossed by the old location of the store." Seems to me like I've heard the lawman story somewhere before - can anyone help her out here? Welcome, Mary. Some of us visit Union Parish occasionally, some of us have never set foot there, and some few of us live there - but we all have roots there and we all help each other out as much as possible. Karen Mabry Rice, USGenWeb Archives Coordinator Union Parish, Lousiana http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/la/union.htm Rootsweb Listowner, LAUNION-L & MABRY-L