Hello All You Cousins Out There, My Union Parish connections are both sides - both maternal and paternal. Here is a beginning of my maternal side. Let me know if any of you connect with any of these lines: James Doster, born February 11, 1780 in SC married in about 1798 in Wilkes County GA Sarah Hollis, born about 1775 also in SC. They had 11 children, 9 females and 2 males. Perella Doster born March 26, 1816 in GA married Martin Hardin (born about 1817 in SC) on December 22, 1841 in Tallapoosa County, AL. Mary Ellen Hardin born in July 1852 in Alabama married Marion P. Raborn (born August 1852 in Union Parish) on December 20, 1870. Nancy Ellen Raborn born February 8, 1883 in Union Parish married Thomas Jefferson Howell (born March 27, 1863 in Union Parish) on January 21, 1900. >From this union were born 7 children, 5 females and 2 males. Berdell Howell born December 6, 1913 married Joe Add Norris (born April 11, 1911 in Union County AR) on January 14, 1933. >From this union were born 4 children, 3 females and 1 male. Helen Ruth Norris was born in Union Parish on December 21, 1935, married Arthur Lee Stout (born May 14, 1934 in Friendswood, Galveston, Texas) in Galveston County, TX on March 31,1956. Will send a more complete descendancy chart at a later date. Thanks for the information I have gleaned in such a short time from this list. Ruth Stout