My mother, Edna Matthews Liggin, lived in Union Parish and did a lot of research into the families of that area. I have been slowly going through her files and notes. As we are descended from Mary Edmunds Tabor Lee she has lots of notes on the Edmunds family. I noticed that this name has appeared in several of the lists of researcher on this list. I have begun going through and typing my mother's notes and thought I would post them in here as I type. Doing it a little at a time. Maradee Liggin Cryer [Diary of Leonaidas P. Spyker] >From the diary of Leonaidas P. Spyker who brought his family from Bossier parish in 1857 to New Hope Plantation in Morehouse in January of that year. The 10th of January found them at Shiloh, with clear cold weather. He had gone ahead from their camp 7 miles west of Shiloh to get his buggy repaired which had again broken. He was nearly frozen when he got to Shiloh where he sought out a cake shop, then went on to Cornie about 3 p.m. and found the boat half full of water, ice and snow. This detained them until nearly sundown. They then camped half a mile east of Cornie, the night clear and pleasant. Two children were sick and had traveled 20 miles that day. On the return trip Jan. 30th, he wrote “Friday, cold and cloudy and with a tolerable early start, reached Harper’s about 10 a.m., halted a few moments and came to Edmond’s where we lunched and reached Shiloh about 4 p.m. We expected to stay but were disappointed and had to drive hard five miles to Edmond’s where we stayed all night in the same room with his family about 16 in one room. Thirty one miles that day. (This was again when he was traveling east on his second trip. It seems from the two different mentions of Edmonds both times, both east and west of Shiloh, there must have been two different branches of the family he knew real well, and used these two Edmonds families as stopping places.)