I have been asked to tell about the Potato Story that Arelia "Shorty" Breed shared with me. Hope Tim will not mind if I use some of his space to tell this story. She was working on the old records that had never been index when she discovered someone had stored potatoes in the basement of the Union Parish Court House. They were really old and did not smell very good either. She was not pleased at the thought of what they could be doing to the old documents either so she cleaned the place up. She said they had been down there for decades. We wrote every single day for the last four or five years of her life. Sometimes she could pull my string like no other, when she wanted information she thought I had or could get. Sometimes we would both start digging to see who could find the data first. That was so much fun. Once, Doc Henderson beat us both. He laughed and laughed at us. Sadly, all the people I corresponded with are now deceased. I hope I can make some new friends. With my new medication my health is pretty good now. I think I am ready to get back into Union Parish research on a limited basis. I'm not ready to fight any rattle snakes or alligators like the ones you guys were talking about yesterday because they scare me to death. However, cemeteries are my passion. My grandfather always called the old Frazier/Frasier Cemetery on Hwy. 33 the Old Feazel Cemetery because that was what it was when he was a kid. he said it was very large back in the late 1800s and early 1900s. That is where Margaret Pehr and old George Feazel were buried. John Feazel inherited the land and left it to his son, John Feazel who left it to his son Hale Feazel. He left it to the Brazier/Frazier heirs. Redden Creek was also once Feazel Creek. If you look in a lot of the old Land documents you will find it described as Feazel Creek in many of them. Arelia Breed first called this to my attention. So much for the past. Hope all of you are having a happy 2005. Tim, I hope I didn't take too much of your space on my chit chat. Sherry

Thanks for sharing this story. It's people like Arelia who make our genealogy research easy. Wish I had known her. Sandra Van Wyk ----- Original Message ----- From: <Sher4507@aol.com> To: <LAUNION-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, January 03, 2005 5:18 PM Subject: Re: [Union Parish LA] Trip to Union Parish > I have been asked to tell about the Potato Story that Arelia "Shorty" Breed > shared with me. Hope Tim will not mind if I use some of his space to tell > this story. > > She was working on the old records that had never been index when she > discovered someone had stored potatoes in the basement of the Union Parish > Court House. They were really old and did not smell very good either. She > was not pleased at the thought of what they could be doing to the old > documents either so she cleaned the place up. She said they had been down > there for decades. > > We wrote every single day for the last four or five years of her life. > Sometimes > she could pull my string like no other, when she wanted information she > thought > I had or could get. Sometimes we would both start digging to see who could > find the > data first. That was so much fun. Once, Doc Henderson beat us both. He > laughed > and laughed at us. > > Sadly, all the people I corresponded with are now deceased. I hope I can make > some > new friends. With my new medication my health is pretty good now. I think I > am ready > to get back into Union Parish research on a limited basis. I'm not ready to > fight any > rattle snakes or alligators like the ones you guys were talking about > yesterday because > they scare me to death. However, cemeteries are my passion. > > My grandfather always called the old Frazier/Frasier Cemetery on Hwy. 33 the > Old > Feazel Cemetery because that was what it was when he was a kid. he said it > was > very large back in the late 1800s and early 1900s. That is where Margaret > Pehr and > old George Feazel were buried. John Feazel inherited the land and left it to > his son, > John Feazel who left it to his son Hale Feazel. He left it to the > Brazier/Frazier heirs. > Redden Creek was also once Feazel Creek. If you look in a lot of the old Land > documents > you will find it described as Feazel Creek in many of them. Arelia Breed > first called > this to my attention. > > So much for the past. Hope all of you are having a happy 2005. Tim, I hope I > didn't > take too much of your space on my chit chat. > Sherry >