Happy New Year, everyone! I hope you all had a nice holiday season. This is the first 2005 update to the Union Parish Archives. As usual, I have a backlog of photographs to load (never enough hours in the day!), and we have more cemetery surveys coming soon from Mary Anne Williams & Gene Barron. I'll try to work on these soon, but in the meantime, here is a list of all other new material since the last update: ------------- New Succession Transcription from Shawn Martin: Washington C. Auld 1862 - 1864 http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/union/court/auld-wc.txt ------------ New Cemetery Surveys from Mary Anne Williams: ++ Union Grove Cemetery ++ Pilgrim's Rest Cemetery ++ Old Tennessee Cemetery ++ Concord Cemetery http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/la/union/cemeteries.htm ------------ Port Union Cemetery Survey from Kelby Ouchley: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/union/cemeteries/portunion.txt ------------ Miscellaneous 1865 - 1910 Newspaper Articles about Union Parish ++ 1865 Political Meeting in Union Parish ++ 1865 Election Results ++ 1865 Phoney Tax Collector Swindles Mrs. Feazel ++ 1866 Steamboats serving Union Parish ++ 1866 Debut of the "Union Record" ++ 1866 Accident involving the steamer "Victoria" at Farmerville Landing ++ 1866 Election Results ++ 1866 Capt. Ames of the steamer "Victoria" disappears ++ 1866 Freedmen Problems in Farmerville ++ 1866 George W. Everett becomes Cotton Agent with New Orleans firm ++ 1869 Dr. Milner exposes Jackson Parish political corruption ++ 1869 Confederate Soldier Dixon finally released from Yankee prison ++ 1869 "Union Record" Editor Mims vs. Horace Greeley ++ 1870 Steamboats serving Bayou D'Arbonne ++ 1870 "Union Record" Edited now by Thomas C. Lewis & Co. ++ 1870 Louisiana Reconstruction Governor Warmoth visits Farmerville ++ 1895 killing of Simon Stein by his brother-in-law Sam Blum ++ 1910 attempted murder of Farmerville Town Marshal Leander Ward http://ftp.rootsweb.com/%7Eusgenweb/la/union/newspapers/articles.htm ------------ Military Newspaper Article: 1865 return of Colonel Charles H. Morrison to Monroe http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/union/military/1865morrison.txt ------------ New Obituaries: ++ 1852 death of John N. Farmer in California (former Union Parish police juror) from Pauline Mobley ++ 1853 death of Rev. John H. Hines in Farmerville (Methodist minister) from Pauline Mobley ++ 1860 death of Georgianna Williams Auld of Union Parish from Pauline Mobley ++ 1869 death notice of Charles Heard, murdered by Daniel Lee near Shiloh from Dorothy Taylor http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/la/union/obituaries.htm ------------ Tim Hudson http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/la/union.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~launion/ _________________________________________________________________ Dont just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/