The families that I am researching are POWELL, COPLEN, BRITTON, and MOORE, and all lived in the Shiloh area. My Powell family settled in Union Parish in the 1870's. My ggg grand parents were William J Powell and Mary Elizabeth Britton. Mary died, and William married Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Edwards (nee Howell) in 1879 and moved to Texas the same year, leaving 2 of his unmarried children in Louisiana and taking one with him. My gg gf, John Thomas Powell, was married to Ida May Fuller, then Annie Eliza Coplen, and finally Nina Shaw. The first two wives died young after two or three years of marriage. John Thomas Powell moved his family to Texas in the mid-late 1890's. Gaylon L Powell Austin TX