This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EEB.2ACE/189.316.334 Message Board Post: I'm a Gideon and Appalonia descendent through daughter Lethann...can help if you're still looking....

I'm looking for information on a Michael Kelly who aquired land from Seth COOPER in 1903 in Vernon Parish, LA. Harold Gosnell

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EEB.2ACE/189.316.333.351.1 Message Board Post: I am of the Gideon & Appalonia Johnson Line. #1- do you have any info differentiating the different Johnson's in that area? #2 Do you have any info on Appalonia's parents, Robert & Levisa(Louisa?)? Please email...

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EEB.2ACE/437.609 Message Board Post: Have you had any success? I'm a descendent of this family thru Jessie W. Dyal & daughter Lucinda....please email

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Marcus and Belvin Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/EEB.2ACE/644.3 Message Board Post: I have found, thru family records, that Curtis Marcus, born in Hornbeck, La. in either 1903 or 1906, is the son of Mrs. S. D. Belvin, who, I believe, was living in Hornbeck or surrounding area in the early 1940's. Anyone who may have any info of the Belvin Family . .. it would be most appreciated if you could help me.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bray Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EEB.2ACE/784 Message Board Post: BRAY family: Looking for a missing Bray mother who gave birth to a boy in Shreveport Charity Hospital August 1929/30, being very young she gave this child away-no legal adpotion was performed. Any information at all can be helpful & can be e-mailed to me at SkilletLPN@aol. com THANK YOU!

Does anyone have any information on Seth H. Cooper who aquired land in what is now Vernon Parish, La., in 1903 accrding to the BLM site. Harold Gosnell

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: DeBlieux Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EEB.2ACE/783.1 Message Board Post: This is an interesting story of an McAlpin in Natchitoches Parish. According to Lyle Saxon in “Old Louisiana”, Lamy Chopin spent a few years in Europe in school, then returned to his fathers plantation. Robert McAlpin was the original owner of the 4800 acres plantation on the Red River which was described by Harriet Beecher Stowe in Uncle Tom’s Cabin. McAlpin’s body-servant was called “Uncle Tom.” Saxon wrote, “It was said that Harriet Beecher had visited McAlpin in 1840 or thereabouts, and had visited others in the neighborhood. At any event, a strange lady from the north had come to the Red River country and had been seen talking with the negroes in the fields, riding on the cotton wagons, watching the operations of the cottin-gin. A man in the town of Alexandria produced a picture said to be a portrait of Mrs. Stowe, and which bore the stamp of a photographer of Alexandria. A copy of Uncle Tom’s Cabin autographed by the author and bearing the cryptic statement: Do you! recognize this? Was sent to Dr. S. O. Scruggs of Cloutierville. Dr. Scruggs was a neighbor of McAlpin’s…In 1892, forty years after McAlpin’s death, Judge D. B. Corley of Abilene, Texas, made a pilgrimage to the McAlpin plantation, located the cabin which had once housed the old negro called “Uncle Tom,” bo8ght the cabin from its owner, Mr. Lammy Chopin, and transported it bodily to the World’s Fair in Chicago!”…Judge Corley took a few affidavits. The first one is by Mr. Lammy Chopin, the son of J. B. Chopin, who bought the plantation at McAlpin’s succession sale. Mr. Lammy Chopon is living on the place now, but has built a new house, because a railroad has bought right-of-way through the plantation and the track passes close to the old McAlpin house. The affidavit follows: My name is L. Chopin. I am forty-two years old and was born and raised in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana. In the year 1852, my father bought at public sale the Robert McAlpin plantation, situated on Red River in the southern portion of the parish, and moved upon the place shortly afterward. The occasion of the plantation being sold was on account of McAlpin’s death. He being a bachelor, the estate was wound up and the proceeds distributed among distant relatives. Outside of a few years spent in Europe at school, I have lived on this plantation all my life and until the Texas and Pacific Railroad ran through the place I lived in the old McAlpin residence. A portion now runs through it; the balance of the building is used as a section house. When my father first moved on the place, or at least a few years afterward, he had one of the two rows of China trees cut down because it made too dense a shade. After I assumed control of the place at my father’s death, I continued the work he had begun-tearing down and removing the cabins in the negro quarters-as it smacked too much of slavery. The negroes preferred living in different parts of the plantation, rather than in a group. The only cabin remaining is the cabin known as “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” This I have kept intact and have religiously kept it on account of the tradition connected with it, which makes it the cabin that Uncle Tom occupied on the Legree plantation. Tradition has it that McAlpin was the Legree of Mrs. Stowe’s book. From all reports of white and black, he was a very cruel master to his slaves, and when drunk would abuse them dreadfully and is said to have caused the death of several of them. He was a very hard drinker and died from the effects of drink. He was buried on a little hill near the residence, and his grave can still be seen there, although very much dilapidated. His name is the only white man’s grave there; the place has always been and is still used as a plantation burial ground, and quite a number of negroes are buried around his grave. When quite young I knew the place as the Legree plantation and the cabin as Uncle Tom’s; and the fact is well known, not only here, but all over the country, as I have received many letters from different states, asking for pieces of boards from the cabin to be kept as relics. For years I have kept the cabin for the sake of its association with Mrs. Stowe’s book, without any thought of it ever being of any money value and without a thought of its ever being moved from the plantation, but lately I have been approached by parties from Chicago and New York who have offered to buy the cabin with the view of bringing it to the World’s Fair at Chicago. Those offers I refused, and refused at first to entertain any idea of its being moved to Chicago. But repeated representations were made to me that such a cabin, so closely connected with such a well-known book as “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” was in a manner public property and the opportunity should be given to everybody to see it. The document is singed by L. Chopin, and is sworn out before the district clerk on October 15, 1892.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hughes, Kay, Moss, May and Anders Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/EEB.2ACE/124.1 Message Board Post: I have info on Eli Kay and family. my grand mother was a Kay married to a Hughes in Vernon Parish..Also have all the children of Eli and Aletha Mae Moss..

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/EEB.2ACE/783 Message Board Post: Looking for information on the McAlpin's of Vernon Parish. Also looking for information on Company B, 17th Louisiana Infantry from Sabine Parish

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EEB.2ACE/34.290.558.1.1 Message Board Post: Good morning! Thank you for replying to my request for more information on the O'Banion family in Leesville, LA. Unfortunately, I do not have any information. Helen O'Banion was my maternal grandmother, I got as much information from her regarding her family history as I could before she passed but unfortunately, she did not know a lot about her ancestors or relatives in general. I know that her father was Alfred O'Banion and his parents were Abraham and Susan O'Banion. I know that Alfred was born in 1896; Abraham, 1860, and Susan 1865. That is where I become lost. I haven't been able to go back to the Clayton Library in Houston where I got the information on her grandparents, all I know is that they were in Vernon parrish at the time of the 1900 census and that Alfred was born there. Helen also had two sisters named Sadie and Jenny. Do you have any of these names any where on your family tree? If so, any information that you could forward to me would be greatly apprecia! ted. Thank you, Michelle Tonge

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/EEB.2ACE/34.290.558.1 Message Board Post: Hi, my name is Don O'Banion and working on the O'Banion name and have a lot of kin fokes in and around Leesville,La. I would like to swap info with you, There are a lot of Stevens connected with the O'Banion's in and around Leesville.La. I have been told there is a O'Banion-Stevens Family Reunion there in leesville each year. If you have any info on that, plasee send that also. Three years ago I was gokng to Bever Creek, La where a my Dad was born and came by and had lunch with Murphy O'Banion who ran the Texaco Dist there. Any info will help . Thanks, Don O'Banion don128@tri-lakes.net

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/EEB.2ACE/644.1 Message Board Post: Buzz: My name is Karen Alma Marcus Mason . . . you have posted a message regarding my father, too. I was born in 1942 to Maxine Bull Marcus and Curtis Marcus, who was born in Hornbeck, Louisiana, and was 37 years of age when I was born. Where are you located? How old are you? I am their only child of that union . . . you must be my half-brother . . . I would like very much to receive a reply from you . . . I do not know anyone related to my father, Curtis Marcus. Karen Marcus Mason

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: MARTIN, GOINS, HILLMAN Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EEB.2ACE/772.1 Message Board Post: Hi Kaye, There is at least one cemetery in Rosepine, perhaps more. The one that I know is OLD CYPRESS. It's listed as CYPRESS, OLD. Here's how to get to it and others. Connect to the internet. In the search box, type in USGENWEB. Click on USGENWEBPROJECT, then USGENWEB TOMBSTONE PROJECT. Next, VIEW THE REGISTRY, then LOUISIANA. Now VERNON PARISH. Go to CYPRESS, OLD. I hope you find everyone you are looking for. Good luck.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cole Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/EEB.2ACE/781 Message Board Post: Seeking information on William J. Cole b. 1868-1874. Born in Louisiana, moved to Texas and on to Oklahoma in the early 1900's. Thanks

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McCollough/Deason Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/EEB.2ACE/666.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Would like to contact you about your Deason family line. I show a Zeimanson McCollough married to a Nancy ??. Just so happens your Dorothea Francis Ophelia Deason had a sister named Nancy J. Deason and she also had a daughter named Nancy Keener. Please e-mail me at jamesgw@aol.com. Interested in both Deason and McCollough lines.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McCollough Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/EEB.2ACE/666.1.1.4 Message Board Post: Message concerning Z. McCollough, could your Z. McCollough be Zeimanson McCollough buried in the Lewis Cemetery DeRidder, Louisiana. Please e-mail at jamesgw@aol.com

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McCollough Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/EEB.2ACE/666.1.1.3 Message Board Post: Message concerning Z. McCollough, could your Z. McCollough be Zeimanson McCollough buried in the Lewis Cemetery DeRidder, Louisiana. Please e-mail at jamesgw@aol.com

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: White, Johnson, Gill, Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EEB.2ACE/780 Message Board Post: I am trying to find anyone who will have information about my grandmother's husband. He was buried in a cemetery in Natchez, Mississippi. His name was William Thomas White or Thomas William White. They called him Tommy White. He was married to Parlie White. She is buried in Drakes Fork cemetery.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: White, Johnson, Gill, Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EEB.2ACE/779 Message Board Post: I am trying to find anyone who will have information about my grandmother's husband. He was buried in a cemetery in Natchez, Mississippi. His name was William Thomas White or Thomas William White. They called him Tommy White. He was married to Parlie White. She is buried in Drakes Fork cemetery.