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I finally got 5 of the six of my books finished! I have them done! The 1st book is the only one that is indexed, but if you can send me the surnames you are interested in I can do a search in them to see if your family's names you are researching are there and send a list to you.
This series of "Murder, Mayhem, & Misc. of East Carroll Parish, La." excerpts are from the local newspapers from the years 1866 to 1928. As you will see, there is many hardships along with the joyous of occasions taken an placed within these pages. There is even what some call the "gossip columns", but they are much much more; there were the town meetings, church goings, hunting trips, the yellow fever epidemics, floods, plantation BarBQues, births, deaths, marriages, entertainments, etc., etc. I could go on and on the subjects which is contained in these books. Below is a list of the years that are contained in each book, and the number of pages in each.
Book I. "Murder, Mayhem, & Misc. of Carroll Parish, Louisiana", is from the years 1866 thru 1876, right after the Civil War. The parish seat was in Floyd until the division of the parish into the 'East' and 'West' parishes, with the division line being the Mason Bayou in 1877. This book is 308 pages.
Book II. "Murder, Mayhem, & Misc. of East Carroll Parish, La. II". It's excerpts are from the years 1877 - 1888, over 275 pages.
Book III. "Murder, Mayhem, & Misc. of East Carroll Parish, La. III", excerpts from 1889 - 1891, over 250 pages.
Book IV. It covers 1892 - 1895, and contains 1892 map sections of the town of Lake Providence. The book is 365 pages plus.
Book V. It will cover years 1896 thru 1899.
Book VI. "Murder, Mayhem, & Misc. of E. Carroll Parish,La. VI" contains 200 pages. It covers 1904 - 1906 and 1918 - 1928, issues where somewhat scarce during this time period.
Sandra Guthrie Moore
morechev@ipa.net
Sandra, I know the Ouachita Parish Public Library's Genealogy Department is interested in the books after Volume 1, which we already have. How can we get the others? My personal e-mail is loradpeppers at hotmail dot com.
ReplyDeleteI am interested in the Bass families of Carroll parish. I know that Abraham Bass owned a few large plantations in that area,Email me at bassv@yahoo.com.
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