East Carroll Parish, Louisiana Genealogy

Dr. Boothe and Mrs. Clarice Nelson Boothe, Lake Providence, La.

EAST CARROLL’S TOURNAMENT OF KNIGHTS Ring tournaments began before 1860 and lasting till @ 1900, becoming old fashioned.     “ A PLACE T...

HERNANDO DESOTO BURIED IN EAST CARROLL PARISH? East Carroll Delta News, Aug. 5, 1965 "According to some evidence, when DeSoto...

"CICERO AND COLUMBUS" 2nd Regiment Arkansas Cavalry, Co. C. (May 15, 1862) A cavalry company formed in Providence, Carroll P...

ALFRED J. LUTHER, SGT. AT GRANT’S CANAL Alfred J. Luther enlisted, in Missouri, on May 30, 1861 in Company A of the 1st Kansas Infantry...

                          Choctaw Indian Removal in 1831            Lake Providence’s Trail of Tears Note: This summary was prepared f...

"Another Negro Outrage" [Printed as it was written] The Vicksburgh Times, of the 22d ult., gives the particulars of a recent murd...

Amelia Williams compiled about 400 names of persons to have fought at the Alamo, but contemporary authority has practically agreed that the...

BOOKS! BOOKS! BOOKS! BOOKS !BOOKS! BOOKS! BOOKS! I have compiled several books that are typed out excerpts, or the originals, from the c...

Sept. 5, 1896 The Bryan and Sewall Club.—The Democrats of East Carroll Parish, Louisiana, organized on this the 31 st day of August, ...

August 15, 1896 Banner-Democrat newspaper On the 25 th of July there died in Greenville one whose life contained much of the dramatic...

I really don't want to spill the beans right now, but would like to have YOUR input on some information for a project I am trying to get...

Here are a couple of posts, stories out of the East Carroll Delta Newspaper in the mid 1960's.  It was a regular column that brought ou...

Nov. 18, 1965 East Carroll Democrat Newspaper by Unk Nook Hello Folks, I am going to share a secret with you but you must not tell a sou...

Henry Clay Lewis was a doctor who lived on the Tensas River, Madison Parish, not to far from Lake Providence, in northeast Louisiana. He enc...

..."Telling the people that I would not return unless they sent for me, and the sun being low, I mounted my horse and dashed off for ho...

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"According to the Richmond Compiler , the Louisiana Race Course was opened in Richmond early iun 1842. H. E. Downes, proprietor , annou...

Presidents of the Lake Providence Rotary Club East Carroll Delta News Nov. 4, 1965 From the original 27 members who on January 8, 1936 initi...

East Carroll Delta News - October 21, 1965 As soon as the funeral services at the new-made grave of Col. Thomas Jefferson Randolph was conc...

Interesting East Carroll History: East Carroll Delta News , Aug. 5, 1965 “According to some evidence, when DeSoto discovered and crossed the...

East Carroll Delta News, July 22, 1965 "Looking at the large aerial photograph-map of Lake Hall Plantation owned by George T. Hider, a ...