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VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV Free Inhabitants 1850 Census of DeSoto Parish, Louisiana FOOTNOTES: Please refer to the reference numbers at the left margin in the census files, pg0325.txt and pg0367.txt 1 JAMES W. PARSONS established and edited the Mansfield Advertiser in April 1849. 2 JULIA H. PARSON is listed in the 1860 census of DeSoto Parish, Louisiana as a schoolteacher, apparently a widow and born in Tennessee rather than Louisiana. 3 WILSON GODFREY enlisted as a private in Company B of the 1st Battalion Louisiana Infantry (State Guards) at Mansfield, Louisiana on March 5, 1863. He was promoted to Surgeon of the 1st Battalion of Louisiana State Troops on June 6, 1863. WILSON GODFREY enlisted as a private in Company B of the 28th Louisiana Infantry Regiment (Thomas') on March 29, 1862 in New Orleans. He was discharged by order of General Lovell on May 10, 1862 because of his age and physical disability. 4 REUBEN MUNDY was the Mayor of Mansfield in 1857. 5 E. GREEN BETTS was the Parish Coroner in 1851. 6 WILLIAM H. TERRELL 7 ABNER R. MITCHELL was the Parish Coroner and the Mayor of Mansfield in 1850. 8 GEORGE H. SUTHERLIN was born on December 9, 1830 and died on October 30, 1895. He served as a Second Lieutenant in Company F of the 24th Louisiana Infantry Regiment. He also served in Company D of the 11th Battalion of Louisiana Infantry and Company F of the Consolidated Crescent Regiment. He is buried in the Mansfield Cemetery in DeSoto Parish, Louisiana. [Confederate Service Records; Headstone Inscriptions] 9 By 1860, JOHN WEMPLE had become a planter. The Mortality Schedule for DeSoto Parish in 1850 contains an entry that MARY A. WEMPLE, aged twenty-eight and born in Alabama, died in August of consumption. 10 WILLIAM LONG was appointed DeSoto District Court Clerk in 1843 and served through 1845. He was also the first Post Master at Mansfield. [Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana (The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago and Nashville, 1890)] 11 JOHN W. BROWN was a member of the Pleasant Hill Masonic Lodge in 1850. 12 Frank Miller was born in Prussia. 13 WILLIAM McMICHAEL was the DeSoto Parish Recorder. 14 Mary Carr is listed as Mary A. Carr in the 1860 census of DeSoto Parish, Louisiana. 15 ROBERT T. CARR became the Sheriff of DeSoto Parish in 1868. 16 John J. Clow served as DeSoto Parish Coroner in 1847. 17 Robert T. Gibbs arrived in DeSoto Parish in 1850 and located in the town of Mansfield to practice medicine where he was one of the first physicians in the village. He graduated from the University of Virginia and Jefferson University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and practiced medicine in Alexandria, Virginia before moving to Louisiana. He married Elizabeth K. Douglass in Alexandria. During the war with Mexico in 1846 and the War for Southern Independence, he served as a surgeon. He was an Episcopalian and an early member of the church in Mansfield. He died in 1887. His son, R. T. Gibbs, in later years operated a drug store in Mansfield and was a member of the city council. [Memoirs of NW La] 18 MICHAEL G. PEARSON was killed on May 26, 1864 while serving as Captain of the DeSoto Creoles (Company H) in the 19th Louisiana Infantry Regiment. He became Captain in 1862 when Joshua L. Logan resigned his commission. 19 JAMES L. TERRELL joined the 2nd Louisiana Infantry and served until the end of the war. He was discharged at Natchitoches, Louisiana. 20 JAMES TERRELL is listed as James E. in the 1860 census of DeSoto Parish. 21 THOMAS P. McCALLA enlisted in Company A of the 11th Battalion Louisiana Infantry on May 3, 1862 at Mansfield at the age of twenty years. He was born in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana. Thomas was captured on board the Queen of the West at Grand Lake, Louisiana on April 14, 1863. He is described as five feet six inches tall, brown hair and light completed. [Muster Roll of the 11the Battalion of Louisiana Infantry] 22 SAMUEL F. SMITH was the Parish Recorder in 1854. 23 In 1861, GEORGE DRAUGHON was appointed as the Confederate Post Master at Mansfield and continued in that position until 1866 when the United States Post Office was established under the control of the occupying Union Army. 24 SILAS PHIFER enlisted in Company D of the 11th Battalion of Louisiana Infantry on November 6, 1862 at Camp Shelley, Louisiana as a substitute for W. J. Edwards. [Muster Roll of the 11th Battalion of Louisiana Infantry] 25 THOMAS PHIFER is recorded as Thomas H. in the 1860 Census of DeSoto Parish, Louisiana. 26 JOHN W. MUNDAY was born on August 14, 1802 and died on April 17, 1865 at Mansfield, Louisiana. He moved to Mansfield in 1842, the year the town was founded. The Mundays were members of the Baptist Church in Mansfield. 27 ANN STEADMAN was born on January 17, 1823 and died on August 29, 1891. 28 ANNA M. MUNDAY married Thomas Augustus Guy. 29 JOHN WALKER MUNDAY served in the 9th Louisiana Infantry Regiment in Virginia and was killed during the war. 30 LEROY MUNDAY served in the Confederate Army in Virginia and was wounded at the battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. 31 MARGARET STEDMAN MUNDAY was born on March 13, 1828 in Selma, Dallas County, Alabama and died on February 4, 1928 in Shreveport, Louisiana. She was educated at the Mansfield Female Academy and on October 27, 1867 married John Lytle Scales of Williamson County, Tennessee, a Confederate veteran who served in the 2nd Louisiana Infantry Regiment in Virginia. John Scales practiced law in Mansfield after the war. 32 In January 1850, Dr. William A. Pegues recorded in his diary that he bought from "Carruth and Persons" boots, pocketknife, girth, shirting, handkerchiefs, plug tobacco, thread and shirt buttons. 33 CHARLES STUART PEGUES moved to Louisiana about 1844 and settled six miles south of Mansfield on a large tract of land. He was born Marlboro District, South Carolina. Pegues was among the earliest settlers in the region and he died in 1875. He acquired considerable wealth, including nearly 100 slaves, served on the DeSoto Parish Police Jury and was a Confederate soldier during the latter part of the War for Southern Independence. [Memoirs of NW La] 34 MARY FRANCES GUY moved to DeSoto Parish in 1848 from Dallas County, Alabama. She was the daughter of Thomas T. Guy and Mary W. Greening and the brother of Samuel E. Guy, Thomas Augustus Guy and Elizabeth Guy who married Dr. William A. Pegues. Mary Frances was born on January 1, 1828 and died on August 20, 1913. 35 MARY FRANCES PEGUES was born in 1848 and died in 1897. She married Allen P. Page. 36 ANN LINDSAY PEGUES was the widow of Malachi Pegues who died shortly after arrived in DeSoto Parish, Louisiana from Alabama where she had lived since 1832. Ann was born on October 13, 1805 and died on September 27, 1873 and is buried in the Mansfield Cemetery in DeSoto Parish. 37 SAMUEL L. PEGUES is listed as an operator of a livery stable in the 1860 Census of DeSoto Parish, Louisiana. He enlisted in Company D of the 11th Battalion of Louisiana Infantry on March 1, 1863 at Mansfield, Louisiana. [Muster Roll of the 11th Battalion of Louisiana Infantry] 38 CLAUDIUS M. PEGUES became an attorney. 39 CATHERINE PEGUES is recorded as Charlotte Pegues in the 1860 Census of DeSoto Parish, Louisiana. 40 JAMES WELSH was a judge and presided over the first session of the Desoto Police Jury on June 5, 1843. The Mortality Schedule for DeSoto Parish in 1850 contains an entry that Eliza Welch, age thirty and born in Louisiana, died in July 1850 of typhoid fever. An additional entry notes the death of James C. Welch, aged four years, died of typhoid fever in February 1850. 41 WILLIAM ALLEN PEGUES was born on November 24, 1820 in Chesterfield District, South Carolina and died on March 27, 1858 in DeSoto Parish, Louisiana. He was the son of Claudius M. Pegues and the grandson of William Pegues and Sarah Speed of Marlboro County, South Carolina. Pegues was a physician migrated to Louisiana from Wilcox County, Alabama in January 1848. He kept a diary of his early business and professional activities in DeSoto Parish in which are recorded the names of many early settlers in the parish. [Headstone Inscription] 42 ELIZABETH GUY was the daughter of Thomas T. Guy. She moved to DeSoto Parish in 1848 from Dallas County, Alabama. 43 Francis Pegues died on August 24, 1850, three days after this census was taken. She is buried in the Pegues Family cemetery in DeSoto Parish. 44 Family number 092 was not used in this census. 45 PETER SHEARER published Logansport Advertiser newspaper. 46 The Mortality Schedule for DeSoto Parish in 1850 contains an entry that MARY G. NORWOOD, aged twenty-three and born in Louisiana, died in February 1850 of consumption. 47 M. Pickett appears in the 1850 Census living in the home of Hylan Flores, family 83, page 836 employed as a laborer. 48 ALFRED M. HEWITT served in the Mexican War with the Fifth Louisiana Infantry. In 1860, he joined the 1st Texas Cavalry and served on the Mexican border. In 1860, his unit served with General Mouton's command at the Battle of Mansfield and was among those who chased Banks back down the Red River. His service extended until he became ill and he returned home where he died before the end of the war. 49 Rufus W. Cater enlisted as a private in Company I of 19th Louisiana Infantry Regiment on December 11, 1861 at Camp Moore, Louisiana. He was promoted to Second Lieutenant of the company and was killed on September 20, 1863 at the Battle of Chickamauga in Georgia. He was wounded in the breast leading his men in a failed attempt on the Union lines. The 19th retreated and left Cater on the field, wounded but alive. The 19th Louisiana counterattacked and retook the field where Cater was lying. However, he was now dead with a head wound, apparently murdered by the Federals while they were in possession of the area where Cater lay wounded. Cater's brother, Douglas J., was on the field at Chickamauga that day and buried his brother. [Muster Roll] 50 EDWARD MABRY appeared in as R. E. Mabry in the 1860 census of DeSoto Parish. 51 EEDWARD DAVIS built the first meetinghouse for the Baptists in the town of Mansfield. This building burned in April 1864 while serving as a hospital for Confederate soldier wounded at the Battle of Mansfield on April 8, 1864. 52 Richard Talley Johnson migrated to British Honduras in 1868 to escape the Reconstruction government and improve his economic circumstances. He also sought to recreate part of the Old South in British Honduras. He wrote about his departure from New Orleans for British Honduara, "Old friends came on board to bid us farewell with their parting blessing; the steam is up-the bell rings-one hearty grasp of hand-there is a waving of hats from on board and on shore-then comes the suppressed anguish of heart as your country, in the distance, recedes from view." He purchased land near Belize City and died on April 3, 1869, leaving a personal estate of $31, 000. [R. T. Johnson, "British Honduras," British Honduras Colonist and Belize Advertiser, 29 August 1868, 3.] 53 SAMUE ELDRIDGE GUY was born on February 14, 1829 in Dallas County, Alabama and his father was Thomas T. Guy. Samuel moved to DeSoto Parish in 1848 and served on the Police Jury from 1862 until his death on March 2, 1885. He married Nancy Elizabeth on November 2, 1852 and is buried in the Mansfield Cemetery. 54 THOMAS J. WILLIAMS the DeSoto Parish Sheriff in 1858. Williams served as a guide for General Richard Taylor's Confederate Army at the Battle of Mansfield in 1864 and other movements against the invading Union Army. 55 EDWIN A. BONNEAU became a physician. 56 Benjamin Dunn enlisted in Company F of the 19th Louisiana Infantry Regiment on December 11, 1861 at Camp Moore, Louisiana. He died of dysentery on March 24, 1862 at the First Mississippi Confederate Hospital at Jackson, Mississippi. In 1860, BENJAMIN DUNN worked as an overseer for Aris Pugh. [Muster Roll] 57 William Blackstone Benson was born in 1813 in Greenville District, South Carolina and was the son Gabriel Benson, born 1771 in Virginia, and Rosanna, born 1795 in North Carolina. In 1818, William moved to Perry County, Alabama at the age of five years with his parents. Gabriel died in there in 1838 and Rosanna in 1844. Gabriel was a planter, tax collector, sheriff and justice of the peace. Gabriel's father was also named William and a native born Virginian who moved to South Carolina shortly before the Revolutionary War. The elder William was a captain during the Revolution and died in Charleston, South Carolina. His wife was Eleanor Kay Blunt, born in Maryland and the daughter of William Blunt, born 1762 in North Carolina. William Blackstone Benson was the oldest of nine children. He spent his formative years in Perry County, Alabama where he attended the common schools and married Ann B. McCraw. He was baptized at Ocmulgee Baptist Church in Perry County and resigned in 1848 to move to DeSoto Parish, Louisiana. In 1856, he moved to a 640-acre farm fourteen miles south of Mansfield. In Louisiana, he served as a justice of the Peace. [Historical Memoirs] 58 Ann B. McCraw was the daughter of Reverend Abner Gary McCraw and Mary Jones, both natives of South Carolina. Ann was born in Perry County, Alabama in 1825 and was the mother of seven daughters and one son. [Historical Memoirs] 59 ABNER N. BENSON died of camp fever on March 21, 1862 while hospitalized at the 1st Mississippi Hospital in Jackson, Mississippi. He was a private in Company F of the 19th Louisiana Infantry Regiment having enlisted on December 11, 1861 at Camp Moore, Louisiana. [Historical Memoirs] 60 WILLIAM GEORGE HALE was born on July 5, 1810 and died on February 2, 1883. He was the son of Jehee Hale and Mary Woods. He moved to Desoto Parish, Louisiana in 1850 from Perry County, Alabama arriving on February 4, 1850 by boat at Fortson with his family. In Alabama, he was a member of the Ocmulgee Baptist Church and in Louisiana he was a constituting member of Union Church. George was the brother of Middleton Hale. The Mortality Schedule for DeSoto Parish in 1850 contains two entries for Hale children. L. E. HALE, a female aged nine years and born in Louisiana, died in October of diarrhea and WILLIAM R. HALE, aged five and born in Louisiana, died in February 1850 of burns. 61 TERITHA JANE McCRAW was the daughter of Abner Gary McCraw and Mary Jones. She was the sister of Ann McCraw, the wife of William Blackstone Benson and Jeptha Hays McCraw. Teritha's father was a co- owner of the McCraw-Prestridge Land Company that was part of the Los Orgemas Land Grant. 62 MARY HELEN HALE was born on December 5, 1838 and died on September 8, 1916. 63 ABNER M. HALE served as a sergeant of Company D of the 2nd Louisiana Cavalry during the War for Southern independence. He was wounded during the war. He married his first cousin, Laura Rembert. He studied law at Cumberland College in Lebanon, Tennessee until the outbreak of war in 1861 and is buried in Phillip's Chapel Cemetery in Benson, Louisiana. [Confederate Service Record; Headstone Inscription] 64 This name is listed as Hugh A. in the 1860 Census of DeSoto Parish, Louisiana. 65 This name appears to be Thomas M. in the 1860 Census of DeSoto Parish, Louisiana. 66 In the 1860 Census of DeSoto Parish, Louisiana, MARY BRADLY is listed as a farmer that was born in New York state. 67 THOMAS AUGUSTUS GUY moved to DeSoto Parish in 1848 from Dallas County, Alabama. He was the son of Thomas Terrell Guy and the brother of Samuel Eldridge Guy. He married Annie Munday and Sallie Hawkins Roberts. 68 MARTHA ALLEN is recorded as Martha E. in the 1860 Census of DeSoto Parish, Louisiana. 69 WILLIAM ALLEN is listed as Willard in the 1860 Census of DeSoto Parish, Louisiana. 70 JEPTHA HAYS McCRAW moved to DeSoto Parish from Perry County, Alabama. He was the brother of Abner Gary McCraw who was part owner of the McCraw-Prestridge Land Company in DeSoto Parish. 71 ABNER G. McCRAW enlisted in Company D of the 11th Battalion of Louisiana Infantry on March 1, 1863 at Mansfield. He also served in Company B of the Consolidated Crescent Infantry Regiment. [Muster Roll] 72 THOMAS J. MOORE enlisted as a private in Company D of the 11th Battalion of Louisiana Infantry on March 1, 1863 at Mansfield, Louisiana. He also served in Company B of the Consolidated Crescent Regiment. [Muster Roll of the 11the Battalion of Louisiana Infantry] 73 HENSON WAGLEY was an election commissioner in 1866 for the Pleasant Hill area. 74 JOHN L. WAGLEY became a physician. 75 The Mortality Schedule for DeSoto Parish in 1850 contains an entry for two Corey children who died in June 1850 of cholera. The children were Amelia, aged two years and born in Illinois and Samuel, aged four and born in Missouri. 76 Jeremiah B. Norman became a member of the DeSoto Parish police jury on August 1861. 77 JOHN M. KOLB enlisted in Company A of the 11th Louisiana Infantry Battalion on February 10, 1863 at Mansfield. [Muster Roll] 78 SHUGAR JONES MATHEWS enlisted as a private in Company A of the 11th Battalion of Louisiana Infantry at the age of twenty-eight on May 3, 1862 at Mansfield. He died on March 22, 1863. Mathews was born in Stewart County, Georgia and is described as six feet tall, blue eyes, light hair and light complexion. [Muster Roll] 79 JOHN MATHEWS enlisted at the age of nineteen as a private in Company A of the 11th Louisiana Infantry Battalion on May 3, 1862 at Mansfield. He was a farmer, stood five feet nine inches tall, and also served in Company C of the Consolidated Crescent Regiment toward the end of the war. [Muster Roll] 80 THOMAS L. GARRETT enlisted at the age of thirty-six as a private in Company A on May 3, 1862 at Mansfield. He was born in Pike County Alabama. He was a farmer and died during the war on September 30, 1862. [Muster Roll] 81 WILEY J. McELROY enlisted as a private in Company A of the 11the Battalion of Louisiana Infantry on May 3, 1862 at Mansfield, Louisiana at the age of eighteen. He was born in DeSoto Parish, Louisiana and died on October 5, 1862. He is described as five feet six inches tall with light hair and fair complexion. He was a farmer. [Muster Roll of the 11the Battalion of Louisiana Infantry] 82 Francois Rambin was born in Natchitoches Parish and was a pioneer settler in DeSoto Parish, Louisiana. He moved to DeSoto Parish about 1800. During the War of 1812, he served as a captain in the 18th Louisiana Infantry Regiment and helped to guard the western frontier of Louisiana. Rambin settled for few years in San Antonio, Texas where he was a merchant and trader. He returned to DeSoto Parish where he died in 1852. Francois' father was probably born in New Orleans and died in Natchitoches. [Memoirs of NW La] 83 Mary D. DeSoto was born in DeSoto Parish and died there in 1854. She was the daughter of Marcel DeSoto who was born in St. Landry Parish and was governor of the neutral territory or Rio Honda District of West Louisiana. [Memoirs of NW La] 84 Louis Marcel Rambin was born in 1837. He was raised on the family farm, educated in the common schools of the Parish and lived his entire life in DeSoto Parish. He joined Company F (DeSoto Blues) of the 9th Louisiana Infantry and served in the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. Shortly after the Battle of Fredericksburg, Rambin was promoted to the rank of sergeant of the commissary. He was captured in the Shenandoah Valley by the forces of Philip Sheridan on March 1, 1865 and sent as a prisoner of war to Ft. Delaware where he stayed until June 1865. He commanded a company of eighty men at the Battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia where his duty was to protect Stonewall Jackson's reserve artillery ordinance train. While in Virginia serving in the Confederate Army, he married Sarah G. Young, the daughter of Joseph and Margaret Young, natives of Virginia. After release from prison, he returned to DeSoto Parish and in 1868 settled on a 360-acre farm eighteen miles southeast of Mansfield. In 1876, he was elected justice of peace, and in 1879, he was chosen the police juror of Ward 7 and served thirty-two years in that position. He became the father of thirteen children and was a Catholic. [Memoirs of NW La] 85 Cesaire Flores was the first Assessor of the DeSoto Parish Police Jury. 86 Backus 87 LOUIS LAFITTE was the Captain of the parish patrol in Ward 5 in 1843 when DeSoto Parish's first government was formed on June 5, 1843. During the War for Southern Independence, the prairie around Louis' house was used to drill DeSoto Parish volunteers headed for the battlefield. In particular, the Desoto Blues drilled here. [Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana (The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago and Nashville, 1890); Louisiana Genealogical Register, v XXI, No. 3, September 1874p. 218] 88 EDWARD LAFITTE enlisted at the age of twenty as a private in Company A of the 11th Louisiana Infantry Battalion on May 3, 1862 at Mansfield. He was captured at Rosedale, Louisiana on February 25, 1863. He was a farmer before enlisting and is described as six feet tall, black eyes and hair, and fair complexion. He served in Company B of the Consolidated Crescent Regiment when the 11th Battalion was combined with that regiment. He was born in DeSoto Parish, Louisiana. [Muster Roll] 89 SAUSTIN P. DESOTO enlisted as a private in Company A of the 11th Louisiana Infantry Battalion on May 3, 1862 at Mansfield. He was born in DeSoto Parish and enlisted at the age of 24. He died on October 16, 1862. [Muster Roll] 90 ALVIN W. SLAWSON was an early settler in DeSoto Parish. He left his home in Raleigh, North Carolina at the age of fourteen years and never returned home. [Louisiana Genealogical Register, v XXI, No. 3, September 1874p. 217] 91 LEWIS EDWARD FRANKLIN was born in 1802 and died in 1879. He is buried in the Mansfield Cemetery. 92 James served in he Confederate Army. 93 MOSES JEFFERSONFRANKLIN was born in 1844 and died in 1928 He enlisted in the Confederate Army in 1862, serving as a private in Company D of the 11th Battalion of Louisiana Infantry and Company B of the Consolidated Crescent Regiment. He saw action at the Battle of Mansfield and was wounded in the forehead in that engagement. Moses was paroled in 1865. He married SIDNEY INDIANA GOLDSBY. He is buried in Antioch Cemetery near Mansfield. 94 JOSEPH SIMON DESOTO was a member of the first DeSoto Parish Police Jury when it was formed on June 5, 1843. He was born in 1807 and died in 1883. DeSoto was of Spanish lineage and an early settler of DeSoto Parish. 95 JOSEPH ANTOINE DESOTO was born in 1839 and served in the Consolidated Crescent Regiment during the Battle of Mansfield. He lost a leg during the War for Southern Independence. 96 MARCELL S. DESOTO enlisted as a private in Company A of the 11th Louisiana Infantry Regiment on May 3, 1862 at Mansfield. He was born in DeSoto Parish, Louisiana and enlisted at the age of twenty-five. He was captured on July 25, 1863 at Thibodeaux, Louisiana and hospitalized in the St. Louis on October 6, 1863 and was later hospitalized at the United States Hospital in New Orleans. [Muster Roll] 97 HARDIN HARVILL served as the Parish Assessor. 98 JAMES E. CUNNINGHAM became the first Deputy Sheriff of DeSoto Parish on June 17, 1843. He also served as the Parish Assessor and was the Mayor of Mansfield in 1855. 99 William N. Cunningham served in Company D of the 2nd Louisiana Infantry Regiment; enlisting in April 1861 he was among the first volunteers to leave DeSoto Parish for the war. Cunningham was promoted to Lieutenant and later commissioned a Captain. He was wounded by a mini‚ ball that passed through his left leg just above the ankle at the Second Battle of Manassas. His wound precluded further active service and he was transferred to the Conscription Department and assigned to Sabine Parish as the enrolling officer. He was a dentist before the war. [Historical Memoirs] 100 JAMES CUNNINGHAM is listed as James E. in the 1860 census of DeSoto Parish, Louisiana. 101 JOSEPH S. LAFITTE enlisted at the age of thirty-three in Company A of the 11th Louisiana Infantry Battalion on May 3, 1863 at Mansfield, Louisiana. He was born in DeSoto Parish, Louisiana and a farmer when he enlisted. He is described as five feet, eight inches tall with dark hair and eyes. [Muster Roll] 102 OMER LAFITTE enlisted as a private at the age of twenty-four in Company A of the 11th Louisiana Infantry Battalion on May 3, 1862 in Mansfield. He was born in DeSoto Parish and was a farmer. 103 JAMES H. DILLARD was the Sheriff of DeSoto Parish in 1852. 104 ISAAC P. LAFITE enlisted as a private in Company A of the 11th Louisiana Infantry Battalion on May 3, 1862 at Mansfield. He also served in Company B of the Consolidated Crescent Regiment. 105 106 John R. Allen enlisted as a private in Company A of the 11th Battalion Louisiana Infantry on May 3, 1862 at Mansfield, Louisiana at the age of twenty-seven years. He was born in Warren County, Georgia. He is described as five feet ten inches tall, fair complexion, light hair and gray eyes. He later served in the Consolidated Crescent Regiment when the 11th Battalion was merged with it and was promoted to corporal. He was a farmer before the war. [Muster Roll] 107 William H. C. Allen enlisted as a private at the age of twenty-four in Company A of the 11th Battalion Infantry on June 20, 1862 at Mansfield, Louisiana. He was born in Talladega County, Alabama and died on February 22, 1863 at Rosedale, Louisiana. He was a farmer before the war and is described as six feet three inches tall and blue eyes. [Muster Roll] 108 SAMUEL McLAUGHLIN was born in Dallas County, Alabama. He enlisted in Company A of the 11th Battalion of Louisiana Infantry on May 3, 1862 at Mansfield, Louisiana and was elected 2nd Lieutenant of his company at the age of twenty-seven. He resigned his commission on May 20, 1863 and is described as five feet seven inches tall with blue eyes, dark hair and fair complexion. [Muster Roll of the 11the Battalion of Louisiana Infantry] 109 The Mortality Schedule for DeSoto Parish in 1850 contains an entry that Amanda Crausey, born in Alabama and aged fifteen, died in August 1850 of typhoid fever. 110 As an adult, C. D. BULLOCK served as a lawyer in the courts of the parish. 111 LEWIS PHILLPIS purchased the building and property of the Mansfield Female College in 1860 for $8,694 when it closed and deeded it over to the Louisiana Methodist Conference in 1864. It was reopened in 1865. 112 The family numbers are as stated in the original. 113 JAMES M. CARROLL enlisted at the age of twenty-one as a private in Company A of the 11th Louisiana Infantry Regiment on May 3, 1862 at Mansfield, Louisiana. He was born in Dallas County, Alabama and was a farmer before he enlisted. He was promoted to corporal. [Muster Roll] 114 ROBERT N. CARROL enlisted as a private in Company A of the 11th Alabama Infantry Regiment on May 3, 1862 at Mansfield, Louisiana. [Muster Roll] 115 ALVIN O. CARROLL is listed as the operator of a steam saw mill in the 1860 Census of DeSoto Parish. 116 The Mortality Schedule for DeSoto Parish in 1850 contains an entry that F. G. HIGGINBOTHAM, a two-year old female born in Louisiana, died in May 1850 of scarlet fever. 117 The occupation of WILLIAM W. CARROLL in 1860 was sawing lumber. 118 ONAFRE FLORES was of Spanish extraction and was one of the earliest settlers in DeSoto Parish, having arrived with his parents as a boy. His intelligence, talents, and ability were well recognized by his widespread friends. He was a member of the Catholic Church and died in DeSoto Parish in 1879. [Historical Memoirs] 119 MARY ROBLO was born in DeSoto Parish, Louisiana. [Historical Memoirs] 120 ADOLPH FLORES enlisted at the age of twenty-five in Company A of the 11th Louisiana Infantry Regiment on May 3, 1862 at Mansfield. He was born in DeSoto Parish and died on February 5, 1863. [Muster Roll] 121 CORASMER FLORES enlisted as a private in Company H of the 19th Louisiana Infantry Regiment on December 11, 1861 at Camp Moore, Louisiana. He was promoted to sergeant. [Muster Roll] 122 Joseph Oscar Flores was born in DeSoto Parish, Louisiana and he was educated in the schools of the Parish. In 1883, he married Sarah Sloan, the daughter of Hamilton and Eliza Ann Sloan. He inherited a plantation from his father consisting of 720 acres located eight miles north and east of Mansfield. He was a successful agriculturist and a Catholic. [Historical Memoirs] 123 124 JOHN H. QUARLES the DeSoto Parish Recorder in 1848. 125 DOUGLAS RANDOLPH ROACH settled in the Carmel vicinity of the parish and built a house there in 1849. [Louisiana Genealogical Register, v XXI, No. 3, September 1874p. 217] 126 ALEX M. CAMPBELL was the Mayor of Mansfield in 1854. 127 DEBORAH FARMER is recorded as Delilah in the 1860 Census of DeSoto Parish, Louisiana. 128 The Mortality Schedule for DeSoto Parish in 1850 contains an entry that FERDINAND RILEY, age three and born in Louisiana, died in September of worms. 129 Joshua Best moved from South Carolina to Talladega County, Alabama in 1836 and in 1850 moved again to DeSoto Parish, Louisiana where he died at the age of fifty-two. Joshua was of Irish descent and a member of the Baptist Church. [Memoirs of NW La] 130 Eli Richard Best was born was born in Chester District, South Carolina in 1832. He married Laura Johnson and they became the parents of eight children. During the War for Southern Independence, he became a lieutenant in the DeSoto Creoles, and commanded his company during the Battle of Shiloh in 1862. He resigned his commission in 1862, returned to Louisiana where he served a short-term Shelby's Battalion and then joined the Engineers' Department in Shreveport, Louisiana. He was present at the Battle of Yellow Bayou where he was wounded. After the war, he settled three miles east of Mansfield, served on the school board for eight years and the police jury for four years. He became President of Mansfield Supply Company and the Farmer's Alliance. He was a charter member of the Jefferson Masonic Lodge. [Memoirs of NW La] 131 William L. Best enlisted in Company D of the 11th Louisiana Battalion on March 29, 1862 at New Orleans and served as the company's Sergeant Major. He transferred to Thomas' 28th Louisiana Infantry Regiment on November 30, 1862. [Muster Roll] 132 Isaac J. Best enlisted at the age of twenty as a private in Company D of the 11th Louisiana Battalion on May 2, 1862 at Mansfield. He was born at Talladega, Alabama and was a farmer before the war. He was five feet seven inches tall, had blue eyes and dark hair. He also served in the Consolidated Crescent when the 11th Battalion was merged with the Crescent Regiment. In 1897, he became Postmaster at Benton, Louisiana. [Muster Roll] 133 Thomas Scott moved to DeSoto Parish, Louisiana in 1849 from Wilcox County, Alabama. He settled about three miles west of Kingston, Louisiana. Thomas was the brother of Robert Hamilton Scott. [Mary Ann Griffin] 134 Joicy Ann Americus Scott married William Crockett Harris on January 3, 1861. Harris was born on July 10, 1836 and died on May 22, 1862 at Corinth, Mississippi during the War for Southern Independence. Joicy's second marriage was to Peter Harston Patterson on September 24, 1863 in Texas. Patterson was born on June 28, 1833 in Nacogdoches County, Texas and died on July 28, 1882 at Grand Cane, Louisiana. He is buried in Evergreen Cemetery in DeSoto Parish, Louisiana. She had nine children including Edward Laurine, Thomas Alison, Olgus Benena Davenport, Alma Rebecca, Sarah Alberta, Carrie Clyde, Susan Lucinda, Harlie Harston, and Roxanna Eugenia Patterson. Thomas Alison Patterson married Mary Matilda Sample and they were the parents of Wilburn Patterson, Annie Lea Patterson and Allie Mae Patterson who was born July 21, 1912 at Holly, Louisiana and died in 1991 at Ketchikan, Alaska. 135 Robert Hamilton Scott was born in 1824 and died in 1891. His first wife was Mary Amanda Jefferson who died of typhoid fever in February 1850 in DeSoto Parish at the age of twenty-four years. His second wife was Cornelia Gregg Hall. Scott's children included Alice who married G. W. Sample, Lockwood A. Scott who married Ellen Kirven, Robert Hall Scott who married Corinne Beard, Maxey Gregg Scott, who married Adena DeWitt, Edward Lee Scott, William Crawford Scott, who married Florence Prothro, Henrietta Hall Scott, who married William Pendleton Courtney and Eleanor Gregg Scott who married Olgus B. D. Patterson. He was the brother of Thomas Scott. [1850 Mortality Schedule for DeSoto Parish, Louisiana; Mary Ann Griffin] 136 FRANK COLLINS appears as family 93 in the 1860 census of DeSoto Parish. 137 James E. Franklin was born on August 23, 1823 in Alabama and died on April 29, 1873 in DeSoto Parish, Louisiana. He is buried in Evergreen Cemetery in DeSoto Parish, Louisiana. 138 Emily A. Franklin was born on May 2, 1827 and died on May 20, 1907 in DeSoto Parish, Louisiana. She is buried in Evergreen Cemetery in DeSoto Parish, Louisiana. Her children not listed in this census include Josephine (1853), Sarah Frances, who was born in 1858 in DeSoto Parish and married Edward Petzsctl on August 6, 1877 in DeSoto Parish, Louisiana, and Gertrude Franklin (1865). 139 Adeline B. Franklin was born on June 27, 1847 in Alabama and died on August 8, 1874 in DeSoto Parish, Louisiana. She married John Alexander Graves and is buried in Evergreen Cemetery in DeSoto Parish, Louisiana. She was childless. 140 Napole˘n B. Franklin was born on April 8, 1850 in Louisiana and died on September 13, 1910 in DeSoto Parish, Louisiana. He is buried in the Fortson Cemetery in DeSoto Parish, Louisiana. 141 EVANDER McIVER CALE moved to Mansfield in 1849. He served died while serving in the Confederate Army on December 9, 1864. He married Sarah Pegues on April 30, 1851. Dr. William Allen Pegues noted in his diary on August 12, 1850 that "Mr. Evander Cale came to begin work on the house" and finished the work on October 27, 1850. 142 PLEASANT WALTON worked for Simon Glover as a farm laborer in 1860. 143 JOSEPH HALL enlisted as a private in Company B of the 1st Battalion Louisiana Infantry State Troops on March 5, 1863 at Mansfield, Louisiana. 144 This person is listed as Mary R. in the 1860 Census. 145 LOCKWOOD ALISON practiced medicine in DeSoto Parish for six-four years. He was educated in a South Carolina medical school and was the son of Jacob Alison. Lockwood migrated to DeSoto Parish, Louisiana from Wilcox County, Alabama in 1849 in the company of the Thomas Scott family. Alison settled at Kingston near the general store there 146 ANN J. HARTWELL was the daughter of Jesse Hartwell who was born in 1795 in Massachusetts and died in Mt. Lebanon, Louisiana in 1859. 147 HARTWELL ALISON was born in Dallas County, Alabama in 1847 and moved to DeSoto Parish with his parents in 1850. He was educated in the schools of DeSoto Parish, at Mt. Lebanon and the medical school at the University of Louisville from which he graduated in 1872. He settled in Marshall, Texas for a year before returning to Louisiana establishing a medical practice at Bayou La Chute. He served for one year late in the War for Southern Independence in Company C of the 8th Louisiana Cavalry Regiment. In 1868, he married E. G. McIver 148 STERLING POWELL was born in Robeson County, North Carolina. He moved from North Carolina to Mississippi ant then to DeSoto Parish, arriving around 1848 building a house at Stonewall. He was born in 1788 and died in 1860. He was the son of Nicholas Powell and Elizabeth Martin, the grandson of Douglas Powell and the great grandson of Thomas Powell of Brunswick County, Virginia. 149 JAMES MARTIN POWELL married Tabitha Spurlin. He migrated to Panola County, Texas. 150 ELIJAH POWELL enlisted in the 6th Louisiana Cavalry and was captured at Cypress Bend and imprisoned at Alton Military Prison in Illinois. He was paroled in June 1865. He married Eudora Melissa Williamson on November 28, 1865. 151 FREDERICK J. DeWITT was WILIAM MARTIN DeWITT's uncle. 152 THOMAS PICKNEY HALL moved to DeSoto Parish, Louisiana in 1841, settling northeast of Keatchie. He became a member of the first Grand Jury in DeSoto Parish, which was formed on May 2, 1844. 153 ELIZABETH GREGG HALL was the mother of Thomas Pickney Hall and John Erwin Hall. 154 ROBERT HALL became the Postmaster at Black Jack on December 26, 1850. 155 CHARLES A. EDWARDS was a member of the first Grand Jury in DeSoto Parish that was organized on May 2, 1844. 156 156 J. H. SUTHERLIN served as Clerk of Court in DeSoto Parish from 1854 until 1870 and was succeed by J. D. Law. Sutherlin served as Captain of Company H of the 19th Louisiana Infantry Regiment. He enlisted in the service of the State of Louisiana in the DeSoto Creoles. He was elected Captain on November 13, 1861, entered the Confederate Army on December 11, 1861 and resigned his commission on January 14, 1862. 157 JOHN C. BERRY enlisted at the age of twenty-seven as a private in Company F of the 19th Louisiana Infantry Regiment on December 11, 1861 at Camp Moore, Louisiana. He died of wounds on June 12, 1864 at Catoosa Hospital in Griffin, Georgia. [Muster Roll] 158 THOMAS BERRY enlisted at the age of twenty-five in Company D of the 11th Louisiana Infantry Regiment on May 3, 1862 at Mansfield. He was born in Clark County, Alabama and was a farmer. Berry is described as five feet eight inches tall with blue eyes, light hair and fair complexion. [Muster Roll] 159 Wesley Berry enlisted as a private in Company F of the 19th Louisiana Infantry Regiment on December 11, 1861 at Camp Moore, Louisiana. He was captured at the Battle of Missionary Ridge, Tennessee on November 25, 1863 and died on December 3, 1863 at the Federal Hospital in Chattanooga, Tennessee. [Muster Roll] 160 JOHN WAGNER arrived in DeSoto Parish in the early 1800s and took up residence south of Grand Cane, Louisiana. He was born in 1808 and died in 1878. In 1866, he was president of the Police Jury of DeSoto Parish. [Louisiana Genealogical Register, v XXI, No. 3, September 1974, p. 219] 161 The Mortality Schedule for DeSoto Parish in 1850 contains an entry that John Boling, born in Alabama and aged forty, died in August 1850 of cholera. 162 ALEXANDER HADEN was the son of Joseph Haden, Jr. Haden migrated from Rowan County, North Carolina to Macon County, Alabama and then to DeSoto Parish, Louisiana in 1840. He died on February 27, 1853 and is buried in the Baptist Chapel Cemetery in Keatchie, Louisiana. 163 REBECCA FROST was the daughter of John Frost and Rebecca Boone and the grand daughter of John Boone, a first cousin of Daniel Boone. She married Haden on January 23, 1826 and is buried in the cemetery at Baptist Chapel in Keatchie, Louisiana. 164 JOHN F. HADEN was born on December 14, 1827 and died on February 21, 1853. He married Avarella Davis on January 8, 1853. He is buried in the Baptist Chapel Cemetery in Keatchie, Louisiana. 165 HENDERSON W. HADEN married Mary E. Woolworth. 166 MARTHA A. HADEN married Dr. Jesse M. Birdsong on July 9, 1857. 167 JEREMIAH M. PYLE enlisted as a private in the 28th Texas Cavalry at Carthage, Texas at the age of twenty-eight. 168 Family 387 was used twice in this census to identify the Hart and Lawhorn families. 169 Pernicia Mills died in Panola County, Texas. 170 Lorenzo Martin Graves married Mary A. Johnston and died in 1908 in Panola County, Texas. 171 Pernicia Jewell Graves married Franklin Pierce Hooper 172 MARTHA MILLS GRAVES graduated from Keatchi College in 1887. 173 The Mortality Schedule for DeSoto Parish in 1850 contains an entry that SUSANNA M. DARBY, born in Tennessee and aged thirty-five, died in April 1850 of childbed illness. A second entry for JOSHUA L. DARBY, aged eleven months and born in Texas, who died of whooping cough. 174 John M. Butterworth enlisted Company H of the 19th Louisiana Infantry Regiment on November 13, 1861 at New Orleans, Louisiana. He served as the company's corporal and sergeant. [Muster Roll] 175 WILLIAM C. PEYTON became Postmaster in the Longstreet area on September 23, 1854. 176 GEORGE WASHINGTON PEYTON established a mercantile store in Keatchie in 1865 along with other merchants and another in Grand Cane in 1881. 177 ABRAHAM WYCHE JACKSON was born on March 27, 1805 in Green County, Georgia and died on March 3, 1880 in Coryell County, Texas. He was the son of Green B. Jackson and Elizabeth Lloyd. Abraham married Jane F. Crow, daughter of Reverend Charles Crow and Sarah Harlan, on January 28, 1826 in Perry County, Alabama. He moved to Perry County, Alabama at the age nineteen where he professed faith in Christ and joined Shiloh Church near his home. He married Jane Crow and moved near Ocmulgee Baptist Church which he joined and where he became a leader. He was allowed to preach and later ordained a minister. In 1847, he moved to DeSoto Parish, established a plantation and began to constitute churches in the parish, including the First Baptist Church of Mansfield, where he was the first pastor. He also established churches at old Patrice, Friendship, Evergreen, Hazelwood, New Hope and Longstreet. Jackson was the second Baptist minister to enter northwest Louisiana west of the Red River. He remained in DeSoto Parish for the next twenty-five years and moved to Texas near the end of his life. Jane Crow died about 1840 in Perry County. He married Sarah M. Corgill of Dallas County, Alabama and they had two children-Adolphus Franklin, and Alponsus W. Jackson. Sarah died in March 1850 during a typhoid fever epidemic. His third wife was Martha Louisa Provost, born 1832 in South Carolina, who bore his seven children-William T., J. T., Charles W., W. B., Crawford, Howard, and Lou Jackson, all born in DeSoto Parish. 178 CHARLES GREEN JACKSON was born October 29, 1826 in Perry County, Alabama and died on September 13, 1911 at Grand Cane in DeSoto Parish. He was a veteran of the Mexican War, enlisting in the Perry Volunteers that became Company C of the First Regiment of Alabama Volunteers on June 13, 1846. He sailed for Texas and Mexico on June 29, 1846 and served at Brownsville, Texas, and Camargo and Tampico, Mexico. He participated in the amphibious landing at and siege of Vera Cruz, Mexico. He was mustered out with his regiment at New Orleans, Louisiana on May 27, 1847. He moved to DeSoto Parish with his family in 1847 and served as his father's overseer. He married three times. His first marriage was on September 20, 1855 to Mary Ann Cowley, the daughter of James Cowley and Susan Russell. Their children included Mary Susette Jackson who married Robert Baldwin Burford in 1880 and Robert Garland Jackson. His subsequent marriages were to Laura Virginia Oliver on April 7, 1896 in Carthage, Panola County, Texas and Anne E. Connevey, the widow of John M. Moss, on December 30, 1909. Anne was the daughter of J. E. Connevey and Rebecca Edmondson. There were no children by the last two marriages. During the War for Southern Independence, Charles Green Jackson served in Company B of the 24th Louisiana Infantry Regiment and in Company B of the Consolidated Crescent Regiment and was in the thick of the fighting at the Battle of Mansfield in 1864. 179 SILAS E. JACKSON was born on November 3, 1827 in Perry County, Alabama and died on March 4, 1894 in Shelby County, Texas. He moved to DeSoto Parish in 1847 and to Shelby County, Texas in 1861. He married three times. His first wife was Sarah Sach, whom he married July 19, 1850 in DeSoto Parish. He next married Sarah A. Martin on May 10, 1853 in Shelby County, Texas and his last marriage was to Nancy C. Henry on November 3, 1860. During the War for Southern Independence, he enlisted in 1863 in Company A of the 28th Texas Cavalry Regiment organized in the Spring of 1862. The regiment was dismounted and served as infantry until the surrender on May 26, 1865. This regiment fought during the Red River Campaign, at the Battles of Mansfield and Pleasant Hill. At Mansfield, his regiment was positioned on the right wing of the Confederate Army across the road that led to the town. His descendants with Sarah Martin were Martin, Wyche, Mary Elizabeth, Sarah Amanda, John Francis, and James W. Jackson. His children with Nancy Henry were William Silas, Jesse Fuller, Sarah M. (married Marcus Isaiah Shilling), Jackson Morgan, Ida, and Stella Jackson. 180 JONATHAN BEAUFORD JACKSON was born on May 24, 1830 in Perry County, Alabama and married Ann Elizabeth Mosely on November 7, 1853 in DeSoto Parish. 181 ELSA FRANCES JACKSON was born in 1835 in Perry County, Alabama. 182 REBECCA J. JACKSON was born on September 22, 1838 in Perry County, Alabama and died on April 5, 1904 in McCulloch County, Texas. She was married to William A. Frost and Leroy Mosley. 183 JAMES W. JACKSON was born in 1836 in Perry County, Alabama. 184 ADOLPHUS FRANKLIN JACKSON was born on December 10, 1844 in Perry County, Alabama and died on August 19, 1912 at Eureka Springs, Arkansas. He was the offspring of Abraham Jackson's second wife, Sarah M. Corgill. He married Ella Eliza Kidd on July 21, 1869. During the War for Southern Independence, he left his schoolbooks and enlisted as a private in the Henry Marshall Guards, which became Company F of the 19th Louisiana Infantry Regiment, serving throughout the war. He was the regimental color bearer and was always in the forefront of almost every battle fought in the western Confederacy. In the Battle of Jonesboro, Georgia in 1864, he was shot through the body and left for dead on the battlefield. He lay there unattended for two days, finally crawling to a road where a unit of Texas cavalry took him to medical attention at Lovejoy Station, Georgia. He was transferred to a hospital at Columbus Georgia and later finished his convalescence with friends in Perry County, Alabama. He rejoined the army and fought in defense of Mobile, Alabama surrendering when the Western District of the Confederacy submitted in May 1865. He returned to DeSoto Parish a seasoned veteran but still too young to vote. After the war, he became a notable Mansfield and DeSoto Parish businessman and civic leader known for his fidelity, credit, and large- hearted charities. His business concerns included A. F. Jackson General Merchandise, Jackson and Kidd Company and the Trader's Bank organized on May 8, 1890. He founded the town of Pelican and operated a store there. He was active religiously and was a Methodist. He died of blood poisoning caused by kidney disease in Eureka Springs where he went in the hope of affecting a recovery of his health. 185 ALPONSUS W. JACKSON was the son of Abraham and Sarah Corgill. He was born in 1847 and was the first child born in DeSoto Parish, Louisiana. 186 This name listed as R. M. Fortson in the 1860 Census of DeSoto Parish. 187 Roderick Sylvanus Fortson moved to Hays County, Texas after the War for Southern Independence. He filed petition number 01892 for his service in the Confederate Army. 188 The Mortality Schedule for DeSoto Parish in 1850 contains an entry that ALBERT DAVIDSON, born in Louisiana and aged eight years, died in August 1850 of inflamed stomach. 189 JOHN P. DAVIDSON enlisted at the age of 28 as a private in Company D of the 11th Louisiana Infantry Battalion on May 3, 1862 at Mansfield. He was born in Edgefield District, South Carolina. He was a farmer and stool six feet one inch tall. 190 HENRY PHILLIPS was elected to the State Legislature in 1847 and served through 1860. 191 W. P. SAMPLE became the Parish Sheriff in 1874. 192 The Mortality Schedule for DeSoto Parish in 1850 contains an entry that Louisa Wade, aged seventeen and born in South Carolina, died in February 1850 of cholera. 193 W. D. PETTEWAY and William Spell donated land on May 12, 1852 where the New Hope Baptist Church was built. This church is now known as Keatchie Baptist Church. [DeSoto Parish History, p. 124] 194 ABIGAIL HERRING was the widow of John Ira Ellis Cotton whom he married on October 7, 1821 in Claiborne County, Mississippi. John Ira E. Cotton moved to Texas around 1833. He was born in Tennessee [DeSoto Parish History, p. 117] 195 JOHN AUGUSTUS COTTON married Mary Kathryn Smith. About 1854, he moved to Limestone County, Texas and around ten years later to Lampasas, Texas. He died on February 5, 1889 and is buried in Burleson County, Texas. [DeSoto Parish History] 196 STERLING ANSLEY became Postmaster in the Longstreet area on October 11, 1866. 197 GEORGE HEADRICK lived in the Longstreet area of the county. [DeSoto Parish History] 198 G. WASHINGTON HEADRICK died on November 11, 1862 in Desoto Parish. [DeSoto Parish History] 199 ALFRED SLY HEADRICK enlisted as a private in the 28th Texas Cavalry at Carthage, Texas at the age of twenty-six. 200 WILLIAM T. GAMBLE was the son of John A. Gamble and Nancy Bones. He was born on February 6, 1823 and died on October 8, 1851. His first wife was Rosalinda C. Hill whom he married on December 9, 1841. [DeSoto Parish Heritage] 201 SARAH E. CHAMBLISS was the second wife of William T. Gamble whom she married on January 29, 1849. [DeSoto Parish Heritage] 202 KEATCHIE was a college town named after Indians that occupied the area before settlement by whites. In 1852, the Keatchie Church was established her and 1865, merchants established stores here. 203 ANN E. C. MOSELEY married John B. Jackson, son of Abraham W. Jackson and Jane F. Crow, on October 7, 1853 in DeSoto Parish, Louisiana. 204 MALINDA F. MOSELY is recorded as Mary F Mosely in the 1860 census of DeSoto Parish, Louisiana. 205 CLARA MATINA JACKSON was the daughter of Abraham W. Jackson and Jane Crow and the granddaughter of Charles Crow, Sarah Harlan, Green B. Jackson and Elizabeth Lloyd. 206 WILLIS T. GAMBLE died on October 26, 1827 at the age of eighty. He married Elisha Ann Adams on February 19, 1867. [DeSoto Parish Heritage] 207 CHAMBLESS BERT CONNELL, Sr. was born in 1819 and died on June 25, 1891. He arrived in DeSoto Parish about 1847 and married Mary A. Medlock on March 7, 1850. He lived near Keatchie. [DeSoto Parish Heritage] 208 SARAH A. MEDLOCK died in June 1913. [DeSoto Parish Heritage] 209 JOHN A. McMICHAEL is recorded James in the 1860 Census of DeSoto Parish, Louisiana. 210 SAMUEL ANDERSON MEDLOCK married Eliza Jane Smith who came to DeSoto Parish from Selma, Alabama to teach at Keatchie. Samuel enlisted in the 6th Louisiana Cavalry as a private in May 1862 and died while serving in the Confederate Army. [DeSoto Parish Heritage] 211 JOHN AIKEN GAMBLE was born on April 22, 1796 in Fairfield County, South Carolina. He was the son a James Gamble, a Revolutionary War veteran. John married Nancy Bones and moved to Dallas County, Alabama in 1819 and served as a constable in Dallas County and Justice of the Peace in Wilcox County, Alabama. He moved to Louisiana around 1838 and became a member of the first DeSoto Parish Police Jury and Justice of the Peace. [DeSoto Parish Heritage] 212 NANCY BONES GAMBLE is recorded as born in South Carolina in the 1860 Census of DeSoto Parish, La. 213 THOMAS T. WILLIAMSON was elected the DeSoto Parish representative to the State Legislature in 1851. 214 AARON D. FERGUSON served as private in the 28th Texas Cavalry, enlisting at Shelbyville, Texas at the age of thirty-three. He was discharged on July 26, 1862. 215 This name is Holgood in the 1860 Census of DeSoto Parish. 216 JONATHAN A. LEACH enlisted as a private in Company B of the 1st Battalion Louisiana Infantry (State Guards) on March 5, 1863 at Mansfield, Louisiana. The Mortality Schedule for DeSoto Parish in 1850 contains an entry that NANCY B. LEACH, aged eight and born in Mississippi, died in January 1850 of pneumonia. 217 THOMAS ABINGTON was born on December 25, 1801 in Galway, Ireland and migrated to America in 1824 with his brother John Abington, landing in New York. In 1827, he moved to the Grand Cane country of what was to become DeSoto Parish. He built a large log house of hewn logs in 1834 and married Charlotte Welsh who was the sister of Judge James Welsh. On June 5, 1843, Abington suggested the name of Mansfield for the seat of government for an Irish peer whom he admired. He became an American citizen on December 19, 1846. [DeSoto Heritage] 218 MARIE LOUISE RUEG FLORES was Thomas Abington's second wife. She was the daughter of early French and Spanish Louisiana settlers. [DeSoto Heritage] 219 JOHN BRIAN ABINGTON married Sarah Ivey, the daughter of Elijah Ivey. During the War for Southern Independence, John served in the 8th Louisiana Infantry Regiment and fought in Virginia. Before the end of the war, he returned to Louisiana and saw duty at the battles of Mansfield and Pleasant Hill. Two of John's sons fought with Theodore Roosevelt and the Rough Riders in Cuba during the Spanish American War. [DeSoto Heritage] 220 SAMUEL ABINGTON was killed during the siege of Port Hudson, Louisiana during the War for Southern Independence. [DeSoto Heritage] 221 CESAIRE FLORES was the first Deputy Sheriff of DeSoto Parish in 1843. 222 FORBES R. HOUSTON was the parish's District Attorney in 1845. 223 The Mortality Schedule for DeSoto Parish in 1850 contains an entry that JAMES W. RANDALL, aged twenty-three and born in Georgia, died in October 1849 of a ruptured bowel. 224 PATRICK HENRY enlisted as a private in Company B of the 1st Battalion of Louisiana Infantry (State Guards) on March 5, 1863 at Mansfield, Louisiana. 225 The slave census lists this name as Kissiah Heard. 226 The Mortality Schedule for DeSoto Parish in 1850 contains an entry that ROBERT G. HADEN, aged sixty-four years and born in North Carolina, died in May 1850 of dropsy. 227 JOHN L. COLE served as the Parish Surveyor. 228 SAMUEL MATHEWS became Postmaster in Logansport on February 29, 1848. 229 JOHN DOUGLAS was the Parish's first Deputy District Court Clerk when the office of Parish Recorder was abolished. 230 JOHN CUTHBERTSON became Postmaster at Logansport on October 23, 1860. 231 JOHN F. SIMMONS became the Postmaster at Logansport on June 30, 1851. 232 STEPHEN F. BAKER served as the Postmaster in Logansport in the late 1840s. 233 The 1850 mortality schedule for DeSoto Parish has an entry for MILES BLAKE, aged four years, who died in August 1850 of brain fever. 234 MARTHA SIMMONS is listed as a male in the original. 235 MOSES BROWN became the Postmaster at Logansport on July 14, 1854. 236 The Mortality Schedule for DeSoto Parish in 1850 contains an entry that ELIZA C. DEAR, born in Tennessee and aged thirty-five, died in November 1849 of hemorrhage. 237 ALONZO GREEN KIDD was born on September 30, 1849 in the Blue Lake area of Sabine Parish, Louisiana and died on July 7, 1941. He lived in the southern part of DeSoto Parish. His education was quite limited and became a Baptist minister, being ordained on August 3, 1884 at Union Baptist Church. Alonzo married Frances Emma Reed, daughter of James Vinson Reed and Winnie Norris. Frances was born on October 23, 1855 in Alabama and died on November 18, 1948. Alonzo and Frances are buried in the cemetery at Union Baptist Church in southern DeSoto Parish, Louisiana. [Heritage of DeSoto] 238 The Mortality Schedule for DeSoto Parish in 1850 contains an entry that M. M. DUKE, aged twenty-one and born in Alabama, died in April 1850 of consumption. 239 WILLIS MOSELY is recorded as Willis O. in 1860 Census of DeSoto Parish, Louisiana. 240 AMOS ROBINSON was recorded as a female in the original. 241 GEORGE G. HADEN was a member of the first Grand Jury in DeSoto Parish. The jury was formed on May 2, 1844. 242 In the original, the family numbering skips from Family 625 to 639. The numbering system and the census generally has many smears, strikethroughs and write-overs. 243 This is doubtless Emmanuel. 244 This is probably Elijah. 245 The Mortality Schedule for DeSoto Parish in 1850 contains an entry that Wacine Cordiway, born in Texas and aged forty-five, died in February 1850 of jaundice. 246 ALEXANDER E. HADEN enlisted as a private in Company B of the 1st Battalion Louisiana Infantry (State Guards) on March 5, 1863 at Memphis, Tennessee. 247 The Mortality Schedule for DeSoto Parish in 1850 contains an entry that CATHERINE HOWARD, aged eighteen and born in Georgia, died in May 1850 of typhoid fever. 248 HENRY MARSHALL was a representative to the Louisiana Secession Convention, signed the Secession Ordinances and was elected to the Confederate Congress in 1861. 249 THOMAS WHITAKER BROADNAX was born on July 15, 1818 in Putnam County, Georgia and died on July 16, 1874 at Hemphill, Texas. He married Sarah Van Ordin on August 21, 1838 and she died on September 23, 1824 near Uniontown in Perry County, Alabama. His second wife was Caroline Elizabeth Bonneau whom he married in Lowndes County, Alabama. He served as Parish Assessor. [Lynn McKerral] 250 CAROLINE E.IZABETH BONNEAU was born on August 28, 1824 and died on January 12, 1912 at Batesville, Texas. 251 ANN ELIZABETH BRODNAX was the daughter of Sarah Van Ordin. She married James Bartholomew Pegues 252 OLIVE ANNA BRODNAX was born on August 4, 1848 in DeSoto Parish, Louisiana and died on June 15, 1929 at Mansfield, Louisiana.