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Welcome to Catahoula Parish!

I hope your find everything you're looking for. Many, many thanks for the hours of work that was put into this Catahoula, LAGenWeb site by its former coordinator, Jerry Mead! He did a fantastic job getting all of this information together for Catahoula researchers.

This parish is up for adoption. If you are interested in adopting Catahoula Parish, LAGenWeb, please let Marsha know. If you are interested in submitting materials, you can send those to Marsha as well. Thanks & happy hunting!

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Catahoula Was Established

When the Territory of Orleans was divided into counties by the Territorial Legislature on April 10, 1805, the present-day Catahoula Parish was a part of Rapides County. According to census data, the parish has no metropolitan areas, but Jonesville is the largest town in Catahoula Parish.

Jonesville is located on the site of Ancient Anilco, an Indian village landscaped with mounds. Jonesville was once called Troy.

Harrisonburg, Louisiana is located (pop 655) on Louisiana Highway 8, is the parish seat of Catahoula Parish.

This progressive town is situated on the banks of the beautiful Ouachita River with Old Fort Beauregard in the hills above. Catahoula is rich in history, with Harrisonburg being the oldest historic town in the state.

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"The Chosen"

We are the chosen. In each family there is one who seems called to find the ancestors. To put flesh on their bones and make them live again. To tell the family story and to feel that somehow they know and approve. Doing genealogy is not a cold gathering of facts but, instead, breathing life into all who have gone before. We are the story tellers of the tribe. All tribes have one. We have been called, as it were, by our genes. Those who have gone before cry out to us: Tell our story. So, we do. In finding them, we somehow find ourselves. How many graves have I stood before now and cried? I have lost count. How many times have I told the ancestors, "You have a wonderful family; you would be proud of us.". How many times have I walked up to a grave and felt somehow there was love there for me? I cannot say. It goes beyond just documenting facts. It goes to who I am, and why I do the things I do. It goes to seeing a cemetery about to be lost forever to weeds and indifference and saying - I can't let this happen. The bones here are bones of my bone and flesh of my flesh. It goes to doing something about it. It goes to pride in what our ancestors were able to accomplish. How they contributed to what we are today. It goes to respecting their hardships and losses, their never giving in or giving up, their resoluteness to go on and build a life for their family. It goes to deep pride that the fathers fought and some died to make and keep us a nation. It goes to a deep and immense understanding that they were doing it for us. It is of equal pride and love that our mothers struggled to give us birth, without them we could not exist, and so we love each one, as far back as we can reach. That we might be born who we are. That we might remember them. So we do. With love and caring and scribing each fact of their existence, because we are they and they are the sum of who we are. So, as a scribe called, I tell the story of my family. It is up to that one called in the next generation to answer the call and take my place in the long line of family storytellers. That is why I do my family genealogy, and that is what calls those young and old to step up and restore the memory or greet those who we had never known before."

by Della M. Cummings Wright; Rewritten by her granddaughter Dell Jo Ann McGinnis Johnson; Edited and Reworded by Tom Dunn, 1943."

 

OUR COUNTY'S FAMILIES

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Adella & Elijah Knight

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Eliza Jane Knight

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James & Mary Bowie

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Sarah B. Robertson

 


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If you have questions, contributions, or problems with this site, email:

Temporary Coordinator - contact Marsha Bryant

State Coordinators: Jo Branch & Edward Hayden

Asst. State Coordinator: Marsha Bryant

Questions or Comments?

If you have questions or problems with this site, email the Parish Coordinator. Please to not ask for specfic research on your family. I am unable to do your personal research. I do not live in Indiana and do not have access to additional records.

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