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Parish Was Established

To create the Parish of Grant, and providing for the organization thereof.
Sec. 1 .... That from and after the passage of this act there shall be a new parish formed from a portion of the south part of Winn Parish and from a portion of the north part of Rapides Parish, to be called and known by the name of the Parish of Grant.

Sec. 2 .... That the following shall be the boundaries of the Parish of Grant, viz: commencing at a point on Red river where the Daro empties into said river, and thence running east to the point where Little River empties into Catahoula Lake; thence up Little River to the junction of the Castor and Dugdomonia, thence west on the southern boundary of the Parish of Winn to the range line to the township line between three west, thence south on said range line to the township line between townships numbers wight and nine north, thence west on said township to where said line crosses the Rigolet de Bon Dieu; thence down said Rigolet de Bon Dieu to the mouth of Cane River, thence down Red River to the point of starting, the mouth of the Daro.

Source: Papers were located in the Grant Parish Library, Montgomery Branch
Submitted By: Kay Thompson - Brown

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Natchitoches	GRANT Parish	La Salle
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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."