Books about Lincoln Parish


The following books are excellent Lincoln Parish resource books, unfortunatly I don't believe the first three books are currently being published. Fortunatly, those three books can be found in many of the libraries in Lincoln Parish.




"Lincoln Parish History"
Edited by Mary Frances Fletcher, Ralph Ropp
Walsworth Pub Co.(1976), Marceline,MO
672 pages with ill.



"Lincoln Parish, Louisiana 1880 census, Index"
edited by Marcia Duncan Richardson
J & W Enterprises, Shreveport, LA, 1989



"Cementaries of Lincoln Parish"
"And a few Parishes near Lincoln also including miscellaneous material on the Hedgepeth and
Colvin families. Tombstone Inscriptions (Incomplete)"
Long Leaf Pine Chapter, Dar, 1957
Ruston, LA



"Public Education in Lincoln Parish"
Earvin Ryland
Published by M & M Company 1984
Rustin, LA



"Some Slaveholders and Their Slaves Union Parish, Lousiana 1839-1865"
Harry F. Dill and William Simpson
Heritage Books, Inc 1997, Bowie, Maryland
{Note: Remember, some of Lincoln Parish originally comes from Union Parish}



JACKSON PARISH LOUISIANA
Copyright 1982
Published by:Jackson Parish Chamber of Commerce
Jonesboro,LA.
Printed by:Taylor Publishing Company Dallas,Texas
{Note: Remember, some of Lincoln Parish originally comes from Jackson Parish}



CRIMEFIGHTERS: Centennial History of the
Ruston Police department 1884-1984
by Wesley Harris
Published my M & M Printing
Ruston, 1984


Sketches of Old Ruston
by M. S. Hayes
aka Mattie Sue Martin Hayes
Published by S.L.: S.N
1976

I do not have all the publisher information for the following books, but I know they exist because I reviewed them in the New Orleans Public Library.



Notes on a History of Lincoln Parish Louisiana
Kathleen Graham, Librarian
Louisiana Polytechnic Institute



Bulletin of Louisiana Polytechnic Institute
Historical Studies of Lincoln Parish, Commemorating the Sixtieth Aniversary of the Pierian Club.
Edited by Mary Frances Fletcher
Ruston, Louisiana





Local Publishers of Genealogy Material


J & W Enterprise
P.O. Box 19443
Shreveport, LA 71149-0443
(318) 929-1730

J & W Enterprises has an excellent selection of books for any family historian's library. From census index books to marriage record books to cemetary books. They have books of interest for most of the parishes of Northern Louisiana. Give them a call for a catalogue.