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Articles of Historic Interest	Maps	Tallulah Schools - Lists & Photos
Bibliography	Marriage Records 1866-1900	Tax Assessments 1865
Biographies	Obituaries	Tax Rolls 1879 & 1881 Tax Rolls 1885 & 1890
Cemeteries Silver Cross and Memorial Park	Old Newspaper Articles	Website Statistics
Census Data	Old Tallulah Phonebooks	Weddings
Civil War Claimants	Photos of Historic Interest	Williams Funeral Home ledger for 1940-1945
Death Records 1900-1949	Plantations and Land Owners - 1875-1979	World War I Draft Data
Land Patents (Original Landowners)	Queries View Queries	World War II Army Enlistments & Reserves
Lookups	Social Security Death Records	World War II and Korean War Scrapbooks from the Madison Parish Draft Board.

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WHAT'S NEW!

Photographic History of Madison Parish Available

Arcadia Publishing Company’s Images of America series now includes a
photographic history of Madison Parish. Released on April 15, 2003 this
book includes historical data, drawings, graphs, maps and photos of the
Madison Parish area relative to the years 1800-1927. The book is divided
into five chapters that document the Early 1800’s, Civil War, Reconstruction,
Early 1900’s and 1927 flood.

The book is available at several locations in Tallulah, including Madison
Historical Society’s Hermione Museum, as well as at major bookstores
such as Barnes and Noble, Borders, Waldenbooks and Books-A-Million.
It is also available online at Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, Arcadia
Publishing and others.

Tallulah Cemeteries - Silver Cross and Memorial Park — Almost complete listing of birth & death dates, with many tombstone photos and links to obituaries & biographies.
April, 2024
Don't Worry About Teenagers 1951 — 70+-year-old Chicago Tribune article about “typical” teenager Babs Pollard of Tallulah, LA.
May 11, 2021
1859-1863 Mark Valentine Diary – Oasis Plantation — Interesting plantation owner’s Civil War diary of a plantation near Brokenburn.
December 22, 2020
Japanese Prisoner-of-War Camp — An account of the Los Banos POW Camp in the Philippines written in 1995 by Betty Kaye Gilfoil Drouant 50 years after she was freed.
October 3, 2016
1947 Tallulah High Trojan — Complete May 20, 1947 issue showing details and pictures of the THS Class of 1947.
September 19, 2016
1916 Tallulah High School Salutatory Address — Original Script of THS graduation address 100 years ago.
September 8, 2016
1891 Plantation and Landowner Map — 1891 Map of Madison Parish showing plantation and landowner names
April 21, 2016
Williams Funeral Home ledger for 1940-1945 — Actual ledger pages containing, among other things, a Death Certificate and Occupation, Birth Date, Funeral Date, Race, Religion and Clergyman's Name, Birth Date, Cause of Death, and Name and Birthplace of both the individual and their Mother (maiden name) and Father.
April 10, 2016
World War II & Korean War Draftboard Scrapbooks — Data containing the names of everyone from Madison Parish who was drafted into the service; when they were drafted; pictures of most of them and most news releases concerning them.
February 7, 2016
Mansford — A History of Mansford Plantation by John Earl Martin.
January 7, 2016
Ashly — A History of the huge Ashly Plantation by John Earl Martin.
December 15, 2015
Does Anyone Ever Look at All This Stuff - 2014? — An interesting statistical review of who is viewing the Madison Parish websites and where they live, including maps. Note: The updated data covers the year 2014. Less-detailed data for 2008-2013 is also presented.
January 15, 2015
Added items from 1920, 1931, 1933 & 1935 Madison Journal — Added several obituaries, weddings and articles.
September 11, 2014
Added items from 1923, 1926 & 1929 Madison Journal — Added several obituaries, weddings and articles.
June 24, 2014
Added items from 1932, 1937 & 1938 Madison Journal — Added several obituaries, weddings and articles.
June 12, 2014
1947 THS Football Team — Newspaper articles related to the 1947 North LA Champion football team.
May 13, 2014
1948 THS Trojan — 1948 Graduation issue (big PDF file)
May 6, 2014
THS State Champions 1946 — Newspaper articles related to the 1946 State Champion football team.
May 4, 2014
Madison Parish 1885 — Very interesting, primarily agricultural, article about Madison Parish from the New Orleans Picayune in June 1885.
April 13, 2014

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