Hi, I am Jennifer Doucette, Coordinator for Washington Parish, LAGenWeb. Thanks so much for the tireless work of Jo Branch! She worked for years accumulating information for researchers like you! I hope you enjoy your visit. Please email me if you have any suggestions or contributions you would like to make.
Washington Parish was formed in 1819 by splitting off from St.
Tammany Parish. Franklinton was designated as the parish seat on
February 10, 1821.
Washington Parish is the most northeasterly
of what are called the Florida Parishes. Great Britain took over
control of this French territory east of the Mississippi River in 1763
after defeating France in the Seven Years' War. But France had also
ceded some territory to Spain. This area was under contention, and
English and American settlers tried to set up an independent state here
in 1810. The United States annexed the territory, later settling with
Spain in a treaty. Through much of this period, the French influence
remained strong in the region, especially in its former colonial
cities. ~ Wiki
Also see the below files located in the USGenWeb LA Archives::
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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."
Coordinator: Jennifer Doucette
State Coordinator: Marsha Holley
If you have questions or problems with this site, email Jennifer Doucette, Parish Coordinator.
