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From: "Greggory E. Davies" <>
Subject: Re: [LAWINN-L] Marriages of Grandparents
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 02:38:24 -0500


JU Bishop wrote:
>
> I have a request that hopefully someone will be able to help me with.
> Our grandparents lived and were married in Winn Parrish back in the late
> 1800's.
> Winfield S. Crump was born in La. in 1847. We haven't been able to find his
> parents as yet. We do know he married Batham (no last name) in approx 1873.
> This wife died about 1883 and Winfield remarried. Her name was Sarah A.Wilson.
> This marriage took place in 1885. We would like to have copies of these two
> marriage licenses.
> Our second grandfather's name is Peter Bird who was born in Alabama in 1847.
> We have no record of his first marriage,but his second marriage was to
> Sarah C.(no last name) in 1888. Again, we need a copy of his marriages.
> Any help would be more than appreciated.
> J.U.Bishop
>
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I will try and run this down for you at the Winn Parish Courthouse, but,
sadly, the courthouse here had a recurring problem of burning every few
years (1868, 1885, 1917). The first two fires were by arson; the third
fire was accidental when the night marshal and his cronies met back up
there to play poker after their nightly rounds, knocked a lantern over
and burned it again, but fortunately, most of the records were saved.
So....there is a chance that if any of these folks appear on record
after 1885, we might have them.

You might go to the Winn Parish Archives page listed below and put the
names in the search engine at the bottom of the page and get lucky.

<http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/la/winn.htm>;

Gregg

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