LOUISIANA BAYOU HUNT - DATE SET - APRIL 08 !

[Juanmoretime]

Re: LOUISIANA BAYOU HUNT - DATE SET - APRIL '08 !

Looks like there could be a lot of prizes left over if we don't pass THE TEST !!!

RR
Will consideration for old tired brains count at all

Steve

 

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[RickyP]

Re: LOUISIANA BAYOU HUNT - DATE SET - APRIL '08 !

You know, when I was in school, I was always the teachers pet. I was able to get out of home work and pop quiz's by cleaning the erasers or taking out the trash and maybe ocassionally cutting some grass on the weekend. Are you feeling me River Rat.

 

[Mental Granny]

Re: LOUISIANA BAYOU HUNT - DATE SET - APRIL '08 !

still think I am in BIG TROUBLE!

 

[Cynangyl]

Re: LOUISIANA BAYOU HUNT - DATE SET - APRIL '08 !

Here I was thinking it was horrible I couldn't go now I find out there is a TEST?!!? Whew!! At least I don't have to take a test! lol Ah come on....I am just thinking on the bright side!

 

[RickyP]

Re: LOUISIANA BAYOU HUNT - DATE SET - APRIL '08 !

River Rat,

Seeing how you haven't posted here since you bashed me with your hammer, that I still have a headache from, it was post #329 on March 1 @ 12:07:46 am. What the h@#L were you doing up at that time of the morning anyway? You were writing out the test, weren't you?

I still like the Teachers Pet thingy

 

[River Rat]

Re: LOUISIANA BAYOU HUNT - DATE SET - APRIL '08 !

Richland Parish History continues....

C.C. Chennault killed in Richland Parish Louisiana -1910

While attempting to arrest a blacksmith known as J, C.Freeman,
Saturday evening about 6:30 o'clock town marshall, Christoher C.Chennault
was shot and instantly killed by Freeman.
During the day Freeman and Hartan Bagby also a blacksmith had had some
trouble about some tools which Bagby had in his shop and which Freeman
refused to let him take away. Twice during the day Freeman had cursed
and abused Bagby, if he bothered him, Freeman, about the tools.
The blacksmith shop is situated in the north end of Rayvi1le,
and there are several occupied residences quite near. Bagby
lived with Bob Wynn just across the street.
And it was for cursing and using obscene language in the street
and in the presence of ladies that Freeman was to be arrested.
There are two wide double doors on both the north and south
sides of the shop.
Bagby and Bob Wynn were with the Marshall Chennault. As Chennault and
Bagby approached the shop the south doors were closed; when they got
within a few feet.Chennault called to Freeman and told him to come out,
that he wanted to speak to him. Freeman asked who it was and when Chennault
told him. Freeman opened the door, as the marshall went to step in Freeman
snatched up a Winchester pump and fired. The distance was only a few feet,
and the whole load of buck shot struck Chennault in the lower part of the throat.
The neck bone was shattered and death instantaneous.
So quickly and so unexpectedly was the assault made that although Chennault
had his pistol in his bosom, where he carried it when without his coat,
every button of his shirt was still fastened, this going to prove that he
had no time to even make an effort to defend himself.
When Chennault fell dead Bagby and Wynn began to get away as fast as possible.
As Wynn started around a buggy he slipped and partly fell, at that instant Freeman
fired at him, the load of shot passing over
Wynn's bent body. The slip saved him from being killed.
Freeman then went out the north door to shoot Bagby, who was running to Wynn's
house, where he lived, just across the street. He fired at Freeman several times
with a pistol but missed. As he entered the door and was going through the hall
Freeman fired twice putting the two loads into the wall and door facing. These
shots passed through the walls and would have struck one of Wynn's ch1ldren directly
in line; had not Bagby snatched it up as he ran through.
When Freeman got back into the shop Mr. Balfour had arrived and he asked Freeman
who killed Chennault; Freeman replied, I killed him. Mr. Balfour was unarmed and
could do nothing. Freeman then started toward and up the N. 0. & W. R. R. tracks.
By this time E. S. Stewart, Lem Scott, and C. W. Hunt came up, Hunt had a gun but
Freeman got the drop on him and made him turn it loose.
Stewart followed by Scott and Hunt followed on after Freeman. Freeman drew his gun
on Stewart and told him that he, Freeman; would kill him if he did not stop, Stewart
did not stop, he kept on going toward Freeman but right then was when he put up the
talk of his life, that shotgun pointed straight at him brought talk from, Stewart that
he didn't know was there. Scott was coming on and helping out in the talk. Freeman
let him come up, and he agreed to surrender to the sheriff. They started back and when
near the shop he gave up his gun.
In the mean-time the sheriff's office was notified that there was trouble at Studstill's
old blacksmith shop, Deputy A. A. Abell, at once started to the scene; before he got there
he heard that Freeman had killed Chennault; and tried to kill others in the shop. Abell
jumped on some body's horse and rushed back to get his rifle. Before he could get away
from the office,Sheriff Traylor who had been notified at home galloped and aske4 for his
pistol, but when he learned the real thing he got his shotgun and started, all the other
men in town were running over each other trying to borrow a shotgun or rifle.
When Sheriff Traylor located Freeman he had given up his gun to Stewart and Scott.
He was at once hurried to jail.

 

[River Rat]

Re: LOUISIANA BAYOU HUNT - DATE SET - APRIL '08 !

Richland Parish History continues...

Oldest market business in Rayville sold in 1927, Richland Parish, Louisiana

Notice to the Public

On January 1, 1927 the undersigned will take over and operate the meat
business formerly conducted by E.S. Stewart, and we wish to thank
the public for the valued patronage given in the past and ask that you.
one and all, continue with us, as we have been connected with this
business in the past. We are well known in Rayville and invite you to
keep right on with us, buying your good meats and eats at the same
old place, as we will spare no pains to give you the best.

When you are in doubt as to what you are to have for dinner, just
ring for No.1 or ask for the Sanitary Meat Market and maybe we
can help you solve your problems.
Respectfully.
J.J. Clack
J.R. Kennedy

Oldest Market Changes Hands

Elsewhere in this issue will be seen the announcement to the effect
that Mr. E.S. Stewart has sold his market to Messrs. Clack and
Kennedy, effective Jan 1st. In passing it is of interest when it is
remembered that this is the oldest market in Rayville.

About thirty-five years ago, Mr. Stewart opened up this business
and through all of these years the Stewart Market has served,
and served well, the people of this town in the line of fresh meats
and kindred items.

The new proprietors are not strangers to Rayville people by any
means, and will doubtless enjoy a liberal patronage.

 

[Bridge End Farm]

Re: LOUISIANA BAYOU HUNT - DATE SET - APRIL '08 !

Can I just take my "F" now please. Or maybe an incomplete LOL I guess I better bring my own prize so I win something

 

[Noodle]

Re: LOUISIANA BAYOU HUNT - DATE SET - APRIL '08 !

What's interesting about your account, River Rat, is that 7-8 years ago, I was contacted by some genealogists I had been in contact with that there was a cemetery north of Rayville on the River Road that had "disappeared." (I've recounted this elsewhere on here some years ago.) Well, I couldn't let that get away from me.

We met one Saturday morning and went to the spot where we thought it was. Couldn't find it. Found a church with a small cemetery, but no large old cemetery. Went back a couple of weeks later and got to looking at the property next door to the church. There was a thicket of woods next to the church's cemetery, with a barn beyond that. I entered the barn from the south side, and worked my way to the north side. There, I encountered a wooded area that was just stiflyingly thick. I stepped down into the wooded area and had to crawl from there, literally. Lots of bamboo, berry thickets, low brush. All at once I found myself nose to nose with a rather tall burial marker. It was from the 1800s. By now, my friends were crawling behind me, but were still several feet away. I began to read the writing on the tombstone. It was beautiful, sentimental, and very memorable. I finished reading and asked Dot if she'd gotten all that (she was writing). She said ... just a minute ... I'm crying. It was that beautiful.

We uncovered about 2-3 acres of cemetery, with C. C. Chenault's burial site and stone being one of them. He was one of the first officials of the Rayville law enforcement. The local sheriff, Charles McDonald, brought in prisoners to clean out the downed trees that had crushed old iron fences and all the brush. They did a good job. Still, we have to go back every year to make sure it's being kept cleared. During the clearing, we did find several stones piled up together, some of them being the grandparents of one of the ladies with me. A farmer had come along and pulled a bulldozer in behind the barn and proceeded to plow through the back of the cemetery, taking several stones with him. She knew where her grandparents' graves had been from visiting them in her childhood. The stones were no longer there, but you could see the grave indentions.

It's sad, but so many gravesites disappear in this way.

Noodle

 

[Juanmoretime]

Re: LOUISIANA BAYOU HUNT - DATE SET - APRIL '08 !

Good story !! It's amazing how quick nature can take over something like that. Glad ya'll found it!

Good job!

 

[stoney56]

Re: LOUISIANA BAYOU HUNT - DATE SET - APRIL '08 !

That's great that you found it. One of our clubs works at cleaning up old cemeteries on the weekend over by Muskogee. Unfortunately, it's usually on a Sat. so we can't go help as work interferes.

http://www.threeforkstreasurehunters.org/publicservice.html

 

[Noodle]

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That is soooo sad. Relatives move away and the entire cemetery is forgotten. Thank goodness for you folks who go out and try to salvage what is there.

My good friend Terry, who will be cooking at the hunt, went to a relative's field (40-50 acres) and found his ancestors' headstones. Lying out in the field, no connection to the actual graves. He took them home with him, and it's so weird to see them sitting in his yard. He's trying to decide what to do with them. Totally disconnected from the bodies now.

Noodle

 

[River Rat]

Re: LOUISIANA BAYOU HUNT - DATE SET - APRIL '08 !

Here's the cemetery that Noodle is talking about...

Scott-Wright Ford’s Cemetery, Richland Parish Louisiana


Take the Rayville exit off I-20. Go North on Hwy 138/137 to Hwy 80, turn East on
Hwy 80 to get to Hwy 852. At Hwy 852, go North about 3-1/2 miles. Cemetery is on
the East side of Hwy 852. The South end of the cemetery is the old original
Scott-Wright Ford’s Cemetery that runs from the fence line on the South to the culvert
on the North just past the last wrought iron fenced in graves.

Revised reading of cemetery and research below furnished by Barbara Jones Gandy,
Brenda Eppinette Grammar, Donnis Banks, and Bonnie Cannon Jackson as of Sept. 4, 2003


First burial in 1856 of John W. Wilson and final burial in 1968 of Henry Waldron Steinhilper.

Bell, Charles R. Footstone CRB
“Son of B. G. & M. A. Bell”
b. Sept. 29, 1867
d. Aug. 10, 1873

Bell, Margaret A. Stone broken in pieces.
“Wife of R. C. Bell”
b. Jan. 21, 1831
d. Feb. 15, 1881

Box, Birdie Daughter of F. M. & Barbria Scott Box.
“Wife of W. J. Bruce”
d. May 12, 1912 - Age 22

Box, F. M. Name is Francis Marion Box.
d. June 22, 1914 - Age 79

Scott, Barbria
“Wife of F. M. Box”
d. Oct. 21, 1911 - Age 72

Box, Henry F.
“Infant son of J. E. & Katie Box”
b. – d. Nov. 14, 1904

Box, John Elmore Buried beside son, Henry F. Box.
b. Dec. 1861 Stone is missing that once was there.
d. May 1, 1921

Box, Katie Rouse Stone is missing that once was there.
b. 1882
d. June 26, 1924

Box, Oscar T.
“Son of F. M. & Barbria Box”
b. May 8, 1886
d. Oct. 16, 1911


“Children of F. M. & J. A. Brister” 3 names on same marker.
William T.
d. Mar. 1, 1865
Age 6 yrs. 8 mos. 26 days

Mary A.
d. Nov. 6, 1865
Age 4 yrs. 1 mo. 21 days

Allen
d. Sept. 4, 1875
Age 1 yrs. 5 mos. 27 days

Chennault, Christopher C. His and William Latham’s name on same
b. April 28, 1823 stone. Both were husbands of Mary J. Stewart.
d. Feb. 13, 1862

Chennault, J. N. JNC footstone. Daughter’s name on his marker.
b. July 9, 1853
d. April 11, 1881

Chennault, Mary E. MEC footstone. J. N. & Mary E. on same marker.
“Mary E. is the daugher of J. N. & R. Chennault”
b. Sept. 30, 1879
d. Sept. 16, 1881

Chennault, R. C. Pc. of broken stone found with R.C. on it near
J. N. Chennault’s grave. This could be his wife
Rosanna Thomason Chennault.

Gammill, Fannie Sharp
“Wife of J. F. Martin”
b. 1842
d. 1935

Martin, J. F.
Co. K 35 Miss. Inf. CSA
No dates on marker

Gammill, Nancy Nancy & Wesley Gammill on same marker.
Mother
b. Feb. 20, 1862
d. May 30, 1924

Gammill, Wesley
Father
b. Sept. 22, 1860
d. Oct. 9, 1934

Greer, Georgiana
“Wife of W. J. Greer”
d. July 21, 1914
Age 89 yrs. old

Johns, Alice T.
b. 1865
d. Nov. 15, 1941

Johns, John B.
b. Jan. 19, 1872
d. Oct. 1, 1941

Jones, John Rufus Son-in-law of F. M. & Barbria Scott Box.
No Marker Husband of Eula P. Box.
b. April, 1869
d. Aug. 17, 1918

Lathrum, William Shares marker with Christopher C. Chennault.
b. March 13, 1825
d. Dec. 1, 1872

Osbone, B.
b. Feb. 1, 1910
d. Feb. 9, 1910

Osbone, B. E.
K. of P.
b. 1845
d. Aug. 22, 1912

Osbone, B. E., Jr.
b. Feb. 8, 1885
d. May 29, 1903

Osbone, Ida V.
b. Jan. 30, 1905
d. Sept. 24, 1910

Osborne
Metal name plate
No other information

Pitts Footstone with JAP. Could be John A. B. Pitts,
brother of J. Newton Pitts.



Pitts, J. Newton First Clerk of Court of Richland Parish, LA
“Clerk of Court over 14 yrs.”
b. Dec. 31, 1846
d. March 14, 1883

Pugh, Abram Marina
b. May 11, 1849
d. Dec. 29, 1856

Scott Children Probably children of Elijah & Amanda Scott.
No dates. Lived in their household.
Jenetta Gabrilla
Laura L.
Joseph E. Johnson

Scott, Lem Second sheriff of Richland Parish, LA
b. Sept. 15, 1853
d. Oct. 19, 1913

Scott, Annie C. Wife of Lem Scott.
b. April 29, 1865
d. Dec. 20, 1909

Scott, Baby Lem
“Son of Lem & Annie C. Scott”
b. Aug. 26, 1885
d. Oct. 9, 1885

Scott, Amanda
“Wife of Elijah Scott”
b. 1831
d. 1892
Age 61

Scott, Elijah Elijah & Amanda Scott share same marker.
b. 1819
d. 1890
Age 72

Scott, Fannie Daughter of Elijah & Amanda Scott.
“Wife of Robert H. Brown”
b. May 29, 1861
d. April 27, 1891

Scott, Minnie C.
b. Aug. 12, 1886
d. Jan. 21, 1893


Steinhilper, H. A. Father of Henry Waldon Steinhilper.
No marker.

Steinhilper, Mollie E. Mother of Henry Waldon Steinhilper.
Mother
d. July 3, 1933

Steinhilper, Henry Waldon
b. Oct. 3, 1909
d. Feb. 23, 1968

Steinhilper, Roberta
No marker. Wife of Henry Waldon Steinhilper.
b. abt. 1909

Williams, Jasper
b. Oct. 15, 1879
d. April 16, 1912

Wilson, John W. John W. & Sarah F. Wilson on same marker.
b. May 10, 1821
d. Feb. 6, 1856

Wilson, Sarah F.
b. May 1, 1851
d. Feb. 1, 1863

Wood, J. Everet
b. June 5, 1902
d. April 11, 1914

Wright, George W. Son of Geo. W. Wright, Sr. and Louisa Williams
b. March 16, 1870 Scott Wright.
d. March 11, 1894

 

[Mental Granny]

Re: LOUISIANA BAYOU HUNT - DATE SET - APRIL '08 !

Wow I really love the old cemetary info! Thanks for putting it on here RR Well Ithink I gotta get off for nor the storms getting worse lightin is flasin pretty bad.

 

[RickyP]

Re: LOUISIANA BAYOU HUNT - DATE SET - APRIL '08 !

River Rat,

Love your new Easter avatar. I spoke to someone yesterday that gave the whole scoop on you. I mean the whole scoop and nothing but the scoop. I mean he just kept going on and on and on........He must like you a whole bunch, cause he said an awful lot of nice things about you.

 

[River Rat]

Re: LOUISIANA BAYOU HUNT - DATE SET - APRIL '08 !

Ricky,

I can't even begin to think who this may be...I know a lot of people. Could had been someone who was in the military with me, I have a cousin who is the editor of the Gonzales newspaper. Give me some more hints.
Are you ??

RR

 

[Cynangyl]

Re: LOUISIANA BAYOU HUNT - DATE SET - APRIL '08 !

No, he is not ...he is trying to blackmail the teacher into a good grade!

 

[Noodle]

Re: LOUISIANA BAYOU HUNT - DATE SET - APRIL '08 !

Way to go, Cynangyl I believe you have PEGGED RickyP!

 

[Mental Granny]

Re: LOUISIANA BAYOU HUNT - DATE SET - APRIL '08 !

Talking about TEACHERS PET HeHe! Will we see someone staying after class to clean erasers All I can say is way to go!

 

[RickyP]

Re: LOUISIANA BAYOU HUNT - DATE SET - APRIL '08 !

Oh no. I would never, ever think about sucking up to a good grade, let alone actually doing it. But, the longer I can keep her occupied on something else, and I may string this one out for days, the less time she'll have for making up the test. And once she finds out who it is, she'll probably give me an "F" anyway, for hanging out with them.

I had told RR, that it was strange the way the conversation started with this guy yesterday and then going home and seeing the topic on the LBH post. Weird. We were talking about an old Hungarian Cemetary.

And, no I am not 'ing I HATE TO Ya'll Have a Blessed Day