Showing posts with label LA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label LA. Show all posts
Thursday, July 3, 2025

Benjamin Temple and his son James Family History

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For decades the Temple family history has been longstanding in Tangipahoa Parish. Oftentimes genealogy research can take you behind what the...
Saturday, May 24, 2025

Gardening bring me great joy

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  As a child, I lived on the twenty acres of land that my maternal grandmother Emma had purchased in 1896. Long before I was born, the land ...
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Tuesday, April 25, 2023

Mayor of Ponchatoula signs application for Historical Marker for Rev. Arthur Tasker

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Left to right Eddie Ponds, Councilwoman Batiste, James M. Perrin Antoinette Harrell, Mayor Robert F. Zambia I am pleased to announce that to...
Saturday, January 28, 2023

Citizens Voters League Members in Tangipahoa, Livingston, and St. Helena Parishes 1955

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Photo Courtesy Library of Congress BE IT KNOWN, That on the this 3rd day of September, 1955, before me, Leonard E. Yokum, a duly commissione...
Friday, November 11, 2022

Gideon T. Carter An Educator and Political Leader in Tangipahoa Parish

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Gideon Tillman Carter Gideon Tillman Carter, 1924-1984, believed in a powerful of God, a solid education, and strong work ethic. Carter was ...
Monday, November 7, 2022

The History of Butler Town in Amite, Louisiana

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Butler Memorial Park Photo Credit: Antoinette Harrell In Amite, Louisiana, there is a black settlement called Butler Town. Amite is 70 miles...
Sunday, April 3, 2022

The Legacy of Three Generations Vernon Men of Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana

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Each time I speak with members of the Vernon family and others who were a part of the community and have recollections of some of the  commu...
Monday, February 28, 2022

Ouida Plantation in St. Francisville, Louisiana

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Ouida Plantation West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana Photo Credit: Dr. Antoinette Harrell Ouida Plantation contains about 475 acres of land in ...

Exploring and Discovering African American Genealogy and History in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana

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Charley Smothers Greater Hollywood Church, West Feliciana Photo Credit: Dr. Antoinette Harrell S unday was the perfect day to drive down the...
Monday, December 6, 2021

American Singer Irma Thomas Was Born in Ponchatoula, Louisiana

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I rma Lee Thomas  was born in 1941 in Ponchatoula, Louisiana.  She started out singing as a teenager in a Baptist Church choir. She was marr...
Sunday, December 5, 2021

Singer Songwriter Robert Parker "Barefootin" Passed Away at His Home in Roseland, Louisiana

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B arefootin was written and performed by Robert Parker. The song reached No.2 on the U.S. Hot Rhythm & Blues Singles chart and No.7 on t...
Monday, November 15, 2021

Patsy Z. Johnson African American Funeral Program Collection Soon Will Be Digitized at EBPL Genealogy and Special Collections

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L ast month Johnson was reading a news article about the preservation of African American funeral programs in the Louisiana Florida Parishes...
Tuesday, December 29, 2020

Hammond School Suspend Negroes Students

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  Source The Town Talk (Alexandria, Louisiana)  Sept 7, 1963                          The first kind of such demonstration in Southeastern, ...
Tuesday, October 27, 2020

In Loving Memory of Clord Andrew "Brother" Crockeham

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C lord Andrew "Brother" Crockerham was born to Ado Crockerham and Luvina Williams Crockerham on January 30, 1939 in Independence, ...
Monday, February 10, 2020

Mariah Hall the Wife of Hollis Wicker of St. Helena, Louisiana.

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Mariah Hall Wicker, the wife of Hollis Wicker. They had four children; Mable, Ulyess, Reynold and ? Wicker. She was the daughter of Joe H...
Tuesday, December 10, 2019

Man Addison Sold in St. Helena August 29, 1860

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The sale of Addison in St. Helena Parish, Louisiana. The newspaper article described negro man was offered for sale on Friday, the 3rd day...
Monday, April 16, 2018

Because Every Picture Tell A Story

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Ruth Landrew Jackson A couple of days ago cousin Oliver Jackson, Jr., called me and asked me to contact cousin Ruth to get pictures o...
Wednesday, October 18, 2017

Mary Carter Was a Trail blazer in Ponchatoula, Louisiana

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Mary Carter M ary Carter served as temporary District 4 alderwoman since Nov. 1984.  She was appointed by the Board of Aldermen to serv...
Sunday, September 24, 2017

Celebration of Life for Earl Lee Richardson, Sr.

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Alpha: May 26, 1948.   Omega: September 17, 2017 E arl Lee Richardson, Sr was born on May 26, 1948, in New Orleans, Louisiana, to the ...
Wednesday, August 30, 2017

Lettie Anderson Sewing Up Bloody Tangipahoa

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Lettie Anderson, Gumbo Magazine L ettie Andeson, nearly 90 years old, knows about Blood Tangipahoa,. She saw it every Saturday night. W...