HISTORY OF BIENVILLE PARISH VOL. I; Abstracts of Surnames beginning with "F" Submitted with Permission of BILLIE GENE POLAND, by Lynelle Cowan Stevenson, and Martha Stevenson Owen. ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ FAIR FAMILY (First Generation) Frances Caroline RIDDLEHOOVER and family arrived in Bienville Parish ca 1835. James William FAIR from Charlottesville Va. followed her and they were married at Saline La. on 28 Mar 1848. She died after a short time and he married Caroline's sister Ursula RIDDLEHOOVER on 6 May 1855. They had Sim (father of the Ringgold Fairs), William (father of the Ashland and Coushatta Fairs), Arelia, Jim (died young), and Francis Marion (father of the Saline Fairs). Caroline and Ursula buried at Ramah Cemetery. James buried at Liberty Hill. Francis Marion (1864-1924) married Dora FIELDS (1871-1933). Dora's early ancestors were SPRAWLS and WALKER. Children: Jewel, Glennie, Simmie, Eddie, Lessie, Walker G., Tracy Hartwell, Evie, Ernest and Kadel. Gr-gr- grandfather SPRAWLS bought land near Sprawls Creek (now Fair Creek) in 1851, built double pen log home with dog-trot. Simmie married Alice HEARD in 1912. Children: Lance, Dovie, Violet, Jessie Wade. (information on living persons) (photo of Francis Marion Fair and Dora Fields Fair (submitted by Lance B. Fair) FAIR, Francis Marion Family Born 14 Feb 1864, Died 29 Aug 1924, married Dora Sophronia FIELDS, born 23 April 1871, died 5 Jan 1938. Children: Jewel T. born 22 May 1888, died 18Nov 1897; Glennie Parlee born 13 Nov 1889, died 26 Dec 1976. Never married; Sim born 28 July 1891 died 11 Nov 1938. Married Alice HEARD born 7 Sept 1892, died 24 Oct 1974 Walker G. born 24 May 1893, died 29 May 1893; Tracy Hartwell born 6 Dec 1895 died 6 April 1942, married Elva BRAZZLE born 14 Nov 1897; Evie born 2 Nov 1896, died 10 June 1973, married Charles William CORBITT Jr. and 2nd Tillman Burt HOOD; Ernest H. born 23 Dec 1879, died 20 Sept 1953, married Inez ROGERS born 2 Sept 1900, died 25 Dec 1971; Novis Kadel born 4 Oct 1902, died 19 Feb 1913; Lessie born 22 May 1906, married Zelma Ellis ENLOE. All buried in Old Saline Cemetery, Bienville Parish, La. FAIR, James Hartwell Family (concerns living persons) FAIR, Lance (concerns living persons) (submitted by Sarah Fair Tapee) FAIR, Sim (submitted by Rita-Lois Rexer Fair, concerns living person) FIELDS, Felder family Felder Burkett Fields born 2 Feb 1896, died 9 Apr 1962, son of Marion Walker and Lula MATTHEWS Fields, married 12 Jan 1921 to Eva CORBITT, born 4 Feb 1903, daughter of John Marion Fields and Clara WATTS. (Article names children etc., concerns living persons) FIELDS, Sam O. Mother of Bettye Raburn Knotts Wiggins was Lillie D. Fields, born 16 Oct 1901. Lillie's father was Samuel Ossa Fields and her mother was Mary Elizabeth WILLIAMS. One brother, O.D., who married Josie WILLIAMS. (2 children, Nada Sexton and Rayfred Fields). Lillie had 2 sisters, Mamie and Enolie. Mamie married Marshall SULLIVAN and had 2 sons, Fred and Otis Roy. Enolie married Clarence SULLIVAN and had 3 daughters, Glennie, Mary Nettie and Marie. Samuel Ossa Fields was born 29 Jan 1878, died 1965. Had 2 brothers, Walker and Warren Fields and sisters Dora (married Marion FAIR), Ella (married Walter ROBINETTE), Udie (married Lemuel FREY), Lena (married Clarence CLOUD), Lucy Fields SPRAWLS, Unice (married Tom HEMBY) and Ella ROBINETTE. Sam O. Fields father was Rev. John Harrison "Jack" Fields (1848) and his mother was Mary Evelyn SPRAWLS (1852-1930), daughter of Samuel SPRAWLS and ____ WALKER. Mary Evelyn Sprawls brothers were Samuel, William, Christopher, Jim and Jefferson. Her sisters were Marcella (married George Fields, brother to Rev. Jack Fields), and Katy Sprawls. Charles Fields, another brother of Rev. Jack's married Fillie THOMAS. FOUTS, Maria Theresa Born 20 Nov 1821, died 25 Jan 1897, daughter of John Martin Fouts born 9 Sept 1781, died 19 Jan 1845 and Martha Ware NELSON born 14 Jan 1790, died 11 May 1844. Sister, Martha Ware Fouts, who died at age 8 and is buried at the Raborn Salt Lick, their own land, along with their parents and others. Her brothers are: David Cook Fouts born 20 July 1823, died 1874, married his cousin Martha NELSON born 11 Mar 1847, moved to Natchitoches Parish; John M. Fouts Jr. born 21 Aug 1830, married Amanda NEWMAN 17 Aug 1853. John suffered from an illness in the Civil War, he served the Confederacy, along with his brother David Cook Fouts. Said to have died young; Thomas Jefferson Fouts, M.D. born 11 Feb 1834, died 7 April 1901, married his cousin Harriet Maria BRINSON 18 Apr 1861. Maria Theresa Fouts married Criswell Polk WHITLOW born 4 Mar 1806, died 11 May 1884. Married 5 April 1840. Both are buried at Friendship Cemetery. Children: 1. Permilia Milliner Whitlow born 9 June 1841, died 11 Feb 1911, married Cpl. Joseph C. BABERS, boen 9 Jan 1845, died Sept 1864. He fought in the Civil War but died of measles at home, buried at Friendship. Descendants: Mary Ellen Babers born 21 May 1861, died 31 Dec 1897, descendants: Dorothy Ann LOE TOMPKINS daughter of Dr. and Mrs. G.M. LOE, Arcadia LA , had 3 sons. Another daughter, Marie Antoinette (Nette) born 18 April 1856, married WillBURTON of TX and moved to Hugo, OK. 2. Amanda Martha Whitlow born 2 July 1843, died 18 Sept 1873, married John L. DYESS. Descendants: daughter Lillie married ___ GOODMAN of Paris TX. 3.Criswell Polk Whitlow Jr. born 8 Feb 1845, died 30 Jan 1884, buried at Sparta LA but has a Confederate marker at Friendship. Married Emma Dynn EASLEY. Descendants: Delphine married Charlie FREY, had 1 child, moved to TX. Corinne married John MURRELL, had children Claude, Friendship, Daisy Hebert, lived Conroe TX. , Cora married in TX, had several children. 4. Granville Farley (Dan) Whitlow born 7 Feb 1847, moved to Paris TX, 2 daughters, Gladys and Marjorie. 5. Algernon Gray Whitlow born 8 Mar 1849, died 7 Feb 1931, married Roberta EASLEY born 2 Aug 1869, died 27 Feb 1918. Both buried at Friendship. Children: James Burle, Ruth, Lawson. 6. Cornelius Grunda Whitlow born 3 Feb 1851, died 19 Feb 1905, married Lucy LONG, born 5 Feb 1880, both buried at Gibsland LA. Descendants: 3 Davis girls, daughter of their daughter Cora, Corpus Christi TX. 7. Samantha B. (Panthea) born 20 April 1853, died 2 Feb 1887, married Charlie FRIERSON, had a daughter, Sarah Amanda Frierson, born 9 Oct 1873. After C. P. Whitlow's death, Maria Theresa married Samson RABORN, 19 Oct 1856. He was a widower from Tangipahoa Parish. They had 2 children. Moved to Paris TX toward the end of the Civil War. Raborn had made salt at the Salt Lick . He died 21 Nov 1871 and is buried at Paris TX. Children: Alphonso Cook Raborn born 19 Jan 1858, died 16 Sept 1911. Married Ida McKeithen, moved to DeSoto Parish. Maria Theresa Raborn was the 9th child of Maria Theresa Fouts, born 24 May 1862, died 17 Nov 1918. Married James Lafayette BARRON. She returned to Friendship with her mother after living 12 years in Paris TX. (picture of Maria Theresa Fouts) FOUTS-NELSON FAMILY After the Revolutionary War, Maj. John NELSON received land as outpay. He moved his family to West Feliciana Parish LA, where they resided on the river. They were dissatisfied there and moved to Friendship, Bienville Parish, LA. The place they settled was later called Raborn Salt Lick Plantation. (See article on Major John Nelson under the "N" families) FRAME, John Meredith Born in Winn Parish LA on 18 July 1877, died 18 Dec 1952. Married Martha SMITH 12 April 1898. She was born 30 Jan 1885, died 3 Dec 1959. They are buried in Friendship Cemetery. They lived first in Natchitoches Parish, then moved to Danville, Bienville Parish. 7 children: Lena married Abner (Bogie) LOWE, Beatrice married Cass ROBERTSON, Roy died young, Melvina married Osborn SHIVELY, Mercile married Joe BUONO, Aldora married Robert GRIFFIN, Nathaniel married Dorothy CASKEY. (lists further descendants who are living) FRANKS, Peter He may very well have been the earliest permanent settler in Bienville Parish according to noted parish historian Philip Cook. Lavinia Egan, another noted historian argues that he arrived at the same time as that if Isaac ALDEN and John MURRELL in what is now Webster Parish. MURRELL settled near ALDEN on Aug 6, 1818 north of present day Minden LA. Murrell himself states that Peter Franks "was an early settler on Brushy Creek in what is now Bienville Parish." Franks is mentioned as a charter member of the Providence Church, formed 11 June 1825, and located between Gibs land and Arcadia. (Many sources mention Peter Franks as a very early settler) Peter's gr-grandfather was John Martin Franks (1682- 1845), a Lutheran schoolteacher, who arrived in London in 1709 from the German Paltinate. He married Civilla MILLER, daughter of Captain John and Catherine MILLER and migrated to America, settling in Craven Co. NC. He was a farmer, large landowner, government official. Children: Jacob, John Martin, Edward, Elizabeth, Mary Susanna, Katharina, Barbara and Anna Sibyella. Jacob Franks, Peter's grandfather, moved to Wilkes Co. GA, married Mary Ann ASHLEY, daughter of John Plowman ASHLEY of Anson Co. NC. Children: Anthony, Joseph, Peter, Andrew, Brittain, Mary. Peter's father, Andrew Franks, born 1758 in Wake Co. NC, married Seley (Celia) McKENZIE on 12 Jan 1780. Children: Elizah, Burrill I., Joseph, Peter, Lucy and Celia. The family was in the Cape Girardeau District MO. Around the turn of the century. In 1818 Andrew purchased land on the east bank of Black Lake in what is now Bienville Parish. Peter Franks was born 6 Dec 1781 in NC. He married Rachel HITT, daughter of John and Frances Banks Hitt on 5 Aug 1808. Children: Elizabeth, Elizah, John, Green, Henry, Doctor, Frankey, Morgan, Celia, Isaac. Peter died 14 Aug 1866, Rachel died 2 Oct 1869. They are believed to be buried in unmarked graves in the old section of Liberty Hill Cemetery. (submitted by Dr. H. Glenn Jordan) FULMER, E.A. Eugene A. Fulmer, son of Leroy P. Fulmer and Gertrude HONEYCUTT, born 7 Nov 1909, Alazan TX. (concerns living persons) (submitted by E.A. Fulmer) End ===== Abstracts from "The History of Bienville Parish, Louisiana, Vol. I With the permission of Billie Gene Poland we will begin posting abstracts of the Family History articles contained in "History of Bienville Parish Vol I", published in 1984. The name of the contributor of the article is included in the abstracts if it was given in the book. NO ADDRESSES ARE GIVEN IN THE BOOK and we have no knowledge of how to contact them. If a picture is included with the article it is noted, along with the names of the people in the picture. WE CANNOT COPY THE PICTURES FOR YOU OR COPY THE ENTIRE ARTICLES. Some of the articles are quite lengthy and contain much more information than we can copy here. We are copying only the names, dates, marraiges, and children when the information is given in the book. Please be warned that we've made no effort to verify the information and it is only as good as the researcher who contributed it. Also some of the articles on families now living has not been included for obvious reasons. I did check the articles for grandparents names etc. This is "slow going", so please be patient with us! Thanks, Lynelle and Markie