Chandler Branch, Livingston Parish, Louisiana
File prepared by D.N. Pardue



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From the book entitled "The Free State - A History and Place-Names Study
of Livingston Parish" by the members of the Livingston Parish American
Revolution Bicentennial Committee in cooperation with the Livingston 
Parish Police Jury and the Louisiana American Revolution Bicentennial
Commission, 1976.  Reprinted by permission.  Dedicated to the memory of
Reuben Cooper and Raymond Riggs.

CHANDLER BRANCH is one of several streams in Livingston Parish which in

different historical time periods would have been known by different names.

It is now known and designated on maps as Smary Branch.

     A 1906 copy of the Livingston Times, furnished by Mrs. Anita Durand 

Buess, a former Livingston Parish resident, mentions that Willie Watts was

appointed overseer of the road from mile post 13 to Chandler Branch and Fred

Stoetzner was in charge of the road from Chandler Branch to the Ward line.

     Emmett Wagner and Ambrose Hoover, lifelong residents of the area, have

confirmed that Chandler Branch and Smary Branch are the same stream.  Land

records at the State Land Office in Baton Rouge show that Samuel Chandler

purchased land from the US Government on Nov. 15, 1836 that is situated near

the confluence of Chandler Branch with the Little Natalbany River. ---Clark

Forrest, Jr.

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