Wall Bayou, 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.

     Wall Bayou is located four miles southeast of Frost and immedia-

tely south of Gum Swamp.  Wall Bayou and Edwards Bayou serve as the

only drainage outlets to Gum Swamp and both eventually flow into the

Tickfaw River.  Wall Bayou flows through Section 35, T7S-R5E and 

Sections 2 and 1, T8S-R5E. (1)

     Thomas Thompkins Wall purchased a great deal of land in Section

2, T8S-R5E beginning on March 11, 1859. (2)

     James Thomas "Judge" Smiley (born 1891), a lifelong resident of

the Frost area, stated that he believed that Wall Bayou was named 

after Tom Wall. (3) 

     Thomas T. Wall served in the 9th Battn. of La. Infantry during

the Civil War, and was captured and paroled at Port Hudson in July of

1863. (4)  In poor health after the war, he died in August of 1868. (5)

---Clark Forrest, Jr.

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(1) United States Geological Survey Map, Springfield Quadrangle,
15 Minute Series (Topographic), 1963
(2) US Tract Book 1A, p. 223, Louisiana State Land Office, Baton
Rouge.
(3) Personal interview by Clark Forrest, Jr. with James Thomas
Smiley on Sept. 27, 1972.
(4) Booth, Andrew B., "Records of Louisiana Confederate Soldiers and
Louisiana Confederate Commands"
(5) Medical Journal of Dr. George Colmer (1807-1878) of Springfield, La.

**Revised in 1998 by W.B. Wall.**

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