Haynes Settlement, 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.

HAYNES SETTLEMENT is believed to be the only community in Livingston Parish

named after a black family.  It appeared on a map of Louisiana as early as 

1900.  Exactly which Haynes it was named for is not yet certain.

     Mrs. Mary Susan Haynes was born in 1890 and her daughter Mrs. Ernestine

Vanzont Coats was born in 1909.  They live together in Haynes Settlement.

     According to Mrs. Haynes, her father, George Haynes, worked at the

Brakenridge Railroad which transported lumber from Maxwell (south of Albany)

to Springfield for shipment by schooner.  He also had the following child-

ren: Tillman, Johnny Henry, Tom, Alevia, and Mattie. -- Mrs. Anita Durand Buess

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