Red River County Louisiana Archives News.....Names in The Natchitoches Chronicle of June 16, 1860 June 16, 1860 ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Carolyn Shank Carolynshank@msn.com January 6, 2008, 5:00 pm Natchitoches Genealogist Oct. 1979 June 16, 1860 BEFORE 1871, the area of the present Red River Parish was part of Natchitoches Parish. The following was transcripted from The Natchitoches Chronicle of June 16, 1860 and contains names of some of those early residents who lived in the area that was to become Red River. Page 2, column 5: WILLIAM PAYNE W. ROBINSON WALMSLEY, CARVER & CO. JOHN W. BROWN JAMES M. COLLINS ISIAH GRAR F. M. HARTMAN M. CARROLL JOHN W. TABER HARRIS HAMILTON MRS. A. ROY JAMES E. KEGAN PETER WILSON WILLIAM STEWART JAMES M. ELLIOTT JAMES BREEDLOVE LESSEE RICE F. B. LEE F. WILLIAMS LEON GRAPPE F. A. WINN M. LISSO ADOLPHE LEMEE GABRIEL PRUDHOMME W. S. CAMPBELL R. H. WADE JOSHUA LOOKE JOHN TESSIER GILMA PEROT E. S. BLACKSTONE A. LECOMTE JAMES HUGHES LEONARD TRICHEL GEORGE MARTIN Page 2, column 6 J. C. LEOPOLD A. W. HAMILTON SANDERS PROTHRO W. S. CAMPBELL DEVEN WILLIAMS F. VIENNE VARMES RACHAL WM. PAYNE FIRMIN LATTIER JACOB MORRIS N. FULLER VARNES RACHAL W. E. ROST Road overseers JOHN W. BROWLINGDE CLEMENT PEROT H. E. LEWIS CHARLES PEROT SM. J. SMITH WILLIAM HENDRICKS EVANDER GANDY JOHN WELCH LUDGER LEVASSEUR JOHN R. BOSLEY A. W. DEAN VALMONT TESSIER WILLIAM CHILDERS ST. ANN PRUDHOMME JUCHIN DESLOUCHES JOHN PRUDHOMME JOSEPH WINN OCTAVE METOYER JAMES WILEY SIMEON RACHAL HICK PHARIS LEWIS GALLIEN JOHN REYNOLDS BENOIT LAVESPERRE COL. THOMPSON SERAPHIN RACHAL Captains of Patrol: WILLIAM SMITH W. D. PHELPS TIM LYNCH C. P. BLANCHARD B. M. LYNCH A. CARTER D. E. HOVEY J. D. ELLSEY FAUSTIN PLAISANCE R. A. L. McCURDY EMILE TAUZIN File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/la/redriver/newspapers/namesint92gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/lafiles/ File size: 3.4 Kb