Commissioners of Elections: 1870, St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana Submitted by Cynthia M. Craddock Mrs. Holden has graciously allowed me to use this material from her book. Mrs. Doris E. Holden 90 Dewberry Road Covington, Louisiana 70435 Cynthia M. Craddock Host for St. Tammany Parish LA on the USGenWeb Project ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** TIPS FOR SEARCHING RECORDS ON THE INTERNET Netscape & Ms Explorer users: If searching for a particular surname, locality or date while going through the records in the archives or anywhere....try these few steps: 1. Go to the top of the report you are searching. 2. Click on EDIT at the top of your screen. 3. Next click on FIND in the edit menu. 4. When the square pops up, enter what you are looking for in the FIND WHAT ___________blank. 5. Click on DIRECTION __DOWN. 6. And last click on FIND NEXT and continue to click on FIND NEXT until you reach the end of the report. This should highlight the item that you indicated in "find what" every place it appears in the report. You must continue to click on FIND NEXT till you reach the end of the report to see all of the locations of the item indicated. COMMISSIONERS OF ELECTIONS JULY 18, 1870 #1 Bogue Chitto..............Edgar D. Evans W. W. Talley John Pierce #2 Jno. J. Evans.............Thos. J. Mortee M. J. Evans Jas. W. Ernest, Jr. #3 West Pearl................A. W. Weems Morris Talley Geo. N. Kennedy #4 BonFuca...................Jno. Terrence Narsisse Ballancier Paul J. Gusman #5 Bayou Lacombe.............Jonnsair Ducre Benj. Morgan Francois Flot, Jr. #6 Mandeville................W. R. Nixon Alex Chervlon Israel Jones #7 Madisonville..............Archy Dicks Thos. Badaux G. W. F. Johnson #8 Covington.................H. Schneider Jas. H. Harper M. R. Miller POLICE OFFICERS #1 Silas J. Leslie #6 Levi Johnson #2 None #7 Chas. S. Dutsch #3 Geo. Mundy #8 James Hosmer James Taylor #4 John Roche ABBREVIATIONS AM......ABITA MILLS AR......ABITA RIVER AUS.....AUSTRIA BAV.....BAVARIA BC......BOGUE CHITTO BF......BOGUE FALAYA/FALIA BL......BAYOU LACOMBE BON.....BONFUCA BRU.....BRUNSWICK CAN.....CANADA CB......CASTIN BAYOU CBY.....CUTRER BRICKYARD CHAT....CHATTERS CI......COQUILLE ISLAND CLAB....CLAIBORNE COV.....COVINGTON D.......DECEASED BEFORE 1872 DEN.....DENMARK DSET....DUTCH SETTLEMENT DUN.....DUNCANS ENG.....ENGLAND F.......FATHER FR......FRANCE GBY.....GATES' BRICKYARD GER.....GERMANY GF......GRANDFATHER GSET....GERMAN SETTLEMENT HAV.....HAVANA HEIS....HEISSERS HI......HONEY ISLAND HOL.....HOLLAND HOLR....HOLMESVILLE ROAD IBY.....INGRAM'S BRICKYARD IRE.....IRELAND IT......ITALY LAF.....LAFOURCHE LCP.....LANCASTER PLACE LEBL....LEBLANC LEW.....LEWISBURG LF......LESLIE'S FERRY, BC LOP.....LIVE OAK PLACE M.......MONTH MAD.....MADISONVILLE MAN/MAN.MANDEVILLE MV......MOVED BEFORE 1872 N.......NEAR N.O.....NEW ORLEANS NAT.....NATURALIZED OLD.....OLDENBERG P GR....PINE GROVE P.......PARIS PARK....PARKERSVILLE POL.....POLAND PON.....PONCHATALOWA PR......PEARL RIVER PRT.....PORTUGAL PRU.....PRUSSIA QUE.....QUEBEC RB......RUSS' BRICKYARD SCT.....SCOTLAND SEM.....SIMALUSA SHLDS...SHIELDS SLI.....SLIDELL SP......SPAIN SSB.....SUNNYSIDE BRICKYARD ST. HEL.ST. HELENA ST.TAM..ST. TAMMANY SWE.....SWEDEN SWZ.....SWITZERLAND TAL.....TALISHEEK TANG....TANGIPAHOA PARISH TCHR....TCHEFUNCTA RIVER U.S.....STAND. POSTAL ABRV. WEB.....WEBBERS' WER.....WERTENBERG WP......WASH. PARISH WPR.....WEST PEARL RIVER