Marburyville, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana
Submitted to the USGenWeb Archives by Robert Vernon, Nov., 2000

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>From "Individual Studies of Place Names in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, James Valsin Coumes, 
Tangipahoa Parish Resource Unit, Tangipahoa Parish School Board, 1972."

MARBURYVILLE

Marburyville was a community, perhaps a post-hamlet which existed in the southeastern part of 
T3S-R7E, the location being northeast of what is now the town of Amite and not more than two 
miles east of where Big Creek empties into the Tangipahoa River.

In 1836 William Marbury, Jr. purchased at a sheriff¹s sale several tracts of land from Alexander, 
Leonard, Mary, and William Marbury, Sr.  Part of the legal transaction reads: ..."3rdly Having 
offered one other section of Six hundred and forty acres of land, also situation in the Parish, and 
forty acres of land, also situated in this Parish, known as Marburyville and bounded by the 
Tangipahoa River and lands of William Marbury Senior...."  An earlier page in the same 
conveyance book lists the children of William Marbury, Sr.; namely, William, Alexander, Leonard, 
and Mary. Since no earlier record was found of other Marburys in the region around Marburyville, 
the conclusion is that the settlement derives its name from this Marbury family, in particular from 
William Marbury, Sr.