D'Arbone Post Office, Union & Lincoln Parishes Louisiana

Submitted for the Union Parish Louisiana USGenWeb Archives by T. D. Hudson, 8/2004


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Early Postmasters of D'Arbone Post Office, Union & Lincoln Parishes Louisiana
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SOURCE:
Records of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832 – September 30, 1971, located in the 
National Archives, identifed as Record Group 28, Microfilm Publication M841, 
Reels #51 & 52. 

T. D. Hudson transcribed this information from the original records and donated 
it to the Union Parish Archives in August 2004. 

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D'ARBONE POST OFFICE ESTABLISHED:
    3 March 1852


HISTORY OF D'ARBONE POST OFFICE:
    moved to Griffin Post Office in Claiborne Parish on 16 April 1860


POSTMASTERS:

John B. Wallis, 8 Mar 1852 - 24 Oct 1853

Joseph H. Morrow 25 Oct 1853 - 4 June 1857

Samuel W. McClendon 5 June 1857 - 23 Mar 1859

John Autrey 24 Mar 1859 - 16 April 1860

      [Changed to Griffin Post Office in Claiborne Parish.]


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COMMENTS:

This approximate location of the D'Arbone Post Office is today located in Lincoln 
Parish. The original postmaster John B. Wallis purchased government land in Sections 
8 and 17, Township 20, Range 3 West in about 1854, and a later postmaster, John 
Autrey, lived in Section 9. The office was located in a sliver of land along Bayou 
D'Arbonne adjacent to the present-day southwestern border of Union Parish. This 
narrow sliver of land remained in Union Parish when the bulk of southwestern Union 
Parish was cut off and put into Jackson Parish in 1845. The D'Arbone post office 
remained in Union Parish until 1873, when it became the northern portion 
of Lincoln Parish, which it remains today.

Samuel W. McClendon, D'Arbone postmaster between 1857 and 1859, lived a few miles 
west in Claiborne Parish, but he was followed by John Autrey, who lived near John 
B. Wallis back in what was then Union Parish. Apparently the office was moved 
back to Claiborne, near McClendon's home in April 1860.



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