Origin of the name of Sadie Community in northeastern Union Parish Louisiana

Submitted for the Union Parish Louisiana USGenWeb Archives by David Dawkins, 6/2007


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Origin of the name of Sadie Community in northeastern Union Parish Louisiana

Source: 
    La Salle Soil Conservation Service, Jena, Louisiana
    Mrs. Lorine Smith, Farmerville, Louisiana
    Mrs. Joseph Conti, Dist. Conservation Rapides Soil Conservation Serv., Alexandria, Louisiana
    Mrs. Walterine Brewton Durham, Jena, Louisiana

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Sadie Smith Brewton (1 Jan 1894 - 11 Aug 1986) the third child of eight children of 
Mr. & Mrs. Levoisia Edmond Smith. The family lived in a small cross roads village, 
approximately ten miles north of Marion, Louisiana. Levoisia Smith, a prominent timber 
and land owner, built a small general store on the edge of wooded area, adjacent to 
their home. The store and community needed a name because a post office was being 
established there. Sadie's aunt, who ran the store and who was fond of her niece 
requested that the post office be named Sadie. The village, post office and school 
all acquired the name Sadie. A highway sign bears the name Sadie. The mail was brough 
from Monroe by train to a designated point and was tossed from the baggage car. It was 
picked up there and brought by horse back to Sadie.

The family moved from Sadie to Litroe, Louisiana which is a small village north of Sadie 
and near the Arkansas-Louisiana state line. It is located near the railroad which made a 
Y there. It was named Litroe because it was between Little Rock, Arkansas and Monroe, 
Louisiana.The major industry for the area was timber and logging. The logs were loaded 
on flat bed cars and carried by rail to the nearby Union Saw Mill Company in Flesenthal, 
Arkansas. Sadie went to Louisiana State Normal College that later became Northwestern 
State University in Natchitoches. Sadie moved to Jena, Louisiana after completing her 
college education. In 1917 she began her career as a public school teacher. Soon after 
becoming a teacher, she met Walter W. Brewton (died 1951), who had come to Jena from 
Goldonna, Louisiana. In 1918, Walter Brewton and Sadie Smith were married.


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