By Edna Liggin From Molly Liggin Rankin Who were the "relief girls"? What school had one session after another for 21 months? What was "Lickety Split"? What were head-marks? What community was know for its marble playing and who was the man there with the most expertise? In 1839, when Union Parish was carved … Continue reading Seventy-Five Years of Early Schools in Union Parish
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Edna LigginThe Bernice News-Journal An interest is being shown by several Linville girls in books about the handicapped and underprivileged, especially the blind. The story of Helen Keller has been an inspiration for decades but new is Van Wyck Brooks "Sketch for a Portrait", excellent for young people. Other books that we have are "We … Continue reading Bookmobile Browse
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Edna LigginThe Bernice News-JournalAugust 1, 1957 "Excuse My Dust" is the title of a book (by Partridge) as well as a slang expression. But "Excuse our dust" was a apology to make to our readers last week as we made our routes is a parish in need of rain, especially since we had to detour … Continue reading Bookmobile Browse
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Edna LigginThe Bernice News-Journal Do you need help canning, pickling or preserving? Do you need new stories, prayers, or handwork ideas for Vacation Bible School? Do you lack ideas for flower arrangements or a back yard patio? Are you a P.T.A. leader and want to serve to the best of your ability? Do you have … Continue reading Bookmobile Browse
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Edna LigginThe Bernice News-Journal With the vast panorama of Civil War literature spread out before us, including books on the different leaders and battles, the generals, it is refreshing to fine one written from a new viewpoint such as "Brokenburn", the diary of Kate Stone Holmes. A sensitive, educated girl, living on the family plantation … Continue reading Bookmobile Browse
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Edna Liggin The Bernice News-Journal "Down with the old, up with the new," is a slogan that expresses the exciting activities at Bernice these Mondays as the high school moves into a wing of the new building and preparation begins to demolish the old one, where so many Bernice men and women spent so many … Continue reading Bookmobile Browse
Wood-Harvey Feud Began in 1839
Written by Edna Liggin North Louisiana Historical Association The Times - Shreveport LouisianaJuly 2, 1976 It all began a year after the parish of Union was organized in 1839. The president of the first Union Parish Police Jury, Matthew Wood, got involved in a feud with his boyhood chum, Peter Harvey. Matthew was a stern … Continue reading Wood-Harvey Feud Began in 1839
Union Gin, Shiloh and Evergreen News of Week
Farmerville Gazette, February 15, 1939Written by Edna Liggin as Uncle Lige Community Heartbeat: Faces about the country: Mr. and Mrs. Edward Shaver coming up from Ruston to visit his mother, Mrs. Jane Shaver .... Gordon Albritton home from school in New Orleans, due to illness .... Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Poland a-goin' to see Mrs. … Continue reading Union Gin, Shiloh and Evergreen News of Week
Union Gin, Shiloh and Evergreen News of Week
Farmerville Gazette, February 8, 1939Written by Edna Liggin as Uncle Lige Wal, I'll be doggone if ma didn't muss up my colyum last week'. Ma jest ain't a natural born writer like I am. A-puttin' in thar about quilt de-signs, settin' hens and sech follishness! As if my readers keered anything about that! My colyum is … Continue reading Union Gin, Shiloh and Evergreen News of Week
Union Gin, Shiloh and Evergreen News of the Week
Farmerville Gazette, February 1, 1939Written by Edna Liggin as Uncle Lige (Ma Substitoothin) Oh, my goodness, but pa took thet bathe las' week and fer varous reasons he ain't able to writ this week. First, he went to bed sniffin; got up snortin' and chokin; by dinner he had a temper and temperture; an' by night … Continue reading Union Gin, Shiloh and Evergreen News of the Week
Union Gin, Shiloh and Evergreen News of the Week
Farmerville Gazette, January 25, 1939Written by Edna Liggin as Uncle Lige Ma and I Do a Fireside Chat Ma and I wuz a seated by the fire one night last week, she a sewin' up my pants and me wif my feet almost on the mantle. "I hear Junior Barham is losin' money fast," I pipes. … Continue reading Union Gin, Shiloh and Evergreen News of the Week
Union Gin, Shiloh and Evergreen News of the Week
Farmerville Gazette, January 18, 1939Written by Edna Liggin as Uncle Lige "You look like a drowned rat" or "you're as mad as a wet hen." You could have said any of these things to any of us last week and they'd have fitted. Ma had been griping fer months now wantin new pots and pans in … Continue reading Union Gin, Shiloh and Evergreen News of the Week
From Evergreen, Shiloh and Union Gin Communities
Farmerville Gazette, January 11, 1939Written by Edna Liggin as Uncle Lige Wal, fust I'll say I stayed at home New Year's Eve, of my own free will. Then, Sunday, I was a tellin' Ma (my wife) how some of my neighbors spent the Eve, a gal frollicin' I calls it. Danged if Ma didn't get riled. … Continue reading From Evergreen, Shiloh and Union Gin Communities
From Evergreen, Shiloh and Union Gin Communities
Farmerville Gazette, January 4, 1939Written by Edna Liggin as Uncle Lige Christmas mails got me mussed up and I got bee-hind with my news. And doggone, if lots ain't took place durin' the holidays. Lots of good eatin' and rejoicin. Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Albritton were made happy when their son Gordon, came home for … Continue reading From Evergreen, Shiloh and Union Gin Communities
Cumi and Liss – Granddaughters of Daniel Lowery
Written by Edna Liggin The GazetteMay 4, 1978 (Author's Note: This is the third in the series of articles of families living near Lowery's Ferry on Cornie Creek. These families are the Austins, Youngbloods and Lowerys.) Living in the area today are two sisters, granddaughters of Daniel Lowery, who grew up on Cornie Creek near … Continue reading Cumi and Liss – Granddaughters of Daniel Lowery
Life of Willie Reeves
"Mr. Syrup Man" Mr. Willie Reeves has been easing the sweet tooth, and adding the crowning touch to buttered biscuits around Evergreen, Shiloh, Union Gin, and Mt. Tabor, as well as Bernice and other outlying points for a long time now. He does this with a sweet, thick concoction called ribbon cane syrup. Beginning at … Continue reading Life of Willie Reeves
Edna Liggin 100th Birthday
Kim Cox Published on June 13, 2016 https://youtu.be/52eI3omAOXw Edna Marie Matthews Liggin was born in 1916 in Chase, Louisiana. She and her husband Malvin Liggin raised their 3 daughters (Maradee Liggin Cryer, Molly Liggin Rankin, and Jeanne Liggin Salvagio) in Shiloh (a community of Bernice, Louisiana). Edna was famous for her fried apple pies, for … Continue reading Edna Liggin 100th Birthday
News from Union Gin, Evergreen and Shiloh
Farmerville Gazette, October 5, 1939 Written by Edna Liggin as Uncle Lige "Wal," sez Ma, "reckons as thar is a little nip uf frost in thar air, we'd better set a time on killing our yearlin' to can so's the adpshuns kin haf sum hambergers to put in their lunch." I bin alookin' fer this. "ma, … Continue reading News from Union Gin, Evergreen and Shiloh
Civil War Soldier’s Letter to Mother A Cherished Relic
Edna Liggin The Gazette October 5, 1939 Among the many old old heirlooms of Mr. and Mrs. Starling Tabor of Shiloh was found this portion of a letter written in 1863 by Capt. R. J. Tabor, father of Starling Tabor, who was engaged in fighting in the Civil War at the time. *** "Crops are … Continue reading Civil War Soldier’s Letter to Mother A Cherished Relic
Victor Tabor, Old McDonald
Written by Edna Liggin The Gazette October 21, 1976 Victor Tabor, who lives on Rural Road 3320, south of Spearsville, is an almost self-sustaining, on-man farmer, a rare breed in this day of supermarkets, co-ops, and big farms. In fact, he is almost extinct! In the day s of Mr. Tabor's great-grandfather, Joseph Shaw, it … Continue reading Victor Tabor, Old McDonald
From Watermelons to Rocks
Written by Edna Liggin Submitted by Molly Liggin Rankin The Gazette October 28, 1976 The Story of Eugene Pearson "We don't know what happened on this earth long ago," Eugene Pearson told us as we gazed at his collection of varied and unusual rocks and petrified wood. We marveled at the beauty of them, and … Continue reading From Watermelons to Rocks
James Edmunds: The Man and The Legend
Written by Edna Liggin Submitted by Molly Liggin Rankin The Bernice News Journal October 4, 1979 James Edmunds was a man who traveled many miles going from Georgia to Alabama as a young man, then perhaps back to Georgia as a married man. He brought his family to Union Parish in the mid 1840’s. He … Continue reading James Edmunds: The Man and The Legend
Leon Austin – Woodsman of Old Lowery’s Ferry on Cornie Creek
Written by Edna Liggin Submitted by Molly Liggin Rankin The Gazette February 16, 1978 "The best and only place to live" is the theme of every statement Leon Austin makes about his 80 years of living near Lowery's Ferry, his beloved spot on Cornie Creek. Here is his home, his natural environment, here he still … Continue reading Leon Austin – Woodsman of Old Lowery’s Ferry on Cornie Creek
Generations Have Lived in Shiloh Home
Written by Edna Liggin Submitted by Molly Liggin Rankin The Bernice News Journal September 23, 1976 One of the oldest, and most certainly the best preserved of Shiloh's homes of yesteryear is lived in today by Mrs. Chloe Moore and sons. It is at least 120 years of age, maybe more, and is situated a … Continue reading Generations Have Lived in Shiloh Home
Old Home Store Earns Pin Money
Written by Edna Liggin Submitted by Molly Liggin Rankin One of the last genuine old country stores is the background for Mrs. P. K. Hudson's way of earning pin money "at home". Since 1917 she has been coming to this store, located at Litroe. She has sold goods to the same area through a rich … Continue reading Old Home Store Earns Pin Money
Interviews by Edna Liggin
Edna Marie Matthews Liggin with Lottie Hutto Chester McCallum - December 2, 1979 Ruby Lunsford Edna Jernigen
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FAMILY HISTORY OF WILLIS FRANKLIN LINDSEY
Written by Margaret Florence Moffett Provided by Edna Liggin Among the early settlers of Ruston was the family of Willis Franklin Lindsey. He brought his family down from Shiloh, Louisiana, in 1895. Shiloh was a thriving little town situated between Bernice and Farmerville. The Lindsey family was quite large by today's standards. There were three … Continue reading FAMILY HISTORY OF WILLIS FRANKLIN LINDSEY
Mary Ann Chavers Matthews
Written by Edna Liggin - 1939 Granddaughter of Mary Ann Chavers Matthews Submitted by Molly Liggin Rankin Her father abided by the law, "The show must go on" and she abides by the one "Life must go on". Her father was Jesse Chavers, actor on a showboat of long ago that plied the muddy Mississippi. … Continue reading Mary Ann Chavers Matthews
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