The GazetteOctober 5, 1939 Body's Proceedings of First Meetings Show How Parish Started Nothing can tell the history of a parish better than the records of that parish's governing body the police jury. Fortunate is Union Parish in having an almost continuous record of the minutes of its police jury from the time of the … Continue reading Police Jury Records Tell Of Progress
New Orleans Times August 27, 1868 In denying that W. C. Carr, of Farmersville, is not with his consent a member of the State Radical Central Committee for Union parish, and that he had written to this city to have his name taken off the list, the Record says: Dr. Carr was an earnest supporter … Continue reading 1868 Radical Central Committee and Dr. Carr of Farmerville, Union Parish Louisiana
Written by Dr. Tim Hudson Allen Carr and his younger brother, Dr. William Cleaton Carr, arrived in what is now Union Parish with the first wave of Alabama settlers who followed Dr. Carr's father-in-law, Col. Matthew Wood, to the Piney Hills in January 1837. After the creation of Union Parish, both Carr brothers actively worked … Continue reading The Allen Carr Saga
