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
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
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
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
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
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
The GazetteNovember 21, 1974 To the Editor: In 1850, my Grandfather Elijah Tabor moved his family to Shiloh from Winston County, Mississippi. His home, which is pictured above, took two years to build because, he explained, everything had to be done by hand. The two-story log cabin was put together with pegs and is still … Continue reading Letters to the Editor – Grandfather Elijah Tabor
Wesley HarrisPiney Woods Journal Correspondent The office of constable is unknown to most Louisianans. While the elective office appears on the ballot of each parish every four years, most citizens have little idea what constables do. Each ward in every parish elects a justice of the peace and a constable. The "JP" is essentially the … Continue reading Lawman John Ferguson Did His Duty, Died For It
Submitted by: Karen Mabry Rice Submitted to USGW Archives by: Karen Mabry Rice, T. D. Hudson, and Shawn Martin HOMICIDE NEAR SHILOH From the Farmerville "Home Advocate" Issue of 24 April 1885, Page 3 We learn that Mr. W. P. Mabry, an aged gentleman residing in the vicinity of Shiloh, was ruthlessly shot and killed … Continue reading 1885 Murder of William P. Mabry of 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
The Gazette December 10, 1930 J. Dan Lowery, 45, a resident of the Shiloh ward of this parish died in a hospital in Monroe last Thursday from a gunshot wound which he received on Wednesday morning of last week at the hand of his cousin, Esau Lowery, living in the same community. The shooting occurred … Continue reading Dan Lowery Is Killed By A Relative
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
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
Bernice Historical Society Bernice Dots #20 By Cathy Buckley In January of 1938 construction began on a new high school building for the Bernice area; “brick veneer and modern in every aspect.” The school was located on the site of the old baseball field so construction included a new baseball field complete with a wall … Continue reading Bernice Dots #20
Written by Dr. Timothy D. Hudson Born in Georgia in 1825, William Pierce Mabry married Catherine H. Cook in Chambers County Alabama in 1847. About 1855, they moved to Louisiana and settled near Shiloh. Initially, they lived in Claiborne Parish, where he built carriages and wagons, but in the latter 1860s, they moved closer to … Continue reading The Murder of William Pierce Mabry of Shiloh
Written by Dr. Timothy D. Hudson During the latter half of the nineteenth century, Shiloh formed the commercial center of the western portion of Union Parish, attracting extensive business from not only the surrounding countryside of southwestern Union, but also from portions of Claiborne, Jackson, and Lincoln Parishes due to Shiloh’s role as a gateway … Continue reading Shiloh
Dr. Timothy D. Hudson John Nimrod Ferguson was born in Butts County Georgia on 2 October 1838, the son of Thomas Jefferson Ferguson and Hannah McCallum. The family moved to Spalding County Georgia in the 1840s, and John married there in 1862 to Martha Rebecca Weldon. After service in the Confederate Army during the War, … Continue reading The Assassination of Shiloh Constable John Nimrod Ferguson
