Madison Parish, LA Historical and Genealogical Data

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Cemeteries Silver Cross and Memorial Park	Marriage Records 1866-1900	Tax Rolls 1885 & 1890
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WHAT'S NEW!

Photographic History of Madison Parish Available

Arcadia Publishing Company’s Images of America series now includes a photographic history of Madison Parish. Released on April 15, 2003 this book includes historical data, drawings, graphs, maps and photos of the Madison Parish area relative to the years 1800-1927. The book is divided into five chapters that document the Early 1800’s, Civil War, Reconstruction, Early 1900’s and 1927 flood.

The book is available at several locations in Tallulah, including Madison Historical Society’s Hermione Museum, as well as at major bookstores such as Barnes and Noble, Borders, Waldenbooks and Books-A-Million. It is also available online at Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, Arcadia Publishing and others.

Surnames & Queries — Most Recent: Williamson, Thompson, Glasscock, Hill, Doggett/Doggatt, Reed, Waldrup, McPherson, Wilkinson, Tucker, Walker, Thompson, Kahn, Dunlap, Rumsby, Nettles, Foster, Ateman, Landers,
July 2, 2009
Tallulah Cemeteries - Silver Cross and Memorial Park — Added almost 100 new tombstone photos. Almost complete listing of birth & death dates, with many tombstone photos and links to obituaries & biographies.
July 1, 2009
Obituaries — Obituaries are now hyperlinked to cemetery data with almost 900 currently available; many are on former Madison Parish residents not necessarily buried in Madison Parish and some now include photos. Additional obituaries are welcome.
July 1, 2009
Tallulah High School Photos — Added 1958 Girls Basketball Team.
June 26, 2009
Old Tallulah Phonebooks — A sometimes-used substitute for Census and/or City Directory research. Added 1956 book to 1903, 1967, 1969, 1971, 1976, 1980 and 1994 books.
April 17, 2009
History of Tallulah’s Agricultural Experiment Station — History of Tallulah’s “Bug Station”. WPA Project article enhanced with photographs.
March 22, 2009
Crescent Plantation House — The story, written in 1936 as part of a WPA project, of one of the few Madison Parish antebellum houses left standing after the Civil War.
March 22, 2009
History of Tallulah’s First Baptist Church — 1914-1972
March 18, 2009
Original Madison Parish Landowners (Patentees) — A comprehensive list of original landowners who bought (or patented) land in Madison Parish from the US General Land Office (GLO) during the middle 1800’s. The article also contains links to twenty-six color coded original survey township maps that show the property locations.
March 4, 2009
Historic Photos — Added 1948 pictures of First Baptist Church Brotherhood and Groundbreaking.
March 3, 2009
1927 Overflow — Ala Westmoreland Byram’s personal account of this devastating flood.
February 21, 2009
1937 THS Football Season — A series of articles written during the 1937 Tallulah High School football season.
February 8, 2009
Social Security Death Records — A list people who died after receiving Social Security benefits in Madison Parish. Name, birth date, death date, residence and the state in which Social Security application was made are listed.
February 1, 2009
World War II Army Enlistments — A list of World War II Army enlistments from Madison Parish showing name, year & where enlisted, life before enlistment and year of birth.
January 23, 2009
Does Anyone Ever Look at All This Stuff - 2008? — An interesting statistical review of who is viewing the Madison Parish websites and where they live. Note: The updated data only covers the year 2008.
January 5, 2009
Tallulah — An article about Tallulah written in 1926 by “Miss Minnie” Murphy.
December 3, 2008
History of Silver Cross Cemetery — Includes history written by Mrs. Ruth Reed.
March 8, 2008
Weddings — Newspaper write-ups of Madison Parish weddings. Additional wedding write-ups are needed.
July 23, 2007
History of Tallulah’s First Methodist Church — History of the First United Methodist Church including the Union Church from 1873 to about 1981.
June 18, 2007
Ivory-billed Woodpecker Photos — Photos taken in Madison during 1935-1939 by Dr. J. L. Tanner of the U. S. Fish & Wildlife Service.
March 18, 2007
Moses Groves’ Family — History of one of the first families and largest landowners to enter Madison Parish.
November 10, 2006
1848 Map — Madison Parish portion of the well-known “La Tourrette's reference map of the state of Louisiana: from the original surveys of the United States, which show the townships, sections, or mile squares, Spanish grants, settlement rights & c., also the plantations with the owners names engraved thereon...”
1853 Map — 1853 version of the La Tourrette Map.
November 10, 2006
Madison Parish Historic Names and Places on the Lower Mississippi River — An interesting description of Bends, Cutoffs, Landings, Towns and Islands along the Madison Parish portion of the River.
June 8, 2006
Marriage Records 1866-1900 — Marriage records have been updated to include those between 1880 and 1900 (over 5000 new records) and now include records from the earliest available in 1866 to 1900.
March 23, 2006
1927 Flood Map of Madison Parish — Map showing areas in Madison Parish affected by the 1927 Flood. A map showing the entire state of Louisiana may be seen by clicking here. For Mississippi click here.
March 20, 2006

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