Louisa Marion Regan Gregg Brice

One of four pages copied from the Regan Family Bible - location unknown.
Note that "Births" was written over the preprinted "Marriages." Louisa's
birth is recorded on this page. An old transcription shows her name as Louise;
however, all other records show her name as Louisa. 

This post was decided when I saw a Facebook post of the Brice Cemetery in Bienville Parish, Louisiana. Louisa is buried in this cemetery; however, in the cemetery transcription, her maiden name is said to be Davis. I checked numerous family trees on the Internet and found Davis was often recorded as her maiden name as well.  Wanting to clear this up, I knew that I needed to write a post about Louisa. 

Louisa Marion Regan was the second child born to John Regan and Martha Davis. She was a grandchild of my great-great-grandmother, Elizabeth Regan Bryan, and her first husband, Joseph Regan. Three of four census records indicate that Louisa was born in Louisiana. It is said that Reddick Bryan and his wife Elizabeth came from Georgia to Louisiana with most of their family in the fall of 1838. 

Deed records show the John Regan family living in Bossier Parish in the late 1850s until at least 1860. The bible transcription and a compilation of Louisiana marriage records by Jordan Dodd indicate that Louisa Regan married John J. Gregg in Bossier Parish on February 17, 1857 (Oddly, a second marriage date of July 2, 1857 is also found in this publication). 

John J. Gregg and Louisa M. Gregg were recorded on the 1860 census in Bossier Parish along with a one year old child, John J. Gregg. It is assumed this child died at an early age as he was not found in records after this time. 

Another child, Lilla May Gregg was born in 1863. Lilla married W. L. Gilmer. She died on March 2, 1902 and is said to be buried in the Gilmer Cemetery in Webster Parish. This is also the burial place of her grandfather, John Gregg, who died in 1853. 

Bossier Banner - September 1866

John J. Gregg enlisted in Company C, Louisiana 6th Cavalry Regiment during the Civil War. He was on a list of soldiers paroled at Shreveport in June 1865, but lived only a little more than a year following as Louisa M. Gregg was applying to be the administratrix of the succession of his estate in September 1866. 

By 1870, Louisa was the wife of Columbus C. Brice and living in Bienville Parish with his children from his marriage to Francis A. Simpson along with her daughter, Lilla. 

Louisa and Columbus had children Samuel Regan Brice, William Clarence Brice, Thomas Glover Brice, T. Bryan Brice, Ambrose Brice, and Hattie Brice. Death records were found for four of these children; all recorded with Regan as their mother's maiden name. 

Louisa died on July 19, 1908 and is buried in Brice Cemetery in Bienville Parish along with her husband and many family members. 

Louisa's mother, Martha Ann E. Davis was buried in
the Bryan Cemetery in Bienville Parish

We know that Louisa's maiden name was Regan and nothing I found when researching indicated that Louisa ever had the name Davis. Her mother was a Davis, a cousin married a Davis, and in Bossier Parish there was a Louisa Davis who was married to a John J. Davis.  All could have caused some confusion. But, I could be wrong - Louisa could have married a Davis prior to John J. Gregg or before Columbus Brice. Does anyone have documentation? 

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Diana

© 2016

Ancestry.com. 1860 United States Federal; Census Place: Bossier, Louisiana; Roll: M653_408; Page: 718; Image: 277; Family History Library Film: 803408. Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009.

Ancestry.com. 1870 United States Federal; Census Place: Ward 1, Bienville, Louisiana; Roll: M593. Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009.

Ancestry.com. 1880 United States Federal; Census Place: 1st Ward, Bienville, Louisiana; Roll: 448; Family History Film: 1254448; Page: 540C; Enumeration District: 006. Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009.

Ancestry.com. 1900 United States Federal; Census Place: Police Jury Ward 1, Bienville, Louisiana; Roll: T623_558; Page: 6A; Enumeration District: 1. Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009.

The Bossier Banner. (Bossier Parish, LA), Newspaper, September 29, 1866; microfilm. Accessed July 2007. 

"Brice Cemetery, Bienville Parish Cemeteries of LA Gloria B. Mayfield." Brice Cemetery, Bienville Parish Cemeteries of LA Gloria B. Mayfield. Web. 24 Jul. 2016. <http://www.cemeteries-of-tx.com/Louisiana/Bienville/cemetery/Brice.htm>.

Dame, Debra Walker. 2001. Gilmer Cemetery, Webster Parish, LA. Web. 24 Jul. 2016. <http://files.usgwarchives.net/la/bossier/cemeteries/gilmercem.tx>

Dodd, Jordan R., comp. Louisiana Marriage Records, 1851-1900. Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000.

Family photographs and documents (John Regan Family Bible) from the collection of Marguerite Cook Clark. Accessed April 28, 2014 and September 14, 2014. Used with permission.

"Hettie Brice Pratt in the U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007." Web. 24 Jul. 2016. <http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?h=6012161&db=numident&indiv=1>.

"Louisiana Deaths Index, 1850-1875, 1894-1956," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FS19-KT1 : 12 December 2014), Samuel Ragan Brice, 14 Jan 1951; citing Arcadia, Bienville, Louisiana, certificate number 0083, State Archives, Baton Rouge; FHL microfilm 1,418,605.

"Louisiana Deaths Index, 1850-1875, 1894-1956," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FS1Z-THH : 12 December 2014), Thomas Glover Brice, 05 May 1934; citing Arcadia, Bienville, Louisiana, certificate number 5001, State Archives, Baton Rouge; FHL microfilm 2,113,573.

"Louisiana Deaths Index, 1850-1875, 1894-1956," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F3QD-XV4 : 12 December 2014), William Clarence Brice, 23 Aug 1923; citing Shreveport, Caddo, Louisiana, certificate number 8799, State Archives, Baton Rouge; FHL microfilm 2,367,332.

"Soldier Details - The Civil War (U.S. National Park Service)." Soldier Details - The Civil War (U.S. National Park Service). N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Jul. 2016. <https://www.nps.gov/civilwar/search-soldiers-detail.htm?soldierId=E67108A3-DC7A-DF11-BF36-B8AC6F5D926A>.

From the Files of Marguerite Cook Clark: Haughton, Louisiana

Saw this sign on a recent
road trip. Didn't dare ask
to stop!

Here is another photo saved by Marguerite Cook Clark. This is the town of Haughton in Bossier Parish, Louisiana - about 35 minutes from Marguerite's home of Ringgold in Bienville Parish. 

Barncastle Drugs and Groceries

The town's current website states that Haughton was named for the family of William and Harriett Hassell Haughton in 1884. Haughton, previously known as Lawenceville, was renamed after Mary Jane Haughton Lawrence sold land to the railroad, which already had a Lawenceville on it's route. In the photo, the railroad station is on the left and at the end of the road is Barncastle Drugs and Groceries. 

Diana

© 2016

Source

Family photographs and documents from the collection of Diana Bryan Quinn.

Family photographs and documents from the collection of Marguerite Cook Clark. Accessed April 28, 2014 and September 14, 2014. Used with permission.

"Town of Haughton - Our History." Town of Haughton - Our History.  Web. 3 Jul. 2016. <http://www.townofhaughton.org/community/history>.

Friday's Photo: Dorothy Emily Regan

David A. Rogers, Annie Rogers, and Dorothy Emily Regan Rogers

This photo was found in the collection of 
Marguerite Cook Clark. 
On the back is written Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Rogers 
and daughter, Annie. 

Dorothy (Dollie) Emily Regan was the 9th child of John Regan and Martha Davis. She was a granddaughter of Elizabeth Regan Bryan (my great-grandmother).  Dorothy was born on March 4, 1852 and was first found on the 1860 census in Bossier Parrish. 

On December 23, 1868, Dorothy married George Pior who died from gunshot wounds in the winter of 1870 in Bienville Parish.  She married David A. Rogers on August 9, 1874 in Bienville Parish and had six children. Annie is their youngest born in 1887.

David died in 1913 and Dorothy died in 1936. They are both buried in the Arcadia Cemetery in Bienville Parish, Louisiana. 

Diana

© 2015

Family photographs and documents from the collection of Marguerite Cook Clark. Accessed April 28, 2014 and September 14, 2014. Used with permission.

Head, John C. Bienville Parish, Louisiana Marriage Records, 1850-1900. Shreveport, La. (8505 Dixie Blanchard Rd., Shreveport 71107-8176): J & W Enterprises, 1990. Print.

United States. Congress. Congressional Edition. U.S. G.P.O., 1877.  https://books.google.com/books? id=i1xHAQAAIAAJ&dq=%22george+Pior%22+bienville+parish&source=gbs_navlinks_s

Year: 1860; Census Place: Bossier, Louisiana; Roll: M653_408; Page: 716; Image: 275; Family History Library Film: 803408

A Day of Remembrance

Memorial Day, originally Decoration Day, was first widely observed at Arlington National Cemetery in 1868. Major General John A. Logan, head of the Grand Army of the Republic - a Union veterans organization, established Decoration Day as a time to decorate the graves of soldiers who died during the Civil War. 

At this first large observance, President James Garfield spoke and more than 20,000 Union and Confederate soldier's graves were decorated with flowers. 

After World War I, all those who died in America's wars were honored on Memorial Day and in 1971, Memorial Day was declared a national holiday and is celebrated on the last Monday of May. 

In the families that I research, there are many who served in America's Wars, but only a four, that I know of, died during a war. Those four men died serving in the Confederate Army. One, James S. Pitman, was the husband of Georgia Ann Frances Bryan and the other three were brothers; John Tolbert Regan, James Monroe Regan, and Thomas Span Regan. 

Sons of  John Regan and Martha Davis of Bienville Parish, Louisiana
 John Tolbert Regan, James Monroe Regan, and Thomas Spann Regan
Photographs published with permission - Courtesy of Nancy Collins

Sources

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs | Office of Public and Intergovernmental Affairs. Memorial Day History
(http://www.va.gov/opa/speceven/memday/history.asp : accessed 21 May 2013)

Diana

© 2013

Monday's News: News from the Bossier Banner

In 2007 while in Louisiana looking for Bryan and Regan family information, I found the following items in old issues of the Bossier Banner. These people are not related to my family, but I thought that someone researching might like to see some of this information.  

In my notes, I wrote that I looked at most of the issues from July 1, 1859 to June 22, 1860 and from April 17, 1866 through December 1866. I recorded information from legible obituaries and marriages. I did not always record all of an obituary or marriage notice as I was pressed for time, but any information of genealogical importance was recorded. 

 December 23, 1859

On the 19^th inst., of Pnemonia, after a short illness, Mrs. Mary Rasberry consort of L. C. Rasberry aged about 48 years.

Married – on the 10^th instant at the residence of the bride’s father, by the Rev. J. F. Ford, Mr. A. B. George of Claiborne Parish and Miss Penny P. Hodges of this parish.

March 9, 1860

Married

On the 1^st instant at the residence of Gideon Allen by the Rev. Robert Martin.  Mr. Franklin Cavett  to Miss Annie E. Owens all of this parish.