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 Union Parish, Louisiana

 

 Marion, LA, in northern Union Parish where Sarah E. J. Rochelle Ross took her family when he and Elias George married in 1851. Her sister Mary Bryant, their families, servants and possessions made a wagon train, overland and by boat, from southeast Perry County, AL to Alabama Landing on the Washita River in LA.

 

  House built by Elias George in 1850 is the largest house in Marion, to which Sarah Rochelle Ross came in 1851 as a 2nd-time bride. Note the remaining trees of 150-year-old cedar-bordered path.

 Original furniture in large parlor. Furnishings were purchased in New Orleans.

   

 BRICK handmade on the property

 One of several original beds still in use

 Sarah's stepdaughter Louisa George Tompkins wrote a fascinating first-hand account of both families' move from Perry Co., AL, to Union Parish. A large group of Alabamans from Perry Co. moved there via land and river to Alabama Landing on the Ouachita River. Excerpts at RossFamily2. Or, Memoirs in full at Union Parish GenWeb.

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