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Sabine Parish, one of Louisiana's border parishes, lies along the
Sabine River which makes a large part of the Louisiana-Texas boundary
between the Gulf of Mexioo and the Arkansas State Line. The parish was created on March 7, 1943.  Legend has it that the name of the Parish Sabine, derived from a story of a crew of french freebooters, after landing at  Lake Sabine, or " Lac de lobos" plied the men of  an Indian tribe with liquor, and abducted the more comely squaws.

The act creating the parish specified that the seat of government should be located "within three miles of the center of the parish,* and that it should be named Many. The name was selected in honor of Colonel John B. Many, commandant at Fort Jesup, then the most important settlement in the parish.

In 1843 William R. D. Speight, judge of the parish court, administered the oath of office to the following officials: Samuel S. Eason, clerk of parish, district aud probate courts; Silas Shelburne, sheriff; E, F. Presley, assessor; John Baldwin, treasurer; William Stoker, coroner; Hosea Presley, John S. Wells, Robert K. McDonald, Joseph McNeely, A. Bradley, P. Rogers and Joseph White, justices of the peace; John McDonald, Lewis McDonald, Bradley Dear, John Critchfield, James Curtis, James M. Gibbs, A, W. Rogers, John Carrol], S. A. Eason and Lawrence White, constables.

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