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Source: Wikipedia
Union
Parish
The
Louisiana Legislature created
Union Parish on 13 March 1839 from
Ouachita Parish. The name comes
from a statement made by Daniel
Webster: “liberty and union, now
and forever, one and inseparable”.
These influential local citizens
petitioned the legislature for the
creation of Union Parish: Wiley
Underwood, Peter J. Harvey, John
Taylor, Colonel Matthew Wood,
Stephen Colvin, Philip Feazle,
Daniel Payne, and William Wood
Farmer. The legislature appointed
John Taylor as the first parish
judge, and he held this position
for twenty years. Elections for
the Union Parish Police Jury (the
governing body of each Louisiana
parish was called the “police
jury”) were held in March and
April 1839.The Union Parish Police
Jury deliberated all day on 17 May
1839 concerning the location of
the parish seat. Still meeting at
the house of William Wilkerson on
May 18th, they agreed that the “seat
of justice” should be located
near the confluence of Bayous d’Arbonne
and Corney. They also selected the
name of Farmerville for the parish
seat, undoubtedly in honor of
early settler and War of 1812
veteran Mills Farmer, who had died
a few years earlier on 21 October
1834.
Cities
and Towns
Bernice
Downsville
Farmerville
Junction City
Lillie
Marion
Rocky
Branch
Spearsville
Sterlington
Adjacent
Parishes
Union County,
Arkansas (northwest)
Ashley
County, Arkansas (northeast)
Morehouse
Parish (east)
Ouachita
Parish (southeast)
Lincoln Parish (southwest)
Claiborne
Parish (west)
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