The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1920-07-01
nell, X. H. Kilgore, Elias Skannell,
w. o. Burns and II. Barnacastle.
WARD SIX

nell, r. H. Kilgore, Elias Skannell,
W. o. Burns and II. Barnacastle
WARD SIX
r. w. Hodges, Burton Presnall, r. r.
Roby. 1. NJ. Galloway. William Allen,
A. K. Sears, -. Caruth. j. e. Davis,
John w. Strange, G. W. Fletcher, w. B.
johnson. j. H. Sandlin, T. Lawrence
and J. J. Branton.
Bossier Parish is not as large by far
as it was sixty years ago. During the
7Os Webster was created and much Of
its territory was given in the forma-
ton of that parish. The parish is to-
day comprised of six wards las them
but their boundaries are, of course, not
tile same For instance, Ward Five
must have embraced Fillmore and the
and extended to Dorcheat Hlyou. and
miles soutll-being very large, it would
seem. John I. Council, Il resident Of
the ward, was overseer OH the Minden
and Shreveport road from Fillmore to
the twelve-mile post. B. $. Edwards,
J. u. Bryan. A. B. Skannell and Il. IL.
kiigore, also residents of Ward Five,
We're overseers on the Moscow road
from III. Walkers to the west end of
Clark's Bayou bridge, to the east edge
of the prairie, to Moscow, and to the
south corner Of DR.. Stewards fielti.
respectively e. A. Boon was overseer
on the road that led by :" his horse lot
to the new bridge on Dorchete." Peter
Richardson was overseer on tile Minden
and Point road, to work from the
east bank of w. +. Boons mill creek
to the Minden Ferry" w. c. Naples
was overseer OH the Minden a IL
Shreveport road from the west edge of
Dorchete bottom to the west edge of
caney Bayou
Sixty years ago Bellevue was in
Ward Four as is to be seen from the
road mileage apportioned to sdlne of the
oyerseers for that ward !. From Belle
vue to John G. Hodges residence I and
. from j. c. Hodges residence to where
| said road intersects the Minden and
| Shreveport road,' all Of which mileage
was on the Bellevue and Shreveport
| lower road: OH the Afford road from
| the Bellevue and. Shreveport road to
| Fillmore on the Bellevue and Point
road 8 from Bellevue to the tllree-mile
| post y and . from the three-nile posi-
| to Fillmore
So it would seem that Wards -Four
4 and Five, as well as Ward Six were
east of Bodcau; that Ward -Four was
/ north of Ward Five, and here is proof
that Ward Six was north of Ward
-Four and extended to the Arkansas
line: |. NJ Galloway, William AlleI
/ and A. X. Sears, of Ward Six were
oyerseers on the Bellevue and Arkan
sas road :. from William Crownover'.
| to the intersection of the Jones' Ferr.
road, from the Jones' Ferry roat
to the old Skies Ferry road AM
8 from the old Skies Ferry road to til,
Arkansas line" 1t is also to be seer
that Ward Six extended on the e;ls
to Dorcheat.
The Wards One and Two Of sixt.
years ago seem to have embraced ahou
the same territory as to-day; perhaps
/ they were slightly larger-especiall.
Ward Two. Ward Three, it is to b.
seen, embraced all of the present War,
Three. Ward Four. and no Doubt hal
or more of the present Ward Five. $,
sixty years ago Red Land, I'lainvill
(Which seems to have been Red Land
postoffice) Rocky Mount and Collins
burg were all i'll Ward Three.
The story does not end here-bu
space and lack of time forbid