On this date the 28th of May in 1966 our Mom’s brother John Louis LaPrarie married Shirley Ann Smith, daughter of Howard Smith and Ola Clark of Pascagoula, Mississippi. The Rev. N.H. Smith officiated the double-ring ceremony at Four Mile Creek Baptist …
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On this date the 23rd of May in 1972, our maternal great grandmother Donia passed away in in Winnsboro, Franklin Parish, Louisiana. She married John Louis M. Laprarie about 1899 and had our grandfather John Alvis LaPrarie and 5 other children. About 3 years after …
On this date the 16th of May in 1998, our maternal grandmother, Lucy Dee Wright LaPrarie married Carey S. Bass at Pisgah Baptist Church in Manifest, Louisiana. Papa Dick, as we called him, was our Granny’s beau when they were younger. …
On this date the 2nd of May in 1853 our maternal great-great-grandfather George Washington Wright was born in Jackson Parish, Louisiana to parents Lankford Wright and Louise Eliza Brown. George Washington Wright married Martha Fannie Eubanks and had 7 children* which included our great grandfather John E. Wright. …