From the Back Cover
The result of more than fifteen years of research, this genealogy includes the family histories of more than ten ancestral lines primarily hailing from Louisiana and Mississippi. The familes of Frazer, Owen, Bessellieu, Carter, Shaw Wright, Landfair, Briggs, Neill, Tidwell, and Johnson are among those included in this comprehensive volume. Using family traditions as a starting point, Charles Owen Johnson relies upon family records, including deeds, wills, administration papers, tax lists, tombstones, and census and church records, to create this detailed and expansive resource. The wealth of information includes entries regarding hundreds of family members, many of which are accompanied by historic photographs and text from marriage announcements and obituaries.
About the Author
Charles Owen Johnson developed an interest in family history by listening to the stories of his great-aunt. An attorney by profession, Johnson served as first editor of Hereditary Register of the United States of America. He was the governor general of the Plymouth Hereditary Society, has been the president of the Louisiana Chapter of the National Huguenot Society, and is a member of dozens of organizations, among them the Round Table Club of New Orleans. Listed in Who's Who in the World and the Blue Book of Washington, D.C., Johnson received a B.A. from Tulane University, LL.B. from Harvard Law School, J.D. from Tulane Law School, and LL.M. from Columbia Law School. A Louisiana native, Johnson was born in Monroe, Louisiana.