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Do you know of Betty ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Betty. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Betty.<1>

Our sources for Betty (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Betty other than they indicate that Betty would be found somewhere in Franklin Parish, Louisiana.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1904 and closed  in 1910.

Communities Also Named Betty ...

We found one communities that share the name Betty.

Within Louisiana, the name Betty is unique.

Beyond Louisiana, there is another community also named Betty in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Kentucky
      • Knott County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Betty [Knott County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Betty ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Betty:

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

Rand McNally Map of Louisiana (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

More Orphans in  Franklin Parish ...

Can you help?

As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Franklin Parish.

Bryan CityKendricks Ferry
Butler 
 Louisville
Dunham 
 Mixon
Hurricane 
 Warsaw

Footnotes ...

<1>This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.
<2>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/









 

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