Editing Albany, Louisiana (section)

==Etymology==
It is speculated that the name of the community is derived from the [[Choctaw]] word ''abani'' which means "to cook over a fire" in the [[Choctaw language]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Leeper|first=Clare D'Artois |title=Louisiana Place Names: Popular, Unusual, and Forgotten Stories of Towns, Cities, Plantations, Bayous, and Even Some Cemeteries|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZHeeUa0xNxcC&pg=PA12|date=October 19, 2012 |publisher=[[Louisiana State University Press|LSU Press]] |isbn=978-0-8071-4740-5|page=12}}</ref> After interviewing many of the older residents and comparing their answers it was determined that the community was named after the nearby [[Natalbany River]]. During an interview Mrs. George (Mary Addison) Cunningham who was born on November 11, 1884, stated that when the [[Illinois Central Railroad]] built a line through the town they tried to name the community Natalbany but the railroad and post office refused the name because there was already a community with the same name.<ref name="Albany-1">{{cite web |first=D. N. |last=Pardue |url=http://files.usgwarchives.net/la/livingston/history/town/albany.txt |title=Albany, Livingston Parish, Louisiana |quote= From the book entitled ''The Free State - A History and Place-Names Study of Livingston Parish'' by the members of the Livingston Parish American Revolution Bicentennial Committee in cooperation with the Livingston Parish Police Jury and the Louisiana American Revolution Bicentennial Commission, 1976. |website=LAGenWeb Archives |access-date=2019-08-31}}</ref>