Newspaper Clipping, East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana From the "Watchman", Clinton, La., 3 December 1932: Prepared and submitted by Claude B. Slaton, Baker, La. ------------------------------------------------------------------ ************************************************* Submitted to the LAGenWeb Archives ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** . ------------------------------------------------------------------ PICTURES FROM THE PAST EXTRACTS FROM A NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN CLINTON NEARLY A HUNDRED YEARS AGO, WITH SOME OBSERVATIONS The close of the first volume of the Louisianaian, in 1838, necessarily brings this series of articles to a close. A review of the volume tells very little about the pioneer editor, General Munday, who witnessed and was a prominent factor in much of the early history of this section. Happily, from a volume published in the early '90s, we are able to present to our readers a complete biographical sketch of both General and Mrs. Munday, who were at that time still among the living--loved and honored citizens. Following is the sketch: Maj. G. W. Munday, a prominent and well-to-do planter of East Feliciana Parish, and one of its oldest settlers, having been here since 1831, was born in Pass Christian, Miss., while his parents were there spending the summer, during a vacation from New Orleans, La. He was born in 1817, and is a son of Robert and Susan (Kyler) Munday. The father was a native of Virginia, his mother of Lancaster, Penn. The father was reared at Munday's Landing, Ky., now in Mercer County, and was one of three brothers. Reuben and Harrison Munday came from Virginia soon after the settlement of Kentucky by Boone. The two lived here for some time, when Harrison went to Missouri and Reuben to Michigan. The father of our subject was married in Pennsylvania, and with his wife moved to New Orleans from Kentucky in about 1815. He was engaged in building flatboats at Munday's Landing on the Kentucky River, and was also engaged in boating down the river to New Orleans, taking sugar, salt, and supplies. He continued to reside in New Orleans for some time, when he went to Texas during the early troubles, where he died, leaving one son and one daughter. The daughter, Elizabeth Munday, married John Fleeup of Pennsylvania, and settled in Rankin County, Miss., when she died leaving several children. Our... [part of article missing] ...iels, a native of New York, who was reared partly in New York and also in Illinois. She was educated at Lima, at the Genesee Wesleyn Seminary, New York and also in Illinois, at Marengo College. At the age of seventeen she came South to help her brother, who had come here to establish a school. She and a friend, Miss Stewart, joined her brother at the founding of the school known as the Gilliad Academy, of this parish. Mrs. Munday was the daughter of John Daniels, a native of Nova Scotia, B.A., and Lucinda Easton, a native of New York. Her mother was a descendant of the Eastons who came to this country in the Mayflower in 1620. Her parents moved to Illinois when she was a girl, and settled in McHenry County, where they continued to reside the remainder of their lives. They became the parents of four children--two sons and two daughters--all of whom are deceased except Mrs. Munday: William Daniels died in Illinois, at the home of his parents; B. S. Daniels came South and established the school in East Feliciana Parish at Gilliad, and was killed during the late war near Atlanta, Ga., (He with several of his students joined the Fourth Regiment of Louisiana Infantry. He had received a fine education at Charlotteville and Lima, N.Y., and was a promising young man.); the other child, Lucinda, died at the age of two years. To our subject and his wife have been born four children: Daniels Easton, attending school at Port Gibson, Miss., at the Chamberlin Hunt Academy (he is well educated, and was census enumerator of the First Ward of this parish in 1890); Bessie E., is teaching at the Clinton Female Academy (she was educated at the Clinton Academy and at the Louisiana State Normal School, at Natchitoches, and was graduated from the two schools and commenced teaching before she was eighteen years of age, being a very accomplished young lady); Effie died at the age of eleven months, and Willie also died in infancy. Mrs. Munday took charge of the Clinton Female Academy in 1879, and has been successfully in charge ever since. She is well and favorably known and has met with well-deserved success, and given the best satisfaction to all her patrons. She is a lady of fine attainments and highly accomplished. Her special line of work has been in teaching Latin, French, drawing, music, and literary work. In 1891 she had eight graduates. Mrs. Munday and her daughter are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Munday was commissioned Major-General of the militia before the war, and held all the offices from a private to that he last held, major-general. He has taken a very active part in politics all of his life being a staunch Democrat. Before the war he was sent to the legislature in 1852, and was afterward reelected in 1854. He was also a member of the Senate just before the war. Since the war he was again elected to the house and later to the senate. He was also a member of the constitutional convention in 1879. He was president of the Democratic Convention which sent the delegates to nominate Stephen A. Douglas at Baltimore. He was a delegate to the Southern Convention held at Montgomery, Ala., in 1859. While in the legislature he was the means of having a bill passed for the widows' dowery and the homestead law, which made him many friends in this state, also the local option law, about the first act of this character passed by any of the states; it works well. He held many important offices in this parish at different times, being for a number of years a member of the police jury and the assessor of this parish. He has one of the finest libraries to be found anywhere in this vicinity. He is quite interested in farming, enjoying all the advantages of a plantation home. The many ways in which he has served his fellow-citizens and neighbors, politically, have won for him the highest respect of all, which he so richly deserves, and he and his estimable wife are regarded with the utmost esteem in this parish.