Obit: A.J. Ensminger, Franklin Parish, LA
Submitted by: DeWanna Lindo
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Source:DIARIES OF ALANSON WOOD MOORE
9nd February, 1901, Sunday

At an early hour this A.M. 
A.J. Ensminger aged about 67 years died. Had been in bad health
several months. He was born in this Parish. Nearly the "Oakley church" 
on Deer creek while that part of the country was in Catahoula Parish, 
but for the past 25 years he had lived on the place where he died, in the 
Holly Grove neighborhood.
He was a man who had done a great deal of hard work, spent his life on a
farm. A member of the Masonic fraternity and of the Methodist church, tho 
of this last order at times, he was not a very exemplary member. He was very 
kind hearted and generous nature: a true friend to the needy and the 
orphants(sic), abundant in charitable deeds and hospitality: on the 10 
Sunday he was buried, on his home place, by his Masonic brethren according 
to the rules and usage's of the order.
I would like very much to have attended the burial services but did not
get word of his death till too late to get there.