Obit:Judge Van Thomas, Franklin Parish, LA
Submitted by Lora Peppers
 
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The Ouachita Telegraph
April 27, 1872
Page 2, Column 5
The Franklin Sun, of the 12th inst., says:


Judge Van Thomas died at 1  o'clock this morning.  He was one of our
most energetic, public-spirited and esteemed citizens.  Arriving here in
1858, by his natural and acquired endowments, he soon gained a prominent
stand in the community; entered upon the course of a journalist just
before the war as our successor.  During the war he served in the
capacity of Adjutant in Major Wyche's Battalion of State troops. After
the war he engaged in farming, from which pursuit he was called by the
people electing him Parish Judge, the position he held at his death.