Obit: Charlotte McCall, Grant Parish La Submitted by: Houston Tracy, Jr The Colfax Chronicle 1898 (Date is not completely given) Former librarian, Helen Sorrell, at the Grant Parish Library had gone through some of the microfilm of the newspaper files of the Chronicle and made copies of obituaries and/or news items, which led to death. These were found in a folder on the book shelf at that library on a research trip there 13 February 1999. Copies were made and then extracted to post here in the LaGenWeb archives for Grant and Caddo Parishes. ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** Died - McCall - Former Slave At her home in Rapides Parish, La. on Red River, opposite of Colfax, La. in Grant Parish at 11 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 22, 1898, Charlotte McCall, born in Essex County, Virginia in May of 1815, departed this life aged 84 years and 8 months. The deceased was a fine type of the old ante bellum slave, honourable, upright and intelligent, who carefully preserved and cherished the memories and traditions of the past. She was sold by her master, Capt. Robt. G. (or O.) Hall in 1828 in a drove of sixty to a slave trader, who carried her to Richmond, Va. where she was sold in a drove of twenty, and carried to Huntsville, Alabama and delivered to Judge Smith, by whom she was brought to Louisiana in 1838 (or 1858) in a drove of nineteen families, and placed on the Smithfield plantation, where the town of Colfax is now located. She joined the Smithfield Baptist church in 1876 and lived a true and exemplary Christian up to to the hour of her death. In addition to her own family, she also raised several orphan children, who greatly reverence her memory. These facts are furnished by one of her descendants, who is proud of the integrity and worth of her ancestor, and desires them published in loving memory of the departed.