Obits:  Monroe Bulletin 1882, Morehouse Parish La. excerpts

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Parish Library. We'd like to thank Lora Peppers for sharing her work with the Morehouse Parish Archives.
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The Monroe Bulletin
Wednesday, February 23, 1882
Page 2, Column 2
        G.M. Croxton, of Morehouse parish, died at his residence last Tuesday
week; aged sixty years.


The Monroe Bulletin
Wednesday, May 24, 1882
Page 3, Column 1
        Dr. Wm. Smith of Lind Grove, Morehouse parish, after a painful and
protracted illness died at the Ouachita House last Wednesday.  His remains
were taken to Mississippi for interment.

The Monroe Bulletin
Wednesday, October 25, 1882
Page 3, Column 3
OBITUARY
        DIED, October 19th, 1882, at 7 o'clock p.m., Miss ALICE, eldest
daughter of the late J.C.F. Taylor of Gum Swamp, Morehouse parish.
        Again has the fell destroyer visited the happy household and taken
from it its brightest ornament.  A fond mother's wails and a loving sister's
tears, with the prayers of a host of friends, were unavailing, and to-day
attest the void Alice's death has left in their hearts.  Kind, gentle and
amiable Alice, endeared herself to all who knew her.  Alice had but begun
life; like an opening rose, she had just bloomed into lovely womanhood, when
the chill frost of death withered and blighted her peaceful, happy life. 
Where once was wont to be heard her gay laught is now heard the sob of
despair, and naught is left but ashes and memory, and this memory is so sad. 
Where we lose what we love best we are wont to censure Providence; we fail to
think of the bright home to which our loved one is taken; we fail to see that
He knoweth best.
        Alice is not dead in our hearst, or in that blessed kingdom where with
the other angels she now sings Hosannas to the Highest; feeling this is the
only consolation that remains to her relatives and friends.
        I shall meet you, Alice, in that other and better world where the
heart is not racked with pain and the hearth-stone covered with crape.
                                                        WILLIE RAY