Obits:  The Ouachita Telegraph 1867Obits, Morehouse parish excerpts
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The Ouachita Telegraph
October 10, 1867
Page 2, Column 3

 DEATH OF W.H. GAYLE, ESQ.  It was but the other day, we were called upon
to announce the demise of the gifted and lamented Slack, and now the same
melancholy duty must be performed for another one of our leading citizens,
the late W.H. Gayle, who died of swamp fever, on the 5th inst., while
temporarily absent from home, at his place in Morehouse parish.  Mr. Gayle
had hardly reached the prime of life, when he was so unexpectedly cut down
and his career of usefulness abruptly terminated.  He was still busily
planning for the future and struggling noble against adverse fortune, when
the stroke came which severed him from an intersting and devoted family and
from a large circle of friends.  It is difficult for the writer, who was but
recently a sharer of deceased's hospitality, to realize that he who was then
all vigor and vivacity, is now the tenant of a silent grave!  And yet, such
indeed is life!  "It is not in man that walketh to direct his steps."  To
all and to each of us, an hour is appointed to die, and none of us know how
soon the bony finger of time may point to the eventful moment which shall
summon us away from the vanities, cares and frivolities of life.  May we all
go, as did our lamented friend, prepared to meet our beneficent and all-wise
Judge!


The Ouachita Telegraph
October 31, 1867
Page 2, Column 5
Died,
 AT THE RESIDENCE of her parents, near Girard Station, Morehouse Parish, of
congestive fever, on the 10th of October, 1867, FLORENCE ELMA, daughter of
A.E. and W.T. Jordan; aged three years, seven months and seven days.
 Another bud has been transplanted by the Father of Spirits, to bloom
perpetually by the River of Life, in that Heavenly Eden, whence her Redeemer
has preceded her, and says, "Suffer little children to come unto me, and
forbid them not, for of such is the Kingdom of Heaven."
                "Her vacant chair,
                Her toys oft sprinkled with my tears;
                Her empty pillow and her books
                So often conned (?) With gladsome looks,
                And a soft tress of golden hair:
                And here, more tear-stained than the
                rest.
                The little shoes she used to wear.
                Laid off for aye, with tender care.
                As when some pilgrim leaves on shore,
                His shoon to ford some dark stream o'er.
                To seek a clime more pure and blest.


The Ouachita Telegraph
November 14, 1867
Page 3, Column 1
 HORRIBLE MURDERS.  The Bastrop Dispatch, of last Friday, gives an account
of the murder of two boys in succession, one white, aged about 10 years, and
the other black, aged about 12 years, by a man living near Plantersville in
that parish, named Prentice Goodwin.  Goodwin had started from home with the
intention of murdering his brother-in-law, a Mr. Beecroft, and meeting the
white boy in the road as he was returing from mill, deliberately shot the
boy in the head with a horse pistol with which he (Goodwin) was armed,
causing instant death and mutilating the poor boy's head in a shocking
manner.  Riding on towards Beecroft's, Goodwin soon met the negro boy whom
he also murdered and then endeavored to burn the body.  The demon's rage
seems to have been spent in these two bloody deeds, as we hear nothing of
his having executed his threat against Beecroft.  The day following, Goodwin
was arrested and is now in Morehouse jail.
 The Dispatch says the prevailing opinion is that Goodwin is crazy, and has
been for a year or more.