Obits: The Ouachita Telegraph 1868 Obits, Morehouse parish excerpts These older obituaries are being transcribed by Ms. Lora Peppers at the Ouachita Parish Library. We would like to thank Lora Peppers for sharing her work with the Morehouse Parish Archives Project. Thanks Lora! ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** TIPS FOR SEARCHING RECORDS ON THE INTERNET Netscape & Ms Explorer users: If you are searching for a particular surname, locality or date while going through the records in the archives or anywhere....try these few steps: 1. Go to the top of the report you are searching. 2. Click on EDIT at the top of your screen 3. Next click on FIND in the edit menu. 4. When the square pops up, enter what you are looking for in the FIND WHAT ___________blank. 5. Click on DIRECTION __DOWN. 6. And last click on FIND NEXT and continue to click on FIND NEXT until you reach the end of the report. This should highlight the item that you indicated in "find what" every place it appears in the report. You must continue to click on FIND NEXT till you reach the end of the report to see all of the locations of the item indicated. If your obituary is not found here and you would like a special look up, you may send $5.00 and an self-addressed stamped envelope to: Lora Peppers - Phone (318) 327-1490 Reference Department Fax (318) 327-1373 Ouachita Parish Public Library 1800 Stubbs Ave. Monroe, LA 71201 The Ouachita Telegraph Wednesday, August 19, 1868 Page 3, Column 1 SERIOUS AFFRAY AT RAYVILLE. On last Saturday, the 15th inst., there was an affray at Rayville, Morehouse parish, which resulted in the killing of Mr. Henry Kelley, a well- known citizen of the vicinity. As the circumstances have been related to us they are as follows: For 2 or 3 years there has existed a feud between a Mr. Haddox and Kelley, the deceased, in reference to the price of some cotton purchased, about the time of the surrender, by the latter of the former. On last Saturday, Haddox went to Rayville accompanied by some friends, all of whom were armed. Kelley who had a little store at Rayville was in town. Anticipating an attack he had loaded his shot gun and placed it convenient in the store. During the day, some time, Haddox had some angry words with Kelley, which ended, however, without any blows. Subsequently Haddox, with his friends, went to Kelley's store and accosted him again. During the conversation, Haddox, it is said, began to draw his pistol. Kelley, seeing the movement, raised his gun and fired both barrels at the party, doing no damage. Several shots were then fired at Kelley, two of which took effect, one in the shoulder and the other in the thigh, causing Kelley to fall. Kelley thereupon expressed himself satisfied, and it was thought that the matter had ended, when a young man named Thomas Johnson, who appears to have been of Haddox's party, fired his pistol at Kelley, as he lay wounded, killing him almost instantly. Haddox's brother, during the melee, was shot in the neck by some one of the crowd gathered in town that day, but was not seriously hurt. Haddox and Johnson, we learn, have gone to parts unknown. These are the circumstances, as we have heard them from a reliable source, of this bloody affray. There are probably other facts connected with it we have heard nothing of. It will no doubt be fully investigated by the courts. Politics had nothing to do with the difficulty as all the parties were of the same way of thinking politically. The Ouachita Telegraph Wednesday, September 23, 1868 Page 3, Column 2 DIED, In the town of Bastrop, on the 30th ultimo., WALDEMAR BARNES, aged 28 years. [Bastrop Dispatch, 11th inst. Deceased was a native of England, but grew to manhood on the Island of St. Thomas, whence he came to Louisiana, a few years prior to the late war. In that eventful struggle he took a private soldier's part as a member of Co. F. 12th Louisiana Regiment, Scott's brigade, Loring's division. On acount of his excellent clerical attainments, he was frequently placed on detached service, where his fine social qualities, promptness and correctness in the discharge of duty and uniform urbanity made him both a useful and agreeable subaltern. No one, perhaps, knew his worth better than the writer of these lines, and but few will lament his death more. Of an ardent, impulsive nature, poor Barnes sometimes acted indiscreetly; but we always found him ready to listen to reason and to atone for what he had wrongfully done or said. We condole with his bereaved wife and little one in their deep affliction, and trust that Heaven's bounteous storehouse of blessings may always fly open to their appeals. ED. TELEGRAPH.