Obits: The Ouachita Telegraph 1872 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 September 7, 1872 Page 3, Column 1 Louis Sholars, Esq., a promising young lawyer of Morehouse, was shot dead while passing along the streets of Bastrop, Thursday night. Nine buckshot were lodged in his breast. Mr. Pink Weaks, with whose wife Mr. Sholars is charged with being improperly intimate, is supposed to have done the killing. The Ouachita Telegraph September 21, 1872 Page 2, Column 3 The Assassination of Louis Sholars. In penning the paragraph, week before last, announcing the assassination of Louis Sholars, Esq., of Bastrop, while passing along the street after dark, we were guided by such information as reachied us through a gentleman living in that town. We knew the deceased almost from his infancy. He was conspicuously modest, artless and reserved, both as a boy and as a man. Hence, we were incredulous as to the cause of his death, which we stated, as the rumor gave it to us, was an improper intimacy with the wife of a gentleman of the same town. We also stated that it was supposed this gentleman (Mr. Pink Weaks) was the murderer. We were on the point of preparing, for this issue, something additional touching the deplorable tradegy (sic), when the following statement from "Many Friends" of Mr. Sholars, published in the Trenton Farmer, came under our notice. In addition to what is said below, we should state that, so far as we have been able to learn, there is no proof to show that Mr. Weaks assassinated Mr. Sholars, nor does it seem to be known who the guilty party is. The extract referred to reads — It is not yet known who committed the atrocious deed, but suspicious rests upon a man by the name of Pink Weaks, who lives in the same neighborhood, and the only known enemy that Mr. Sholars had in the world. His enmity arose principally from the suspicious conduct of his wife. It appears that his wife formed quite an attachement for Mr. Sholars, and sought his society on many occasions. It is said that the woman is young, extremely handsome, and highly accomplished. She persisted in her seductive course, till finally to a limited degree Mr. Sholars fell a victim to her powers, though he avoided her person as much as possible in private as well as in public places. She at last finding her plans about to fail, wrote him a letter — an intimacy which he could not consent to — and it was not until the second letter from her was received, that he consented to pen a reply. At this time he inadvertently yielded to her sedulous seductions, so far as to reply to her letters. In the third and as we believe the last reply he insisted on her not writing to him any more, and told her of the evil consequences liable to grown out of such undue intimacy; that she was the wife of another man, and that she should be true to her marriage vows. About this time Weaks discovered the letters written to his wife by Mr. Sholars in a drawer where she had concealed them. He immediately accused her of unchastity, drove her from home, and on several occasion afterwards threatened to take the life of Mr. Sholars.