Obits: The Ouachita Telegraph 1881 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 These newspapers are on microfilm at NLU. The Ouachita Telegraph Friday, April 1, 1881 Page 3, Column 1 Mr. Alec. L. Bussey, of Morehouse, died suddenly of hemorrhage, at his residence in Bastrop, on the 28th. The deceased occupied a prominent position in his parish for many years past, and his death will be regretted by all who knew him. The Ouachita Telegraph Friday, June 3, 1881 Page 3, Column 1 Mrs. Catherine Sholars, a most estimable lady, died in Trenton Sunday, and her remains were buried at Bastrop Monday. Mrs. Sholars had reached her sixty-fifth year, having seen several children grow up to maturity, to all of whom she was a devoted mother. Dr. A.B. Sholars and Mr. D.M. Sholars, both of this city, are her sons. Her life had been conspicuously quiet and unobtrusive – of that order which is known more by results than in ostentation. The Ouachita Telegraph Friday, June 24, 1881 Page 3, Column 2 From what we can learn of the killing of the Jewish peddler, Silverstein whom our citizens will remember as having passed through this city come time since, by one Dr. Flemming, just above the line in Arkansas, we condemn it as a most atrocious and willful murder. Silverstein was accompanied by his little son at the time of the murder, and begged for his father’s life, but his appeals were wasted upon the blood-thirsty villain, who with murder in his heart, shot down the defenseless man, while his little son looked on, horror stricken, and unable to do aught to save his father’s life. Silverstein’s remains were brought by his Jewish brethren to Bastrop and interred in their cemetery at that place. Dr. Flemming made his escape and may never be brought to trial. If he does the “insanity dodge” will no doubt be invoked, for as the story is told, after accomplishing the murder of his victim, after having followed him up for some time, for that purpose, “he laid down his gun and wept.” There are few cases in our opinion where the old Mosaic law of “an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth” should be invoked, as we consider the question of life and death the most sacred thing known to laws, human and divine, (and we incline to the opinion that life is above human institutions) but so long as the law remains upon the statute books making the wilful (sic) murder of a human being punishable with death, we think, in a case of this sort, the full penalty of the law should be meeted out to the guilty party.