Obit: Col A. B. Cunningham 1915, Natchitoches Parish La
Submitted by:(Suzanne Shoemaker)
Source: Natchitoches Times Dec. 11, 1998
Many Thanks to the Natchitoches Times for giving permission to use this
article in the Natchitoches Archives




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Oct. 8, 1915
COL. CUNNINGHAM
     In the death of Col. A. B. Cunningham, Baltimore loses one of its most
picturesque figures and most charming men.

     For more than 30 years, he had been an active force in the affairs of
the city and state and his death will cause sorrow among a host of friends who
loved him.

     Handsome and imposing in personal appearance, Colonel Cunningham had
also the courtly and polished manners of the Old South, of which he was a
product.  In heart and feelings, he was perennially young and his humor,
his geniality and his generosity never failed.

     He was especially beloved among the newspaper fraternity of the state,
of which he was so long a member.  He loved "the game" and the men in it, even
after he quit it to become a judge of the Appeal Tax Court.

     A Confederate soldier at the age of 15, Colonel Cunningham rose to the
rank of major before the end of the war, then studied law and moved to
Texas; and he was soon in newspaper work in the St. Louis and later in
London, Washington and finally in Baltimore, where he was so long the
managing editor of the Herald.

     He was a man and a gentleman, and he will be missed by many.
--Baltimore Star