The Ouachita Telegraph - Odd Grave Ornaments

Date: Aug. 2000
Submitted by: Lora Peppers <lpeppers@ouachita.lib.la.us>

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The Ouachita Telegraph
Friday, October 19, 1877
Page 3, Column 2

        On the top of the high hill or bluff overlooking Bayou Sara, and the
surrounding country, and to the right of the road leading to the river, is a
solitary grave – that of an individual by the name of Archibald Williams,
who died of delirium tremens some thirty years ago, and who we are told was
buried there at his request, and with a bottle of brandy in his coffin and
under his head. – Clinton Democrat.
        In a cemetery some eight miles north of Monroe, on the Monroe and Bastrop
road, may be seen a similar grave, made, we known not when, over which was
placed at the request of the deceased, and still marks the spot, a jug and
glass. – Morehouse Clarion.
        The reference of the Clarion is doubtless to the grave of the late Judge
J.N.T. Richardson who made, we have been told, a request to have a jug and
goblet put over his grave.  It was one of the Judge’s eccentricities – not
the suggestion of intemperate habits.

NOTE:  The Friday, October 26, 1877 Ouachita Telegraph clarifies, by saying
that the objects on the grave are an urn and a goblet (Page 3, Column 1).

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