The Ouachita Telegraph - Mayor Endom's Son Drowns

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

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The Ouachita Telegraph
Friday, May 3, 1878
Page 3, Column 2
        A little son of Mayor Endom, aged about nine years, failed to return home
Monday night, and has not been heard from since.  The disappearance of the
little fellow has aroused the sympathy and interest of the whole city.  We
are in doubt what to say, but it seems to be the general opinion that the
boy was drowned.


The Ouachita Telegraph
Friday, May 10, 1878
Page 3, Column 1
        On the 4th instant, between sundown and dark, Mr. Hanna while walking on
Bry & Muir’s raft, discovered the body of Mayor Endom’s little son.  It will
be remembered that he disappeared on Monday, the 28th April.  The feeling in
the community and the suspense and anxiety of the family are beyond
description.  Opinion had settled down to the fact that he was drowned, and
Mayor Endom had every drift searched for twenty-five miles below here.
        The little fellow was nearly ten years old, unusually bright and vigorous,
and gave promise of a long and useful life.  Sunday morning – a day as
bright and fair as his little life – he was consigned to the tomb.
        We offer the afflicted parents no consolations, for such griefs are
irreparable.  God gives and God takes our darlings in his own way and time;
to him we must all look for comfort and consolation.

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