The Ouachita Telegraph - Pres Stuart Dies

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



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The Ouachita Telegraph
Saturday, September 9, 1882
Page 3, Column 2

“Old Pres.”
 Pres. Stuart, a colored man formerly the trusted servant of the late Dr.
Jno. Calderwood and widely know as Pres. Calderwood, the polite porter or
bartender of nearly every saloon in Monroe since the war, died Sunday night.
  Pres. Was a fast friend of the whites and was proud to rank himself among
“the old citizens,” few of whom, he but lately said, were now left and with
a large majority of whom “Old Pres” is now numbered.  He is one of the five
darkies of Monroe who, when enfranchised, stood firmly and fixedly by the
Democrats, and he lived and died in that political faith, faltering only
once for a brief season.  At many a ball he made his “elbuck jink and
diddle,” and a cheerful smile and a merry good day nearly always played upon
his honest black face.

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