The Ouachita Telegraph - Eliza Pinkston Dies in Jail

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



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The Ouachita Telegraph
Saturday, April 28, 1883
Page 2, Column 2

DEATH OF ELIZA PINKSTON.
 JACKSON, MISS., April 25. – Eliza Pinkston, the famous Louisiana witness in
the electoral controversy of 1876-’77, died in jail at Canton, where she was
serving a term for larceny.
 Ouachita parish, Louisiana, and Madison county, Mississippi, meet and shake
hands.  The illustrious dead lived and became suddenly famous in this
parish, and Madison county has her dead body.  “Died in jail,” “serving a
term for larceny.”  Senator Sherman, where are you?

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