Obits: The Daily Telegraph 1871 Obits, Ouachita Parish La These older obituaries are being typed in by Ms. Lora Peppers at the Ouachita Parish Library. We are once again fortunate to have someone interested in helping us find our ancestors. Thank you Lora! Date: Mar. 2004 Submitted by: Lora Peppers ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** If your obituary is not found here and you would like a special look up, you may send $5.00 and an self-addressed stamped envelope to: Lora Peppers - Phone (318) 327-1490 Reference Department Fax (318) 327-1373 Ouachita Parish Public Library 1800 Stubbs Ave. Monroe, LA 71201 These newspapers are on microfilm at NLU. The Daily Telegraph Monday, January 9, 1871 Page 2, Column 1 DEATH OF DR. E.H. ROANE.- At 2 o'clock this morning, the 9th inst., passed away from earth, the immortal part of that pure-minded, kind-hearted man and citizen, Dr. E.H. Roane, after an illness of only a few hours, following months of mental and physical dejection. Dr. Roane was 53 years of age, over twenty of which he had lived in Monroe. He came here just after the Mexican war, in which he was engaged as a surgeon in the American army, and began the practice of medicine with Dr. Dabbs, who preceded his earthly partner some two years to the land of the Hereafter. These two, with the late Dr. Calderwood, composed a medical trio of extraordinary learning, skill and individual attractions, whose fame extended to all parts of North Louiiiana (sic). Dr. Roane had as many good qualities of heart as any Man we have ever known. He was tender, affectionate, generous, charitable, always kindly spoken, obliging, courteous and disposed to do right and fair by all men, either rich or poor. He had but one failing-what a pity so good a man as he should be its victim! The Daily Telegraph Tuesday, January 17, 1871 Page 2, Column 4 A GOOD MAN GONE.-We learn from a dispatch from Mr. Jos. F. McGuire, dated to-day at Delta, that Mr. W.H. Parker, until recently a citizen of Monroe, and for many years a trusted employee of the railroad, died of pneumonia at Delta last night. Our country had few, if any, better men. The Daily Telegraph Wednesday, January 25, 1871 Page 3, Column 2 OBITUARY Departed this life, January 14, 1871, Mrs. LIZZIE F. ALLEN, consort of Wm. J. Allen, at the residence of her father, I.J. Sims. The deceased was a native of Georgia, and was born April 16, 1844. In all the walks of life she was a most exemplary woman. No one surpassed her in kindness and goodness of heart. She leaves a disconsolate husband and several little children to mourn her loss. Her long suffering was borne with great meekness and patience. She left many evidences that she is now in a brighter world reaping the reward of her virtues on earth. [Vernon Standard. The Daily Telegraph Friday, January 27, 1871 Page 2, Column 2 Death of General Wm. R. Peck. Our entire community will learn with unaffected regret, of the sudden and unexpected death of that gallant soldier and true hearted gentleman, General William R. Peck. This sad event occurred at 8 o'clock yesterday morning, at the late residence of the General in Madison parish, La., and was, we learn, produced by a congestive chill. General Peck was about forty- seven years of age, and was possessed of as many noble and generous qualities as usually fall to the lot of man. He was widely known, and where he was known the best, he was most highly esteemed and warmly beloved. He has hosts of friends to whom his high qualities had endeared him, and his death will produce a pang in many hearts now widely scattered. General Peck was born in East Tennessee, but his boyhood was spent in this city, with his elder brother, Dr. Peck. When he arrived at manhood, he removed to the parish of Madison, La., where, with the energy peculiar to him, he engaged in planting. His success as a planter was signal and brilliant, and a few years saw him the master of a fortune, which his own judgment and industry had accumulated. A Democrat in politics, he took an active part in the political struggles of the day, and on several occasions was chosen by the people to represent Madison parish in the Legislature of Louisiana, where his excellent sense, sound judgement, genial manners and generous impulses, gave him a commanding influence. He had been warmly recommended for the office of Chief Magistrate of Louisiana, and but for the occurrence of the war, we doubt not that he would long since have been chosen the Governor of that great State. When hostilities between the North and the South commenced, he saw plainly what duty required, and like the brave gentleman he was, he prepared to tread in its thorny path. He raised a company of volunteers, of which he was unanimously chosen Captain, and his company was assigned to Colonel (subsequently Lieutenant-General) Richard Taylor, as a portion of the 9th Regiment. How he discharged the duties of a soldier, we all know. He rose to the Colonelcy (sic) of his regiment, became a Brig.-General, and if the war had lasted three months longer, would have worn the rank and title of a Major General. Distinguished for personal gallantry in the army, that of Northern Virginia, where personal gallantry was the rule, his tall form and Herculean proportions made him concpicuous (sic) on every battle-field, and his plume, like that of Henry of Navarre, was always in the lead, and in the thickest of the fight. To his old comrades in arms, the intelligence of his death will come with the force of a personal bereavement, and there is not one who shared with him the dangers and the glories of the campaigns of Gen. Lee, who will not drop a tear to the memory of General William R. Peck, as brave a soldier, and as generous a gentleman, as ever wore a sword, or bestrode a horse. Peace to the memory of the gallant dead. The Daily Telegraph Tuesday, January 31, 1871 Page 3, Column 1 Death of Judge Chilton The Telegraph advises us this morning of the death of the Hon. W.P. Chilton, of Montgomery. This sad event removes from the large and honored sphere in which he lived one of the most distinguished men of Alabama-distinguished in professional and public life, as a lawyer, a judge of the Supreme Court and as a legislator, and yet more distinguished in all the noble and amiable qualities of a private citizen and a man.-Mobile Register. The Daily Telegraph Monday, February 20, 1871 Page 3, Column 1 DIED In this place of asphyxia, at half-past 10 o'clock, P.M. February 19th, 1871, Mrs. ANNA MARIA LAWSON, wife of the Rev. T.B. Lawson, of the Episcopal Church. The Daily Telegraph Tuesday, February 21, 1871 Page 3, Column 1 We have been requested to announce that the funeral of Mrs. A.M. Lawson, deceased, has been postponed until tomorrow at 10 o'clock, A.M. The Daily Telegraph Thursday, February 23, 1871 Page 2, Column 1 Gen. Arnold Elzy, late of the Confederate army, died in Baltimore on the 21st. He was a graduate of West Point, and entered the Confederate army immediately after its organization. The Daily Telegraph Thursday, February 32, 1871 Page 2, Column 1 John Bankhead Magruder, late Major General in the Confederate army, died in Galveston on the 19th. He was over sixty years of age. He leaves a son and daughter, the former a physician, the latter a vocalist and painter. # # #