Obits: The Ouachita Telegraph 1880 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: Oct. 2000 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 Ouachita Telegraph Friday, January 16, 1880 Page 3, Column 3 In Memoriam. SUNBEAM SOCIETY, Monroe, La. Whereas, God has seen fit in His wise providence, to remove from our midst, to that shore where sin and sorrow are felt and feared no more, our much beloved brother, HUGH DUNCAN BARRINGTON, after a short illness. And, whereas, his soul passed from its earthly tabernacle calmly and without a struggle, into that Heaven above where God alone presides; Resolved, That in the death of brother Hugh Duncan Barrington we mourn the loss of a kind and affectionate brother, who endeared himself to each and every member of the Sunbeam Society. Resolved, further, That we tender our heart-felt sympathies to the family of the deceased, in their bereavement, and that the usual badge of mourning be worn for a period of thirty days as a testimonial of our love for him; and that a copy of these resolutions be plced on record as a part of the minutes of this Society. Safe at home, brother, you here no longer stay, A weary pilgrim on the shore of time; God in His wisdom has summoned you away To join the angelic throng in that beautiful clime. One by one our links are broken - Links that bind life’s precious years; One by one are the farewells spoken, Naught is left us but grief and tears. Sadly we miss you, but how feebly expressed The anguish of our hearts since you are gone; To-day you are happy, mingling with the blest, While here we linger to weep and mourn. You were devoted to us in this world of strife, No sacrifice for us you deemed too great, And your memory we’ll cherish as long as there is life. ‘Till the Master calls us, farewell ? we wait. Bereaved ones, look up and let us pray Oh Father thy will be done ? We’ll meet our dear brother in heaven some day Where pain and death can never come. R. FERDINAND COOK, GEORGE CHEATHAM, C. WALTER SCOTT. The Ouachita Telegraph Friday, February 6, 1880 Page 3, Column 2 Death of Mr. S.H. Aby. At half past 3 o’clock, Wednesday afternoon, Mr. S.H. Aby, a worthy and highly esteemed citizen of this parish, expired at his residence 3 miles west of Trenton. Mr. Aby was in Monroe only a few days ago, but for some time had been in rather feeble health. On the day of his death, he sat down after dinner to enjoy his pipe. Mrs. Aby, superintending domestic affairs, went out of the house, and soon her attention was attracted by a call from her husband. She quickly returned, and found Mr. Aby sitting in the chair, but dying. He passed away in a painless, peaceful death. Mr. Aby was a native of Virginia, and came to Louisiana about the year 1856. He was before and since the war engaged in the commission business in New Orleans, where he had an extensive acquaintance and among them all his death will be sincerely mourned, as it is by all who had the pleasure of knowing him in this city and parish. He was the father of Dr. Aby, our worthy State Senator and of Mr. Robert Aby of this city. He died in the 66th year of his age. His last few years have been spent in serene retirement from the vexing cares of life and in contemplation of that final dissolution which, sooner or later, must come to us all. The Ouachita Telegraph Friday, February 13, 1880 Page 3, Column 2 Judge R.W. Richardson came up on the Hanna last Monday night with the body of Mrs. S.Y. Tew who died in New Orleans of pneumonia on Saturday morning the 31st, of January. Mrs. Tew was one of the old residents of Harrisonburg and her remains were brought up for the purpose of interring them in the family burying ground along side of her husband and children. -- Catahoula News, 7th. Mrs. Tew was the mother of Mrs. Richardson, and the sister of Mrs. Garrett, wife of the late Col. I. Garrett. The Ouachita Telegraph Friday, February 13, 1880 Page 3, Column 3 IN MEMORIAM. TIMOTHY HAYES - Died, in Monroe, Ouachita parish, La., after a few hours illness at 5 o’clock, A.M., Jan. 31, 1880; aged 43 years, 10 months. Sadly disconsolate, In painful, pensive mood, Beside his lonely corpse Widows and orphans stood, Weeping, mourning deep, Whilst doleful funeral knell Announced the death of him We’d loved so long, so well. Weep not, grief-stricken ones! We’ll look beyond the grave, God has but taken back The treasure once He gave. No more shall anguish keen Hs peaceful soul annoy, He sweetly resteth now I everlasting joy. Loved Mother, sorely grieved, Sweet Sisters, Brother dear, Come stifle every sigh, Come dry the burning tear! Sustained by Faith Divine, We’ll strive to join him there; Then with our cherished one Those heavenly joys we’ll share. HIS DAUGHTER. The Ouachita Telegraph Friday, February 20, 1880 Page 3, Column 3 Death of a Prominent Citizen. Mr. W.R. Gordon died at his residence, Millhaven, in this parish, on the 15th inst., of pneumonia, after an illness of ten days. His remains were brought to this city by special train the day following, accompanied by a large number of his friends and neighbors, and were interred in the Monroe Cemetery. Mr. Gordon was about 52 years of age. He was a native of North Carolina, but spent his boyhood and early manhood in Georgia, coming to this State about 1857 as a contractor on the V.S. & T. Railroad. He purchased the homestead upon which he died and had beautifully improved, about 1859. When the North Louisiana & Texas Railroad Company was formed, he joined the company and held a one-fifth interest in the road, and was Superintendent of the road, and was Superintendent of the road during the company’s existence. Mr. Gordon leaves a wife, formerly Miss K.P. Bowman, and three interesting little children to mourn his death. He has also a daughter by his first marriage now living in Atlanta. His afflicted wife and offspring have our sincere sympathies. The Ouachita Telegraph Friday, February 27, 1880 Page 2, Column 2 Mr. Jerome Bayon, the oldest editor in New Orleans, having been editor of the Bee more than forty years ago, and subsequently of the Louisianias and the Courier, died on the 18th inst., in that city, in the 73d year of his age. - Shreveport Standard. If we are not in error, Mr. Bayon was translating clerk of the State Senate in 1857 when the writer was one of the enrolling clerks, and the only one who could not speak French. Mr. Bayon was extremely loyal to his mother tongue, and, although a rapid translator of English into French, would seldom talk in English. Nearly all the conversation among the clerks was in the French language, and the writer felt, of course, very lonely. We presume it is changed now, and that conversation goes on among the clerks mainly in English, inteaspersed (sic) here and there with French and the irrepressible cigarette. The Ouachita Telegraph Friday, March 5, 1880 Page 3, Column 2 We learn, with regret, that Judge Parsons died at his residence in Bastrop, the 2nd instant. Judge Parsons was stricken with paralysis, more than a year ago, and has been a patient sufferer since. NOTE: The March 12, 1880 issue of the Ouachita Telegraph (page 3, Column 1)States that the Monroe Bar had issued a resolution of respect for Judge Parsons. The Ouachita Telegraph Friday, March 12, 1880 Page 3, Column 1 Mr. Hugh Yongue, a resident of the Island DeSiard of this parish, died at his residence on the 8th. He had but recently returned from New Orleans where he had been for some weeks under medical treatment. His recovery he did not himself rely upon. Mr. Yongue had been a citizen of this parish and a prosperous, leading planter for thirty years. He was, we believe, a native of Alabama, and was about 60 years of age at the time of his death. Two daughters and a son mourn the loss of a father, and to them we extend the sympathies due the orphaned. The Ouachita Telegraph Friday, March 19, 1880 Page 2, Column 4 Mr. Martin Lowrey, another one of our old citizens, passed away to his long home last Thursday. He was 102 years old. For many years before the war, in the haleyon days of the past, he was keeper of the State House Grounds, and performed his duties well and faithfully. May his aged form rest in peace. - Baton Rouge Capitolian. The Ouachita Telegraph Friday, April 16, 1880 Page 2, Column 2 Mrs. Elenora Hennen, wife of the late Duncan N. Hennen, and mother of the late Mrs. John B. Hood, died in New Orleans on the 5th inst., aged 62 years. The Hood orphans were in the loving keeping of Mrs. Hennen, their grandmother. Now, that she is dead, their young lives go under still darker clouds. The Ouachita Telegraph Friday, April 16, 1880 Page 2, Column 5 DIED, At her residence in this parish, Mrs. AMY LAURA LARCHE, wife of Jas. C. Drew, March 19, 1880, aged 68 years, 2 months and 20 days. The Ouachita Telegraph Friday, April 16, 1880 Page 3, Column 1 Sudden Death. We are pained to learn that Mrs. E. O. Bouchelle, recently of Missouri, but formerly a resident of Morehouse parish, died suddenly of heart disease, Monday evening, on the up trip of the Hanna, a few hours before reaching this place. Mrs. B. was a sister of Charles, Thomas and Horace Polk, former well-known citizens of this portion of the State. She was a very estimable lady, and leaves a wide circle of friends and relatives to mourn her death. The Ouachita Telegraph Friday, May 7, 1880 Page 2, Column 5 DEATH OF DR. SAMUEL CHOPPIN. After an illness of only 48 hours Dr. Samuel Choppin, M.D., died of pneumonia, last evening, at 8:10 o’clock, at his residence, No. 350 Camp street. The distinguished physician was born at Baton Rouge, in this State, in the year 1828, his father, Paul Choppin, a native of France, having married a Miss Sherbourne, a daughter of the American consul at Nantes, where she was born. On becoming of the proper age he began his medical studies at the Medical College of Louisiana, now a part of the University of Louisiana. After passing two years as resident student at the Charity Hospital he graduated in 1850. He then went to Europe and spent two years in Paris and Italy, pursuing his studies. On returning to New Orleans he, with his colleague, Dr. C. Beard, was appointed demonstrator of anatomy in the Medical College, and for five years he discharged the duties of this office. During this time he was also House Surgeon of the Charity Hospital, where he made an enviable record for himself as a surgeon and administrator. These duties, while onerous, did not prevent him from devoting a portion of his time to literature, and we find him acting as one of the editors of the Medical News and Hospital Gazette, his associates being Drs. Brickell, Boyard and Beard. At this time he became President of the Board of Health, and one of the founders of the New Orleans School of Medicine. This educational venture soon achieved reputation and success, and so rapid was the growth that the last class previous to the war numbered 262 students. At the outset of the civil troubles he offered his services to the Southern cause and served as medical inspector and surgeon-in-chief to Gen. Beauregard during the sieges of Charleston and Petersbug. His career in the army was marked by a capacity of the highest order and elicited eulogiums from Lee, Beauregard and other leaders of the Confederacy, and did much to advance his reputation as a distinguished surgeon. At the close of the war he returned to New Orleans and entered into a copartnership with his friend, Dr. C. Beard, for the practice of his profession. His great energy, zeal and skill soon created for him a clientelle (sic) as large, remunerative and appreciative as any physician has ever acquired in this city. Although not a politician Dr. Chopin took a deep interest in public affairs, and in the memorable scenes of the 14th of September, 1874, he was a prominent actor. Upon the advent of the Nicholls government he was appointed President of the Board of Health, and occupied the position until a few weeks since. His administration of affairs reflected credit upon himself and did much to advance the welfare of the State. He did this, too, at the sacrifice of great personal interests, almost up to the moment of death. Dr. Choppin, in private life, was respected and popular, and his high social standing is evidenced by the fact that for some time past he has been President of the Boston Club. ? N.O. Picayune. The Ouachita Telegraph Friday, May 7, 1880 Page 2, Column 5 Mr. R.A. Blanks, father of Captains F.A. and J.W. Blanks, died in Columbia last Saturday morning aged 79 years. The Ouachita Telegraph Friday, May 14, 1880 Page 3, Column 4 DIED, April 22d, 1880, of pneumonia, WILLIARD B. NEWCOMB, aged 25 years, 8 months and 14 days. “God knows best.” The Ouachita Telegraph Friday, May 28, 1880 Page 2, Column 4 Dr. R.D. Whyte, a physician of no ordinary culture and ability died on the 20th inst. A life spent in devotion to his calling, and one that merited and cemented the affection which was universally bestowed upon him by all with whom he had to do, was his richest reward, and the memory of this good physician, will linger for many years as a household word among the people of this community. The Ouachita Telegraph Friday, July 2, 1880 Page 3, Column 1 We are pained to hear that Mrs. Julia Taylor, of Pine Bluff, Ark., the daughter of Mrs. E.M. Roane, late of this city, died suddenly of inflamation of the stomach at Pine Bluff recently. Her numerous friends will regret to hear of her sudden death in the full bloom of mature womanhood. The Ouachita Telegraph Friday, July 9, 1880 Page 2, Column 4 Mrs. Stamper died after a painful illness on Sunday, the 4th inst. She was an estimable lady and endeared to her friends, who now mourn her loss. The Ouachita Telegraph Friday, July 9, 1880 Page 3, Column 1 Judge Wesley J.A. Baker died at his residence on Bayou DeSiard on the morning of Tuesday the 6th inst., of congestion of the stomach and bowels, after a painful illness of nearly two weeks. He was quite ill during the session of the Supreme Court, and unable to attend personally to his business before it. Judge Baker was among the oldest citizens of Monroe, having come here in 1837, and from that day to the date of his death he devoted himself to planting and the practice of the law. He was a gentleman of ability and cultivation, possessing many sociable qualities, and will be missed by his family and many old friends. The Ouachita Telegraph Friday, July 16, 1880 Page 2, Column 3 Mr. Bullard, after a long and painful attack of consumption, died at his residence recently near this place. The Ouachita Telegraph Friday, July 16, 1880 Page 3, Column 1 Mr. H.L. Cauthorn died in Morehouse parish on the 8th, in the 30th year of his age. Henry was a young man of fine business capacity and was highly esteemed by all who knew him. The Ouachita Telegraph Friday, July 16, 1880 Page 3, Column 1 Mrs. Kindermann, wife of our former townsman Henry Kindermann, now of Indianapolis, died in that city, of flux, on the 7th. We sympathise with our old friend in the loss of his most estimable wife, and with his daughter, Mary, in her sad bereavement. But, death should be no surprise, for, as it is said, it is appointed unto all men to die. Mr. Kindermann has a host of friends at his old home who will help him in sympathy to bear his great loss. The Ouachita Telegraph Friday, July 30, 1880 Page 2, Column 5 MOREHOUSE. Maj. E.K. W. Ross, after an extended period of intense suffering, died at his residence in this town last Wednesday. Major Ross was one of the old landmarks of this parish, beloved and esteemed by all who knew him. His venerable presence will be sadly missed both on our streets and around his bereaved family circle. The Ouachita Telegraph Friday, July 30, 1880 Page 3, Column 3 A bright little boy, two years old, the son of Col. and Mrs. R. Richardson, died of congestion Wednesday. The afflicted parents have our sincere condolence. We offer the only comfort - the little one is better off. The Ouachita Telegraph Friday, August 6, 1880 Page 3, Column 1 Louisiana has lost an old and valued citizen in the death of Major Henry Bry, which occurred at Monroe, on Sunday, the first instant. Major Bry was a native of Ouachita parish, and has resided there the greater portion of his long and honorable life. Of French parentage, he was sent to west Point while yet a youth, and was at that now celebrated institution as a cadet when the marquis De Lafayette visited it in 1825, when he was last in the United States. Being told that they had a young Frenchman in the cadet corps, the Marquis sent for Cadet Bry and had a long conversation with him in his own native language. While young Bry was at West Point, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. lee, Benjamin G. Humphreys and Joseph E. Johnston were also cadets there, though he was a class or so in advance of them. A man of strong intellect, honest purpose, and pure, generous impulses, Henry Bry was worthy to be associated with that bright galaxy of Southern intellect, courage and patriotism. His integrity was never questioned; his manliness never doubted; his patriotism had never the shadow of suspicion cast upon it; while his purity, gentleness, and kindness of heart, were known and honored of all men. In the fullness of years, after having witnessed seventy-five years of progress such as the world has never known, the kind, frank, generous old man known as Henry Bry, has passed beyond the dark river. Peace to his ashes. Honor to his memory. NOTE: There is a tribute of respect from the Monroe Wharfboat and Elevator company in the Friday, September 24, 1880 issue, Page 2, Column 6. The Ouachita Telegraph Friday, August 13, 1880 Page 3, Column 3 OBITUARY. Died, August 4, in Monroe, La., at the residence of her father, T.N. Conner, Miss OCTAVIA L. CONNER, aged 15 years, 10 months and 22 days. In recording this event, the writer’s heart is sad. But a little while ago, “Tavie,” lovely, youthful and promising, was in our midst, the pride of her family, the favorite of her friends. “Death always takes a shining mark,” and in a few short days, in spite of youth and promise, in spite of care and the tender ministrations of those who loved her, we saw her die. And then, beautiful in death, we saw her laid out of our sight. The bated breath with which people told each other of her death; the many mourners who gathered for a last look at her mortal remains, and the sad multitude that followed her to her resting place. All tell eloquently of the estimation in which she was held. The writer knew her at home, but especially in the Sunday school. Regular in attendance and attentive to instruction, she believed the truth she heard to be the truth of God, and to those who had her confidence, she expressed a determination to act on her convictions. While almost in the grasp of death, she spoke with interest of the Sunday - school. But she is gone. How sad to say it. How young, how promising, to die. How unfinished seems her life. It was God’s time. In His mysterious wisdom, He took her. “The Lord gave, the Lord hath taken away.” With sad hearts, but with humble resignation and strong faith, let us say, “Blessed be the name of the Lord! W.A.M. NOTE: There is a poem for Octavia in the September 17, 1880 issue, pg. 4, col. 2. The Ouachita Telegraph Friday, September 3, 1880 Page 2, Column 1 Ex-Gov. Paul O. Hebert, who had been in precarious health several months, died in New Orleans, Sunday, in the 61st year of his age. He was elected Governor of the State in 1853, serving four years, and was one of the first five generals appointed by President Davis. He, at one time during the war, in 1864, had his head-quarters at this place. Gov. Hebert’s early manhood gave promise of a brilliant career, a promise, however, never fully redeemed. The Ouachita Telegraph Friday, September 3, 1880 Page 2, Column 4 On the 26th ultimo, little Mathilde, only daughter of the Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Mason, of this place, died of congestive fever. Her bereaved parents have the sympathy of the entire community. While a rare gem has been plucked from our childhood circle, it is a sweet philosophy which teaches us that she is but “planted on earth to bloom in Heaven.” The Ouachita Telegraph Friday, September 17, 1889 Page 3, Column 1 Mr. Nick Lewis, well known as conductor on one of the passenger trains of the Monroe & Vicksburg railroad, died of congestion of the brain following dysentery, at Vicksburg on the 11th, in the 34th year of his age. We fully accord with the sentiments expressed by the Vicksburg Commercial in its eulogium of our deceased friend. Says that paper, whose editor knew poor Nick, alas! From his birth: Endowed with a bright mind, a clear judgment, tireless energy, and unquestioned integrity and courage, Nick Lewis, was rapidly becoming a man of mark in his Louisiana home, and in a few years would have become a leader of men in all of North Louisiana. Too young when the war commenced to be enlisted in the army, he left home, went to Pensacola and there united himself with the “cadets,” a company formed here, and with that corps he remained until the end of the struggle, sharing in its dangers and privations with the courage and fidelity of a true man. The death of Nick Lewis, almost at the threshold of life, with an honorable and useful career before him, will carry sadness to many who have long known and loved him. The Ouachita Telegraph Friday, September 17, 1889 Page 3, Column 2 J.C. Jolls, a Ouachita pilot, died in New Orleans week before last. The Ouachita Telegraph Friday, September 24, 1880 Page 2, Column 5 Died Far From Home. A German, only three months from Bavaria, came to town sick of chills and fever a few days ago, leaving, on that account, employment somewhere in the country. He procured proper medicine at Moore’s drug store, and went about town, until a chill came on, when he was carried to the City building, given a place to rest and some ice water, and assigned to the care of policeman Rigsby. He was shortly after able to go to the cistern, and then returned to his bed. When visited some two or three hours subsequent, the man was found dead. A small memorandum book, containing a brief dairy (sic) of his sea voyage and travels from New York, a letter from his affianced bride in Germany, a torn map and a small brass check stamped “St. L.H.L.R. 41,” with some three dollars in money, were all the articles of any value or importance found on the deceased. His name was Adam Seeberger, age about 30 years, and of good appearance. It is supposed that he was formerly a soldier and came from near Augsburg, Bavaria. He was unable to speak English, and nothing said by him in his native tongue pertained to anything more than the condition of his health. The letter of his affianced bears a ready translation, but is mainly taken up with every day concerns, concluding with an expression of longing to see her now long, long departed lover. The Ouachita Telegraph Friday, October 1, 1880 Page 3, Column 2 DIED, In Trenton, La., of typhus fever, at 5:30 p.m., Sunday, September 26, 1880, WILLIAM L. WHEATLEY, aged 24 years and ten days. Dallas (Texas) and Memphis papers please copy. The Ouachita Telegraph Friday, October 15, 1880 Page 3, Column 1 The remains of rev. Father Joseph Quelard, formerly assistant pastor of St. Matthew’s Church in this city, but at the time of his death - which occurred in Vicksburg Sunday last - pastor of St. Patrick’s Church, at Lake Providence, La., were brought over by the train Monday and interred in the Catholic Cemetery, in this city, Tuesday morning, with the impressive ceremonies of the Catholic Church. Father Quelard was born in Britain, France, in 1848, and was consequently in the 32d year of his age at the time of his death. He immigrated to the united States in 1870, shortly after his ordination to the priesthood, and came direct to Monroe, where he remained for two or three years, when he was transferred by the late Bishop Martin to Bastrop, and was subsequently removed to Lake Providence, to the pastoral charge of the church in that place. He had been sick about three months, and those who were at his bedside when he died, alone, can picture the calm and resigned Christian fortitude with which he gave to God his soul. His remains were followed to their last resting place by a large concourse of sorrowing friends, and by a delegation of catholic Knights of America from Vicksburg. The writer knew Father Quelard well; went to school to him and can truthfully say that never did he see anybody so amiable as was he, even under the most adverse circumstances. The eulogy delivered by Father Enaut was exceedingly impressive. He showed the many sterling qualities of the departed; reviewed his history in brief from his childhood to his death, but the impulse was too great, the hearers, Jew and Gentile, weeping, and many were the tears that were shed. May his soul rest in peace, is the wish of one by whom he was beloved. NOTE: Resolutions of Respect from the Young Catholic Friends Society can be found in the Friday, October 22, 1880 issue, page 3, column 3. The Ouachita Telegraph Friday, October 22, 1880 Page 3, Column 1 A playful little paragraph in this paper, some 18 months ago, announced the birth of twins in the household of Mayor Endom. Within the past six weeks both have died, and their little cribs, toys and garments are laid aside. We offer to the bereaved parents our heartfelt condolence in their deep affliction. The brief little history is closed. The Ouachita Telegraph Friday, October 22, 1880 Page 3, Column 3 Obituary. “There is no flock, however watched and tended, But one dead lamb is there: There is no fireside, howso’er defended, But has one vacant chair.” DIED - At his father’s residence, near Forksville, La., Oct. 14, 1880, of swamp fever, after a brief illness of three days, JOHN NATHANIEL, son of Jno. H. and M.E. Milling, aged seven years and twenty days. Nat was a genial and cheerful little boy, the pride and joy of an affectionate household. His schoolmates loved and caressed him. His sparkling intellect excited in the minds of all who knew him hopes of a brilliant future. But like a sweet strain of music, ere it fulminates on the evening breezes, his chord of life was snapped and his voice hushed in silence. “Day after day, parents, think what he is doing In those bright realms of air: Year after year, his tender steps pursuing, Behold him grow more fair. “Not as a child will you again behold him; For when, with raptures wild, In your embraces you again enfold him, He will not be a child. “But a fair cherub in his Father’s mansion, Clothed with celestial grace; And beautiful with all the soul’s expansion Will you behold his face.” J.E.J. Richland Beacon please copy. The Ouachita Telegraph Friday, October 29, 1880 Page 3, Column 1 Mr. Solomon Klotz, a worthy and esteemed merchant of this city, died, after a lingering illness, on the 23rd, and his remains were interred the day following with the impressive ceremonies of the Knights of Pythias, of which order he was a member, and according to the burial rites of the Hebrew faith. Mr. Klotz was a native of France, but for many years a resident of lower Louisiana whence he removed to Monroe, where he had made many warm friends by his upright bearing and fine social qualities. He leaves a wife and one child who have the sympathies of all his sorrowing friends. The Ouachita Telegraph Friday, October 29, 1880 Page 3, Column 2 Mr. Jno. Wilson, after whom the steamboat John Wilson was named, died suddenly in New Orleans last Saturday. Mr. Wilson was a partner of Wm. Fagan, and according to al reports was, financially speaking, solid. He was indirectly concerned with steamboats, furnishing the majority of them with fresh meats, etc. The Ouachita Telegraph Friday, November 12, 1880 Page 2, Column 3 There died in Opelousas on the 29th of October an old disciple of the “art preservative,” named William Hazleton, aged about 66 years. From the most accurate information that we can obtain, the deceased was born and raised in Monroe, Ouachita parish. While quite a young man he went to New Orleans, and learned to set type in the Bee office, and subsequently worked on the Picayune. He was a soldier in the Mexican war - U.S. service - for two years, and received a wound in one of is battles. During the late war he served in the Confederate army during the entire struggle. Before the war he owned and edited a paper in Monroe. Since that period he has been engaged in editing and publishing papers throughout the South and West. He came to St. Landry parish last April, and worked in the Democrat office up to the time of his last illness. He was a man of excellent information upon almost all topics; a good journalistic writer, and a first class printer in ever respect. We believe the surviving members of his family live in Monroe and Natchitoches. - Opelousas Courier. The Ouachita Telegraph Friday, November 12, 1880 Page 3, Column 2 Dr. Wm. H. Richardson, for a long time a practicing physician of this city and lately located in Delhi, Richland parish, died at the residence of his brother, Dr. T.P. Richardson, on Tuesday night, 9th inst., in the 41st year of his age. Dr. Richardson was a surgeon in the Confederate service and was said to have had few superiors. He was at one time engaged in business in New Orleans as a druggist and was successful for a while but misfortune overtook him and he has seen of late years reverses of life in most of its phases. While in the New Orleans Medical College it is said he did not have a superior as a demonstrator of anatomy. May the sod rest lightly upon him and the grave hide all his faults. The Ouachita Telegraph Friday, November 19, 1880 Page 2, Column 1 Mr. John Finney, a prominent member of the New Orleans bar, died in that city on Sunday the 14th inst., in the 40th year of his age. He was a native of Virginia and a descendant of one of the best families of the old Dominion. He settled in New Orleans in 1842, and has since been associated in the practice of the law, with some of the most eminent lawyers of the Louisiana bar; among them Gen. Felix Huston, S.S. Prentiss, and Judah P. Benjamin. John Finney was an able lawyer and a good man. The Ouachita Telegraph Friday, November 19, 1880 Page 2, Column 4 CLOSE OF A STRANGE LIFE DRAMA [New Orleans City Item.] An old and estimable citizen yesterday passed on to that brighter bourne whence he will not return. At 10 o’clock a.m. died Jacinto Lobrano, aged 94 years. We are not certain that this statement of Mr. Lobrano’s age is not incorrect. His late friend, Christian Roselius, Esq., related of Lobrano that he came to this country in 1799, and was then sixteen years of age, which would now make him ninety-seven. This was probably correct and possibly his own inattention to accuracy as to dates caused decedent himself to be led into error as to his age. A life-long intimacy prevailed between these friends. His unsophisticated admiration of his great patron, as well as the fidelity of his character, attached him deeply to Mr. Roselius. As decade followed decade he made many pilgrimages to his office in all weathers and in the teeth of all circumstances. Mr. Lobrano had been a favorite officer of Lafitte, and was in the army of Gen. Jackson before New Orleans in 1814-15, in company with his old commander, and rendered signal services as detective officer. For this the general presented him with a sword he had himself worn. It is related that in obedience to Butler’s military order in 1862, commanding citizens to surrender their arms, he presented himself at the Butler Bastille with this historical weapon, saying to the general: “You order citizens to give up their arms, these are mine - this sword given to me by my friend, Gen. Andrew Jackson, for meritorious services and I refuse to give it up” ? or words to such effect. Tableau - Butler in a state of Customhouse emotion, on account of his extreme susceptibility to military weaknesses. Triumph of the sword. There was a time when every man, woman and child of the city knew deceased personally. He has done business or owned property in almost every precinct and ward it contains. Since about 1850, however, he has resided permanently on his place at the cornor (sic) of Fourth and Laurel streets, embracing a large portion of the square. Here he long cultivated the finest garden in the State, becoming particularly famous for his magnificent cauliflowers which always far excelled others in size and quality. As he grew older piece by piece his grounds wee given up to buildings, and rents quietly usurped the place of garden revenes (sic). He was a man of warm feelings, gentle in his manners and devoted in his attachment, of resolute will, yet of unobtrusive industry, integrity and enterprise. His wife only recently preceded him to their future home in the Beautiful Land. His family, we learn, is not numerous, and deeply mourn his loss. The Ouachita Telegraph Friday, November 26, 1880 Page 2, Column 3 THE NEWS. Mrs. Deborah J. Mayo, wife of Judge Oren Mayo, died in Vidalia on the 20th inst., after a protracted illness. Capt. W.L. Ditto, of Catahoula, lost two of his little children by swamp fever recently, both dying the same week. The Ouachita Telegraph Friday, December 3, 1880 Page 2, Column 3 We are reliably informed that an old colored man, whose name we were unable to learn, was frozen to death on the night of Wednesday last, whilst returning to his home in the Pinewoods, during the sleet and rain. He was found on the roadside. - Alexandria Democrat. The Ouachita Telegraph Friday, December 3, 1880 Page 3, Column 2 Death of James H. Milling. A good man has gone to his rest, and in the vigor and hopefullness of manhood at its prime. Mr. James H. Milling was taken sick some ten days ago with what was supposed to be pneumonia at the time, but which developed later into an attack of cerebro spinal meningitis, and at 2 o’clock Wednesday morning, after much intense pain, of which happily he was unconscious most of the time, he expired at his residence in Cottonport opposite this city, attended by his sorrowing family, many friends and his aged and devoted mother, Mrs. Theobalds. Mr. Milling was a native of this parish, and, we think, of this city, and had reached only his 49th year. All his life, he had been extremely temperate, even-going, industrious and devoted to duty in all its multifarious bearings. We have met but few men, -- and the writer’s acquaintance with the deceased began in early boyhood, -- of whom we can say with more confidence that a steady walk along the path of duty and of right, man to man, was such a marked and distinguishing characteristic. Most men have their varying moods - times when they will do some one thing which at another they would not; but our deceased friend traveled in one unvarying path and saw one day dawn just as the preceeding one had closed. With this fixedness of habit and purpose, he possessed a warm, genial heart, not well understood, possibly, because he was retiring in his disposition, and though, no doubt, impulsive in nature, he was steadily pursuing a life-time policy of avoiding entanglements with such affairs as did not concern him. His was a strong character, and a beautiful feature in it was his devotion to his family and a care for even all the little cares of life. But two days before the beginning of his fatal illness, the writer met him early in the morning at market. He had but just rowed across the river and was carrying a large basket. His attention was jocularly called to his having to cross the river so early. But, said he, “I did not have to wade.” The market man smiled, and we took the lesson kindly. Mr. Miling had filled both the offices of sheriff and of clerk in this parish; the former in 1858 and ’59, and the latter in 1864 and ’65. At the time of his death he was book-keeper in the office of the V.S. & P. railroad, a position he had been filling most acceptably for a number of years. His remains were interred yesterday morning in Monroe Cemetery with the funeral honors and ceremonies of both the Masonic and Pythian fraternities of both of which orders he was a most worthy member. He leaves a wife, two son and three daughters to mourn his death, and to them our sincere condolence is tendered. The Ouachita Telegraph Friday, December 10, 1880 Page 2, Column 2 The New Orleans Item thus notices the death of a citizen of that city well known to many of the readers of this paper: Genial, bluff, jolly Dan Hickok having arrived at the ripe age of three score years and ten, quietly shuffled off the mortal coil and on buoyant wing his spirit returned to “God who gave it.” A little more than a third of a century ago he came to this city and for several years thereafter, was captain of a steamboat running between this city and Cincinnati. He then abandoned steamboating, and, concluding that he had the qualifications necessary to keep a hotel, entered on that business. His establishment at the lake end of the new shell road became famous, not only for its bibulous and substantial entertainments, but for the wit and humor of the host. Dan was a fellow of infinite comicality and could tell a story which would set a whole barroom in a roar. When the war came on Dan’s occupation at the Lake End was gone, and he retired for a time into private life. Subsequently he purchased the Carrollton Hotel with its beautiful garden; but when his hopes were highest he was stricken with paralysis and ever since he has been an invalid, though he loved a joke as well as ever. Peace to the ashes of jolly old Capt. Dan! The Ouachita Telegraph Friday, December 10, 1880 Page 3, Column 1 Mrs. Mary W. Duty, died in Trenton, Tuesday evening, at the residence of her son-in-law, Mr. R.M. Hardy. Mrs. Duty, nee Atwell, was born in this city, (1823,) about where Mr. Nelson’s store now stands. Monroe was then a mere trading post, and Ouachita parish embraced half of what is now known as North Louisiana. Mrs. Duty retained a vivid recollection of the ways, incidents and occurrences of life in Monroe in her early days, and her recitals were interesting. She was one of the pioneer mothers of this parish, few of whom are left. The Ouachita Telegraph Friday, December 17, 1880 Page 2, Column 4 The Alexandria Democrat reaches us this week draped in mourning for its veteran editor, E.R. Boissat, who departed this life at his home in Alexandria on the 1st int. Mr. Boissat had been connected with the Democrat for the past thirty years and was an able journalist and a consistent Democrat. He leaves a record honorable in the cause of journalism, and the fraternity will unite in mourning his loss. The Ouachita Telegraph Friday, December 24, 1880 Page 3, Column 1 Sammy Leyens, son of Henry Leyens, Esq., lately of Vicksburg, but recently removed to Monroe, died after a short illness at the residence of Marcus Weil, Esq., in this city last Friday. Sammy was a bright and promising boy and we offer our condolence with that of the community, to the bereaved family. # # #