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The Ouachita Telegraph Friday, January 27, 1882 Page 3, Column 5 DIED, REA – At Wesson, Mississippi, Tuesday, December 13th, 1881, at 7 a.m., Little JAMIE, infant son of Dr. R.W. and Rilla Oliver Rea; aged 15 months and 2 days. Another forget me not among the angels, Blooming in the infinite meadow of Heaven. The Ouachita Telegraph Saturday, February 18, 1882 Page 3, Column 3 DIED. McLEOD –On Wednesday, 15th inst., at the family residence in Trenton, JOHN PELHAM infant son of H.W. and S.E. McLeod, aged 5 months and 10 days. There are not many afflictions befalling the parent like that of the child dying in its infancy. There remains a remembrance of these little ones, long, long after they are gone, which makes the spot sacred where they rest, and they live in a sweet influence even while the living are dying. The Ouachita Telegraph Saturday, February 25, 1882 Page 3, Column 1 Col. W.H. Sparks, of Ouachita parish, died recently in Georgia, at the age of 80 years. He was in many respects a wonderful man. His Reminiscences of Fifty Years in Louisiana went the rounds of the press and abounded in stories, incidents and lively scenes. He told us he never had tasted liquor. When the war broke out, he boldly and hotly opposed secession and foretold the disastrous consequences it would bring upon the State and the South. He was remarkably vigorous both physically and mentally. – N.O. Tax-Payers’ Organ. Col. Sparks was a resident of this parish at the commencement of the war, and for some years before; but the reader of his Fifty Years’ Reminiscences will find no allusion to the fact in that work. Col. Sparks met few less distinguished men than S.S. Prentiss, J.R. Grimes and W.H. Crawford, and it is due to that fact, perhaps, that col. Sparks accounted his residence in Monroe as substantially a blank. As our contemporary observes he was a remarkable man, but he was not a seer. If he foretold the disasterous consequences of the war, he was less fortunate, in a prior prophecy, in which he predicted the success of the American – or Know-Nothing party, and in the success of which he was ardently and zealously enlisted, making a canvass in North Louisiana in 1855 when he met Mr. Benjamin, Judge Moise and other Democratic speakers in debate. To these intellectual points, Colonel Sparks does not allude in his books, which is, nevertheless, a book full of historical facts a of incidents described in elegant, attractive style. The Ouachita Telegraph Saturday, March 11, 1882 Page 3, Column 1 Capt. J.M. Trask, mail agent on the V.S. & P. railroad, and for some time a resident of this city, died at Vicksburg on the 9th. He had been attending to the mails on the eastern division of the railroad since the overflow of the road, where he was greatly exposed. He was an obliging and zealous officer. The Ouachita Telegraph Saturday, March 18, 1882 Page 3, Column 1 Mr. H. Filhiol received the sad intelligence Wednesday that his son Grammont died at Emmettsburg, Maryland, that day, of quinsy. Grammont was a bright-faced little boy, as we remember the little fellow when he left for Emmetsburg some four years ago to attend school, and was his father’s only surviving son. He had nearly completed his fifteenth year and had before him a future bright in promise. The afflicted father and sorrowing sisters have our sincere sympathy. The Ouachita Telegraph Saturday, April 1, 1882 Page 2, Column 2 Capt. L.M. Nutt, senator from the parish of Caddo, who had been in declining health for several months, died at his home in Shreveport on the 22nd ultimo. Alas, poor country! When such big hearts and fertile brains are at thy service no longer. The Ouachita Telegraph Saturday, April 8, 1882 Page 3, Column 3 DIED, BOND – Near Woodville, La., March 15, 1882, of catarrhal fever, EVA BEALL BOND, aged one year and eight months, only child of W.F. and Dosie Bond. Little Eva, too sweet for earth, has gone to join the myriads of innocents that throng the throne of the Most High in heaven. I feel truly sorry for the bereaved parents, knowing the keen sensibility with which they regard so afflicting an occurrence. They doted on their promising child, perhaps too much so, and the bereavement will consequently be the more seriously felt. “The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.” There is consolation in the knowledge that Little Eva has escaped the ills of life, and has been transplanted early from a world of sorrow to a world of bliss. There is yet a holier consolation, without which life would not be worth the living. Father and mother, You will meet your daughter with her God at last. J.L.B. The Ouachita Telegraph Saturday, July 29, 1882 Page 3, Column 3 Mr. J.B. Garrettson, who has been for some weeks a sufferer from fistula and attacks of billous colick, is recovering his strength slowly and is now moving around his room, but with the aid of crutches. With this bit of pleasing news, we regret to say that Mr. J.R. Muir, who has been seriously ill for several days is lying at the point of death, and not expected to survive but a few hours. Mr. Muir has been in poor health for months, and only recently returned from the hills where he had hoped to find relief. In his death our little city will lose over a citizen who has filled a place but few men could have filled so well. NOTE: In the Saturday, August 5, 1882 edition, there is a resolution of respect for Mr. Muir from the Ouachita Fire Company, No. 1 (page 3, Column 3) Also, in the October 8, 1887 issue, page 3, column 3, there is an account of Mr. Muir’s alleged wife in New York contesting the will of Mr. Muir. The Ouachita Telegraph Saturday, July 29, 1882 Page 3, Column 3 In Memoriam. MOORE – Died, July 22d, at 9 o’clock P.M., JOHN EDWARD, aged 20 years and five months; eldest son of John L. and Mary Moore. The messenger of death has again visited our town and our community was brought to a sad realization of his unwelcome presence a few days since, by the death of JOHN EDWARD MOOE. He had been sick nearly three weeks, and was thought to be getting well, but an unexpected change, blasted our hopes and baffled the skill of the physician, and after suffering severely for twenty-four hours his spirit passed away. EDDIE was in his twenty-first year and few young men ever attained the age o maturity with brighter prospects for the future, and in his death our community sustains the loss of one of its most estimable young men. Having been reared in the midst of us, and being very intimate with him, it was never our good fortune to know a boy of nobler traits of character – a dutiful and affectionate son and brother – a true and unselfish friend – an intelligent, high-minded Christian young gentleman. Recognizing the fact that every young man should choose some useful trade or profession, EDDIE, chose the study of law, and in the short time he had pursued his studies developed an aptness for it, that pleased his instructors, and, should he have lived, would have insured him success and eminence in his chosen avocation. His illness was severe from the first, but he bore it with patience and complaisancy (sic), and on being told of his approaching end, received it with that courage and manliness that had characterized his career. To the good Father that ministered as spiritual adviser, he gave the most satisfactory evidence of a Christian’s faith and hope in the future that awaits the “Pure in Spirit.” He seemed only too willing for the summons that would call him to rest. Ah! EDDIE, it was, indeed, hard for us to give thee up; we who knew thy worth, and too, at the time thou wert prepared to fulfill all that we had anticipated and hoped for thee. We confess we were rebellious and could hardly become reconciled to this dispensation of All-Wise Providence; but as thou hast said, we do bow submissively and exclaim with thee: “Not my will, but Thine be done, O Lord.” To the family in this their sad bereavement, we tender our heartfelt sympathy, and, with EDDIE, ask that you “weep no more,” but rest in the assurance that he has only gone before to join his voice in the “everlasting song” where he anxiously awaits your coming. Rest in peace, EDDIE, thou art not forgotten! C.W.H. The Ouachita Telegraph Saturday, August 5, 1882 Page 3, Column 2 [For the TELEGRAPH.] OBESQUIES OF MISS ESTELE GADDIS. The funeral services of Miss Estelle Gaddis on Monday evening, conducted by Rev. B.F. White in the Methodist church of this city, were marked by peculiar beauty and solemnity, and touched the assembled congregation with a force unusual even on such occasions. So young, so lovely, and yet so patient, the deceased had won the love of those who witnessed her sufferings. The beautiful floral decorations in the church were surely a fitting tribute from those who loved her, to the snow-white purity that adorned her short career on earth. The church was crowded, the Sunday Schools being grouped near the altar, and within its railing were the Ministers of the two Protestant churches, and their respective choirs, and while the casket containing the remains was borne up the aisle, “Safe in the arms of Jesus” was sung with a pathos almost indescribable, “Rock of Ages” “Nearer my God to Thee” and “Shall we meet beyond the River,” were also sung, and the benediction of Heaven seemed around and about while the tones of her favorite hymns floated above the beautiful sleeper. In his touching prayer, and his beautiful eulogy to the gentle grace that had crowned the patient sufferer, the eloquent divine portrayed the growth of the youthful Christian into the beauty of holiness, and contrasted the momentum gained thus with the more sluggish advance of the piety attained in after years, when the heart is callous and hardened by sin. His concluding illustration of the magnetism of the “Supreme Holiness” drawing with perpetually accumulated force, the pure young soul, nearer and nearer to God, was sublimely beautiful, and doubtless carried a great moral truth deep into the consciences of those who listened. NOTE: In the Saturday, August 12, 1882 edition of the Ouachita Telegraph, page 3, Column 3, there is a poem in memory of Estelle Gaddis who died of consumption on July 30, 1882. The Ouachita Telegraph Saturday, August 26, 1882 Page 3, Column 1 Mrs. Jane St. Clair Hughes died at her residence on Bayou DeSiard on Thursday, 24th inst., in the 91st year of her age. Mrs. Hughes was, we believe, the oldest inhabitant of this parish. The Ouachita Telegraph Saturday, September 2,1882 Page 3, Column 5 DIED, In Monroe, La., 27th August, 1882, in the 58th year of his age, TOBIAS PURCELL, a native of Ireland but for thirteen years a citizen of Monroe. New Orleans and Dublin papers please copy. NOTE: There is a short biography of Mr. Purcell on the same page, column 2. The Ouachita Telegraph Saturday, September 9, 1882 Page 2, Column 5 DIED, At her residence on Ellerslie plantation, Island DeSiard, Thursday, August 24, 1882. Mrs. JANE ST. CLAIR HUGHES, in the 91st year of her age. She was buried at the Tennelle family graveyard on Bayou DeSiard, Saturday, August 26, 1882. The subject of this notice was born in Washington county, Georgia, on the 11th day of March, 1792 at the time the mighty government under which we now live was only three years old, when the entire population of the country was less than five millions of people, when there had been but two States added to the original thirteen of the Revolution, when all west of the Alleghany mountains was a boundless wilderness, when even the English language was unspoken in Ouachita, and when this was truly the Ultima Thulle of civilization. Jane St. Clair Tennelle was one of nine sisters, all of whom were women of marked and distinguished character, and each one of whom took a prominent part in the times and places in which they respectively lived. There are also the names of five other sisters and brothers in that “Old family Bible,” a sacred relic of a past age, from whose records we make the following quaint quotation: “John Hughes and Jane St. Clair Tennelle were joined in the Bonds of Hold Wedlock, at the Parish of Ouachita, Territory of Orleans, on the 24th day of May, 1809.” Mrs. Hughes gave birth to five children, two of whom died in infancy or early childhood. Her daughter died at the age of thirteen years, and her two remaining sons in early manhood. The last three died, as did their father, of consumption. Gen. John Hughes, an elegant and accomplished Irish gentleman of the old school, and one of the most prominent men of his day in Northern Louisiana, died in 1830. The last child of Mrs. Hughes, Thomas Jennings, died at the age of twenty-four in 1838. From that day to the hour of her death, this widowed mother, left desolate, with all her treasures – her entire family gone before her – this brave, affectionate, care-worn woman watched faithfully with Christian resignation and undoubting faith, trusting, Oh, how longingly! That the time would soon come, when she, too, would be called to rest, and to that joyful meeting which she anticipated with undoubting turst, when all her little flock should be again enfolded within her fond embrace in the presence of that God whose humble, faithful servant she had been through all these lingering years. Scores of years ago, she connected herself with, and became a devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and there have been but few ministers of that denomination in this portion of the world who have not received encouragement from her counsel and material assistance from her generous bounty. In her life and character we find beautifully displayed the benefit and blessings in disguise of the chastening hand of an Allwise Providence upon the life and actions of a true and devout believer. For half-a century this brave Christian woman has taken no step in life, fulfilled no duty, sought no pleasure, without seeking prayerfully the direction and guidance of her Heavenly Father, through whom she anticipated her final reward in the ecstatic reunion with those whom she had here loved so fondly and so long. Peace to her ashes! Truly has she gone to that rest, prepared from the foundation of the world for those who love and serve the Lord. New Orleans Christian Advocate please copy. The Ouachita Telegraph Saturday, September 9, 1882 Page 2, Column 5 The many friends of Mrs. JULIA HOLLOWMAN, were pained to learn of her death at her home in Mississippi, on Friday, August 25th, of congestion of the lungs. In the early summer, Mrs. Hollowman was in Monroe, visiting her father Rev. B.F. White, and during her brief stay all who knew her learned to love her. She looked pale and fragile then, and withal so gentle and lovely, -- it does not seem strange that Go has called her to a brighter “Home.” To the bereaved, common words of consolation, are meaningless, and friendly sympathy may well stand mute in presence of great sorrow. But when, as to this gentle Christian, death comes with a touch soft as feathery “snow-flake,” – when with the voice of song upon her parted lips, and the triumphs of redeeming love lighting up her saintly countenance, the listening mourners almost hear the pearly gates of the beautiful city turn on their golden hinges to receive another angel, sorrow is indeed turned to song of exultant joy. May God bring solace to those who mourn! Monroe, September 8, 1882. The Ouachita Telegraph Saturday, September 9, 1882 Page 2, Column 5 A Token of Respect. GEORGIE E EVANS died on her eleventh birthday, 31st August, 1882. WHEREAS, GOD, in His overruling and all-wise providence has removed from our mist, and transported to more blissful realms, to keep company with the angels, our dear little GEORGIE, who by her gentle nature and quiet deportment, had won our live and esteem: Be it resolved, That we, her classmates and fellow-pupils of the M.E. Sunday School, do deeply regret her death and mourn her loss, and tender our heartfelt sympathies to the grief-stricken family, and commend to them the Great Comforter for solace in their affliction. Resolved, That, as a tribute of respect to her memory, we meet at the children’s meeting, on Sunday, the 10th inst., in a memorial service. Resolved, That these resolutions be spread upon the Sunday school record, a copy be sent to the bereaved family, and the OUACHITA TELEGRAPH be asked to publish them. OLIVE P. McCRANIE, ETTA M. CONNER, Com. MARGIE G. GARRETT, JUNIATA E. McGUIRE, The Ouachita Telegraph Saturday, September 9, 1882 Page 3, Column 1 Deaths in Trenton. Mrs. Williamson, mother of Mr. W.C. Williamson, died in Trenton Tuesday. Mrs. W. was about 70 years of age. Thomas C., the little 6 year old son and youngest child of Col. and Mrs. T.C. Standifer died at their residence Wednesday of congestion following a chill and fever on Monday. The afflicted parents have our sincere sympathies. 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 h made his “elbuck jink and diddle,” and a cheerful smile and a merry good day nearly always played upon his honest black face. The Ouachita Telegraph Saturday, October 21, 1882 Page 2, Column 5 DIED, At one o’clock, A.M., October 16, 1882, at the residence of Lewis D. Allen, Jr., Monroe, La., ALICE BARRY BRADY, daughter of M.B. and Mary E. Brady of West Baton Rouge Parish, La., in the 28th year of her age. Her remains were taken to New Orleans for interment in the family vault. Attacked with that dread disease pneumonia, nature seemed from the first totally unable to resist its deadly assault. Despite the unceasing care and skillful attentions of her physician – the untiring devotion of her lady friends who by her bedside day, and night attended her, the heartfelt prayers of all, she lingered in great suffering for two weeks, when she quietly breathed her last. Few were her faults; many were her virtues. She came among us a stranger, she leaves us a dear friend, loved by all, and in whose recollections nothing unpleasant lingers, but all thoughts connected with her are bright and joyful, even as her own were. Her musical attainments were of a high order, and her ever ready response to the all of friends in assisting in social or charitable entertainments will be cherished among us all. In her untimely death we feel robbed as it were, but consoled in the thought that she has passed away from this earth, and a bright star has been added to the dear one in Heaven. L.A. NOTE: Just below this obituary is another obituary, and on page 3, column 1 is a Notice of her death. The Ouachita Telegraph Saturday, October 21, 1882 Page 3, Column 1 Mrs. Lou B. Bry, relict of the late C. Dabbs Bry, died in St. Louis on the 9th inst. She had, we learn, been in failing health for a long time, being afflicted with that slow, but sure destroyer, consumption. She left many friends in this city who will mourn her loss and silently drop a tear of regret to her memory. The Ouachita Telegraph Saturday, October 28, 1882 Page 2, Column 5 In Memoriam. Died, October 22nd, 1882, WILLIE, oldest son of Dr. M.L. Bowman and Cora Davidson; aged 11 years, 1 month and 22 days. A lovely bud, yet far from its blossoming into a flower, has been plucked by the ruthless hand of Death. Our blue-eyed darling is gone, and his untimely departure leaves us sad and weeping. Willie was a child, but merely in age and form, for his mind was truly noble for the supposed capacity of his years. So great were his charms, his affection and gentleness of spirit that our little friend was a glorious promise. Now, “The silver chord is loosed and the golden bowl is broken at the fountain.” The angel of Death has snatched from earth a fair and favorite child, a father’s hope and a mother’s pride. That sweet voice will never again make glad the hearts of fond parents, loving sisters and brothers, for our gentle Willie, too pure for this world, has flown to a blissful home above, and to remind us of his blitheful nature, nothing remains but sad mementoes. Bereaved parents, cease to weep for your idolized child, e’en though his gentle voice is hushed in death, and his dear little form laid away in the grave. “He is not dead but sleepeth.” His sweet spirit is shining in Heaven, where he joins that happy band of little angels in singing the praises of God, and where he still loves and watches over you. You miss your pure darling but would you recall That little one beauteous and fair? Know you not that earth’s waste was too dreary and bleak For one so tender and rare? ‘Twas at the call of the Savior your little boy fled To that beautiful home far above. To join with the angels in singing His praise In the glorious anthem of love. HIS TEACHER, M.A.B. The Ouachita Telegraph Saturday, October 28, 1882 Page 2, Column 5 DIED, Of swamp fever, in Cottonport, Ouachita parish, at the residence of his father, FREDERICK MALCOLM McCULLOUGH, son of C. and E.S. McCullough; aged 16 years, 8 months and 27 days. Montgomery and Troy, Ala., papers please copy. The Ouachita Telegraph Saturday, November 4, 1882 Page 3, Column 1 The Remains of L.G. Campbell, proprietor Alabama Landing in union parish, were brought to Monroe and interred Monday. His disease was an affection of the throat. Mr. Campbell was at one time a merchant in this city, and was highly esteemed by all who knew him. The Ouachita Telegraph Saturday, November 4, 1882 Page 3, Column 1 Mr. Henry King, Sr., died of softening of the brain at the residence of his son-in-law, Mr. L. Kern, on the 31st ult. Mr. King was a native of Bavaria, but for 31 years a resident of Louisiana. He was the father of Mrs. Gross, the half-brother of G. and H. King and father-in-law of S. Marx. The Ouachita Telegraph Saturday, November 11, 1882 Page 3, Column 3 DIED, On Monday, October 9th, 1882, at the residence of Mr. Mouton, JAMES ARCHIE MEAGHER, aged 48 years. Mr. Meagher, was of a good family, and was born in Alexandria, Va., in the year 1834. He received a good education, an about the year 1850 he entered the office of the Alexandria Gazette and served an apprenticeship under Edgar Snowden, Sr. At the close of the war he came South, and worked at his trade upon the different morning papers in New Orleans. On the 17th of April, 1868, he came to Abbeville, to accept a position in the Meridional office, where he remained for several years. During the campaign of 1870, he edited The Independent, a Democratic paper published at this place. In 1874 he severed his connection with this journal and became a tutor in the family of Hon. A. Nunez, where he remained several years. He afterwards taught school for Messrs. D. Nunez, A. Hoffpauir and several others, and was engaged in this occupation at the time of his death. Mr. Meagher was an easy writer and his productions often lent interest to these columns. He was possessed of a genial disposition and kindly traits of character which endeared him to his friends. For many years he had been a sufferer from rheumatism which shattered his health. His last illness though painful was of brief duration.. He leaves a daughter and sister to mourn his untimely end. – Abbeville Meridional. The Ouachita Telegraph Saturday, November 18, 1882 Page 3, Column 2 [Baton Rouge Capitolian.] On the day previous to the election, Mr. Joe Drawdy, of East Feliciana, rode fifteen miles to his son-in-law, Mr. Green Rhodes, to cast his vote for Gen. Herron. He was 82 years old, and said he wanted to cast his last vote for his friend of thirty years standing. On the day of election he was dressing himself to go to the polls, when he was seized with an apoplectic fit and died just as the polls were closing. The Ouachita Telegraph Supplement to the Ouachita Telegraph Saturday, November 25, 1882 Page 1, Column 6 The death, at Baton Rouge, on the 13th, is reported of Mrs. Mary Dufrocq, widow of the late John R. Dufrocq, formerly editor and proprietor of the Baton Rouge Gazette, and for several years in succession Mayor of Baton Rouge. The Ouachita Telegraph Supplement to the Ouachita Telegraph Saturday, November 25, 1882 Page 1, Column 6 The Rev. Stephen W. Rogers, aged 33 years, formerly a resident of New Orleans, died at Lake Peigneur, in New Iberia parish, on the 8th inst., of bilious fever. The Ouachita Telegraph Saturday, November 25, 1882 Page 3, Column 1 We are requested to announce the death of Mrs. S.J. Davis, at Shreveport, on the 20th; aged 53 years. # # #