Obituary of Julian Tucker Black ,native of Richland Parish, LA
Submitted by Richard Tucker, January 17,2006
As printed in World Ruston Bureau, December 1975
 

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Monroe Man is Killed on Deer Hunt -Julian Tucker Black
Tuesday  December 23, 1975

Julian Tucker Black 

Farmerville - A 29-year-old Monroe man was killed here Tuesday morning while 
deer hunting with a friend in the Union Game Reserve approximately nine miles 
north of Farmerville.
  
Union Parish Chief Deputy Glenn Barron said Julian Tucker Black died as the 
result of a 30-30 caliber rifle shot to the right front shoulder.
  
The accident occurred around 10:45 a.m. Barron said.Barron said Black's hunting 
companion, Jessie J. Underwood, 27, also of Monroe, told him that Black was 
walking ahead of him when Underwood became entangled in a growth of vines and 
tripped.When he fell, Underwood said, the rifle discharged, striking Black in 
the shoulder.
  
Union Parish Coroner Dr. John Norris pronounced Black dead on the scene.
  
Barron said the incident was still under investigation.
  
Funeral arrangements for Mr. Black are incomplete at Kilpatrick's Funeral Home 
of Monroe. He was a supervisor at Louisiana Training Institute, a U.S. Navy veteran 
and a member of the Monroe Church of God.
  
Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Mable Black of Monroe; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. 
Vernon L. Black of Monroe; three sons, Jimmie Black, John Black and Steven Black, 
all of Monroe; three brothers, Vernon Eugene Black of Epps, James Glendon Black 
of Texas and Dennis Leland Black of Biloxi,Miss.

Comments: Julian Tucker Black was born in Delhi,Richland Parish,LA on January 29, 
1946 to Vernon L. Black and Mary Adell Tucker Black.