Obituary of J. Newton Pitts of Richland Parish Louisiana, 1883 Abstracted from The Monroe Bulletin Submitted by Dot Golliher ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** J. Newton Pitts From The Monroe Bulletin Wednesday, March 21, 1883 Page 3, Column 2 J. Newton Pitts, Clerk of the District Court for Richland Parish, died of pneumonia on the 14th instant. Mr. Pitts was a competent officer and a most excellent gentleman. J.S. Summerlin was appointed Clerk to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Mr. Pitts.