The Daily Telegraph 1883 Ouachita Parish La This information generously donated to the La. Gen. Project African American archives by the Ouachita Parish Gen. Project and Ms. Lora Peppers. African American records extracted by S.K. Martin-Quiatte ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** ***************************** 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! African American records extracted by S.K. Martin-Quiatte ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** ************************************************ For further information contact S.K. Martin-Quiatte, redstick4@usewest.net The Monroe Bulletin Wednesday, January 3, 1883 Page 3, Column 1 John Mack Killed Joe Davis in the Island Saturday night. Both men are colored. Davis was stealing Mack's cotton, when Mack presented Davis with a load of buckshot. It was well deserved and a well paid New Year's gift. The Monroe Bulletin Wednesday, April 4, 1883 Page 2, Column 5 A negro boy by the name of Antoine, and aged about sixteen years, shot and killed his mother in Vermillion parish, last week. The woman and her son Antoine had an altercation, when another son interferred and separated them. The boy Antoine then ran into the house and procured a shot gun, and fired the fatal shot before any one could prevent the murderous deed. The boy was lodged in jail at Abbeville. The Monroe Bulletin Wednesday, July 4, 1883 Page 3, Column 1 Gilbert Brown, colored, employed at Downey's saw mill, fell in the river Saturday and was drowned. The body has not been recovered. The Monroe Bulletin Wednesday, July 11, 1883 Page 2, Column 1 Henderson Lee, colored, an escaped street convict, was hung by a mob in Morehouse parish last week. Lee was a bad man and generally distrusted. What he had done to bring upon himself so dreadful a punishment is not known. The precedent is bad, and if such a thing is ever justifiable, it should be done with the greatest circumspection. The Monroe Bulletin Wednesday, August 8, 1883 Page 2, Column 4 Death of J. Henri Burch. (New Orleans Picayune.) The record of deaths in this city on Sunday, July 29th, embraced several personages. One of them was J. Henri Burch, a colored politician of considerable prominence. A native of Hartford, Conn., and well educated, he adopted the calling of a school teacher, and in 1868 he came to Louisiana where he pursued for a time his profession, under the auspices of the Freedmen's Bureau. He settled at Baton Rouge and conducted a weekly paper, the "Grand Era," and took an active part in politics. In 1870 he was a Republican member of the lower House of the State Legislature from West Baton Rouge parish, serving until 1874, when he became State Senator and served a term. In 1876 he was a Presidential Elector for the State, and took part in the canvass that placed Mr. Hayes in the White House. He subsequently was appointed Keeper of the United States Record at the Custom House, and held that place at the time of his death. The subject of this sketch gained quite a reputation for oratory, and his natural gifts in that direction were of no common order. He occupied a number of important positions in the masonic Order, and at the time of his death was Grand Commander of the Knights Templar. He leaves a wife, who was the widow of the late Lieut. Gov. Oscar J. Dunn. The Monroe Bulletin Wednesday, December 5, 1883 Page 2, Column 2 Richmond Stuart, colored, who murdered his wife in Caddo parish, last July, was hung in Shreveport on the 30th ult. The execution was witnessed by about 4000 people. The Monroe Bulletin Wednesday, December 5, 1883 Page 3, Column 2 The Grand Jury was held this week to investigate the killing of a negro man last Saturday on the outer edge of the parish by D.S. McFarland of Union parish. The particulars are conflictingly reported, and until the Grand Jury takes action it is probably best not to repeat any of them. The Monroe Bulletin Wednesday, December 25, 1883 Page 3, Column 1 Murder of N.R. Milling. On the 18th inst., about 5 p.m., Mr. N.R. Milling, assistant manager on the Magenta plantion on the Bayou DeSiard, was shot and killed by King Hill, colored. Hill had been intermeddling with the labor of the place, and had been warned to sesist and keep off of the premises or suffer the consequences. Hill was engaged in removing a family at the time of the difficulty. Milling and Hill were some distance from other parties and the fact of the killing was made known by Hill. Hill fled, and was so hotly pursued that he abandoned his horse and gun six miles below town. The pursuit continued, and Hill was finally captured in Catahoula parish. He was brought back and lodged in jail last Monday night. Mr. Milling was the son of John H. Milling, about 19 years old, of good habits and peaceful disposition. The coroner's jury rendered a verdict that the killing was murder.