Obits:  The Daily Telegraph 1886 Obits Ouachita Parish La
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African American records extracted by S.K. Martin-Quiatte


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The Daily Telegraph
Thursday, January 7, 1886
Page 3, Column 3
Two small colored boys named George and Auther Slover were out riding
in a dugout this evening and the dugout turned over just opposite the
saw mill, drowing (sic) one, Arthur.

The Daily Telegraph
Friday, May 21, 1886
Page 3, Column 2
Dr. Cage, coroner, viewed a dead body this morning on the opposite side
of the river,
about a mile above the upper Pargoud plantation. The body is supposed
to have been that of Willis Davis, colored, who while drunk fell out of
a skiff on the 17th ult., and was drowned. The testimoney (sic) adduced
at the inquest proved conclusively that Davis was drunk on that day and
falling out of the skiff, was as above stated drowned.

The Daily Telegraph
Tuesday, June 29, 1886
Page 3, column 1
Wesley Wynn, the young colored brakesman, who was run over by a train
of the V.S.&P.
R.R., yesterday, mention of which accident was made in this paper last
evening, died at 5 p.m.- about three hours after the occurrence and was
buried at 3 o'clock this afternoon. "Blood", as he was known, was one
of those colored citizens who worked hard and respected all and was
dutiful to any trust imposed upon him by his employers.

SHOT DOWN BY NEGRO WHO HAD BEEN REPRIMANDED.
Impudest Black Pursues White Man and Kills Him in the Presence of Wife and
Children.
        Lake Charles, La., Sept. 2.-D.M. Trahan, aged twenty-four, was shot to
death yesterday six miles east of Lake Charles by a negro named Sylvester
Mouton of Lafayette.  Trahan was the foreman and overseer on the rice
plantation of Jesse Thom.  It is reported that Mouton had been arrested last
night near town and is in jail, but this report has nout (sic) been
confirmed.  Alcide Broussard, another negro who was on the Thom plantation
when the shooting occurred, has been arrested and is being held.
        Coroner Fisher held an inquest over the dead overseer's body yesterday
afternoon, and the jury returned a verdict charging Mouton with the murder.
The testimony brought out in this investigation showed the killing to have
been a cold-blooded deed of a negro fiend.
        Trahan told Mouton to hitch up a team early yesterday morning, and the
negro muttered something as he went about his work.  He delayed hitching the
team for some time, and when reprimanded by Trahan for being so slow became
very insolent.  Trahan shook him and warned him that he had better not
repeat his impudence.  The negro said he did not want to work there any more
and was going to the barn to get his clothes.  Trahan watched him from a
nearby point.  As the black came out of the barn he held a pistol in his
right hand and began firing at Trahan.  The latter begged for mercy and
began to run toward the house, but the negro followed and murdered him in
the presence of his wife and three small children.
        Immediately after killing Trahan the negro began running down the
track  of the Iron Mountain route in the direction of Lake Charles.  Alcide
Broussard, another negro, was the only other person in the vicinity at the
time, and he became frightened at what had occurred and ran away, being
arrested later in the day.  As he took no part in the affair he will likely be
released today.
  The dead man leaves a widow and three small children.  He was a native of
Calcasieu parish and has a large family connection in this part of the
State.