Abstracts from the Union Parish "Home Advocate" This information generously donated to the Louisiana Genealogy Project - African American Archives by: Timothy D. Hudson ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** Explanation: (1) The items below marked by "+++" are quoted directly from the original newspapers. (2) My comments are in brackets [ ]. (3) I have only abstracted the local notices from these papers, and generally these are only on page three of the four-page paper, with the occasional local article on page two. I have abstracted some of the local advertisements, but only once; many of them ran repeatedly. (4) In some of these papers, the left margin of the local notices is damaged, causing a few words to be unreadable. I have indicated such instances with "[?]". ************************************************************************ Friday, 4 September 1885 page 2 +++ On Monday last Dr. W. N. Grace and G. W. Carrol, Esq., Justice of the Peace near Cherry Ridge, in this parish, were called to hold a post mortem examination of the body of a colored boy named Thompson, aged about seven years, near that place. We learn that this little boy's mother had carried her children to the house of a colored woman named Margaret Adams, and the older members of both families went to church near by, leaving the children at the house. When Clark Thompson and family returned from church they were horrified to find their little boy a corpse. The post mortem examination disclosed a severe contusion on the skull near the right ear which producing hemorrhage of the brain was probably the cause of death. The body of the dead child was considerably striped and lacerated causing a belief that he had been severely lashed. A youth about twelve years old, - son of the colored woman, Margaret Adams - who had been left with this boy and other young children, being questioned, made two or three different statements relative to the affair, but we have not learned that sufficient evidence was obtained by the jury of inquest to justify his arrest. ************************************************************************ Friday, 18 September 1885 page 3 LOCALS. +++ An insane Negro man, named Harrison Dyke, from the vicinity of Shiloh, was brought to this place last Monday and placed in jail. ************************************************************************** Friday, 2 October 1885 page 3 +++ The little negro boy, Sam Dar___g, is still in jail. +++ Sheriff Pleasant returned Wednesday from Jackson, La., after safely conducting Harrison Dyke, a colored lunatic, to the asylum. *************************************************************************** Friday, 16 October 1885 page 3 +++ The Colored Baptist Association begins in this town Saturday. *************************************************************************** Friday, 23 October 1885 page 2 +++ We do not believe it exaggerating when we say the number of colored people in attendance at the Gum Spring Baptist Association in this place last Sunday was fully three thousand souls. The Association began Friday and closed Tuesday evening. ***************************************************************************** Friday, 13 November 1885 +++ Judge Young fixed the commitment bond of the little negro, Sam Darling, at 100 dollars; he being unable to give this bond, was remanded to jail to await the next term of court. +++ When Mr. F. Selig returned to his store from supper, Tuesday night, he was surprised to find his rear door unbarred, and, upon investigation, he also found a small negro boy named Johnson secreted inside the store. Johnson’s statement implicates a negro man named Sandy Jackson as his confederate in a plan of robbery. Both Negroes were placed in jail to await a hearing. ***************************************************************************** +++ A negro man named Wesley Miller, who lives on Mr. E. Hub Ward’s place, eight miles east of Farmerville, was arrested and brought to town Saturday, charged with making an assault on Mr. Ward with a dangerous weapon. He was placed under the supervision of Mr. Turnage, in the brick building, to await a preliminary hearing. # # #