Obit:  Major M.O. Cheatham, Claiborne Parish LA
Submitter:  Lora Peppers  loradpeppers@hotmail.com



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Submitter's Note:  I have no relationship to this person. I am indexing
obituaries from early Ouachita Parish, Louisiana papers and thought this may
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The Ouachita Telegraph
April 2, 1868
Page 2, Column 1

DEATH OF MAJ. M.O. CHEATHAM. We are pained to chronicle the death of Major M.O.
Cheatham, of Trenton. He was taken ill on Friday, with an affliction of the
kidneys, and after suffering great pain, expired on Sunday, the 28 inst., at his
residence, surrounded by family and friends. Truly a good and righteous man has
been taken from Israel. Not a single stain rests upon his fair escutheon (?);
not a tongue so rash as to utter aught against his memory. Major Cheatham
resided for many years in Claiborne parish, where he has a large circle of
friends who will deeply mourn his untimely loss, but not more feeling than his
friends in Trenton and Monroe. He leaves a widow and several children, in whose
behalf we invoke the sympathies and friendship of man and the choicest blessings
of Heaven.

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The Ouachita Telegraph
April 29, 1868
Page 2, Column 5

     We regret to hear of the death of that gallant and estimable gentleman,
Major M.O. Cheatham, which took place at Trenton, La., on the 28th of March.

     He was an officer of Gray's 28th La., and was truly a good and righteous
man, and has gone down to an early grave without a stain upon his escutcheon,
and without a tougne (sic) to speak aught against his memory. So passes away
from earth the good and kind friends of our days of peril and of trial.
Thibodaux Sentinel.