1867 Article on William Cleaton Carr, Union Parish Louisiana Submitted for the Union Parish Louisiana USGenWeb Archives by T. D. Hudson, 12/2006 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ ================================================================================== ================================================================================== Captain George W. McCranie founded the 'Weekly Telegraph' in Monroe, Ouachita Parish beginning in September 1865. In mid-December, he decided to change the name to the "Ouachita Telegraph'. The paper continued publication until and the 1890s or later. ================================================================================== ================================================================================== ================================================================================== ================================================================================== 1867 Article on William Cleaton Carr, Union Parish Louisiana From the Monroe "Ouachita Telegraph", issue of 22 August 1867, page 2 ================================================================================== ================================================================================== UNION PARISH. -- W. C. Carr, Esq., nominates John L. Barrett, Esq., for the State (Radical) Convention, and in his published piece concludes as follows: I am inclinced to the opinion, that if the people will unite as one man and favor reconstruction under the Sherman bill, that the Southern States will be restored, otherwise confiscation and disfranchisement may follow. It is a matter of policy thus to unite. We have some recollection of the history of Mr. Carr. If he ever was on the right side we have forgotten it. He was a Federal Whig; then a Know-Nothing; and next and lastly a separate State action secessionist, who voted aye on the ordinance of secession, he being a member of the secession Convention. We volunteer no opinion of Mr. Barrett's fitness for the position of delegate to the Convention; but we do undertake to assert that Mr. Carr is not a proper person to advise the people of Union what is now their duty. ================================================================================== NOTE: William Cleaton Carr (6 Nov 1809 - 18 Jan 1886) settled in what is now Union Parish in 1836. He was elected as the first sheriff of the parish and then served two consecutive terms in the Louisiana Legislature. He owned and operated a lumber business before the war, and he served as one of the delegates to the Louisiana Secession Convention in January 1861. Carr had medical training and had strong religious beliefs, writing a series of religious articles for various Union Parish newspapers. He was a son-in-law of Colonel Matthew Wood, the man who led the first large group of settlers from central Alabama to the piney hills of north Louisiana in early 1837. ###############################################################################