1859 Obituary of John Fields Auld & Mary Jackson Auld of Union Parish Louisiana Submitted for the Union Parish Louisiana USGenWeb Archives by T. D. Hudson, 3/2004 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ ================================================================================= 1859 Obituary of John Fields Auld & Mary Jackson Auld of Union Parish Louisiana New Orleans Christian Advocate, issue of 16 or 23 Nov 1859, No. 43, page 2, Column 2: ================================================================================== NOTE: John Fields Auld left Anson County North Carolina and moved to what is now Lowndes County Alabama in the latter 1820s. He sold his farm there in 1834, and by November 1835, he had settled in Kemper County Mississippi. John Fields Auld's eldest son Elijah Michael Auld had married Margaret Jane Ward in 1830. Margaret's brother David Ward was one of the earliest settlers of what is now Union Parish, as he settled there in February 1837. Elijah Michael Auld and his father-in-law Elisha Ward, Sr. joined David Ward in north Louisiana in the spring of 1838. In 1841, John F. Auld sold his Mississippi farm and moved to Claiborne Parish, where he lived until the early 1850s. At that time, he moved to eastern Union Parish, presumably to be near his four sons who lived there: Elijah Michael Auld, James Alexander Auld, Sherwood A. Auld, and Washington C. Auld. Some descendents claim that John and Mary Auld died in a carriage accident, but I have never seen any documentation for this. ================================================================================== BOTH DIED IN ONE DAY 'Lovely and beautiful in their lives in death they were not divided.' Died, on the 28th of August 1859, JOHN F. AULD and MARY AULD (Mary Jackson.) They were born in Anson county, N.C. Father Auld was born 1788, Mother Auld, 1791. They married in Anson county, moved to Alabama, thence to Union parish Louisiana, where they departed this life full assurance of a blessed immortaility. At an early age they professed religion and joined the M.E. Church, of which they lived consistent members till death. It may be said of them, "they were one." Together they lived - together they died. As they had borne the burden and heat of the day of life together, they desired and prayed to be released at the same time. God granted them their desire. One did not know that the other's spirit had departed. Together their spirits ascended, and now rest in the bosom of their Redeemer. D. P. Cullin North Carolina Christian Advocate please copy. ############################################################################