Author: Lora Diane Peppers
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Alumni of the Monroe City High School, 1888 – 1929
In 1929, the Alumni Association of the Monroe City High School published a list of all known graduates of the school. The Special Collections Department has a copy of it…
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Monroe, LA businesses in 1899
[From a book in the Special Collections Department, Ouachita Parish Public Library] Southern Directory Company’s Business Directory of New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Monroe, Shreveport,Bay St. Louis, Biloxi, Edwards, Enterprise, Fayette,…
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Lynchings Reported in Ouachita Parish Papers: The Twentieth Century
And this is the twentieth century list of names. Name Newspaper Date Page Column Notes Airy, Joe News-Star 2/26/1925 1 8 Lynched in Bossier City, LA Allums, Earnest News-Star 5/4/1912…
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Lynchings Reported in Ouachita Parish Newspapers: The 1800’s
Many years ago, after I had indexed most of the known Ouachita Parish newspapers for deaths up until the 1930s, I was curious as to how many were due to…
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A Little-Known Cemetery Index
In the 1950s, the Daughters of the American Revolution undertook the task of indexing many state cemeteries. They didn’t get all of them, but what they did index is a…
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African-American Education in Ouachita Parish Near the Turn of the Century
This is a tiny little key hole glimpse into the history of education in the African-American community of Monroe. It talks about a trade school that had been started by…
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The Diary of Martha Frances Surghnor Part III
September 10, 1889: “Yesterday Mrs. McFee’ last son George was so badly scalded that he died last night and has just been buried. He was the victim of a railroad…
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The Diary of Martha Frances Surghnor Part II
March 6th, 1887: “Since last writing, John McFee, the twin brother of Frank who was killed August 23, has died. It was just six months after Franks death,. He died…
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The Diary of Martha Frances Surghnor 1886 – 1899 Part I
Long ago, someone typed a transcript of the diary of Martha F. Surghnor. She lived in Monroe and was buried in the Old City Cemetery. She details the comings and…
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Logtown Legend
The WPA writers project in 1937 interviewed John B. Filhiol, who told the following story. Paul and Agatha were two of the slaves owned by Edward Landry Grammont Filhiol,…
Ouachita Parish History Tidbits 