Ouachita Parish History Tidbits

Author: Lora Diane Peppers

  • Early Car in Monroe

    Nothing about the above photo is identified.  We don’t know the street or the two men in the car.  All we know is that it was taken in Monroe between…

  • Monroe’s Methodist Episcopal church

    Here is another scrapbook page.  The Methodist Episcopal Church stood at the corner of Wood and Jackson Street.  There is a parking lot now where the church once stood.  You…

  • The Cosper Home

    Boy, did I go down a rabbit hole with this one!  Many years ago, someone donated a scrapbook to the Special Collections Department that was just falling to pieces.  In…

  • Native American Remains Found in Ouachita Parish

    The Ouachita Telegraph, Wednesday, September 1, 1869, Page 3, Column 1 INDIAN REMAINS. — Some laborers, excavating a place for a cistern on Mr. Bennett’s premises above town, came upon the remains…

  • Deputy James W. Wood: the First Ouachita Parish Law Officer Killed in the Line of Duty.

    A few years ago, I came across this article.  I found the Officer Down Memorial Page on the internet and noticed his name was not there.  After getting in touch…

  • The Capture and Execution of Mullican and Clark

    Mullican and Clark were not free for very long.  Judge Lynch soon caught up with them. The Monroe Bulletin, Wednesday, March 19, 1884, Page 3, Column 2 The Rogers Murder.         We…

  • The Murder of John and Elizabeth Rogers

    One of the most horrible murders in Ouachita Parish history was the murder of the elderly couple John and Elizabeth Rogers.  The article in the Monroe newspaper details the horrible…

  • Useful Ouachita Parish Genealogy Websites

    There are some great genealogy websites out there to help you in your research.  One of the best is the Ouachita Parish Genweb Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/la/ouachita.htm There are lots of obituaries,…

  • Cholera comes to Monroe

    The state of Louisiana was hit with a horrible cholera epidemic in 1849-50.  Whole towns were depopulated.  Monroe was not left unaffected though, as this New Orleans article relates. The…

  • Charles Ernest Wooten

    Back in 1893, the World’s Fair Edition of the Monroe Evening news, highlighted several businesses and businessmen of Monroe and West Monroe.  Among the businessmen profiled, was C.E. Wooten, a…