Author: Lora Diane Peppers
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DAR Chapter House has a forgotten Time Capsule!
I think I may have just found a hidden time capsule! At the DAR Chapter House, on the grounds of the Courthouse, sit two benches, in honor of the founding…
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Site of the old library on Jackson.
I took this from a window of the hospital parking garage. This was the site of the old Anna Meyer home, which became the second Monroe library building. Made me…
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St. Francis’ Founding Mother
Meet Mother Marie deBethany Crowley, foundress of the hospital. I don’t know anything about her. Need to do some research!
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St. Francis Sanitarium
Don’t be alarmed by the name. In the early days, this is what hospitals were once called.
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Nurse’s Diploma
St. Francis was once a training hospital. Lots of nurses received a diploma like this one.
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One of the First Children Born at St. Francis Hospital.
Please meet little miss Beverly Louise Gimler! Isn’t she just a doll!
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Noe’s Ark, 1961
I like this one! It shows Governor Noe and his wife Anna Gray taking the hospital sisters on a ride on his Yacht Noe’s Ark.
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Nurses uniform
This is an original nursing uniform worn by a St. Francis nurse. Looks uncomfortable to me!
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Father Enaut, St. Francis Hospital Benefactor.
Father Enaut lived and worked in Monroe most of his life. He took over duties as Priest of St. Matthew church when Father Gergeaud died in the 1870s. He saw…
Ouachita Parish History Tidbits 