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A New York Lawyer Describes the Duels He Has Seen
This is a very interesting article. Most of the described incidents took place outside the parish/state but there are a couple of Ouachita Parish incidents that he describes. During the…
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The Filhiol Family’s Claim to Hot Springs Arkansas
Did you know that Jean Baptist Filhiol and his descendants had a claim to the Arkansas Hot Springs? The fight in the courts lasted for generations, but ultimately it was…
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More on the Calhoun Experimental Station
This one was written three years earlier than the previous article. It goes into a very detailed description of what the station was doing. The Times-Picayune (New Orleans, LA) February…
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Calhoun Experimental Station
The recent controversy over what to do with the land that was once the LSU Research Center in Calhoun, got me to thinking about what is known about it. The…
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The 1848 Murder (?) of Thomas Reynolds
This intrigues me to no end. It talks about a murder by poisoning of a father by his son. The son had run to Texas and hid there for many…
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Garrett and Munholland Law Office, Circa 1895
Take a look at this Monroe photo, part of the Franklin Garrett Papers at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: https://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/05ddd/id/478397 . The photo is misidentified as the 1870’s. At…
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African-American Funeral Home Program Collection Part III: R – Z Names
Edit 6-14-2023: The entire database of names can now be found here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aEnKDEuE4oCF7XUKA8-wE04pXKH2-ZbwyZgfb6v10Tw/edit?usp=sharing Name Volume Rainey, Hattie Bell 5 Rainwater, R. J. 32 Ralph, Rosa 17 Ralph, Rosa West 3…
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African-American Funeral Home Program Collection Part II: M – Q Names
Edit 6-14-2023: The entire database of names can now be found here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aEnKDEuE4oCF7XUKA8-wE04pXKH2-ZbwyZgfb6v10Tw/edit?usp=sharing Name Volume Mack, Bennie Lee 9 Mack, Brenda Veleria Davis 37 Mack, Dorothy Korjan 42 Mack, Flora…
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African-American Funeral Home Program Collection Part I: A-L Names
Another treasure available to researchers at the Ouachita Parish Public Library are the fifty-five volumes of African-American Funeral Home programs. A colleague of mine noticed there were not enough research…
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Early Ouachita Parish Coroner’s Records 1862 – 1929: Part III P-Z Names
NOTE: The blog post was formatted in a hard to read way. You can also find it here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ze8lJbVfwfEib7CGH0j9kcpYi2WpXPcP3s-gd58p2D4/edit?usp=sharing October 5, 1894 ; Shot by J.C. Ransoms ; West Monroe,…
Ouachita Parish History Tidbits 