Ouachita Parish History Tidbits

Tag: Girl in the Iron Coffin

  • A Correction to the Girl in the Iron Coffin Story.

    All I can say is, “Mea Culpa”. For twenty years or more, I was convinced that the “Girl in the Iron Coffin” dug up in Lakeshore in the 1950’s was…

  • Another Iron Coffin Body Found

                Many people in the area are familiar with the story of the “Girl in the Iron Coffin” that was dug up in Lakeshore in 1955.  She was so perfectly…

  • The Wedding of the Girl in the Iron Coffin

    What a title!  I knew that would catch the eye!  I found this wedding announcement in a very old Monroe newspaper and figured out that Mary was who historians had…

  • The Girl in the Iron Coffin

    On February 3, 1955, an iron coffin was unearthed.  Workers were laying a water line to a construction site on Lakeshore Drive in Monroe when they dug into an underground…