Ouachita Parish History Tidbits

Tag: Old City Cemetery

  • UCV Marker Found

    Over the Christmas break, I had a chance to wander the Old City Cemetery, looking for those markers the UCV placed to mark the graves of unmarked Confederate veterans back…

  • Fannie May Trousdale

    This lady was a real go getter in her time! She was a writer of books, magazines and newspaper articles at a time when few women did such things! She…

  • Old Monroe City Cemetery Turns 200 Years Old Today

    On July 18, 1825, the president of the Board of Trustees for Monroe, Robert F. McGuire, on behalf of the town of Monroe, accepted the gift of an “American Acre”…

  • I Broke a Code Tuesday

    Bear with me as I explain this. Ever since I got the list of Monroe UCV members, I’ve been furiously researching them. Not just the founding members. All of them.…

  • 1939 Christmas Fiesta Float on Elysian Fields

    https://www.louisianadigitallibrary.org/islandora/object/oplib-pho%3A558 I love this one due to the old car pulling the float. The floats lined up along Elysian Fields street next to the Old Monroe City Cemetery. You can…

  • Christmas Fiesta Parade Float – 1939

    This first photo shows a float lined up waiting to start the parade. From the angle of the photo, they were parked along Elysian Fields, next to the Old City…

  • The Sad Death of Neecy Hardin, Alias Ethel Hunt.

    I wrote this article in 20015 for Louisiana Road Trips Magazine. I still don’t know anything about her. This article haunts me for some reason.  Suicide is nothing new.  It…

  • A Yankee Buried by Confederate Veterans

    One of the sweetest stories I have found, concerns the burial of a Union veteran handled by the Henry W. Allen Camp of United Confederate Veterans.             Fifteen or so…

  • Judge William Wood Farmer, Jr.: Lawyer, Legislator, Civil War Captain and Respected Judge of Ouachita Parish

    I wrote this article back in April, 2011 for Louisiana Road Trips Magazine.                 William Mills Farmer was born March 29, 1840 in Union Parish, the only son of William…

  • The Birth of Magnolia Cemetery?

    I found this little article a year ago and it makes me wonder if this is the birth of Magnolia Cemetery. For years there was a section of the Old…