Ouachita Parish History Tidbits

Tag: Solomon W Downs

  • Portrait of Senator Solomon W. Downs

    I have written about Senator Downs before on this blog. What caught my interest was something I recently found. While looking on the Internet Archives, I found they had digitized…

  • Journal of the Rev. Timothy Flint part IV

              The soil on the surface is generally light, fertile, and of a black colour, except in the oaklands, where it is whitish, and rather stiff and meagre clay.  At…

  • 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…

  • An Account of a trip to Morehouse Parish

    I found this very interesting due to the prominent Ouachita parish names and events alluded to in this article. Richland Beacon-News Saturday, May 18, 1895 Page 1, Column 6            …

  • A Northern Man’s View of Monroe’s Judicial Process

    The following article was written for Louisiana Road Trips magazine in 2013: I found this article many years ago and it struck me as a little funny!  A Revolutionary War…

  • Up From Slavery: An Interview with Richard Barrington

    Yesterday, I told you about Senator Solomon W. Downs.  Today I want to tell you about his slave, Mr. Richard Barrington.  The following article was found many years ago in…

  • Louisiana Senator Solomon Weathersbee Downs

    I wrote this article in August, 2007 for Louisiana Road Trips Magazine: Solomon Weatherbee Downs was born in Montgomery County, TN in 1801, the illegitimate son of William Weatherbee.  At…