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Mrs. Everrett Taltert and little son, Marion, and daughter, Mary Sue from San Antonio. Texas, and Mrs Murray Harvey and daughter,' Maurine." of DeRidder, La., arrived this week for a visit to their parents. Mr. and Mrs. Jeff McCallum ard other relatives. They came via Shreveport where they stopped over to visit Mr. Harvey, who has been a patient in a sanitarium there . for a long time. Accompanying the visitors was Miss Gladys Stone, of DeRidder, La. 10/23/1904 Ruston News

William G. Addison, aged 44 years, shot himself and died at Deridder. His remains were buried by the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of which, fraternity he had long been a mrmber. 11/21/1902 Galveston News

Isaac S. Meador of Merryville, La., was In the city Monday looking after logs that he sent down on the late rise. He says the river has run out as far up as Burrs Ferry. 1/28/1905 Galveston News

Louisiana Places - Strange Sounding Names 23 Sep 1962 The Advocate When the parishes of Beauregard, Allen and Jefferson Davis were created on June 12, 1912, three men whose lives were hound to Louisiana and the Confederacy were honored. These three parishes, the last of the present 64 to he created, honored P.G. T. Beauregard, Louisiana's great Confederate general; Henry Watkins Allen, the Confederate governor of Louisiana; and Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy. Although Kentucky-born Jefferson Davis name is most often linked with the state of Mississippi, Louisiana may make some special claims on Jefferson Davis, too. In 1810 when Jefferson F. Davis was still in his infancy, the family moved to Bayou Techo in St, Mary's Parish. and had It not heen for the plague of malarial mosquitoes, they would have stayed. As it was the family moved within the year to Mississippi, settling about a mile east of Woodville. However, even as young boy Jefferson Davis visited Louisiana frequently. He would often ride his horse 25 miles to visit his favorite sister Anna at Locust Grove near St. Francisvllle. (When Jefferson, the 10th child, was born his mother Jane, past 45, was so ill that his rare was entrusted to his 16 year old sister Anna.) When Jefferson Davis and his first wife Sarah Knox Taylor, daughter of Col. Zachary Taylor, were on their honeymoon they contracted malaria. There is some question as to whether they contracted malaria before or after they arrived at Locust Grove. Jefferson Davis' biographer Hudson Strode says that the couple became sick at Davis' brother Joseph's plantation "Hurricane" near Natchez and that the couple were taken ("Knox" on a litter) to Locust Grove because the climate was thought to be better there. At any rate, Anna nursed the two vigilantly. For awhile it seemed that Jefferson was the more dangerously ill, but it was Knox who died. She is buried at Locust Grove in the family cemetery and her tombstone may still be seen. Strangely enough, Jefferson Davis also died and was buried in Louisiana. He was visiting at the residence ofJudge Charles E. Fenner in New Orleans when a brief illness from bronichial complaint terminated in death on Dec. 6, 1889. He was buried in New Orleans but in 1893 his body was taken to Richmond and on May 31 was reinterred in Hollywood Cemetery -- ( Clare D'Artois Leeper ) 　 submitted by Christine Walters

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