Catahoula Parish Obituaries and Death Notices

Catahoula Parish
Obituaries and Death Notices

CUTTING HER OWN THROAT. New-Orleans, June 17.—News has been received here of the suicide of Mrs. Augusta L. Walton, who cut her throat with a penknife. She was visiting her sister, Mrs. Thomas fipraguo, who Urea in tbo Parish of Catahoula.on Sicily Island. Mrs. Walton belonged to a hlgher respectable and talented family. Her father, John S. Walton, was Treasurer of New-Orleans some years ago. She was a first cousin to J. B. Walton, commander of the Washington Artillery during the war, and was also a niece of ex-Gov. Letcher. of Virginia. She had been ill a few days before she committed the rash act, and It Is believed by her relatives that her mind was unsettled from the effects of strong medicines of her own administering, as she was delirious the night previous to her death. She had never displayed any signs of Insanity before. The New York Times Thursday June 18, 1885

Samuel E. Dale Jr., 88 SICILY ISLAND -- Samuel E. Dale Jr., a former superintendent of Catahoula Parish Schools, died Tuesday. Services are 10 a.m. Thursday at Sicily Island First Baptist Church. Burial will be in Harrisonburg Cemetery under the direction of Young's Funeral Home, Jonesville The News Star Published: May 27. 2010

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