News of Claiborne Parish

Hamp Tuggles, about 16, was shot in the presence of his mother, near Claiborne parish, La. The young man was about to dismount from his horse at the stable when the assassin fired a load of buckshot at him. Tuggles was wounded In one leg. It Is charged that this is the outgrowth of what is called the Ramsey Tuggles feud. Over a year ago the unfortunate young man's uncle was shot and killed in a field in Carrollton valley. The would-be assassin of young Tuggles escaped.

The Lafayette Adviser 8//26/1893

CRIME AND ITS CONSEQUENCES. In the Minden Journal (Parish of Claiborne in this State,) of the I2th inst., there is a sad record of criminality and its fatal consequences. It tells of three men, Robert Goodwin, Mr. Henry, or McHenry, and another nun whose name the editor did not learn, who married each one of three sisters, and lived all near El Dorado, in the county of Union, Arks., about seventy miles Iron One of the sisters—she whose name is not given—sometime since died; the other two a few weeks ago eloped—Goodwin's wife with a Dr. Waugh, and Henry's with a man named Henderson. Besides abandoning their husbands, they left behind each of them a young child. They rendezvoused it appears in Opelousas, Henderson returned to the neighborhood of El Dorado to arrange some business. Henry heard of it, and went with his two brothers in law in pursuit of him; the next day (Henderson,) was found dead on the road with twenty-four buck-shot ranging from the pit of the stomach upwards. Waugh returned and was killed it is said by the brother of Mrs. Goodwin and Mrs. Henry cut her throat. If there is not material in all this for a thrilling domestic drama then we do not know where it is to be found.

Star And Republican Banner, The 9/20/1845

From the New Orleans Republican May 14, 1868 We are reliably informed that the Hon. W. R. Meadows, of Claiborne Parish was killed a few evenings since near his own door by disguised men who claimed to belong to the Ku Klux Klan. Ho left his house for the purpose of feeding his stock was shot, and died immediately. Mr. M. had been a soldier in the United States Army, and represented his parish in the Constitutional Convention. He was an intelligent, quiet peaceable gentleman but had excited the enmity of the rebels of his neighborhood by being active in favor of the ratification of the constitution.