The Ouachita Telegraph July 8, 1868 Page 3, Column 2 Died, Departed this life on the evening of the 28th day of June, 1868, at fifteen minutes past 1 oclock, in the town of Trenton, La., Mrs. E.B. Grayson, consort of J.S. Grayson, in her 33rd year. As the flowers fade leaving the remembrance of their fragrance, so one has gone from our midst whose virtues live in the memories of the loved friends of earth. An immortal soul has been transplanted in the celestial gardens there to bloom in endless beauty through eternity. A loving husband and daughter, fond parents and many friends mourn her departure to the Spirit Land. May their grief be tempered by the glad hope of the joyous re-union where sorrows and partings are no more. Another seraph joins in the ceaseless anthem of praise sung by the angelic host around the throne of the Most High God. He doeth all things well blessed be His holy name, forever and ever! The Ouachita Telegraph July 15, 1868 Page 2, Column 2 Death of Judge J.N.T. Richardson. It is our painful duty to announce in this issue the death of Hon. J.N.T. Richardson which took place at his residence at Ingleside on Bayou DeSiard on the 10th inst. He had been sick but a few days before the sad event occurred, and it was not until a very brief period before his death that his family and friends were made aware of the fact that it was rapidly approaching. He died as peacefully and quietly as a child. Like a great wave of the ocean as it rolls on in irresistible strenght and majestic grandeur, until the forces which agitate it imperceptibly cease, and it looses itself in the mass of waters, and silently and gradually passes away, so closed his life, passed amidst storm clouds of a busy and eventful career. And as the gentle breeze sweeps over the placid waters when the storm king has ceased his revelry, so will the gentle zephyr pass over the broad acres of Ingleside and sigh for his departed spirit. Judge Richardson came to this State when quite young, and had resided in Louisiana for more than thirty five years. He had become identified with her interests, and had taken a most active part in all that concerned her welfare. A lawyer by profession, he had risen to distinction, and adorned the bench of this state at a time when the ermine was unsullied, and when to be called upon to expound the laws of the commonwealth, was one of the highest honors to which a citizen could aspire. If not the highest, it was the most dignified and as such Judge Richardson did honor to the position. He was eloquent, and in times gone by, his talent was often called into requisition to move and persuade juries in behalf of unfortunate humanity. He was generous in his profession and his fine qualities as an advocate were not kept back for a price; but he would offer them freely to the poor, and plead as eloquently for the tear of the distressed wife, as he would for heaps of gold. He had always identified himself with the democratic party, and was one of its most eloquent advocates. On the hustings (sic) he was brilliant, and few could better take hold of a crowd, worn out and jaded by discussion and restore to it animation and life. Although we accord to him these high qualities as a lawyer and a politician, it was as the lofty, high toned and honorable gentleman that we best knew him; and as such we will love to dwell on his memory. In his manners he was dignified and courteous. There was no part of the demagogue about him; and whether in the midst of a political contest or at his home, he had the same dignified demeanor, not severe and repulsive, but genial and winning. He did not unbend and suit himself to the crowd; hence he was too often and unjustly called aristocratic by the people. He was a nobleman by nature; she had given him qualities above the common mould, but as for being purse proud, there was nothing more foreign to his generous nature. There was no man who possessed better social qualities. At his home he was most hospitable, and his residence was at once inviting both from the beauty and elegance with which his cultivated taste had adorned it, and the kind and warm welcome within. At the social board he was the life of the party, and his absence will be felt at all convivial meetings. He was a man of great originality of character, as much so as any man within the whole circle of our acquaintance. His conversational powers were brilliant, and often his glowing descriptions would rise into an eloquence that was truly charming. We have heard him in a very few words give a description of an event or character that in others would require hours of labored thoughts. For the last few years he had entirely withdrawn himself from an active part in professional and political affairs, and devoted his time and attention to his plantation. He noticed, however, the course of political affairs with a practiced eye, and was fully alive to the perils and dangers which threaten our country. Events are hurrying on to that condition that would, we believe, have induced him to quit his retirement for a season, and once more rouse the slumbering energies of the people, and place them in situation to act with determination and decision. The country has lost a patriot, the profession an ornament, and his neighbors a man of warm heart, and generous impulses. NOTE: In the July 29, 1868 edition of the Ouachita Telegraph, page 3,Column 1 there is a resolution of respect published by the Monroe Masons.
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