Once again, I will try to provide a listing of the daily names in the News-Star
Obituaries. I will list them by month
beginning 1, January 2005. I have included
a bit of December 2004 with this file.
January - February
- March - April
- May
- June - July
- August - September
- October - November -
December
2006
January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December
2007
January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December
2008
January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December
2009
January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December
2010
January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December
2011
January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December
2012
January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December
2013
January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December
Listings from The News-Star in Monroe, Louisiana by SueLynn Sandifer beginning
Wednesday, November 5, 1997.
Beginning November 22, 1997 the News-Star began sending the death
notices via email and I will be changing them to html and putting
them on this site. Much thanks to Buster Wolfe, Kathy Spurlock
(Editor) and the News-Star for participating in this project.
Our known Ouachita Parish newspapers begin with the Washita Gazette
newspaper, May 25, 1825. There is an edition of an earlier newspaper
from 1823 that is in a private collection. The Gazette collection
ends with the November 29, 1825 edition. The next known surviving
newspaper is the Monroe Register, December 1, 1859 - November
22, 1860. There are no newspapers from the Civil War period available,
and the newspapers pick back up after the war with the Weekly
Telegraph, September 18, 1865. During and after Reconstruction,
there were several newspapers publishing, among them the Daily
Telegraph, the Ouachita Telegraph, The Monroe Bulletin, and Louisiana
Intelligencer. From 1890 to May, 1909 there are few surviving
newspapers, maybe less than a dozen issues. Persons researching
this time period are asked to check surrounding parish newspapers
to see if they carried Monroe items. For example, issues of the
Richland Beacon survive from this era. From June 1909 to the present,
the Monroe News-Star is available on film.
