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Taliaferro Alexander (1846-1924) —
of Shreveport, Caddo
Parish, La.
Born in Catahoula
Parish, La., March
17, 1846.
Democrat. Lawyer;
attorney for railroads; delegate
to Louisiana state constitutional convention, 1898.
Episcopalian.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry.
Died in Shreveport, Caddo
Parish, La., January
3, 1924 (age 77 years, 292
days).
Interment at Oakland
Cemetery, Shreveport, La.
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Edward Austin Burke (1839-1928) —
also known as Edward A. Burke; Edward A.
Burk —
of Galveston, Galveston
County, Tex.; New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La.
Born in Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., September
13, 1839.
Democrat. Telegraph
operator; railroad superintendent; major in the
Confederate Army during the Civil War; importer
and exporter; railway freight agent; newspaper
editor; Louisiana
state treasurer, 1878-88; engaged in a pistol duel
with Henry J. Hearsey on January 25, 1880; neither man was injured;
in 1882, he was wounded in a duel with C. Harrison Parker; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from Louisiana, 1880
(member, Resolutions
Committee), 1884;
in 1889, his successor as state treasurer, William
Henry Pipes, discovered discrepancies in state funds, and accused
Burke of embezzlement;
he was subsequently indicted
by a grand jury; Burke, then in London, chose not to return to
Louisiana, and instead fled
to Honduras, and remained in Central America for the rest of his life.
Irish
ancestry.
Died, in the Hotel
Ritz, Tegucigalpa, Honduras,
September
24, 1928 (age 89 years, 11
days).
Interment somewhere in Yuscarán, Honduras.
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Edward Hughes Randolph (b. 1858) —
of Shreveport, Caddo
Parish, La.
Born in Bossier
Parish, La., March
12, 1858.
Democrat. Lawyer;
director and general attorney, Louisiana Railway and Navigation
Co.; director and attorney, Houston & Shreveport Railway;
divisional counsel, Vicksburg, Shreveport & Pacific
Railway; general counsel, Shreveport Traction
Co.; member of Louisiana
state house of representatives, 1884; member of Louisiana
Democratic State Central Committee, 1895-96; U.S.
Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana, 1910-13.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Edward G. Randolph and Mary E. (Thompson) Randolph; married, October
14, 1884, to Annie M. Jeffries; married, July 22,
1911, to Mary Rose Youree. |
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Pearl Wight (1843-1920) —
also known as Albert Pearl Wight —
of New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La.
Born in Penobscot, Hancock
County, Maine, March
22, 1843.
Republican. Ship
chandler; wholesale
grocer; receiver, Texas and Pacific Railway; Vice-Consul
for Sweden & Norway in New
Orleans, La., 1894-1903; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Louisiana, 1908;
member of Republican
National Committee from Louisiana, 1908.
Died in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., July 4,
1920 (age 77 years, 104
days).
Entombed at St.
Louis Cemetery No. 1, New Orleans, La.
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