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James Peterkin - Madison Parish, Louisiana 

From Tallulah Madison Journal September 25, 1936

James Peterkin Takes Own Life Here On Monday

James Peterkin, 50, for man) years a resident of this parish, and for some time recently manager 
of Motel Monroe, in Monroe, Louisiana, shot and killed himself Monday at the home of his niece, 
Miss Annie Ward.

Dr. Howard Sevier, coroner of this parish, stated that Mr. Peterkin shot himself through the heart 
while alone at the home of his niece, Miss Ward. Miss Ward, a teacher in the Tallulah High School, 
found the body when she returned home from school that afternoon. It was stated that she noticed 
that the house had been left unlocked, and thought it possible that it had been burglarized. She 
went inside cautiously and examined her room first. Finding nothing disturbed, she went to other 
parts of the house and found Peterkin's body on the floor of her brother's room, Francis Ward. 
The shooting was attributed to despondency. 

Mr. Peterkin was out of work at the time of his death. He had worked several years in Monroe, but 
before leaving Tallulah several years ago was at one time a clerk in the Ziegler-Darrow Company store 
here. At one time he was connected with a hotel in Shreveport.

Mr. Peterkin was well liked both here and in Monroe, where he was well known, and had many friends 
among the traveling public who were shocked at his death.

He is survived by two sisters, Mrs. S. B. Bettis and Mrs. J. V. Sevier, Sr., of Tallulah, and one 
brother, Fred Peterkin.

Funeral services were held Tuesday morning from the Williams Funeral Home and interment was in the 
Silver Cross cemetery.