Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Myrtle Sue Lyles Eakin, known as Sue Eakin (December 7, 1918 September 17, 2009), was an American professor, newspaper columnist, and historian from Bunkie in Avoyelles Parish, who researched Louisiana history, particularly the plantation system of the Old South. Eakin was born in the Lyles community in south Rapides Parish, the eldest child of Sam Lyles and the former Myrtle Guy. She graduated from Lecompte High School in nearby Lecompte. In 1941, Sue Lyles married Paul Mechlin Eakin (July 19, 1917 February 6, 1995) of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, later New Jersey. They resided in Bunkie, where she was a professional freelance journalist and a columnist for the Alexandria Daily Town Talk, the Opelousas Daily World, in Opelousas, the seat of St. Landry Parish, and the New Orleans Times-Picayune, traditionally the state''s largest newspaper. From 1957 to 1959, Paul and Sue Eakin owned and operated the Bunkie Record newspaper.