Ascension County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....LeBlanc, Augustin - January 29, 1912
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source: The Donaldsonville Chief. (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current,
February 03, 1912, page 5


HOSTLER COMMITS SUICIDE. - Employee on Souvenir Plantation, Worried by 
Multiplicity of Duties, Ends Life by Drowning, After Carefully Taking 
Precautions to Make Death Certain.

Augustin LeBlanc, hostler on the Lemann Company's Souvenir plantation, two miles 
above Donaldsonville, committed suicide between 5 and 6 o'clock last Monday 
morning by drowning himself in an open sugar kettle used as a water trough. Mr. 
LeBlanc made his preparations for ending his life with remarkable coolness and 
foresight. He placed a plank across the kettle, and, standing upon this, tied 
his ankles with rope and then attached a plow line to the top of the fence, in 
such a manner that when he should precipitate himself into the tank his feet 
would be held at about the surface of the water, while his head and body would 
be submerged. To further insure against miscarriage of his plan, the unfortunate 
man securely tied his hands in front of his body, and then fell backward from 
the plank into the kettle, which contained about four feet of water. At about 7 
o'clock, Edward Braud, the blacksmith on Souvenir, noticing the hostler's coat 
and hat hanging on the fence near the kettle, made an investigation and found 
the body in the water. Coroner Paul T. Thibodaux held an inquest.

Mr. LeBlanc, who was a native of Assumption parish, had been employed as hostler 
on Souvenir for the past sixteen years. Of late he had worried considerably over 
his work, complaining that his duties were already onerous and had been greatly 
augmented because of the long spell of bad weather which prevailed recently.

He is survived by a wife and six children, who are: Alfred LeBlanc, of Darrow; 
John LeBlanc, assistant engineer of the Himalaya sugar factory in Assumption 
parish; Willie LeBlanc, assistant blacksmith on Evan Hall plantation; Mrs. 
Joseph Guedrt, of Belle Alliance, and Misses Jeanne and Nellie LeBlanc.

The funeral took place Tuesday forenoon at 10 o'clock, with services at the St. 
Francis of Assisium Church in Smoke Bend, and interment in the Donaldsonville 
Catholic cemetery. The obsequies were attended by a large concourse of sorrowing 
relatives and sympathizing friends, including a delegation of members of Mohawk 
Tribe No. 33, Improved Order of Red Men, of which organization deceased was a 
zealous member.



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