Ascension County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Trist, Nicholas Philip - February 22, 1913 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Mary K. Creamer marykcreamer.00@gmail.com December 8, 2021, 10:25 pm source: The Donaldsonville Chief (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, March 01, 1913, Image 8 DEATH OF NICHOLAS P. TRIST. - Prominent Louisianian, Retired Sugar Planter and Veteran of Civil War Passes Away Suddenly in New Orleans - Born on Hermitage Plantation. - Nicholas Philip Trist, veteran of the civil war, retired sugar planter and for several years assistant coiner of the New Orleans mint, died suddenly last Saturday morning shortly after 10 o'clock in Cusach's drug store at Canal and Baronne streets, New Orleans. Mr. Trist had entered the place in company with his daughter, Mrs. Benjamin T. Waldo, and while the latter was using the telephone in the rear of the establishment her father was talking pleasantly with the young lady cashier. All at once he was seen to raise his arms and grab his breast tightly, exclaiming: "Oh, my heart hurts terribly." He then reeled against the front door, and before assistance could be rendered he sank slowly to the floor. :This is the last of me," he said, "I know I am going to die." Dr. J. N. Roussel, who happened to be in the neighborhood, together with a Jesuit priest, both rendered all the assistance in their power to the prostrate man, but while the good priest arrived in time to administer the last rites of the church, the services of the medical man were of no avail, as the end came within ten minutes after Mr. Trist had collapsed. Deceased was born 69 years ago on Hermitage plantation, in Ascension parish, the estate of his grandmother, Mrs. Bringier. His boyhood days were spent on his father's place, Bowden plantation, in the parish of St. James. At an early age he was sent north to complete his education, which was received in various colleges of New York and Virginia. When the civil war broke out he was living with his uncle, N. P. Trist, in Philadelphia, and the latter being a unionist, the young man returned to the state of his birth and enlisted as a private in Company B of the Crescent Regiment. On March 6, 1862, he left New Orleans with his command over what is now the Illinois Central Railroad for Grand Junction, Tenn. After remaining in camp there a few days the Crescent Regiment was hurried to Corinth, Miss., where it plunged into the midst of the fight at that place. The regiment had become there a permanent part of the Army of North Tennessee, and so it followed that force to Shiloh, participating in that bloody battle. When his command reached Tupelo, Miss., upon the withdrawal from Shiloh, Mr. Trist was transferred, at his own request, to the Orleans Light Horse, the bodyguard of Gen. Polk. With the Orleans Light Horse he went into the Kentucky campaign under Gen. Bragg and fought at Perryville. Then his command returned to Tennessee and Private Trist was, in succession, at Chattanooga, Murfreesboro, Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge. Because of his bravery in this last encounter he was promoted from private to lieutenant and was placed on the staff of Gen. Allen Thomas, with whom he surrendered at Shreveport at the close of the war. In speaking of Mr. Trist Dr. Y. R. Le Monnier, one of the three living members of the Orleans Light Horse, said: "He always proved himself brave and collected on the field of battle, cheerful and agreeable, and ready for any duty assigned to him." Returning from the war with an honorable record, the young soldier proceeded to his plantation, Vela Alta, in St. James parish, where he soon won recognition as a successful sugar planter. He later spent some time in Florida, and subsequently returned to New Orleans to accept the position of assistant coiner at the mint under his general, Allen Thomas. He served in this capacity throughout the Cleveland administration, and was reappointed during the two subsequent administrations. For the past several years he had retired from active participation in business and devoted his time to looking after the welfare of his family. The deceased belonged to one of the most prominent families of the state and counted his friends by the hundred. He married Miss Marie Tureaud, who bore him several children, and after her death he married her sister, Miss Alice Tureaud, who survives him. He also leaves four daughters, Mrs. F. Conrad Robertson, of Spokane, Wash.; Mrs. Bent T. Waldo, Mrs. George Rivet and Miss Eugenie Trist, and one son, Nicholas P. Trist, Jr., connected with the firm of A Baldwin & Company. The remains of Mr. Trist were taken to St. James parish Monday morning for interment. Services were performed at St. Michael's Catholic church at Convent by Rev. Father Delahaye, the pastor, and the body was laid to rest in the Fagot family vault in St. Michael's cemetery. Many members of the Trist, Bringier and Tureaud families and their connections, a large delegation of his comrades-in-arms in the Confederacy and numerous friends followed the body of the soldier to the final resting place. Floral offerings in great numbers came from New Orleans and all parts of the state. The pallbearers were L. Adee Bringier, George Mather, Dr. Y. R. Le Monnier, Trist Wood, Mather Conrad and Dall Thomas. 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