DUBARD, William Phillip - Calcasieu Parish Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....
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Lake Charles American Press
Friday, 8 June 1934
Obituary: W. P. (Dad) Dubard
 
Death claims W. P. (Dad) Dubard at age of 81. Resident and political student 
here for 23 years succumbs (From Wednesdays Daily)
 
W. P. (Dad) Dubard, 81, well known Southwest Louisianan and close student of 
Louisiana and Mississippi politics for more than 50 years died at 6:30am this 
morning at the residence of his son, D. S. Dubard, 61l9 Sallier Street, following 
an illness lasting since 20 March 1934. Services will be held at 10am, Thursday 
morning at the D. S. Dubard residence, with the Rev. G. B. Hines officiating. 
Burial will be in Orange Grove Cemetery with Burke and Trotti in charge. Active 
pallbearers will be Sheriff Henry A. Reid, Clerk of Court  E. Claude House, 
Deputy Sheriff Grover Kelly, Paul Greiner, Garland Hayes and J. B. Holloman Sr.
 
Honorary pallbearers will be Judge Jerry Cline and Thomas F. Portre, D. C. Powell, 
W. J. S. Harmon, N. E. North, George D. Neely, John Nix, J. T. Barrett, 
Dr. H. B. White, Dr. E. L. Clement, Dr. G. Holcombe, Charles E. Cline, J. Horace Lyons 
and Robert R. Faxon.
 
Mr. Dubard had resided in Lake Charles for the last 23 years and in Louisiana for 
33 years, coming to this state from Mississippi.
 
MISSISSIPPI WARDEN - He served as warden of the Mississippi State Penitentiary under 
two administrations. Establishing his residence in Crowley when he first came to 
Louisiana, Mr. Dubard later moved to Lake Charles and set up the first auto livery
business here. He served for several years as an inspector for the city board of 
health, which was his last active position. He also served the state board of 
health. Mr. Dubard was active until he was taken ill 20 March 1934 and was up 
town daily taking an alert interest in public and political affairs. He was 
always welcomed at public offices for his interesting comments on the panorama of politics. 
 
"I've never missed voting since I was old enough and I have always voted the 
Democratic ticket." Mr. Dubard often said. 
 
NOMINATED SENATOR - It was Mr. Dubard who nominated the late John Sharpe Williams 
for the United States Senate at the Mississippi Democratic Convention in 1892. 
He knew intimately many Louisianians and Mississippians high in state affairs.
 
Mr. Dubard's reminiscences of the war between the states recalled a vivid memory. 
When he celebrated his 80th birthday, he chatted in the American Press office, 
describing the sound of the guns during the siege of Vicksburg - his home was at 
Kosciusko, about 80 miles from there. Mr. Dubard was born in Mississippi, 6 January 1853 (???????) 
 
RECALLS CIVIL WAR DAYS - His father and brother were both in the battle of 
Vicksburg, his brother taking ill and dying there. His father returned safely from the war. 
 
Accompanied by Amos, a family slave, young Dubard make a trip by wagon to 
Vicksburg carrying food to the Confederate forces. The trip consumed a week. 
Mr. Dubard remembered how his mother and the neighborhood women assembled in 
their kitchens to cook food to send their men at the front, and the job of 
carrying the food was assigned to the boy and the slave several times.
 
Mr. Dubard recalled all of the troubles of the Mississippi Carpetbagger days and 
the tolls of reconstruction. Mr. Dubard was a member of the B. K. of A., he is 
survived by two daughters; Mrs. C. G. Collins and Mrs. E. J. Allen; and two 
sons; D. S. and J. S. (Cy) Dubard all of Lake Charles.