Iberia County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Cage, Robert Harmon May 30, 1907 ************************************************ 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@yahoo.com August 11, 2016, 11:52 pm ***************************************************************************** 1st. Obituary: source: New Iberia Enterprise and Independent Observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, June 01, 1907, Image 3 DEATH OF ROBERT H. CAGE. All that was mortal of Robert H. Cage, at one time one of New Iberia's leading citizens was interred yesterday after the arrival of the train from New Orleans. The Grand Lodge of Masons of the State of which he was Past Grand Master conducted the impressive ceremonies which were held in the Episcopal church and which were attended by hundreds of his friends who mourn his untimely departure from this life. As a Mason he was known all over the South and as a man he was loved by all who knew him. He had a plain, openhearted way which won the sincere friendship of every one with whom he came in contact. Mr. Cage was made a Mason of the Aurora Lodge, New Iberia, in 1889, and was elected Senior Deacon in 1891, Senior Warden in 1892, and Worshipful Master in 1893 and 1894. He was made a Royal Arch Mason in the Keystone Chapter, Alexandria, and assisted in the reorganization of Girard Hope Chapter, New Iberia, of which he became a member. In 1894, 1895 and 1896 he served as High Priest. He received the Cryptic degree in Summit Council, of Alexandria, La., and upon the organization of Gordy Council, New Iberia, joined that Council. He was elected Th. Ill. Master in 1895 and re-elected in 1896. He served as Grand Junior Warden in 1893, and at the session of 1894 was elected Grand Senior Warden. He served as Grand Scribe of the Grand Chapter during 1895 and 1896, and was named Excellent Grand High Priest in 1896. He was also Grand Treasurer of the Grand Council from 1902 until 1907, retiring from that office. The body was met here at the train by the full membership of Aurora Lodge No. 193 which had met at its hall at three o'clock and was escorted to the Church where the religious services were conducted by Bishop Davis Sessums of the Episcopal Church. Thence the cortege moved to the Protestant cemetery where the interment took place with the public grand honors of masonry. ***************************************************************************** 2nd. Obituary: source: The Weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, June 01, 1907, Image 2 NECROLOGICAL. DIED: At his late home in Pass Christian, Miss., on Thursday, May 30, 1907, Mr. Robert Harmon Cage, aged 56 years. Mr. Cage was for a number of years a resident of this city and was identified in every way with its interests. Later he moved to New Orleans with his family and engaged in the wholesale business there. About a year ago he moved to Pass Christian. A few days ago, while on a visit to a neighboring coast town, he contracted a severe cold. On Thursday morning it assumed alarming symptoms and at noon he passed away. Mr. Cage was a gentleman of strong personality, cordial, congenial, and candid. He was endowed with a tireless energy and had the faculty of making friends of all whom he met. His high moral character and personal worth are attested in the fact, that, as a Mason, Aurora Lodge, in the past has honored him repeatedly with the highest positions that were theirs to bestow and he was elected by the Grand Lodge of Louisiana its M. W. Grand Master. The remains were brought to this city yesterday afternoon and the interment took place in the Rose Hill cemetery. Religious services were held in the Episcopal Church, conducted by the Right Rev. Davis Sessums and the Rector. The Masonic ceremonies were conducted by the m. W. Grand Lodge of Louisiana, Grand Master L. E. Thomas officiating. His eulogy at the grave was the outpouring of a sympathetic heart of a bereaved friend and brother. The floral offerings of Masonic design were very numerous and of the most beautiful kind. Many of the Lodges of the state were represented. In common with the bereaved family the entire community has experienced a severe shock in the death of Mr. Cage. The unmeasured sympathy of our people goes out to the sorrowing once. ***************************************************************************** 3rd. Obituary: source: The St. Mary Banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, June 01, 1907, Supplement, Image 5 Mr. Robert H. Cage, president of the Cage-Drew Co., Ltd., of New Orleans, died at his home in Pass Christian, Miss., on Thursday morning, of pneumonia. The deceased was one of the best known business men and Masons of the state, and had a host of friends throughout the south who will hear of his death with deep regret. Mr. Cage leaves a widow and two daughters. His remains were interred in New Iberia Friday evening. ***************************************************************************** 4th. Obituary: source: New Iberia Enterprise and Independent Observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902- 1944, June 15, 1907, Image 2 IN MEMORIAM. The sudden death of Robert H. Cage in the high noon of life at Pass Christian on May the 30th, was a sad blow to the many who loved and esteemed him all over the South and especially is his early death felt and mourned here in New Iberia, where he spent the best and most fruitful years of his life. Robert H. Cage was one of the bravest and best of men. He was above all a man of principle, one who loved justice and truth better than he loved place and power. He was optimistic to a fault. No night of grief was ever so dark, but in it he found a star, nor morn so drear bu above it he saw the shining sun. A great many years ago he became aroused to the injustice of social and political conditions as they exist in all so-called civilized countries of to- day, and from that time on till his lamentable early death at Pass Christian last month, he was a zealous and fearless advocate of the teachings of Henry George. All over the Southland, wherever his duty as a Mason, among whom he stood deservedly high, or his business as a Commercial traveler called him, he worked in season and out of season to promulgate this, the grandest of truths: :God made the Earth and the fullness thereof for all his children." Robert Cage was no time-server. He lived for the future and the subject nearest his heart, after providing for his own, was the felicity of his kind. He loved his family and was in turn idolized by them, but while making it his first duty to provide for their comfort and happiness, his heart went out in love and pity to all the disinherited sons of men in every land and clime; and, realizing the great debt we owe to the brave heroic souls who have adown the ages stood for truth and justice in spite of exile., ostracism and death, he gave thanks to God, and counted it a joy to champion an unpopular cause in this day of freedom and promise vouchsafed to us by the heroism of the past. He died "fronting the sun." For him there was no sad and mourning journey adown the Western slope of life. His hope for the future like Emerson's was "bright as the morning star," and he passed to the Realms of Infinite Peace, cheered to the last by the music of Gerald Massey's prophetic poem: We're coming up the steep of time, And this old world is growing brighter! We may not see its dawn sublime, But high hopes make the heart throb lighter! Our dust may slumber under ground When it awakes the world in wonder; But we have felt it gathering round --- Have heard its voice of distant thunder. 'Tis coming, yes, 'tis coming! File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/la/iberia/obits/c/cage6476gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/lafiles/ File size: 5.9 Kb