Iberia County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Colgin, Caroline Evelyn nee Taylor - May 6, 1904
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source: The Weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, May 07, 1904, Image 3

Mrs. Caroline Evelyn Colgin, widow of the late Dr. George J. Colgin, died 
suddenly at her home on French street, this city, last Friday night at 9 
o'clock. Her death was very sudden. She was apparently enjoying the very 
best of good health, and was seated in a chair on the front gallery of her 
home enjoying a nice cool breeze, when she was taken suddenly ill, expiring 
within a few minutes. Mrs. Colgin leaves to mourn her loss several sons and 
daughters, also a number of grand children, besides a large number of 
relatives and friends here and elsewhere. Funeral services were held from 
the residence last Saturday afternoon at 5 o'clock, and interment was made 
in the Protestant Cemetary (sic). Peace to her ashes.


source: The Weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, May 14, 1904, Image 
4

In Memoriam

Mrs. Caroline Evelyn Colgin.

It is now almost a quarter of a century since Doctor George James Colgin was 
laid to rest. With many expressions of sorrow he was reverently borne to the 
village churchyard. Many of those who followed his hearse have since been 
gathered unto their fathers: but how few then dreamed, that after a period 
of twenty years, they would live to see his widow borne in funeral 
procession to her place beneath the sod. Having passed many years together, 
their characters and qualities of heart possessed numerous traits of 
resemblance. Both believed in being clothed in justice, fortified by virtue, 
and exultant in good deeds; and both died suddenly, exempt from long 
suffering, and closed their eyes to this world with peaceful looks of 
resignation and the deepest trust in the mercy of God.

The late Mrs. George J. Colgin was reared in the days of wealth. Her father 
for many years stood one of the richest slaveholders in Alabama. What wealth 
could achieve for culture and inherent nature insure for purity of soul, 
surely was hers. She had lived through the stirring days of disastrous war; 
had seen its horrors, felt its uncertainties, and suffered its consequences. 
She had buckled on her husband's sword with as sacrificing a heart, as any 
patriot in the land. With a calm resignation to inscrutable providence, she 
witnessed the homecoming of defeated troopers and bowed her head in 
acceptance of the woes that were to follow. She has passed through the awful 
period of Reconstruction days with fortitude and courage.

Thus reared in the midst of wealth and moulded in the hardship of perilous 
times, no wonder that her natural disposition for sweetness and amiability, 
Christian charity and forbearance, was accentuated to such a degree.

She did not falter in the duties that life cast in her way; nor yet did she 
show that bauble of sentiment in the fulfillment of them. Beyond the pale of 
the community in which she lived few knew her or realized the many traits 
that tend to immortalize the charming prettiness of feminine character. But 
all who knew her loved her and be it said to her honor that the deep 
spiritual significance of her deeds, her Christian charity, her faith, her 
trust in the efficacy of prayer, and her resignation to the will of God, 
stamped her for all time a creature of purity and sweetness. In the latter 
part of her years, she had rejoiced in many tokens of love and kindness 
extended to her kindred, She had again assumed the duties of a mother toward 
her bereaved grandchildren, had performed many Christ like deeds and betrayed 
many acts of self-sacrificing unselfishness. She believed that life was full 
of many burdens and that kind words and deeds should encourage and help us 
on the way. No unnecessary pain must be caused, no shaft of malice find its 
mark, no feelings hurt, was indeed her motto. Experience of real life had 
awakened in her fuller pulse of womanhood, and early adversity had been the 
touchstone of her character. Even to the last she manifested that usefulness 
did not cease with youthful age. With the intuition of death dawning upon 
her soul, she looked forward to the shining stars with a fearlessness of 
dissolution and with a mented reclaim upon the inheritance of Heaven. Her 
character was pure and lovely, and a few domestic lives can example hers or 
compare se well. Many children and grandchildren survive to mourn her, and 
to thank the Creator for having blessed them with such an example to 
illumine their pathway in the mazes of this world. - ONE WHO LOVED HER.
       

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