Iberia County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Voorhies, Louise nee Charbonnet - July 24, 1900
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source: The Weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, July 28, 1900, Image 3

Mr. Alexis Voorhies, the well known hardware drummer had the misfortune to 
lose his wife on Tuesday morning last. Very early on Sunday morning Mrs. 
Voorhies was attacked with congestion of the lungs, and the combined efforts 
and skill of both Doctors Sabatier and Woolf were required to save her life. 
She seemed to have been doing very well, when on Tuesday morning she died. 
Mrs. Voorhies maiden name was Louise Charbonnet; she left a large family of 
children. The many friends of the family feel a deep sympathy for them.



source: The Weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, July 28, 1900, Image 3

DIED: - At her residence, in New Iberia, on Tuesday, July 24th, 1900, at 3 
o'clock a. m. Louise Charbonnet, wife of Alexis Voorhies, aged 41 years. The 
funeral took place at the Catholic Church on Tuesday, July 24th, at 5:30 p. m.



source: New Iberia Enterprise. (New Iberia, La.) 1885-1902, July 28, 1900,
Image 3

DIED - In her home in New Iberia, on Tuesday Morning, July 24th, at 4
o'clock, Louise Charbonnet, beloved wife of Alexis Voorhies. Such was the
intelligence that shocked the entire community, friends and relations far
and near.

"Her children shall arise and call her blessed,
and her husband also, for he praiseth her."

On Sunday morning, while it was yet dark, the white-winged angel of death
paused for awhile within the love-lit home of Mr. Alexis Voorhies, fanning
with his breath the cheek of the idolized darling of the circle, the
beautiful wife and mother, just in the prime of life. But looking upon this
bit of heaven (for "love is heaven, and heaven is love") seeing the
self-forgetting, loving mother and this untiringly devoted husband, and the
little band of precious children, he seemed reluctant to do his office, and
so withdrew for a time. The rose returned to the pallid cheek, and grieving
to see her loved ones anxious, she assured all that she felt quite well, and
so remained, lovingly watched and tended. But those to whom she was so dear
were not entirely comforted. There was a light in the beautiful eyes that
seemed to shine from a glowing spirit ready to unclasp and drop its garment
of mortality. But that sweet reprieve was very precious when this blessed
wife and mother and loving sister and daughter, talked and laughed happily
with all her near and dear ones, and even a few privileged friends chatted
with her and rejoiced profoundly and sincerely that the priceless life was
spared for a time. But again on Tuesday morning in that darkest hour, the
call came, and this beautiful spirit went home to meet the members of the
broken family circle, who are awaiting their mother. Surely, those who pass
through death's shadow must realize, as we cannot, how near they are to
those they seem to leave in sorrow, and how valuable their ministry of love
can be, else such loving and beloved ones would not be happy in the realms
of bliss.

"We see but dimly through these mists and vapors
Amid this earthly damp;
What seems to us but sad funeral tapers,
May be Heaven's distant lamp.

"There is no death! what seems so is transition;
This life of mortal breath
Is but the suburb of the life elysian
Whose portal we call Death.

"Day after day we think what she is doing
In those bright realms of air;
Year after year her tender steps pursuing,
Behold her grown more fair."

Thus do we walk with her and, keep unbroken
The bond which nature gives,
Feeling "that our remembrance though unspoken
May reach her where she lives."

One who knew and loved her. - M. L. P.


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