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1. The date preceding the obituary is the date of newspaper,
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Submitted by: Nancy Wright
The Lafourche Comet, March 19, 1925, page 5, col 4

EDWARD F. PUGH

A Good Citizen Gone
  When it was announced last Tursday [sic] that Mr. Edward F. Pugh was
critically ill with heart trouble the hope was generally expressed that the 
local physicians, aided by a specialist from new Orleans, would find a way to 
overcome his trouble and restore him to health and many more years of life.  
This hope was destined to be rudely shattered, for at 7:50 P. M. Tuesday (17 
Mar 1925), just after the sun had set in the western horizon, he breathed his 
last and passed into that world which still defies man after ages of thought 
and effort to penetrate its mysteries.  
The deceased, though not a young man, was anxious to live and with his 
innumerable friends gradually and gracefully travel toward the end of a journey 
weighted with long years but fate was against him.  
Thus, despite his daily efforts in striving, thorough exercise and careful 
living, to prolong his days, he was rather quickly compelled to respond to the 
call from on high.
  The funeral was held yesterday at 1 P.M. at St. John's Episcopal church
the edifice being taxed to its utmost to accommodate the throng that gathered 
to silently express the sorrow they felt over the death of one that was
generally esteemed.  
  After the services, the body was conveyed to the family burying
ground on Madewood plantation, in Assumption, to be laid along side his 
brother, Allen, who died a few years ago, and his father, the late Richard L. 
Pugh and his mother, Mrs. Mary Williams, there to commune with them and enjoy a 
reunion that we trust brought happiness unto his soul.
   One brother, Mr. Preston Pugh, survives.  Two sisters are also left, one
of them being Mrs. John McConnachie, of Live Oak plantation, where the deceased 
had lived and where his career ended, the other being Mrs. G. R. Laboyteaux, of
Great Notch, New Jersey.  They have the unfeigned sympathy of citizens and 
friends all over this parish.  The deceased, while given to social enjoyment, 
being very considerate for the ladies, with whom he demeaned himself as a 
Gentleman, a real gentleman of the old school, he nevertheless was attentive to 
business matters, having for years carried on successfully the manufacture of 
railroad cross ties and later being the owner and operator of the Thibodaux 
Brick Factory, located a short distance above this town.
  [illegible] he is gone his good qualities will continue to live and for
years will stand out favorably in the minds of his many friends, whose sorrow 
over his death will doubtless be expressed through sincere prayers asking God 
to forgive him any sins that he, like frail mortal man, may have committed, and 
grant his soul life everlasting.

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