Natchitoches County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Gallien, Marie Azemia Deniston March 21, 1895
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The Louisiana Populist  April 5, 1895
IN MEMORIAM.

MARIE AZEMIA DENNISTON [sic] was born in the city of Natchitoches, La., 
January 1st, 1844, and was the daughter of David and Azemia Denniston, who 
poured out their entire affections upon this and one other daughter.  
Lovingly, tenderly these sisters grew into womanhood under the influence of 
their loved religion and the tender watchcare of fond parents.

In the early blush of womanhood with all the lovely graces and accomplishments 
of that romantic time, Marie was given in marriage to Emile Tausin, February 
15th, 1860.  That union was blessed with a daughter - her only child, but the 
beauty and romance of the morning of her life seemed to forecast dark shadows 
that should make its evening so tender and sublime.

When her child was scarcely two months old her husbnad was taken from her, 
February 21st 1861, leaving her a widow and mother at the yet tender age of 
seventeen.  Her parents both dead, she went to live with her sister, Mrs. 
Blanchard, where she bore her afflictions with patience and christian 
fortitude, and reared her daughter, now Mrs. Emily Rachal of Cloutierville, to 
womanhood, endowing her with those womanly virtues and christian graces that 
made her own life so beautiful.

When nearly twenty years had allowed Father Time to heal the deep afflictions 
of the past and partially remove the scars caused of early heartwounds, grown 
more lovable still by the humility of her deep christian life and the 
gentleness that comes only by acquaintance with grief, she decided to again 
assume the duties and responsibilities of married life, and became the wife of 
Capt. H. P. Gallien, February 3rd, 1880.

This marriage imposed upon her the delicate and responsible task of being a 
mother to strange children - of overcoming their natural prejudice to what 
they thought an intrusion in the family, and winning their love.  And here is 
where most brightly shown the beauty of her christian life, her self control 
and self denial, and her devotion to her husband and all his interests, 
greates of which were his children.  To say that she succeeded is expressing 
it mildly.  Her husband rejoiced in her devotion and her love, and  his 
children loved her as a mother, which she was indeed.

But while her private life was so true and lovable, her public life was 
equally useful and beautifl in its strength of charcter and purpose.  
Christened in the Catholic church and brought up under its beneficient 
influenced, it received her labors of love from almost childhood to the day of 
her death, and when her summons came "to go up higher," she was president of 
the Tiger Island Catholic church, which position she had filled for nearly two 
years.  Only the Sunday before her death on Thursday, she had gone several 
miles away with her husband to assist in the work of a neighboring church.  
The workers in His vineyard will miss her, but the harpers before the thorne 
of Him who doeth all things well, will be reinforced.  Oh, what a shining 
example for christians to imitate, is her beautiful life!  Sunshine and 
gladness followed in her wake, and the strong in sin gave way before her.

On Thursday, March 21st, 1895, at 3 o'clock ;.m., her mission on earth was 
fulfilled, and with but little sickness or other warning, and with scarce a 
struggle she passed over the river as a child into sweet slumber.

The husband will sadly miss those tender ministerings that have nerved him for 
the battles of life for fifteen years, his children will weep the loss of a 
tender parent whose holy counsels were the lamps on the pathway of their 
lives, friends and other relatives will mourn the loss of a leader and her 
loving service, but oh, who shall measure the anguish of sould of that lone 
daughter who never knew other parent?  WHo sought the love of a mother not 
alone for itself, but for the lack of afather, a brother, a sister, a child, 
and found that mother's love broad enough, and tenderly willing to satisgy the 
void for all.  Ah!  who shall measure the depth of her grief, and fill the 
aching void of a bursting heart?  None save Him who caused it, and may He in 
His love give that consolation which bringeth patience and fortitude and 
courage to bear her up even unto that blessed meeting when they shall part no 
more.

The husband and family, the onlly sister and that lonely daughter, are left 
for a season behind to make further preparation, and that  they may improve it 
well we commend them to her blessed Saviour in whose service she is now 
supremely happy.
A FRIEND.

Additional Comments:
Azemia Deniston Gallien is buried at Catholic Cemetery in Natchitoches, 
Louisiana.

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