Ouachita County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Dabbs, Christopher Hunt March 29, 1868
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The Ouachita Telegraph
The Ouachita Telegraph April 2, 1868 Page 2, Column 1 Death of Dr. C.H. Dabbs

. The usual Sabbath morning quiet of Monroe was rudely shocked last Sunday by 
the unexpected announcement of the death, sometime the night previous, of Dr. 
CHRISTOPHER H. DABBS, one of the oldest and most highly esteemed of our 
citizens. He had been ill, but not seriously, on Saturday, and was attended by 
Drs. Calderwood, junior and senior, and by Dr. Strother, complaining of pain, 
something like neuralgia or rheumatism, in the stomach. About 11 o'clock at 
night he dismissed his physician, and directed his servant to go to bed, saying 
he felt much better. Alas! How uncertain is life. The servant obeyed his 
master's directions and fell very soon to sleep, not awaking until daylight, 
when he arose and approached the Doctor's bedside to find that the immortal 
part of the good old man had winged its flight away from its clayey tenement to 
the God who gave it. His arms were folded across his breast; his noble features 
were perfectly composed, and there was every appearance that death came indeed 
like a thief in the night and announced the final dissolution of soul and body 
in the midst of a deep and gentle slumber. The funeral ceremonies took place on 
Monday under the direction of the Masonic Fraternity, of which Dr. Dabbs was an 
exemplary member. The cortege which followed his remains to the cemetery was 
one of the largest, and perhaps the most sorrowful ever gathered together in 
Monroe. The burial service was both touching and impressive, being participated 
in by at least fifty of the fraternity. It was well and truly said by the Rev. 
Mr. Lawson, in his remarks at the grave, that the lamented deceased was unique 
in his own character, and that he was not cast in the ordinary mould of men. He 
was of massive structure physically, but mentally his organization was 
fashioned with extreme delicacy and vigor. He was a sympathizing and generous 
friend; a prudent and safe counselor; a magnanimous opponent; a good and worthy 
citizen; a patient sufferer, (and who can tell what his trials were?) And 
withal a type of true nobility. He will be missed and mourned by hundreds of 
devoted friends. Dr. Dabbs was 62 years of age, and was a native, we believe, 
of Tennessee, but removed to Louisiana about the year 1835. Nearly ever since 
that time he has resided in Monroe, where he attained great celebrity as a 
physician and had amassed before the war a handsome estate, nearly all of which 
was swept away or rendered valueless by the struggle between the sections. He 
never held any very prominent public position, but exorted a wide political 
influence in behalf of the principles he espoused. He was a capital wit, the 
life and soul of every crowd in which he moved. His life was full of incident, 
making an inexhaustible fund of humor and absorbing story, upon which he often 
drew, always with charming effect upon his companions. We could dwell at length 
on this trait of his character, but we would fain abandon a theme so full of 
individual sorrow, and regret, dropping a tear to the memory of our departed 
friend as one whose like we fear we shall never see. NOTES: Below Dr. Dabbs' 
obituary, there is a resolution of respect given by the members of the medical 
profession of Ouachita Parish. A Resolution of Respect from the Masons is 
published in the Ouachita Telegraph, April 15, 1868 edition, page 3, Column 1. 



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