St Landry County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Chachere, Dr. Theogene March 31, 1919
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St. Landry Clarion (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, April 05, 1919, Image 1

PIONEER CITIZEN GOES TO REWARD AFTER USEFUL LIFE

DR. THEOGENE CHACHERE DIES AT THE ADVANCED AGE OF 93 YEARS.

WAS SURGEON IN CONFEDERATE ARMY

Dr. Chachere Was Known Widely for His Charitable and Kindly Character -- Had 
Reared Several Orphan Children.

On April 1st, at 11 o'clock a. m., the body of this venerable veteran was 
consigned to its last resting place in the Catholic cemetery of this town 
followed by an enormous concourse of friends and relatives.

Dr. Chachere was born on the 19th of December, 1835, and died at a ripe old 
age March 31st, 1919. Dr. Chachere was one of the 13 children of the late 
Veilland Chachere who died at the venerable age of 93 years and 8 months in 
1895. All except one of the 13 reached adult age, among them being L. 
Veilland Chachere, who was the Empire Parish of the State, filling two 
terms, ending in 1856. The widow of the sheriff afterwards married the late 
lamented Judge Amede Martel, one of the unique Chacheres of this interesting 
family.

Dr. Theogene Chachere was united in the bonds of wedlock to Mary O. Guidry, 
having no issue. She preceded him on the long journey from whose bourne no 
traveler has yet returned by two years.

Dr. Chachere studied medicine at the old University of Louisiana, under the 
late Dr. Felix Formento. As his early education was limited the ambitious 
young man, under an assumed name, attended a night school, where he acquired 
a good education. While pursuing his studies the Civil War broke out so he 
rushed to the front before graduation and was assigned by a committee of 
doctors at the front and accepted, being assigned to a hospital at Richmond, 
under Formento, later succeeding him as head of the hospital, remaining 
there until peace was declared. The amnesty after the war granted him its 
diploma.

Dr. Chachere and his amiable wife reared several orphans, a Miss Darby, also 
an orphan from St. Vincent's, Miss Lucy Moore, (his niece who survives him 
and who ministered to him, especially since his wife's death, with more than 
a daughter's devotion), also Jos. D. Chachere, now serving his country in 
Germany. The doctor had expressed the hope that he would live long enough to 
see Joe, the apple of his eye, but fate willed it otherwise, for while Joe 
secured his leave and will probably return home in the near future, it will 
be too late to see his beloved adopted father in life.

After the war Dr. Chachere practiced his profession in Chatagnier and 
Plaquemine Ridge, until his advancing age led him to retire, when he moved 
to his present home.

Dr. Chachere was frugal and economic, lived well and broadly charitable, not 
letting his left hand know what his right hand did, totally devoid of the 
speculative spirit, much of his worldly possession, was due to the foresight 
and devotion of his brother Hon. James O. Chachere, formerly Clerk of the 
Court od old St. Landry. Dr. Chachere was one of the most amiable and 
companionable of men and had a keen sense of humor. Nothing delighted him 
more than to get a good joke on brother Jim or some close friend, but never 
a touch of venom in his genial humor. Courteous to women and kindly to 
children he bore on field and in parlor, the grand old name of gentleman.

Scores of relatives and friends will mourn his loss, among them his adopted 
children, Miss Lucy and Joseph D., his brothers James O. and Henry, Dy. 
Sheriff Charles Chachere and the Confederate contingent whose thin gray line 
is rapidly melting away.

Requiescat in pace.

Additional Comments:
Dr. Theogene Chachere is buried in section 10 of the St. Landry Catholic 
Church cemetery located in Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, LA.
He was the son of Veilland Chachere and Heloise Lavergne.

www.findagrave memorial #16558854

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