St Landry County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Chachere, Marie Celestine Lavergne March 10, 1904
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Crowley Signal, March 19, 1904

PASSES AWAY.

MRS. C. CHACHERE GOES TO HER HEAVENLY REWARD,

She Is Survived by Four Generations of Her Descendants, Numbering One 
Hundred and Twenty.

One of the most venerable persons in Southwest Louisiana passed from this 
life Friday, March 11, at 4 o'clock in the afternoon when Mrs. Constance 
Chachere quietly breathed her last at the home of her son-in-law, Etienne 
Stagg of Prud'homme.

Mrs. Chachere was born at Bellevue, about five miles south of Opelousas, on 
the 9th of December, 1815, and at the time of her death had attained the 
advanced age of 88 years, three months and two days. Her maiden name was 
Celestine Lavergne. A model of true Southern womanhood, gentle, loving and 
ever patient, she was fondly beloved, not only by her numerous descendants, 
but by all who had the good fortune to know her, and the memory of her many 
virtues is the sweetest balm that will assuage the poignancy of the sorrow 
her friends and relatives are feeling at her loss. Hers were the arms that 
welcomed into this world many infant forms that have since grown into 
stalwart men and noble women, sons and daughters of whom Southwest Louisiana 
has just cause to be proud hers was the loving cure that taught the childish 
feet to walk in the paths of rectitude and honor, and when her darling 
babies had grown to adolescence, it was still upon her shoulder they sought 
comfort in affliction, depending ever upon her wisdom for guidance, even as 
in the days of their boyhood. At the close of the long and useful life, all 
of her children and a number of her grandchildren and great-grandchildren 
were assembled about her bedside to give all possible comfort to.

Mrs. Chachere leaves one hundred and twenty-one descendants to mourn her 
loss, as follows: eight children, six daughters and two sons - T. C. 
Chachere of Eunice, Mrs. E. Stagg of Prud'homme, Mrs. A. V. Richard of 
Bellevue, Mrs. Martin Carron of Eunice, Mrs. Louis Bacon of Mamou, Mrs. W. 
P. Brooks of Crowley, Louis Chachere of Eunoice and Mrs. S. M. Hundley of 
Crowley; thirty-six grandchildren, seventy-one great-grandchildren and six 
great-great-grandchildren, all of whom are residents of this section of the 
country.

The shroud which had been kept since her father's death, fifty-seven years 
ago, and preserved by the family as a precious relic, was used for her. It 
was made of real "Vielle Toille de France," and was as snowy as when first 
made. The design was notched scollops, with cut dahliahs and diamond 
insertions.

The funeral took place at 4 o'clock Saturday afternoon, March 12, under the 
auspices of the Catholic Church, the impressive services being conducted by 
Rev. Father Basseaque, pastor of the Catholic Church at Eunice. The remains 
were tenderly laid to await the day of resurrection in the Carron Cemetery, 
about two and one-half miles est of Eunice, in the presence of a host of 
sorrow-stricken relatives and friends who had come to pay a last, sad 
tribute to the noblest work of the Creator - a good woman and a mother. 

Additional Comments:
NOTE:
Marie Celstine Lavergne Chacher is buried in the Carron Cemetery located in 
Eunice, St. Landry Parish, LA.

www.findagrave.com memorial # 103681511

Her husband, Constant Chachere is buried in section 10 of the Saint Landry 
Catholic Church cemetery located in Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, LA.

www.findagrave.com memorial # 113044563


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