St Landry County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Coburn, Joe May 29, 1900
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St. Landry Clarion (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, June 02, 1900, Image 5

Joe Coburn, an itinerant gambler who had made his home here for several years, 
died at the City Hotel Tuesday morning, after an illness of several weeks.

Joe was a well known character in many States. There was not a horse race or a 
fair of any importance that he did not attend, and his joval disposition and 
big-heartedness made him many friends. He was a gambler, that's true, but in 
him was a heart as big as his body; a heart that never turned a deaf ear to an 
appeal for charity. Gamblers are noted for their generosity but Joe was 
exceptionally so.

He leaves a wife and two children - pretty, bright little girls - who are 
thrown upon the cold world homeless and penniless, with no known relatives. It 
is a pitiable case of absolute destitution, and had not the good people of 
Opelousas gone to their rescue with a liberal donation, it cannot be conceived 
what the hopeless, heart-broken woman would have done. Mr. Cottingham, the 
kind-hearted proprietor of the City Hotel, tendered the hospitality of the 
hotel to the stricken family for as long a period as they chose.

Coburn was a native of Berkshire, Vermont, and was fifty-one years old.


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