St Landry County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Daly, Charles M. - June 20, 1894 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Mary K. Creamer marykcreamer@yahoo.com September 27, 2015, 9:42 pm source: St. Landry Clarion (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, June 30, 1894, Image 4 OBITUARY. Charles M. Daly. This estimable and highly respected citizen died and was buried last week. Mr. Daly was a native of the State of Kentucky having been born at Lexington, November 9th, 1823. He came to this parish in the year 1869, and settled on the Scott place at Bellevue, one of the most eligible spots in that beautiful section. His father, Capt. Lawrence Daly, a veteran of the war of 1812, and a participant in the battle of New Orleans, removed with him and died here in 1872, at the age of 80 years. Mr. Daly married Lizzie E. Moore in the year 1862, and she also died here in August, 1869. There is only one surviving child of the marriage - Dr. Lawrence Daly. The family circle in which the deceased resided consisted of his two sisters, Mrs. Ferguson, and Miss Marietta Daly, his nephew, Oliver Daly and his family, and Dr. Lawrence Daly and his family, all of whom looked up to him as its beloved and respected head. But not only was the lamented deceased the center of a united and devoted household. He was eminently esteemed for his good and sterling qualities of head and heart. Modest, unassuming, dignified, well-balanced, conservative, kindly in heart and in manner, discreet, sensible, amiable - all these qualities were blended in him and characterized his intercourse with all who came in contact with him. The influence of such a character though of a quiet and undemocratic kind is deep and abiding, and it will be long before his place is filled even in Bellevue where so many excellent and exemplary heads of families reside. Early in life Mr. Daly connected himself with the Christian church but finding no organized congregation of that church here he did not connect himself formally with any other, and the chief regret expressed by him in his last moments was that he had not done so, for the influence it might have had upon others. As for himself he declared that he had never known a time since he became a man that he did not love God; and now that he was about to enter upon the unseen, unknown realities of eternity, he had no fears. It was not a hard thing for him whose life had been pure and upright to lean upon and trust in God in that supreme ordeal so dreaded by all humanity. The Rev. E. T. Denson, who had at his request been with him and ministered to him in his last moments, performed the sad rights of burial, after which, followed to the grave by a large concourse of people of the neighborhood and from a distance, his remains were committed to mother earth by the loving hands of friends, in a beautiful spot near the family residence. As he had lived in the fear of God and without reproach from his fellowmen, so when he came to die he could well appropriate to himself the sentiments of America's sweetest poet: "So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, which moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Sconrged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams." OBITUARY source: The Opelousas Courier (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, June 23, 1894, Image 1 DIED: DALY - At his residence, in Bellevue, June 20, 1894, Charles M. Daly, aged 71 years, 9 months and 11 days. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/la/stlandry/obits/d/daly26240gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/lafiles/ File size: 3.8 Kb