St Landry County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Dejean, Felix December 29, 1890
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St. Landry Clarion (Opelousas, LA) 1890-1921, January 03, 1891, Image 1
Another of the patriarchs of St. Landry has passed away. Mr. Felix Dejean 
died at his residence in Opelousas last Monday, in the 86th year of his age. 
While not apparently a robust man, he was quite free from sickness during 
his very long and active life. He was educated for the law, but never 
practiced that profession. He was married three times and raised a family of 
children by each marriage. Three children of the first marriage survive him, 
and their brother, Capt. Albert Dejean, was killed in battle during the war 
in Virginia. Five children by the second marriage and two by the third, are 
living; besides numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren. He last wife 
died but a short time before him. Mr. Dejean was an ardent sportsman, and 
his very long life was no doubt due in a great measure to his active outdoor 
life as well as to his temperate and abstemious habits. Born and raised in 
this parish at a time when feathered game was very plentiful, he never gave 
up the habit of shooting prairie chickens; it was a sport that seemed 
necessary to his existence. When the increase in population caused the 
prairie chickens to disappear from this part of the parish, he went on a 
camp hunt once or twice every Autumn to the lower part of prairie Hayes; and 
he made his last camp hunt a little more than a year ago. Mr. Dejean was not 
only a good manager of his own private affairs but he was a good citizen; he 
wanted to see public affairs properly managed and the country well governed, 
purely from the standpoint of good citizenship - he seemed to have no 
aspiration for public office.



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