St Landry County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Garland, Charles Frederick April 5, 1903
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St. Landry Clarion (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, April 11, 1903, Image 1

Charles F. Garland has gone to the undiscovered country. After a lingering 
illness of some six weeks, his soul passed from life to death on Sunday 
evening, the 5th inst., at midnight's holy hour. He was a many-sided man. A 
born optimist, he was as genial as May, as generous as Autumn. He was 
absolutely fearless - indifferent alike to pain and suffering. His courage 
was as open as day. He always fought in the open. He would have made an 
ideal soldier, in the whirlwind of the charge, where men become iron with 
nerves of steel. He would have proven valueless had he had to beleaguer and 
enemy or sap a mine. His generosity was unbounded. He spent his money with 
the prodigality of a spendthrift. Endowed by nature with a robust 
constitution, made of iron, as it were, he was careless of sunshine or of 
rain, and laughed at these elements. This indifference to self hastened his 
untimely end. But the fearlessness which had characterized his entire life 
never for a moment forsook him. With an insiduous malady sapping his 
vitality, reducing his magnificent proportions to a mere shadow, dying, as 
it were, upon his feet, he never complained.

When he took to his bed, from which he was destined never to arise, he 
maintained his usual optimism, his indifference to pain, his uncomplaining 
sublimity. In response to the inquiries from relatives and friends as to his 
condition, his reply always was, "I am all right." And he was "all right." 
He had fought the good fight, had never sounded a retreat, and when "the 
pallid messenger with the inverted torch" beckoned him forward for the 
inevitable hour, he met his advance with more than a hero's courage - with 
the fortitude and resignation of a Christian.

The last rites of the church had been administered him. All impurities in 
his nature had been washed away. His soul, clad in garments whiter than 
snow, was prepared to take its place by the side of the great white throne 
of his Maker from whence it came.

"The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the 
Lord."

And this is the consolation the writer tenders his aged parents and grief-
stricken relatives to drive from their hearts, if he can do so, the great 
sorrow that is now upon them. 

Additional Comments:
NOTE: Charles Frederick Garland is buried in section 20 of the Saint Landry 
Catholic Church cemetery located in Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana. 
His tomb is located inside the Henry L Garland Family plot cast iron Fence. 

www.findagrave.com memorial # 103528584


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