St Landry County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Lastrapes, Leonce F. December 15, 1912
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St. Landry Clarion (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, December 21, 1912, Image 1

LEONCE F. LASTRAPES.

Died at his farm near town, on the evening of the 15th inst., the cortege 
leaving the residence of his nephew, Sidney L. Hebrard, Esq. on Tuesday the 
17th.

Mr. Lastrapes was aged 66 years and 9 months, and was a scion of an old and 
respected family of this parish. His daughters, Mrs. (Dr.) V. K. Iron and 
Mrs. (Dr.) Duson, came from their respective homes in New Orleans and Texas, 
to attend the funeral. In his youth it has been said by competent judges 
that poor Leonce was the handsomest man in Louisiana, and time and trouble 
had not fully effaced the lineaments of former beauty as he lay stretched on 
his last bed, let us hope in peace.

His was a gentle nature, courteous, cultured and refined. Whatever faults he 
may have possessed were fully attoned for by years of despair and rayless 
hope. If his dumb mouth could speak, 'twould doubtless say:
"But now the Arbitrator of despairs,
Just death, kind umpire of man's miseries,
With sweet enlargement doth dismisss me hence."

And those of his life-long friends, who really liked the man and realized 
that he possessed a knightly heart could well exclaim:
"Vex not his ghost: oh! let him pass!
He hates him, that would upon the rock of this rough world
Stretch him out longer."
Peace to his ashes!

The grave buries every error, covers every defect, extinguishes every 
resentment. From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and tender 
reccollections."

Farewell! old friend, peace to your ashes.

Additional Comments:
NOTE: LASTRAPES, Leonce Florentin (Jacques & Louise POIRET) b. 7  Feb. 1846  
(Opel. Ch.: v.4, p.269)

source: Source: Donald J. Hébert, Southwest Louisiana Records, 1750-1900: 
compact disk #101 (Rayne, LA: Hébert Publications, 2001). CD 101

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