St Landry County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Lewis, Col. Thomas Hardeman - January 22, 1914
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source: St. Landry Clarion (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, January 24, 1914, Image 1

OPELOUSAS LOSES TOW PROMINENT CITIZENS

Jacques Benoit Sandoz and Col. Thomas Hardeman Lewis Expire on Same Day -- Both 
Prominent in St. Landry.

Col. Thomas H. Lewis, who had been taken to New Orleans for an operation 
expired at the Turo infirmary and was brought to Opelousas for interment. He 
was buried in the Public cemetery.

Colonel Lewis was a prominent figure in state politics for over fifty years and 
has friends throughout the length and breath of Louisiana. He was the original 
organizer of the Good Government League and was probably the first man in 
Louisiana to center his eye on Luther E. Hall as a possible candidate for 
governor. At the time of his death Mr. Lewis was the Chairman of the state 
central committee.

Colonel Lewis has been recognized as one of the ablest lawyers in this state 
for the last thirty or forty years. A self made man he brought himself up to 
the level of the best educated men of Louisiana and was conceded to be of the 
brainest men of the state.

Mr. Lewis was always a democrat, never deviating from his political creed. In 
the White Supremecy fight in this parish he was always to be found on one side 
- on the Democratic side.

Mr. Lewis was a devout Methodist and leaves his hundreds of church members, as 
well as relatives and thousands of friends in this state to mourn his 
departure.


source: The Weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, January 24, 1914,
Image 3

NECROLOGICAL.

Col. Thomas H. Lewis, of Opelousas, chairman of the Democratic State Central
Committee and father of the Good Government League of Louisiana, is critically
ill at the Touro Infirmary, New Orleans, following an operation which he 
underwent on Monday last week. It was feared that he would have to endure a
second operation.

Since writing the above, Col. Lewis' death has been announced.


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