St Landry County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Medicis, Martin A. July 27, 1921
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St. Landry Clarion (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, August 06, 1921, Image 4

Martin A. Medicis
Another of the citizens of St. Landry passed when Martin Medicis died at the 
soldier's home in New Orleans Thursday of last week, aged 75 years and 3 
months. Funeral took place in New Orleans the following day with interment 
in Greenwood cemetery.

The deceased was a native and lifelong resident of St. Landry and only went 
to live in the soldiers home when the infirmities of age made it impossible 
for him to continue at his work as a bricklayer. There wasn't a lazy bone in 
"Brick" as he was affectionately known by hundreds of people in this and 
adjoining parishes and a long as he could he followed an active life. Always 
bubbling over with fun and remarkable good nature he never failed to see all 
the bright side of life, joking with friends on every occasion. There wasn't 
a spark of human meanness in his make-up, and his greatest delight was to 
associate with his friends and get out of life all the fun and frolic that 
was possible. With him fun was a half of existence and he always managed to 
get both halfs, the serious as well as the frivolous. Even the shadow of 
death had no fears for him and he joked about it as he would some trifling 
incident.

Mr. Medicis went into the ranks of the Confederate army when but a mere 
youth. He emerged when Vicksburg fell to the union forces under General 
Grant. Returning to his native heath he started into earn a living where he 
was born and reared having learned the rudiments of his profession under a 
good tutelage, he made rapid progress.

His father was a native of Italy, his mother a descendant of the French. The 
combination of two strains of the Latin blood was a happy one and "Brick" 
showed his overflowing good nature on every occasion. His physical aspects, 
however, showed little of his ancestry, but on the contrary many thought he 
was of Irish descent and perhaps, far back, there might have been a strain 
of the Cltic blood in his veins and it cropped out in his generation.

The "thin grey line" grows thinner with each passing year, and the old vets 
of the Stars and Bars are growing scarcer each passing year. As first one 
and then another is laid beneath the sod, to answer the reveille of the 
mystic bugler on the other shore, those who remain drop a silent tear over 
the grave of the departed comrades and wonder when the call will come for 
them to join the silent answered the call and joined the vast army that wore 
the grey in that silent, peaceful land "where the wicked cease from 
troubling and the weary find rest."

Additional Comments:
Martin A. Medicis is buried in plot 56 Henderson Hawthorne Cedar section of 
the Greenwood Cemetery located in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA.

www.findagrave.com memorial # 89926287

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