St Landry County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Mudd, Ferdinand L. September 19, 1854
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The Opelousas Courier (Opelousas, LA) Sept. 23, 1854, pg. 2
Died.- At his plantation, on Bayou Teche, in this Parish, Tuesday 19th Inst., 
after a brief but painful illness, Ferdinand L. Mudd, aged thirty six years.

To the announcement of this bereavement, so sad and overwhelming to the family 
and friends of the deceased, we desire to add the heartfelt tribute of esteem 
and friendship.

Possessing in the highest degree, the affectionate devotedness of husband, 
father, brother and relative, he was also endowed with the warmest and most 
refined social feeling. Generous and sincere, upright and manly, yet modest and 
unpretending in his intercourse with every one, he never failed to win the good 
opinion of all with whom he came in contact. And, by far, not the least praise 
of his personal excellence, was the strong and unfeigned attachment and 
devotion of his slaves. Surely, death has robbed them of a kind, just and 
generous master.

Patient and prayerful in his last sufferings; his meek resignation to the will 
of God and his tender solicitude for the wife and helpless 'little ones' who 
surrounded his death-bed, were a fitting sequel and a crowning glory to his 
honorable and well spent, though short career. May God, in his mercy give 
consolation to these and eternal beatitude to the spirit of the loved and 
lamented dead.

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