St Landry County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Posey, Sr., Edward Lloyd December 25, 1911 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Mary K Creamer marykcreamer@yahoo.com April 1, 2015, 10:58 pm St. Landry Clarion (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, December 30, 1911, Image 5 LLOYD POSEY PASSES AWAY AFTER ILLNESS OF A FEW MONTHS. E. Lloyd Posey, one of the prominent members of the legal profession in this city, and a leading real estate investor, died yesterday at his home, 8129 Green Street, after an illness of several months, although he had not been seriously ill until recently, says Tuesday's Times-Democrat. Mr. Posey was not only active in business, but had been in all the independent political movements since the Young Men's Democratic campaign, and was a member of the State Senate in 1888-90. He was active in the campaign against the lottery and in the Citizen's League and Jacksonian Democratic and Home Rule fights. He owned a great deal of land around the city, which was formerly marsh, and was active in buying and selling agricultural and timber lands. Mr. Posey was from a prominent St. Landry family, and was born at Opelousas Feb. 22, 1851, so that he was nearly sixty-one years old. He was the son of John Posey and Mary T. Taylor, and was educated at Spring Hill College, at Mobile, and graduated from the Law Department of the University of Louisiana in this city about thirty-five years ago, since which time he has practiced law continuously. He was a man of especially agreeable manners, and was very able manners, and was very popular in the city. Mr. Posey married Dec. 20, 1884, Miss Mathilde Cook, of this city, daughter of Fedesick H. Cook, who survives him. He leaves four daughters, Misses Ethel, Mathilde, Lena and Rosalie, and a son, E. Lloyd Posey, Jr.; two brothers, W. O. Posey, of this city, and F. E. Posey, of Baton Rouge, and a sister, Mrs. W. W. Ventress, of Iberville Parish. The funeral will take place this afternoon at 3 o'clock from the residence and Mater Dolorosa Church, on Carrollton Avenue, and the interement will be in the new St. Louis Cemetery on Esplanade Avenue. Additional Comments: NOTE: Edward Lloyd Posey, Sr. is buried in the Saint Louis Cemetery #3, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA. www.findagrave.com memorial # 133377154 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/la/stlandry/obits/p/poseysr5661gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/lafiles/ File size: 2.7 Kb