St Landry County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Stagg, Louis September 13, 1892
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St. Landry Clarion (Opelousas, La.) September 17, 1892, page 2
LOUIS STAGG
Died, at his home on Bayou Boeuf, at 3 p.m., Tuesday, September 13th, 1892, 
Louis Stagg.
The deceased was a prominent and honored member of the Stagg family and was 
allied by blood and by affinity to nearly all the old and respected Creole 
families of this parish, and on his own account is entitled to more than a 
passing notice commemorative of his good qualities in all the relations of life. 
The Stagg family, on the paternal side, sprung from the sound Knickerbocker 
stock that emigrated from Holland to New York, and was engrafted on some of the 
best Creole stock of southwestern Louisiana; the maternal ancestress was a 
Fusilier from the Teche, and nearly allied by blood to Agricole and Laclair 
Fusilier, two well known ante-bellum types of all that is admirable in the 
Creole character. And the family here in St. Landry have most worthily borne the 
good name which it had always held right of conduct as well as by inheritance. 
The record made by its members in public as well as in private station, is 
irreproachable and a worthy example to the young men of our country.Chief among 
their distinguishing traits is a high sense of the obligation of citizenship and 
a firm adherence to political convictions, qualities which governed them not 
only in the dark period of civil war, but ever since throughout the ordeals 
which our commonwealth has been compelled to pass. Immediately upon the outbreak 
of the civil war the deceased and five of his brothers, Philip, Adolphe, Paulin, 
Etienne and Benjamin, entered the Confederate army as volunteers. The deceased, 
as captain of the Big Cane Rifles, company A of the 16th La. Infantry, in which 
Paulin and Etienne served, participated in the battles of Shiloh, Murfreesboro, 
Perrysville, and Missionary Ridge where he was made a prisoner. At Shiloh he was 
wounded in the head, a minnie ball caraying away most of his right ear. Etienne 
was wounded in the neck, and Paulin was shot through the wrist. Benjamin, 
bearing colors of the 6th La. Infantry, was shot through the heart at the battle 
of Seven Pines around Richmond - he fell in advance of his regiment, pierced by 
many balls.
After his capture at Missionary Ridge, Louis remained imprisoned at Johnson's 
Island for nineteen months, where on account of his uncompromising principles he 
was subjected to continual harsh treatment by the Federal officials. Being 
released at the termination of hostilities he returned home and began at once 
the active and successful business pursuits which he followed until ill health 
incapacitated him for work. By industry, strict integrity and good judgement, he 
succeeded in rearing and educating a large family, and leaving to his widow and 
family a comfortable subsistence. He was not a politician in the ordinary sense, 
but he always took a deep interest and an active part in the politics of his 
country; and in 1876 he was elected to the legislature where he was among the 
firmest supporters of the plan to inaugurate Gov. Nicholls, ready then as at all 
other times to risk his life if necessary for his convictions of right. Here it 
may be mentioned that his brothers Paulin and Adolphe have also held and 
worthily filled honorable stations in public life, the latter being now a member 
of the legislature while the former was a member of the constitutional 
convention of 1879.
The deceased was one of a family of thirteen children, ten of whom still 
survive, the deceased being the first death among them for 22 years past. The 
father of the family, Philip Stagg, Sr., a noble type of citizen and a merchant 
of spotless life and character, died of yellow fever at his home in Grand 
Preirie in the year 1870, and John, one of his sons, also died at the same time 
of yellow fever. Considering that Benjamin was killed in the war, it may be said 
that only one of this unusually large family of thirteen children with ages 
ranging from 40 to 65 years, has died; showing not only the native vigor of the 
stock and great healthfulness of our climate, but characteristic habits of 
temperance and orderly living as a family. The deceased was looked upon in some 
sort as the head of the family, and in his own household he was not only the 
center of patriarchal influence and control but he possessed the unbounded 
respect and tender devotion of each and every member of that grief-stricken 
household. His sons, his daughters and his devoted wife for weeks and months 
before his death tenderly ministered to his sufferings, supplying by their 
untiring devotion and tender nursing everything that heart could wish, to soothe 
the dying pillow of the husband, father, friend. Though he had not in the course 
of his active career given much thought to religion, yet he turned his serious 
thoughts to the subject during some months before his death, and his wife and 
daughters, all devotedly pious, had the happiness of seeing him accept their 
religious faith and receive the last rights and sacriments of their Church 
before his death. As he had lived, so he died, without fear and without 
reproach.
He was buried at the Catholic chapel cemetery, near Dubuisson Station, on Bayou 
Boeuf, in his family lot, on Wednesday, the 14th, a large concourse of 
relatives, friends and acquaintances, from Opelousas, Washington, Grand Prairie 
and Bayou Boeuf, testifying by their presence their sympathy for the grief-
stricken family and their esteemed for the character of the good citizen, friend 
neighbor, husband and father they gently and lovingly laid away in his last 
resting place.

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