St Landry County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Torne, Jean Batiste September 12, 1885
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St. Landry Democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878 - 1894, September 19, 1885, Image 5

Obituary.

DIED - At the residence of Mr. D. P. Lafleur, Chataignier, at 1 o'clock A. 
M., Saturday, Sept. 12, 1885, JEAN TORNE, aged 49.

We gave last week an account of Mr. Torne's injuries sustained at Mr. 
Lafleur's mill, and this week have to record his death and burial. It has 
been a long time since we have had to  announce the demise of so very useful 
and excellent a citizen. Mr. Torne was a native of Gascony, France, and has 
been a resident of Plaisance in this parish, about seventeen years. He had 
in his possession medals of honor and his discharge from the French army 
showing a service of seven years in Africa and containing the certificate of 
his commanding officers certifying that he was a good soldier, and had never 
received a demerit during the whole term of his enlistment.

The deceased was a machinist and mill-wright and by industry and honest 
thrift had accumulated a competency, though when he came to this parish he 
worked as a manual laborer. His farm is a model of neatness and order, 
always giving to the passerby the impression that it was the home of a man 
of thrift and taste. Truly it was the home of industry, sobriety, 
hospitality and modest worth. But the more excellent qualities of Mr. Torne 
were best known to his intimate friends. Having no children of his own, he 
lavished his affection upon the little inmates of the households which he 
delighted to visit when not busily at work, and some pathetic incidents 
could be given, if space allowed, of the grief of these little ones at his 
sufferings and death. Indeed a death has rarely occurred in this community 
which caused such poignant grief among neighbors and friends not in any way 
connected by blood or affinity. It would be hard, if not impossible, to find 
a man who more completely exemplified the virtues of friendship. Time, 
money, not personal sacrifice were counted when his friends needed him, and 
while lying upon his bed of suffering they came to him from all quarters 
with messages of sympathy and offers of attendance and aid. His wounds were 
so severe that he could not be removed to his own home, and his death took 
place at the house of a friend as we have stated. He had the hourly 
attendance and sympathy of his two most intimate friends, Mr. Lafleur and 
Hon. T. S. Fontenot. Day and night these devoted friends watched by his 
bedside and ministered to his sufferings, doing for their friend every 
office tenderly, lovingly, until the spirit left the torn and mangled body. 
It would be a melancholly satisfaction to his aged parents in France if they 
could know of these tender offices performed for their son in his adopted 
country by friends who loved him as a kinsman.

Mr. Torne bore his sufferings like a soldier and met death with the 
resignation and hope of a Christian. We tender to his bereaved widow and 
aged parents our sincere sympathy and condolence.

N. O. Bee please copy.

Additional Comments:
NOTE: Jean Batiste Torne is buried in section 10 of the Saint Landry Catholic 
Church cemetery located in Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana.

www.findagrave.com memorial # 113044558

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