Howell Obituaries: Terrebonne Parish, La.

Submitted by: Cynthia Fatchett Daigle

Source: As listed with each Obit

31 May 2004

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NOTES:
1. The date preceding the obituary is the date of the newspaper,
not the date of death.
2. Annotations are additional information
3. SLR - from South Louisiana Records by Donald Hebert
4. SLVFR - from South Louisiana Vital Family Records by Terrebonne 
Genealogicial Society


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The Houma Times; Saturday August 3, 1929 

Note: Several paragraphs of accolades were edited out of this article.

William Elias HOWELL

In Memoriam
On Thursday night, June 20, 1929 at Thibodaux, in his adopted Parish of 
Lafourche, LA., William Elias HOWELL,  ____ born in the adjoining parish of 
Assumption in the latter days of the year 1855, closed his mortal service, the 
dominating and inspiring influence of which will long endure, is the memory of 
those of his fellow-men whose privilege it was to have had acquaintance with 
his many-sided personality, for his was a life that was lived in a fruitful way 
and that impressed itself in an illuminating and ennobling manner upon the 
lives of other men.
He brought to the discharge of the obligations of public office a sincerity of 
purpose and an unconquerable  ___ to duty, serving with honor and distinction. 
Elected Senator from the 9th Senatorial District, comprising the parishes of 
Assumption, Lafourche and Terrebonne  in 1890 as a candidate on the Pharr 
ticket, he became the acknowledged leader of the opposition in the Foster 
regime in the upper chamber.  Appointed Federal Internal Revenue Collector of 
New Orleans by the ___ President Theodore Roosevelt, he discharged the duties 
of that office from 1900 to 1905.  Elected as the candidate of the short-lived 
Progressive Party, Judge of the former 20th (now 17th) Judicial District Court of 
Louisiana, in and for the Parishes of Lafourche and Terrebonne, he occupied the 
bench from the early part of 1915 until Janurary 31, 1918, when he resigned and 
resumed the practice of law;  and by unanimous voice of his fellow 
parishioners, he sat as one of the two delegates of Lafourche in the 
Constitutional Convention of 1921.
In his chosen profession of law, to which he was admitted when he was 21 years 
of age--------.
-----------, consistantly professing and adhering to the tenents of the 
Episcopal Church, the last rites of which consigned his body to the grave in 
St. John's Episcopal Cemetery at Thibodaux, to await the Day of Resurrection.