Emmet Perkins Putnam, 1856-1925; Vermilion Parish Obits, Louisiana
Submitted by Kathy LaCombe-Tell
Source: Meridional
Submitted August 2004

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Meridional 2-7-1925
Putnam, Emmet Perkins, born 8-4-1856, died 2-2-1925

Gone To Rest.

On the evening of Monday, February 2, at the hour of 6:45, the Grim 
Reaper removed from our midst, Mr. Emmet P. Putnam, one of our best 
known and most highly respected citizens.

His death, which was the result of a lingering illness of two years 
duration, oc[c]ur[r]ed at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. J. O. 
Broussard, of this place.

The funeral took place Tuesday afternoon, at 4:30 with Rev. R. R. Diggs
of the Episcopal church officiating. He was laid to rest in the 
Graceland Cemetery.

Mr. Putnam was a son of J. M. Putnam and Mary Spe[a]ring, and was the 
last of seven sons to pass to the great beyond. He was born August 4, 
1856, and was 68 years, 5 months and 28 days old at the time of his 
death.

He received his education in the very best schools that New Orleans 
possessed at that time, and there the groundwork of a long and useful 
career was laid. At an early age he was confirmed in the Trinity Church 
of New Orleans, and remained a member of the organization throughout 
his life.

In the year 1879, on the 5th of March of that year, he was united in 
wedlock to Miss Emily McWhan, and to this union six children were born: 
Mrs. F. A. Godchaux of New Orleans, Mrs. R. T. Torian of Houston, and 
Mrs. J. O. Broussard, Mrs. J. Perry LeBlanc, Mrs. Lloyd Stansbury and 
Mr. E. P. Putnam, Jr., of this place.

He came to Abbeville from New Orleans in 1886 and for more than 20 
years was actively engaged in the cotton business. Two years ago he 
returned to New Orleans where he was connected with the Vermilion Farms 
Co., as one of the main officers of that organization.
He was a member of the Traveler's Protective Association at the time of 
his death, and had at one time been an active member in the Knights of 
Pythias.

Mr. Putnam was a devoted husband and kind and loving father as well as 
a polished southern gentleman of the old school. We feel that the world 
is better for his having lived, and that his memory will have a firm 
abiding place in the minds and hearts of all who knew him.

With the passing of Mr. Putnam we record another vacancy in the ranks 
of the old time Southern nobility. Those sturdy, just and dependable 
men of the old days are rapidly passing from us, and we know that their 
places can never be filled—there seems to be a quality of manhood 
lacking that the present day cannot supply.

The Meridional extends its sincerest sympathies to the sorrowing 
relatives.