Obituary Record

Mrs. Martha Cazeneuve.

" 'Tis hard to break the tender cord

When love has bound the heart;

'Tis hard, so hard, to speak the word,

Must we forever part."

The people of Bay St, Louis on Wednesday morning were most severely shocked at the announcement that Mrs. Martha Cazeneuve had breathed her last on the night previous, at 10:30 o'clock.

No home stands more prominent and identified with our people of the first than he Cazeneuve family, and to learn so unexpectedly that the wife and mother of this fireside had been summoned away was indeed a shock, and the sorrowful tidings brought grief to the circles of many of our people.

Mrs. Cazeneuve had not been ill, and those around her at the time of the demise entertained no idea that the end was so near only when she gave signs of a want for breath, and, embracing her husband, telling of the end, said good-bye. The deceased was a Miss Martha Green, born in this county thirty-eight years ago, and was the adopted daughter of Captain John V. Toulme. She was married to Joseph P. Cazeneuve. ex-sheriff of Hancock county, and at present a prominent merchant of this city, some twenty years ago. Their union was blessed with several children of which seven are living, six girls and one boy, namely: Jessie, Mabel, Clemmie, Gertrude, Irene, Ruth, and Joseph.

Mrs. Cazeneuve was a member of the Catholic church, sincere in her religion, in sympathy wlth all projects for the betterment of mankind, and was a most active devotee of the faith. Her home was an ideal one. There she was loved and honored by her family and reigned as a queen with all the love and gentleness that pervaded and like sunshine brightend the sacred precincts of home. She interpreted well those callings of her sphere: and was as true to her friends, and as lovable, as to those of her immediate surroundings. It is for this her friends were many, and therefore greater the extent land more irreparable the loss.

The obsequies were held Wednesday afternoon at 4 o'clock, Very Rev. Father Blane officiating. The remains were taken to the church, and then consigned to the new cemetery to their final resting place within the bosom of mother earth. The funeral cortege was a magnificent indication of that esteem and the universal regret for the departed, so numerous were its members. The church had been reached and carriages were still in line turning the corner of Main and Front streets. In addition many of the mourners were afoot.

Fully comprehending this sad event of the past week, The Echo, excited by profound sorrow, feels with the bereaved that bitterness which has stirred so full a cup of the poison of sorrow, and extends sincere condolence.

"Yet again we hope to meet thee

When the day of life is fled,

And in Heaven with joy to greet thee

Where no farewell tear is shed."

Source: Sea Coast Echo 02-05-1898