Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-04-20
Pierre Crozat.

! The subject of this memoir was Dor
February 9TH, 1919, at Drives, Depar,
ment of Correze, France. Married t
Louise Jauchaer in 18-, and remove
to Paris shortly afterward. OF thi
union there was born one child, son
In Paris Mr.. Crozat followed his ave
cation of clothier until the coup d'eta
in 1852. Being strong and outspokel
Republican, he was first .'cautioned
by the authorities of the new Empire
and then expatriated: forty-eight hour
being the limited time given him to set
tie his affairs and depart. He with hi
family came to America the same year
and settled first at Nauvoo, Ill. Thre'
or four years after they removed tx
Iowa, and thence to Missouri, coming
to Ironton in 1859, when the towr
was yet new. He prospered we'll, in
vested in real estate, and in 1870 wa!
estimated to be worth $50, 900. In 1870
he sold his possessions and the family
removed to st. Louis, and shortly at
terward to Perry county, Mo. There
Mr.. Crozat engaged in mining, and
like many another man, sunk a goodly
portion of his fortune in shafts and
tunnels which yielded little or no re.
turn. Thence he again removed-this
time to the Sunny South, finally locat-
ing in Mobile, Ala. Here he regained,
by industry in his old vocation, a con-
siderable portion of the fortune he had
lost in mining, and all was going
we'll, when his son Charles was miser-
oh h c%o k1,o
victim of a reckless, drunken profigate.
The murder was done in 1881, and in
due time the murderer-highly con-
nected, being the son of the then sher-
iff-brought to trial and acquitted by,
it was publicly and boldly alleged, a
purchased jury. Great indignation
was felt by the citizens and expressed
by publicly hanging the jury in effigy.
Bereft of their only son, and mourning
as those who will not be comforted, the
sorrowmg parents turned their longing
eyes to the soil of their native land.
They returned to France only to find
that grief follows like shadow and
may not be shaken off. After resi-
dence there of six years, they came
back to America, to Ironton, where the
aged couple have since resided-only
awaiting, as he often expressed it, the
final scene which was to close all and
end all. While in France, Mr.. G. had
put considerable money in Panama
Canal bonds, but happily not his all.
The residue he invested in an annuity;
and after the collapse of the Panama
Canal scheme, it was upon this annui-
ty the aged couple mainly subsisted.
The end was sudden and unexpected.
Although Mr.. Crozat was we'll alongin
the final luster of four-score years, he
was apparently hale, hearty and active.
We saw him Saturday afternoon and
noticed no Indication of the swiftly op-
preaching finale. He was cheerful,
and in apparent health. |
lay asleep, his breathing became |
consciousness left never to
and he peacefully passed away
The ensuing morning. His sudden |
demise was a shock to the whole COM |
nunity, whose members could scarcely |
realize that his familiar spirit had |
winged its final flight into the realms |
Of eternity. 1t was forcible reminder |
Of the evanescence of all things earthly, |
and wildly called to mind the beauti- |
'ul lines of the greatest poet the world |
has ever known:
sAnd like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, |
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
And all which it inherit, shall dissolve;
And, like this unsubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not wrack behind.
We are such stuff as dreams are made of
And our little life is rounded with Sleep"
With the helpless widow-the be-
,eaved wife and mother-there is not |
! heart in the community but beats in
sympathy. May her life to the |
md be made smooth; her faltering
steps be guided, and her weakened |
rame supported. by the sincere. prac
zeal sympathy of all our people, who |
will see to it that her remaining days |
lre calm and her path peace.