Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-01-14
DEATH OF MRS. ANNIE PAR.
METER.

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| After a lingering illness Mrs
Annie Parmeter died early Wed
nesday morning at the advanced
age Of n years. Her last hour
were comforted by the presence
of her son and granddaughter
and many devoted friends.
Mrs. Parmeter was born il
Breitchen, Scotland, February
%, 1888, her maiden name beint
Miss Annie Will. Coming Il
America when about 16 or Il
years of age, she lived for some
years in Philadelphia. On Janu'
airy 9th, 1861, she was married
at the old Washington Hotel il
Vicksburg to Mr.. ]. H. Parmeter
a native of the Isle of Wight, and
came at once to St. Joseph, where
her husband had business inter.
ests, arriving here about the 18th
of January, just 40 years ago.
One son was born to this union,
Josiah Jefferson Parmeter, who
survives his mother, and together
with his daughter was with bel
during her last illness.
Her husband entered the Con.
federate Army soon after the toe.
sin of war was sounded, enlisting
in the Tensas Cavalry at St. Jo-
seph. He served the Confederacy
we'll and faithfully until stricken
with disease resulting from ex-
posture and died in service in 1868.
Left a widow with one child,
Mrs. Parmeter bravely faced the
issue before her, the sad lot that
befell 80 many Southern daugh-
tiers at that crucial stage of our
country's history, and alone and
unaided reared her son to honor
able manhood, endowing him with
a liberal education and equipping
him for usefp. citizenship.
Mrs. Parmeter was of a kind
and generous nature, devoted to
her home and friends and was al
ways happiest when contributing
to the comfort and pleasure of
others. Her entire married life
was spent in St. Joseph and truly
it may be said of her
"None knew her but to love her,
None spake but to praise"
An earnest and sincere Christ
ian she practiced q simple piety
that inspired all within the sphere
of her influence with higher and
better motives. 1t is indeed diff
icult to pay fitting tribute to her
memory. No one was more will
ing to aid the suffering, cheer the
responding, sustain the weak aud
to throw over the frailties of our
race the mantel of Christian char.
ity, aud when sickness and death
came to her, % it comes to all,
neighbors and friends We'd with
each other in acts of loving kind.
ness and tender solicitude, and
many were the willing hands and
h carts ready to assist him upon
whom rested the heavy RESPONSE.
bility of attempting to fight back
the ravages of disease-to aver,
the inevitable-and in whom were
united the devotion of a friend
the untiring skill and watchful
care of the conscientious, pains
taking physician. but love and
skill were equally of no avail
The great destroyer had placed
his signet OH her brow and to-day
those who loved her living, mourn
her dead.
Our little town and its hospit.
able people ever held warm cor
ner in her heart. 1t was here thu
hest days of her life were spent
and when her last hour came anC
the God Of eternity called her t.
her everlasting rest, it was indeed
fitting that her mortal remains
should he inferred close to wher
she had known her greatest joy
and deepest sorrows. Her frien'
Of nearly half a century, Mrs. w
III G. Austin, extended the kim
permission to have the grav
made on her property, where sh
peacefully sleeps beneath tn
shade of a giant oak and wher