St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1913-11-22

DIR. w. +. ClopG0r1. president
of the Police Jury, Of st. Landry
parish, and a prominent planter
and merchant of Morrow, died
ON Tuesday morning at seven
thirty, after an illness of two
weeks. He was buried in the
Protestant cemetery, near Big
Cane, where a large number of
friends and relatives of the de-
ceased assembled to pay their
last tribute to an old resident of
st. Landay.
DR.. Clopton was elected presi-
dent of the Police Jury, in July
1900, and was reelected there
after until his death.
He was one of the most sue
cessful planters of this section,
having accumulated a nice fortune
DR.. CIopton died at the age of
sixty-five.
In his ward DR.. Clopton was a
power politically, w h list he
had hundreds of friends and ad-
mirers throughout the parish.
The Clerk of the Police Jury,
MIR. ]. j. Healey, and several
members of the police jury at
tended the funeral of their
chief, as also Sheriff Swords and
other friends of DIR. Clopton
from this city.
The death of the president of
the police jury was a surprise to
his 0pelousas friends. Although
they had been apprised Of the
serious illness of DR.. Clopton,
they hoped that he would soon
recover.
DIR. Clopten will most probably
be replaced by Mr.. J. T. st. Cyr,
who is president pro tempore of
the police jury. w h il s t
the parish lawmakers will miss
their former chief very
much they will no doubt
continue working on the same
progressive lines as til e VI
have been persuing under DR..
Clopton with such an able man
ais Mr.. st. Cyr.
DR.. Clopton's work as a public
officer was exceptionally good.
He made a splendid record not
only as a member, but also as
the head of the police jury of st. |
Landry. In him this parish
loses a good officer a fine citizen
and a prosperous farmer. It |
will be many years before the
memory Of him will be effaced
among the people of ST. Landry,
who knew and admired DR.. !.
Clopton.
Samuel M. Peters, an old Con-
federate soldier, is dead. The
end came Monday evening at
10 o'clock. He was buried in
the Catholic Cemetery Wednes-
day afternoon at a o'clock.
Mr.. Peters was born So years
ago and came to Opelousas as an
orphan in the hospitable home
Of Mr.. Joseph Chachere, when
q young boy.
The story of the life Of this
old Confederate veteran was
with the sorrows of the
Civil war and of the thousands
Of orphans stranded on the great
American Continent. When but
a child the home of the Peters,
in New Orleans, was swept away
by the yellow fever of 1853.
but two survivors, those
being Samuel and his older
brother, Matthew Fl. Peters.
These two youngsters were
taken to an orphan asylum, on
The corner of Royal and Jackson
by a big-hearted Ger
man, Pfeifi Franz, who was a
member of the New Orleans
police force.
The two boys remained in this
asylum, happily, for sometime,
when the older brother, was
given into the charge of a Ger {
man tailor. He worked with s
This tailor for a while and then s
not being treated well, he de- !
cided to try his fortune in the (
North, Whereupon he ran away !
from his guardian and finally |
anded in Cincinnati, Ohio, on a t
Mississippi river steamboat. t
From that time on to several I
years afterwards the brothers f
lost track of each other. The r
Younger one was brought to :
by Mr.. Chachere, t
With whom he lived until the /
elvil war broke out. He joined Fl
lhe Confederate Army, little f
b ] n kin g that his brother, o
Matthew, had enlisted with the $
Union Army. i
Sometime after the war had h
been settled the older brother f
shanced to glance over the col Ii
lmns OF a Chicago Tribune, in n
which he saw where a commit q
zee composed of Southern Gov e
sfnors, Judges and Congress- 8