The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1914-01-17
MISS IDA PERKINS DIES.

Miss Ida H. Perkins passed into Life
Eternal, Thursday night, January s,
1914, at 8:35 o'clock. Her death took
place at Shreveport from tetanus, af-
ter an illness of several days, during
which every means known to medical
science to arrest the disease was
tried in vain. 1t is supposed that the
trouble began by the infection of an
ingrowing toe nail. Shortly after her
illness began, she was removed to the
Shreveport Sanitarium, her alma mater
in professional sense, and where the
members of her graduating class were
all able to gather about her bedside at
the end Her brother, Jas. G. Perkins,
of West Feliciana, was also with her
during the last two days, but too late
to hear her beloved voice in speech to
him, again. The body was brought
to her native parish on Saturday, the
burial services taking place that after
noon in the quiet cemetery at Clinton,
La, in the presence Of large gather
ing of friends and relatives, who had
loved her in childhood and girlhood,
since none knew her but to love her,
none named her but to praise" The
many tears that fell were her silent
eulogy, as the flowers, that had made
the journey with her from Shreveport,
were expressive of the love of those
absent at that hour, when mortality
was put away from the sight of man.
Miss Perkins was about IS years of
age, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J..
c. Perkins of East Feliciana. The late
DR.. L. G. Perkins, at one time superin-
tendent of the State Insane Asylum,
was an uncle, and the entire connec-
ton is prominent and influential in
East Feliciana.
Miss Perkins graduated as trained
nurse at the old Shreveport Santa
rum about ten years ago, and easily
took first rank in her profession, being
unusually gifted in those qualities and
talents which make the trained nurse
an efficient coadjutor of the intelligent
physician, and great power for good
in her own right. She was recognized
in Shreveport as one of the best
nurses the city afforded. For seven
years she was superintendent of the
Dale Sanitarium at Texarkana, leav-
ing there on account of a general
breakdown in her health. After spend
ing awhile in rest and travel, she re-
turned to Shreveport in October, TAX
ing only private cases. DR.. Oscar
Bowling put her in charge of the
Emergency Hospital at the State Fair.
1t was not necessary for her to nurse,
as she had amassed quite a compe-
tency, but her love of action and of
the work she had fitted herself for,
urged her to continue. She made
friends every where. In every home
which she entered professionally, she
became a family friend, beloved for
her loneliness of disposition and ad-
mired for her nobility and strength of
character. A devout Christian, she
spent time and money in the services
Of religion and in deeds of charity.
Her devotion and liberality were wide
ly known and appreciated in Shreve-
port.
She was truly good woman,
and the rntimely ending of her
career is a loss to the world, where
her ministrations brought health and
blessing. No life is too short that ac-
complishes any great work, that rounds
itself out in labor for others, and view
ed from this standpoint her career is
complete and beautiful, and her loved
ones have this for their true consola-
ton.
Besides her parents, she has in her
immediate family four sisters, Mrs. A.
Williams of Houston, Texas; Mrs. G..
S. Freeman of Collinston, La; Mrs. ].
o. Smith of Eagle Lake, Texas; Mrs.
Will Trask of East Feliciana; and
five brothers, W. w. Perkins of East
Feliciana, Jas. G. Perkins of West Fe.
liciana, L. H. Perkins of Arkansas
and Russell and Vernon Perkins of
East Feliciana These mourn for her
as the dutiful daughter, the beloved
sister, while others can never forget
the noble, gracious kinswoman, the
faithful and thoughtful friend. "Tc
live in hearts we leave behind, is not
to die"
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