The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1917-11-03
DEATH OF SAM. J. BooTE.
Model Citizen and Successful Planter
Lays Down Life's Burden.


Model Citizen and Successful Plante
Lays Down L;fe's Burden.
/ Another Of the fine group of n1el
known as ''the Burnside managers,
responsive to the memorable summons
of the angel of death which must come
to all mortal beings, has gone from
| among us to solve the problem o:
, eternity-to enjoy, we hope ant
trust, in the better land beyond ths
portals of the tomb the everlasting
rest and bliss which the faith Of
Christians teaches them TO believe
will be the blessed lot of those who
walk in righteousness during the
period of their earthly pilgrimage.
/ Samuel John Boote, familiarly and
Iaffectionately known to his wide cir.
Gle of devoted friends as "Sam
Boote," died at his home on Conway
plantation near Burnside, in the fifth
ward of this parish, last Sunday, DC
tober 20, at 4 AS o'clock a. m. He
had been an invalid twenty-three
months, having suffered a stroke Of
paralysis in November, 1915, from
which he never fully rallied. He was
ST years and months old, having
been born in April, 1850, near Car
vile, Iberyille parish, La.
| Mr.. Boote came to Ascension Jan
uary /, 1876, as overseer or assistant
manager of the Donaldson plantation,
one of the places successfully known
as the Burnside, Beirne and Miles
group of sugar plantations. In 1880
he was advanced to the position OF
manager of Donaldson, and in 1887
was transferred to the adjoining Riv-
erton plantation, where he made a
record by raising in two successive
seasons larger crops than the place
had yielded in twenty preceding years,
the sugar output of the Riverton fac
tory having exceeded 1,0OO, 0Oo
pounds in 1887 and again in 1883.
January 1, 1889, he succeeded the
veteran James K. Tucker as manager
of Clark, long known among the field
hands as 'Middlecamp," the central
and finest plantation of the group.
Here Mr.. Boote remained ten years,
and in 1899 assumed the management
of Monroe plantation, where ne re-
manned for fifteen years.
When in 1914 the financial. cy-
clone" struck the sugar belt and the
Miles Planting Company abandoned
the raising of cane and manufacture
of sugar, Mr.. Boote rented the Con-
way plantation, where he made sue
cess of cane cultivation on his own
account. Thus it will be seen that he
spent thirty-eight years in the en-
ploy of the owners Of the Burnside,
Beirne and Miles properties, having
lived on or managed every one Of the
places except Orange Grove; and the
fact that throughout this long period
of service he enjoyed the complete
confidence, respect and esteem of his
employers and subordinates alike IS
all the evidence that could be desired
to establish his character as q high |
grade man in every sense of the term,
and such he undoubtedly was. His
quiet, gentle, yet firm disposition, |
his great sense of honor and justice,
his warm heart and sympathetic tenn
permanent, attracted the. admiration |
and regard of all with whom he came
in contact, without distinction, and
drew his kindred and friends to him
with bonds of affection and trust that |
were as hooks of steel and chains OF /
adamant. In his passing the conn
mnnity loses valuable citizen, his
intinaates a cherished friend, and his
Aemily devoted and affectionate rel
ktive whose memory will abide with
them in tenderness and love as long
as life shall last.
Fc-B
telle Johnson at Napoleonville, La,
June T, 1882, and the couple lived
happily together for twenty years,
Mrs. Boote having died in 1902. The
parents are survived by five children,
three daughters and two sons, Mrs. /.
6. Sharp of Atlanta, Ca, Misses Ro-
uena and Virginia Boote. Clarence
md Wallace Boote. Mr.. Boote also
caves three half sisters, Mrs. A. W.
Norman and Mrs. Ernest Triche of
Chamberlain, La, and Mrs. Prentiss
# Cuba, and two half-brothers, S. r.
3oote of New Orleans and W. Russell
3oote of the Philippine Islands. DR..
3oote Leblanc of st. Gabriel, La, is
nephew of the deceased. II
The funeral services were conduct
d by Rev. Quincy Ewing in the Epis-
opal Church Of the Ascension at
)onaldsonville on Monday, and inter-
nent was made in the Protestant
emetery. The pall-bearers were
Judge Chas. T. Workman, DR.. w. P.
lilies, Lucien W. Armitage, J. F.
axon, j. w. Stephenson and H. Clay
fraud. A large concourse Of sorrow
1g relatives and friends gathered to
Din in the last tribute to the lament
d dead. |.