Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-07-20
MRS. LAURA BoNpuaANT.

With feelings of the deepest regret
the Gazette chronicles the death OF
Mrs. Laura Bondurant which sad event
occurred at her home in st. Joseph on
Monday last, July 10th. Although Mrs.
Bondurant had not been In her usual
vigorous health for short time past,
the end came suddenly and unexpect-
eddy and was q shock to the commn-
nifty i'm which she had lived so long
and where she was so universally
loved and esteemed.
Thus passed away to eternal rest
this venerable lady who formed one OF
the few remaining links which con-
meet the present generation of Tensas
people with the past. with their ances :
tors of ante bellum days, with the
history and traditions Of more than .
half century ago, for Mrs. Bondurant
was born i'm Louisville, Kentucky, on
June oath, 1929, and was consequently
iu the eighty ninth year of her age.
Her parents were George r. Williams
and Anne Leason Williams who were
residents of Louisville, where Mrs.
Bondurant was married July 18th, 1852,
to Captain Albert Bondurant, q NOM
Der of one of Tensas' pioneer families,
and who had the distinction of being
the first white child to be born in Ten
sas parish, and who owned one Of the
largest estates in the parish, situated
on the river q few miles above St.
Joseph. To this plantation home
Captain Bondurant brought his beau
tiful bride and there and In st. Joseph
husband and wife spent their lives and
reared their children until the gallant
husband, who had served with great
distinction as Captain of the Tensss
Cavalry, passed to the other side in
1903, full of years and blessed with the
affection Of the people among whom
his life had been passed. Captain and
Mrs. Bondurant had celebrated their
golden wedding year before the
formers death.
or this happy union there were born
six children, all of whom survive their
parents, viz: Mrs. Lena Henderson,
widow of the late John @. Henderson,
now Of Knoxville, Tenn; Miss Mamie
Bondurant, Mrs. Lollie Besubien,
widow of the late Rev. ]. G. B. Beau
bien; Mrs. Berta Young, widow of the
late Col. William G. Young; Albert
Bondursnt and Mrs. Florence Burk-
halter, wife of DR.. w. A. Burkhalter Of
Greenwood, Miss. Mrs. Bondurant's
brother, the late George w. Williams,
was Sheriff of Tensas for several terms
before the civil war and for one term
after its close, and was in his day one
of the most popular and beloved of
our citizens.
Or the life aud traits of character of
Mrs. Bondurant it sufiices to say that
she was a type of the old-school
Southern gentlewoman, fitted by her
personal charm and accomplishments
to adorn any station in life, gentle
and sffectionate friend, q devoted
churchwoman, loving wife and
mother who received her reward In
the devotion returned to her by hus-
band and children and by the affec-
t;op oul ookoov,, in u,hioh oho mn hn IA
by all whose fortune 1t was to know
her.
The Old South in an industrial way
has passed away but God be praised
there still remain to us the splendid
traditions Of the past, our memories Of
the noble men and women whose
gentle spirit is still with rs and let US
hope shall ever be with Us. OF this
order was the noble lady whose death
it is our sad province to chronicle and
In our feeble way to endeavOr to per-
petuate and bear testimony to the
good works done by her, of the grief
felt for her loss by the people of her
home and of the tender sympathy
their friends feel for. those she leaves
behind.
Mrs. Bondursnt's remains were con-
veyed TO Natchez on Tuesday morning
and there inferred in the family lot In
the Nstchez cemetery, being accom-
panied by q large number of her st.
Joseph friends.
Mr.. R. L. Wimberly returned last