The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1917-06-08
lrIR CENTENARIAN TRAVELS
Al SFyOND THE GREAT DIVIDE
.,..l.r TreTiIIe LOgnion Was So
WV" Ware Past. and Was Unusually
Motive to the Last

-. lourpal is called upon this week
~ Ds.oricle the death OF probably the
/ ssost resident Of this section OF LOUIS
o aD. Treville LogniOn died last Fri
y, 49, morning at the home OF Omar Log
~ ~ seven miles southeast OF Welsh
a .a.5 ninety six years and two months.
l vi services we're held at Lake
,,tbur Saturday morning.
a. IOQnion's wife died twelve years
the coming July. He is survived
s.oiabt children" most Of whom are
"."Sfathers and grandmOtherS. Mr..
laOnion of the Lognion Grocery
. wish is one of his grandchildren.
The sons and daughters who survive
- deceased are: Omar Lognion, Clar-
'SyLOgnion, Mrs. F. Mallet' oneil Log
1 \, ali residents of the immediate vi
.Dltv Of Welsh; Mrs. T. Landry OF Lake
,.,hur. Mrs. VIM. NJ. Lucas OF Lake
rs,rles;MrS. EignuS Valdetero OF Lake
,.,bur and Mrs. Alec Tinney OF Evan
NJ roOnion was born in st. Mary
..-,.b According to the best authori'
~ he first saw the light of day In the
Month of April, 1921. At times he was
himself little vague on the subject Of
usage, but dates of important hap
DsuInQs Of his life prove that he was %
,sars Of age, He came to old Calcasieu
mrish when he was just passing boy
mod some time before the civil war.
AlOOk into some Of the details OF Mr.
Lannon's eventful career, sounds best
As coming from his own tongue. While
Asvas visiting his daughter Mrs VIM,
v Lucas in Lake Charles last January,
Ha
NJ was interviewed by a representa-
five Of the Lake Charles American
Press. We take pleasure in reprintine
s1creuts from that interview herewith
sthey make a very interesting story
and cast strong search light into thu
aim mast. on the history Of the Creole
residents of this section not much i
written, and the passing Of the few
remaining Of these veterans tends t
cast haze over the records OF OH
pioneer days.
At the outbreak Of the Civil war b
enlisted in the 18th Louisiana com
maud, and left for the front under Cap
James O'Bryan. He was in the sci
vice four years in General Thomas
division Of the army, and was in tn
siege Of Vicksburg, Here he was cal
tared and held prisoner for one yea
Inspeaking OF the war he said, I'm
greatest drawback was lack OF edu
cation, for was certainly eligible fo
most any part Of the army from
lighting view point"
There are numerous, yes, dlVel
happenings in the years agOne IN II
lite that merit recounting and .wou
DOT read badly il they could be told
the quaint aphorisms OF those days
stories Of trial, struggle, victory; b'
I'm Only telling them today when
lapse into a reminiscent mood, or a
impOrtunsd to recount them as a so
Of bedtime story, as you newSpap
men say, for, while l am glad OF I
past and its happenings, l realize Z
living now in the period of swiftneSS,
granted unto me by my MAST
whom | never forgot in my you
and He remembers me in the sinking
LIES sun.
II am not able to e. into a detail
story Of my early life. aside from I
statement that it was much the sa
as came to every young boy-I had
work early and late, and can wildly
call the time when my father had
lit me up on the back Of a male Z