The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1873-06-12
OBITUARY.

p'P"''u 'hln nv, NJ the residence Ot
MS parents, In Dallas, Texas June O. 1873,
JuLIus RuFus BRowS, tho eldest child Of
John Henry and Mary NJ. Druwn.
Julius was born IN Lavaca county,
Texas, February /, 1916, and was there.
fore ~ years, 4 months and 0 days old.
AT Thirteen years Of age no served rs q
soldier In his fathers command in our
Northwestern frontier. At fifteen he
Joined one Of the first companies raised in
Texas to defend the cause Of the South,
and remained In the service til the final
surrender in 1865 having served with
General Ben. McCulloch til his death
then with General Henry 4. McCnlloch
nor considerable time; next az aide-de-
camp to General Barkhead on the coast,
and in Ark ansas and The Indian Terri
tory thence he was transferred TO Colonel
Ford 8 command on the lower Rio GraRde
from whence, few weeks before the sur
render, his immediate command was or.
dtrod TO Houston, and there was honora.
bly, discharged on the fall Of our flag.
lie saw over four years nrduous service
In Missouri, Arkansas, the Indian Terrific.
ry and Texas, and at nineteen for gal
liant and meriiorious conduct on repeated
occasions, was commissioned ms a Cap.
tain, but too late to net in that capacity.
At the conclusion of the war, he re.
Joined his fathers family, then en- route
for Mexico, ard with them remained i've
years in that country. Returning with
them TO Texas, aud devoting himself with
great zeal to the study Of medicine, first
with Drs. Hughes and Leake, in lndianola,
and afterwards in tho hospital in Calves
ton, whence lie returned to Mexico ana at
once engaged in large and successful
praoiiecs- But his heart badeclim some
back 10 the embrace ofahis parents, bis
only brother and his three sisters in each
Of whose hearts he we'll knew his own
was embalmed.
After two years separation he reached
Dalles on the 10Th Of May, full of life,
joy and hope, but suffering from an at
Fiction, acquired during the war; which
so soon closed his life and rent the heart
STRINGS Of a hitherto unbroken family
His father arrived from Austin but two
days before his death, to find him in ex.
cruCiatipg agony, but under the parenta
treatment Of his old preceptor and dear
friend from childhood, DR.. +. +, Hughes, as
all in vain.
Young in years, ardent in frieu dship,
devoted as son and brother, liberal an
magnanimous, wherever thrown in his
brief but checkered life, he had & warm ad
miring friends, among whom were not on
ly his immediate fellow soldiers and as
sociates, but many of tho most distinguish
ed men of Texas, dead and living
lie was almost idoli1ed by the Mexican
people among whom he lived, and brought
TO his mother many sweet souvenirs of
the love they bore him. The last writing
he did was letter in Spanish to one of
those dear friends narrat ing his trip and
arrival at home-the joy of the OCCASION
the fond love poured upon him by all at
homeland the early day at which he ex-
pccted to embrace his still absent and
ever devoted papa. lie wrote and spoke
the Spanish Language as tluently us he did
his mother tongue.
The dear old friends and kind neigh
bors, who nnrsed and watched by his bed
side, and assisted in his interment, will
ever be gratefully remembered by those
who survive.