The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-04
ORITIARY

The death Of Mrs. Laura Gdiiue Julian. of irving,
ton removes from the community one oftberare-t and
uoble~t of women. She was born i'm Jefferson O. on
the 10Th day of May. 1880 and was the youngest
daughter of Hon. Joshua r. Ciddincs Her early its
was spent under the shaping hand and inspiring in.
huence Of her Observation-Disclosures whose qualities She
largely inherited. For time she was a student at
Oberliu College, and afterward at Antioch; but owing
to failing health She obliged to leave her school
work unfinished. She the favorite child of her
father and during the later years of his public career
in Washington was his devoted companion and care
aker while enjoying society and life in that city She
also accompanied him to Montreal during part of
his service as consulgeneral to Canada. She
married to Hon George W. Julian on the 31st of
December 1868, and from that time forth lavshed
upon him all that charming tenderness and
devotion which she had bestowed upon her
father, and which the delight and admiration OF
all observers. She fully entered into all her bus
bands plans and ambitions and cheerfully
dered the pleasure of social life in making common
with him in his arduous labors during the ex.
citing period of the war and the agitation of the que
tons which followed it, No one but himself ever
know the nestimable value of her counsel and assist
ance. On his retirement from Congress, in 1871 his
life became much less political and far domestic
and literary. Perhaps the delightful part of her
Julian removed in 1873 since which time she has
been his companion and helper in everything
touching his welfare and the interests of the family,
well in his literary labors, Her devotion to him
and her children has been absolute. 1t not only
her happiness to forget herself totally in loving and
serving them, but it became sort of felicity. She
asked nothing more, because her marriage was per-
feet and her deg h5 the discharge of her duties
in the little kingdom in which she was
the queen. She had no enemies. Goodness or hos
tity melted away in the sunshine of her sweet face
and the Toying accent of her words Her religion
liberal or Unitarian, but wholly undogmatc. 1t
a life. She believed that
ITO worship rightly is to love each other
Each smile hymn, each kindly deed prayer"
But her gifts were not moral and spiritual merely
but intellectual as we'll With less sef-forgetful-
ness and more personal assertion and ambition, she
might have had literary career of which her letters
for the press while in Washington gave promise; but
she seemed to feel that her mission the service Of
others. She had genius for goodness, and no de.
sire whatever for any form of personal display or
distinction Her death was sudden and wholly un-
expected and the result of heart disease, which
she inherited from her father. She was conscious
that the supreme moment had come, but had no
fears or misgivings as to the future and
accepted the inevitable with perfect resig-
nation and messages of love to her husband and chill
dren Mr. Julian was, unfortunately absent in Wash
ington, where the distressing event was made known
to him by telegram and this is the fourth great sor
which has decimated his household and darkened
his life 1t is the saddest of all his Affections for it
has in his old age and in the decline of health
when he will need, than before the sympa-
thy and devotedness of the wife he so perfectly idol
: zed.