The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1898-03-05
NEUROLOGICAL.

Monday night, last Aubin Bourr
clerk OF court, Of tie pa,ist, Of Terre-
h0nne, quietly pas ed away from this
life at his home in the town of Hon.
ma, aged 66 years. Up To within
ahont two months ago he always had
been ia 81 good health, thai none 81
his friends or OF HIS Immediate family
ever dreamed that the end of his
modest hHt noble career was Al near
Abnut.that time he was seiz-,i with
the fatal malady which carried him
away, and which, for tim-, puzzled
his attending PLY siclans. aud affled
their skill. All that human love cOnld
suggest, nr human skill do, To avert
approaching death proved uuavailiny.
for the decree of Divine Prnyidence
had gone forth, aud the tende:. hus-
baud, the loving father, the model
citizen, the true man, was called to
his eternal rest.
Aubin B0urg Was one natures tue
noblemen. Left an orphan at u len
der age, reared in poverty, he lifted
himself up by his own exert,ons
among his fsllowmen and became me
of the foremost, one OF the most high
~ respected and esteemed citizen of
his adopted parish. At the time Of
his death he was the most popular
and best beloved man Of T%errebonne
He was the friend of all, but, in a
special manner, the friend Of the
poor and of thnse in the humber
walks of life. No Que ever appealed
to him for assistance, counsel or ad.
vice, and went away empty handed,
but his charity. was Of that genuine
make which conceals from the left
hand that which, the right hand dies.
Aubin Bourg tiled man offices
OF trust in his life, and always accep-
tabiy aud creditably. Ia early lite,
he occupied tue position of deputy
clerk of court of this parish under the
late Col. Louis Bush, and. then, nov
ed, marrying aud settling IN Terre-
bonnie, he there assumed d prominent
par: In it's affairs and served the pep
pie III many capacities. He was GIL.
ing his second term as clerk of court
at the time of his death, and the mi
versat testimony of the people of that
parish is that he made an excellent
official whose loss to the community
Is very great. and whom it will De
difficult to replace.
The deceased was very domestic il;
his habits, and much loved and
adored by his wife aud children. tn
all OF whom he was strongly attached
and devoted, aud ever kind, gentle
aud fatllerly. Indeed, he possessed
the milk of human kindness" to such
an extent that not only the members
OF his family and his ultimate friends
felt the genial Influence of his gentle
ness but all persons of his acquain.
lance who ever had any business or
social relations with him, came at
some time or other under that subtle
almost iuexplicable spell, which is
exhaled from II gentle aud noble hu.
man heart, aud maSes all who ever
experience it much the better for it.
His wife aud children, ali grown,
Will deeply mourn his loss aud long
cherish his fond memory, but 10 their
sore aff1iction they will derive muc,.
human consolation in the Conscious.
ness that their dearly beloved led an
exemplary life and died a Christians
death, and that hundreds OF sympa-
thizing friends silently and un0btru.
siveiy shared the poignant grief which I
presses 80 heavily upon their stricken
hearts. -