Ascension County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Duffel, Judge Edward - May 5, 1859
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source: The Daily True Delta (New Orleans, LA) Sunday, May 29, 1859,
page 5 [vol: XIX; issue 166]


THE DEMISE OF JUDGE EDWARD DUFFEL. - Until the present, we had not the leisure 
necessary to put together the following incomplete and meagre memoranda of our 
greatly valued and honored friend, Judge Edward Duffel, who departed this life 
on the night of the 5th inst., at his home on his plantation in the parish of 
Ascension.

Several years have elapsed since we first had the happiness of making the 
acquaintance and conciliating the friendship and esteem of the late learned and 
estimable Judge Duffel, whom we found to be a citizen of fine intellectual 
attainments, great purity of manners, discriminating and vigorous sense, of 
lofty, pure and generous sentiments, and in political principle a believer in 
the superiority and stability of republican institutions shaped and directed 
after the simple and austere ideas of Jefferson. The deceased eminent gentleman 
was born in the city of Philadelphia, July 31st, 1786, and would consequently 
have been, had he lived a few weeks longer, seventy-three years of age. When yet 
a child, his father removed from Philadelphia to Jamaica, Long Island, where he 
received his education, and remained until 1804, when he entered as a student of 
medicine, and attended the lectures of the eminent men, at that time the very 
first in their profession on this continent, in his native city. Physic, Wister, 
Shippen, Churchill and Rush were all in those days shedding lustre (sic) on 
their country as professors and lecturers on medical science, and from their 
teachings in Philadelphia, our departed friend, the subject of this incomplete 
and faulty notice, went forth into the world with his diploma as a physician. 
Before he had reached his majority in years, in 1806, being then in his 
twentieth year, he came to Louisiana and resided in this city for a time, acting 
subsequently as Assistant Surgeon at Fort Jackson. Shortly afterwards he removed 
to Donaldsonville, in the Parish of Ascension, where, in 1810, he married Miss 
Martha Celeste Landry, and continued to live until his death. For ten years he 
practiced his profession with a zeal, an assiduity, and a consciencousness (sic)
worthy of the praise and imitation of the young men of those days, traveling 
during this period almost daily from the plantation of Wade Hampton, now 
Governor Manning's estate, some six miles below Donaldsonville to Madame 
Vaughen's, in Iberville, up and down the river on both sides and in the saddle, 
for at the time to which we refer, buggies were unknown. His health finally 
succumbed to the exertion and fatigue, and he was compelled to limit his 
practice to a few families resident in his immediate neighborhood.

His active mind and body could not however brook this comparatively quiet and 
uninteresting mode of life, and, with his accustomed energy, he commenced the 
study of law, and prosecuted it until admitted to the bar, at which his talents, 
integrity and steadiness gained him many friends and a high character for legal 
knowledge. In 1828 the well earned distinction of Parish Judge was conferred 
upon him by Governor Henry Johnson, in which place he continued to administer 
justice to the entire satisfaction of every human being within his jurisdiction, 
until, on the adoption of the Constitution of 1845, the Court was abolished 
throughout the parishes of the State.

In the late estimable and worthy man, the poor of his district has a friend, 
always ready to assist them with his counsel, his interest and his purse, for, 
beyond the needful provision to educate his children, which he did with extreme 
solicitude, Judge Duffel cared nothing for money or its accumulation. Married 
into an old and highly honored family of Louisiana, it was the rare good fortune 
reserved for our deceased friend, to see born to him three sons and four 
daughters, all of whom were worthy of their parents, their descent and their 
country. Judge Albert Duffel, one of his sons, is now Judge of the District in 
which the remains of his honored father repose; one is our highly esteemed 
friend, Dr. Edward Duffel; and one is a lawyer of consideration in his parish. 
The daughters, with one exception, are married; and, as wives and matrons, can 
be painted to boastfully by Louisianans.

On the ninth instant, although the rain fell in torrents, an immense concourse 
of people assembled to convey to the family vault all that was mortal of the 
once gentle, hightoned (sic), gifted and generous-hearted man and many an eye of 
kindred, friends and sympathizing acquaintance was moist, as they realized that 
Edward Duffel was forever removed from among them and gathered to his fathers.


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