Ascension County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Ferrier, Joseph Bernard - May 12, 1885
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source: The Donaldsonville Chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current,
May 16, 1885, Image 2

DEATH OF JOSEPH FERRIER. - Announcement is made in another column of the 
demise of Joseph Bernard Ferrier, an old and much respected citizen of 
Donaldsonville, who passed away on Tuesday morning, at his residence on 
South Houmas street in this town.

Mr. Ferrier was born at Draguignan, France, on the 22d day of November, 
1826, where he married his first wife, Cesarine Icard. They were both 
arrested and imprisoned for participation in the Republican revolution of 
1848, but in 1850 escaped from captivity in company with a party of fellow 
prisoners and made their way through the mountains into Italy where they 
resided four years. Louis, their first child was born in that country in 
1853. In the ensuing year, 1854, they emigrated to the United States, living 
for some time in Virginia, where their daughter Mary, now wife of Mr. Jos. 
J. Leche of Donaldsonville, was born; they moved thence to Illinois and 
subsequently to Pilot Knob, Missouri. A second daughter, Louise, deceased 
wofe of Mr. Chas. Oberkamp, was born at Pilot Knob, and here also Mrs. 
Ferrier died, in July, 1863. During the following month Mr. Ferrier 
revisited France and placed his children at school, returning to America in 
1864 and locating at Donaldsonville, where he continued to reside until the 
day of his death. In 1865 he married Louise Miller, a daughter of the late 
Henry W. Miller, by whom he had three children, only one of whom, a son 
named Henry, is now living. This lady died in 1875, and three years 
afterward Mr. Ferrier married a third wife, Eugenie Rodrigue, daughter of 
Mr. J. B. Rodrigue of this place, who, with their only child, a little girl, 
survives to lament the loss of a kind and indulgent husband and father. 
Louis Ferrier and Louise Oberkamp both died in Donaldsonville, the former on 
the 18th of July, 1873, and the latter on the 6th of November, 1882.

Mr. Ferrier was a skillful machinist, blacksmith and wheelwright and had a 
shop for many years at the corner of South Houmas and Opelousas streets, 
which was torn down only a few days before his death to make room for the 
new public schoolhouse about ot be erected. This shop and Mr. Ferrier's 
adjoining residence were located on lots belonging to the parochial 
authorities, and the fact that he was compelled to sell his home at a 
sacrifice by reason of the expiration of his lease of the ground, weighed 
heavily upon his mind, and to this trouble many of his friends attribute the 
hastening of his death. He declared to one of his intimate associates not 
long ago that the worry and anxiety of this affair would kill him. He had 
been in poor health for many months, but had rallied to such an extent that 
it was hoped his life would be prolonged a number of years. Last Sunday 
evening he attended the anniversary dinner of Phoenix Fire Company, of which 
he was one of the charter members, and although he ate and drank very 
sparingly, iti s supposed that even this temperate indulgence at such a late 
hour superinduced the spell of illness which manifested itself the following 
evening and ended fatally at half past 7 o'clock Tuesday morning. The attack 
was not regarded serious by the patient or his friends and it was not until 
a few minutes before his death that its true character became apparent.

During his long residence in this community Mr. Ferrier always exhibited an 
active and hearty interest in public affairs and never wavered from the 
Republican convictions and devotion to the principles of liberity, 
fraternity and equality which he adopted in early manhood. He was by no 
means a Communist, but belonged to that party whose aspirations were 
realized in the establishment of the French Republic that succeeded the 
downfall of the Napoleonic dynasty in 1870. He occupied the positions of 
Alderman and member of the Police Jury at divers time and proved himself a 
conscientious and public spirited official.

The funeral took place Wednesday morning and was attended by a large 
concourse of people, including members of the Phoenix and Ascension fire 
companies in uniform, led by the Independent Band. The remains were interred 
in the Catholic cemetery, and a number of stores and other places of 
business along the route of the procession were closed in respect to the 
memory of the lamented deceased. to the sorrowing widow and children, the 
CHIEF begs leave to extend assurance of the sympathy which their bereavement 
has excited among all classes of the community.


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