Ascension County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Maurin, Robert March 17, 1902
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source: Times-Picayune (New Orleans, La.) Wednesday, 19 March 1902, page 12

[Special to the Picayune.]

Donaldsonville, La., March 18. - Robert Maurin, a native of Donaldsonville, aged 
80 years, died this morning on his Ville de Blois plantation, in Brulee Maurin, 
Assumption parish, about six miles from this town. He leaves a widow, nee 
Mulvina Vives, whom he married in 1847; an only son, Edward Maurin, the manager 
of Ville de Blois; Mrs. Camille Allemen, Mrs. Paul Cire, Mrs. Joseph Dugas and a 
large number of grandchildren. The deceased was educated in Ogdeusburg, N.Y. His 
brothers attended the same school. In 1855 he began planting for himself on the 
Ville de Blois, the ancestral home of his wife, and was so engaged, excepting 
during the war, to the time of his death. The Ville de Bois has been in the 
Vives family since colonial days. In the war for southern independence he was 
captain of the home militia, and transferred to the engineer department. 
Deceased laid out most of the military roads for the Confederate troops in this 
section, and was for a time attached to Semmes' Battery. The Maurin family came 
originally from Apt, department of Vancluse, France and a granduncle of the 
deceased, Joseph Maurin, was a general in the army of Napoleon and subsequently 
served in the war of 1812 in this country. The funeral services will take place 
at the Catholic church to-morrow, the cortege leaving the Ville de Blois 
plantation at 8 a.m., the interment in the Catholic cemetery in the family tomb.
 

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