Ascension County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Sandlin, Eliza nee Maurin - July 6, 1919
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source: The Donaldsonville Chief. (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current,
July 19, 1919, page 1


Death of Mrs. J.B. Sandlin.

After many years of invalidism, Mrs. Joseph B. Sandlin, nee Eliza Maurin, 
departed this life at "Green Gables," the residence of her sister, Mrs. Camille 
Aleman, on Bayou Lafourche, a short distance below Donaldsonville on Sunday, the 
6th inst., at 4 o'clock a.m., aged 70 years and 3 months. The funeral vices at 
the Catholic church and in-took [sic] place on the same day, with ser-interment 
[sic] in the Maurin family tomb in the Catholic cemetery, and was largely 
attended by sorrowing relatives and friends. Deceased was a native of the parish 
of Assumption and was born on the Ville de Bois plantation in Brusle Maurin, 
then owned by her father the late Robert Maurin and before him by her grand-
father and other ancestors. At an early age she matriculated at the Urseline 
Convent in New Orleans and attended that famous institution until her 
graduation. A few years after leaving the convent she was united in marriage to 
Jos. B. Sandlin, then manager of the Kock's Belle Allaince plantation. Her 
husband was an Alabamian. He enlisted from that state and served gallantly as a 
soldier in the Confederate army of northern Virginia during the civil war. He 
preceded his wife to the grave several years ago. Mrs. Sandlin was a noble 
christian woman and was greatly beloved by all who knew her. She is survived by 
one daughter, Mrs. J.W. Locke and the following sisters: Mrs. Camille Aleman of 
this parish and Mrs. Paul Cire and Mrs. Joseph Dugas of White Castle. The Chief 
tenders condolences to the relatives in their great sorrow.


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