Iberia County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Blanchet, Sr., Jules Rene - November 20, 1913
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source: New Iberia Enterprise and Independent Observer. (New Iberia, La.)
1902-1944, November 22, 1913, Image 4

DEATH OF JULES BLANCHET.

The entire City was grieved Thursday morning to learn that Mr. Jules R. 
Blanchet had succumbed during the preceeding (sic) night to an attack of 
pneumonia with which he had been suffering but a few days.

Born in New Iberia on Feb. 1st, 1841, Mr. Blanchet spent his entire life in 
this community and contributed his full quota to its growth and development 
from the insignificant hamlet to the present prosperous City. Adopting the 
mercantile life, Mr. Blanchet was for years one of the leading merchants of 
the Attakapas; and before the advent of railroads when steamboats furnished 
the means of transportation, he operated a warehouse at the foot of Iberia 
Street which served as the principal means of exchange in this locality.

Essentially domestic and home loving, Mr. Blanchet rarely participated in 
public affairs and never sought nor held office, except for a short term 
when he served in the capacity of Tax Collector for thethen village of New 
Iberia. In the early seventies he was married to Miss Henrietta Hebert, who 
with five daughters and two sons remain to mourn him. These are Mrs. S. P. 
Mistrot of Galveston; Mesdames Chas. Carstens and Jno. E. Schwing and Misses 
Louise and Rita of New Iberia and Messrs. Joseph of Los Angeles and Henry of 
Dallas. Besides these, he is survived by one brother, Mr. Norbet and a 
sister, Miss Aurelie.

His funeral from St. Peter's Catholic Church, Friday morning was attended by 
the Knights of Columbus and the Societe de Blenfaisance, to which 
organization he belonged, as well by a multitude of friends who thus 
expressed their esteem for the deceased and their sympathy for the bereaved 
family. The pall bearers were: Active, Jules Dupuy, Thos. M. Dupuy, Homer 
Dupre, J. E. Schwing, Alphe Fontelieu and A. G. Barrow. Honorary, E. J. 
Carstens, F. Patout, L. O. Hacker, J. T. DeValcourt, Fred Davis, W. J. 
Burke, P. L. Renoudet, Jos. A. Breaux, Frits Dietlein and Octave Darby.



source: New Iberia Enterprise and Independent Observer. (New Iberia, La.)
1902-1944, November 29, 1913, Image 5

IN MEMORY OF THE LATE JULES BLANCHET

Last Friday, after the break of a glorious, sunshine morning, passed through
the files of a grand array of the Fraternal Orders of the Knights of
Columbus and Societe de Bienfaisance, at his residence in St. Peters Street,
the remains of the venerable and beloved Brother Jules R. Blanchet. Mid the
solemn toll ofbell and organ's peal, the numerous throng swelled the Roman
Catholic Church near to its utmost capacity. The blaze of the sacred alter's
candles; the sombre drappings that decked those large ascending columns; the
ritual chants of the Reverend Fathers Langlois, Girault, Frohn and Gruel,
made the smpathizer aware of this last extol of God's Church upon a life well
spent. At the termination of the funeral ceremony, Reverend Father Langlois
delivered a lengthy address marking the imperishable characteristics of the
deceased, those high esteemed qualities of Affability, Benevolence and
Modesty. A man of Faith, wherein, he placed his Hope of a Hereafter, meeting
his final obligation in receiving the Last Sacraments, one absorbed in
reflection can rightly conceive the departed Jules R. Blanchet near the
celestial throne of his Maker. Betwixt the hour of morn and noon, the none
decreased funeral procession entered the Catholic Cemetery. In-numerable
friends there gathered to pay their last respects to this venerable citizen
whose dear presence was to forever vacate its place amongst their midst.

Father Langlois pronounced in a clear, solemn voice those passages which
terminate into the saddest hour of all. That sad hour of all. That sad hour
when Mother Earth claims a mortal's clay temple as all her own! In profusion
the Fall's last beautiful flowers were stewn o'er the tomb, wherein, the
deceased found his long, long resting abode; therein too, the true heartfelt
love of his many friends who sincerely mingle their deepest sorrow with that
of the beloved survivors of the deceased, silently found its way.

Born in Eighteen Forty One,
Fulfilled hopes, a dutiful Son;
As ideal Husband and Father,
Each crown of Merit he well won.

Merits earthly treasures can't buy
Within the time to live and die,
If inscribed in a character,
To walk this path and in God rely.

Pursued he straight this path through life,
His Faith, his Hope, his Charity,
Atoned his soul therewith to live
With God unto Eternity. - ASHTON J. MOSS.


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