Iberia County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Gilmore, Jr., Victor Lee - October 26, 1910
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1st. Obituary:
source: The Weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, October 29, 1910, Image 1

Victor L. Gilmore, 16 years old, of Nairn, died at Lafayette, where he was a 
student at Southwestern Industrial Institute. He was a son of Dr. Victor L. 
Gilmore and a grandson of the late J. Y. Gilmore, formerly of this city.

 

2nd. Obituary:
source: The Lafayette Advertiser. (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-
19??, October 28, 1910, Image 1

Died. - Victor Lee Gilmore, Jr., a boarding student of the Industrial Institute, died 
there Wednesday of this week, October 26th, at 1:30 a. m., of pneumonia. He had 
entered the Institute at the opening session, September 21st, and was taken ill 
within the first week or ten days. Being of a very brave disposition, however, 
he would not give up to the illness, and did not go to bed for several days 
after being taken, by which time he had developed a high temperature and 
pneumonia in his right lung. Both his father and mother were at the time 
traveling in California and were communicated with with (sic) difficulty not 
reaching him until ten days or more had past. Meanwhile, however, his uncle, 
Mr. A. B. Gilmore, of New Orleans, had visited him and his half-sister, Miss 
Gertrude Weisenburger of Nairn, Louisiana, had come to attend him. He improved 
very much just on the day before his parents arrived, and during the first week 
of their stay here had every prospect of recovery. The infection, however, 
spread to the other lung, early in the week, and his strength was immediately 
relaxed. The young man had every attention from the Institute physician, Dr. 
Mouton, and his consultant, Dr. Tolson, both visiting him twice or oftener each 
day during the critical period, and also from two trained nurses from New 
Orleans, assisted by the young men in the dormitory and members of the Faculty. 
But all efforts were unavailing, and, for the first time in the ten years of 
the Institute's  time in the ten years of the Institute's (sic) existence, one 
of the students on the grounds passed away.

Victor Lee Gilmore, Jr. was born in New Orleans, April 22, 1895, a son of Dr. 
V. L. Gilmore, now a restident of Nairn, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, and a 
grandson of the late John Y. Gilmore, who was at one time a citizen of 
Lafayette - having founded one of the first newspapers, "The Cotton Boll," in 
this Parish, and also having founded "The Sugar Bowl" in New Iberia - about 
forty years ago. Young Gilmore's uncle, Mr. A. B. Gilmore of New Orleans, is 
now proprietor of "The Modern Sugar Planter."

The exercises of the Industrial were suspended for the day (Wednesday) out of 
respect, and the students followed the body to the station at mid-day. Dr. 
Stephens and one of the young man's friends among the students accompanied the 
sorrowing father and mother in taking the body to New Orleans, where it was 
buried Thursday morning in the Gilmore family burying ground in Metairie 
Cemetery.

 

3rd. Obituary:
source: Lower Coast Gazette. (Pointe-a-la-Hache, La.) 1909-1925, November 05, 
1910, Image 2

DIED. - At Lafayette, La. on Tuesday, Oct. 25, 1910, Victor L. Gilmore, age 16, eldest 
son of Dr. V. L. Gilmore.

Ah, dear friend, you have gone away,
So bright so young, on your journey home,
Gone when your life seemed bright as day
Sailing ever onward o'er the bright foam.
Your dear ones have one happy tho't
That "Someday we shall meet,
On that shore where we shall never part
And together worship at His feet.
E. B.


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