Iberia County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Muller, Jules December 17, 1913
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New Iberia Enterprise and Independent Observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, December 20, 1913, Image 5

Died, at Dallas, Texas, on Wednesday, December 17th, 1913, Mr. Jules Muller, 
aged 44 years, after an illness of several months. Mr. Muller was a native 
of Geneva, Switzerland and came to this Parish a number of years ago, being 
bethrothed (sic) to Miss Bertha Bayard, daughter of the venerable Mr. H. B. 
Bayard, who survives him. The remains of the deceased arrived here on 
Thursday night and were brought to the residence of Mr. A. J. Maumus where 
it remained in care of friends until Friday morning at nine o'clock when the 
funeral services were held at St. Peter's Catholic church. His widow has the 
sympathy of a large circle of friends and relatives in the hour of her 
distress.


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2nd. Obituary:
source: The Weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, December 20, 1913, 
Image 3

JULES MULLER DEAD.

Some few months ago Mr. Jules Muller left this section with a view of making 
his home at Dallas, Tex. Therefore, it was quite a shock to his friends here 
when the wire brought the news of his death on Wednesday evening. His 
remains arrived here on Thursday evening, after nightfall on the belated 
train from Houston, for interment.


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Tribute:
source: New Iberia Enterprise and Independent Observer. (New Iberia, La.) 
1902-1944, December 27, 1913, Image 2

TRIBUTE TO JULES MULLER.

Friendship is emotion's mouthpiece; the interpreter of the ideal of 
brotherhood. Not measured by gold, nor weight by service, its value lies in 
the possession of that fine fibre (sic) of character and fabric of manhood 
that marks the kings and nobility of humanity. It is humanity's masterpiece 
of attributes and spells love, life and civilization. It tempers the storm 
and stress of the struggle for existence; it introduces music, enchantment, 
harmony and hope. It erects temples of peace, evokes prayers of thanks and 
builds a shrine of worship which command the reverence, excite the 
veneration of the strength, the power and brain of the best, the manliest of 
humans. This conception of the beautiful, this touch of the charm and the 
gentleness of the poetical impulse of man's soul invites these lines of 
respect, these last word of remembrance to our departed friend Jules Muller.

Born in Geneva, Switzerland, in the cradle of modern democracy where the 
first lesson of liberty was inculcated into the human heart by the sacrifice 
and heroism of its Willam Tells symbolizing to-day, national independence, 
manhood, suffrage and home rule, his prepared views and conception of his 
new land of adoption adapted themselves readily, without jolt or shock, to 
its new environment. The intellectual horizon of his native city, a blend 
between the intense, fierce bigotry of Calvin and the riotous, religious 
anarchy of Voltaire, gave to his mind a charm of liberality and tolerance 
which lend unforgetable (sic) fragrance and charity to all the relations 
with his friends.

Justice and equality and fraternity were the guiding hymns chanted by his 
generous nature to his God of Reason and Conscience.

Remembered by all, only for his unselfishness, kind-heart, charitable 
impulses and his positive views on the doctrine of fair play and free field 
for the strong and weak, king and shepherd, as long as health lasted and the 
inspiration stirred, he was the champion of man's inalienable rights, of 
man's right to life and happiness and the spirit of self-government. His 
democracy was love of man and his simple life, a devotion to wife and the 
performance of the duties of the American citizen.

No word can better letter his epitaph than:

Duty performed as I have seen it,
Lived the life as I understood it:
Received reward as I deserved it.
FRIENDS.




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