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Note: H91
Note: Times Picayune
Contributed by Susan
Description: Death of Robert Maurin
Date: March 19 1902
Newspaper published in: New Orleans, LA
Page/Column: 12
Death of Robert Maurin
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 Malvina Vives, whom he married in 1847; an only son, Edward Muarin, the manager of Ville de Blois; Mrs. Camille Alleman, Mrs. Paul Cire, Mrs. Joseph Dugas, and a large number of grandchildren.
The deceased was educated in Ogdensburg, NY. 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 (Blois?) 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 grand uncle 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 tomorrow, 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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(From "Biographal and Historical Memoirs of Louisiana, " Goodspeed, 1892, Vol. 2,p. 224)
Robert Maurin, planter, of Assumption Parish, Louisiana, was born in this parish Feb. 15, 1822, and received his early schooling in Donaldsonville, Louisiana. He subsequently entered an ancient academy at Ogdonsburg, New York, and received a thorough and complete education under Professor Josiah Perry, a relative of Commodore Perry. In 1835, when but 13 years of age, he began working for himself as an accountant in Donaldsonville, and one year later began land surveying. In 1839 he embarked in merchandising, but abandoned this in 1843 and turned his attention to planting, becoming manager on a sugar plantation owned by Lieutenant-Governor Landry. In 1854 he began planting for himself and this he has continued sucessfully since. He started with 200 acres, increased this to 800 acres and then lost all except this land during the war. He was captain of the home militia, was transferred to the engineer department and was taken prisoner in Oct. 1863, being retained two months. He was paroled on Christmas morning by General Butler on the arrival of General Banks. He made all the military roads through the country and was with Semmes Battery. Mr. Maurin has been president of the police jury and is one of the substantial and prominent men of the parish. The family are members of the Catholic Church. Mr. Maurin was married in June, 1848, to Miss Malvina Vives, a native of Louisiana. Her grandfather, who was a Spanish nobleman, was sent here by the Spanish Government, and her grandfather's brother was governor of Cuba. Her father was a large sugar planter and the oldest settler in the state. She is still living. Mr. Maurin's father, Victor Maurin, was a brother of General Joseph Maurin, of France, who made Louis Phillippe king. They were both officers in Napoleon's army, and during the exciting times in the capitol, General Joseph Maurin rushed into a store, formed from three different colors in sloth a tri-colored flag, and mounting his horse, rushed through the streets crying "Louis Philippe!"" The cry was taken up and Louis Philippe was afterward made king. Victor Maurin was in the revolution at St. Doming (San Domingo) and was hid under a bridge for three months. He was fed by a megro and finally escaped by swimming three miles to an American vessel bound for New York. Afterward, in 1813, he came to Louisiana. He served in the War of 1812.
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