Ste. Genevieve Herald Ste. Genevieve, Mo. Saturday, Mar. 10, 1883 DEATH OF JULES F. JANIS Death is said to love a shining mark and the grim reaper has of late been busy among our best and truest citizens. Last week brought the death of our Representative, PATTERSON, and this week it is our mournful task to chronicle the sudden and unexpected death of Jules F. JANIS, of this city, one of Ste. Genevieve's most loved and respected citizens. Death in any form or at any time must bring a feeling of sadness and gloom to all, yet how much are these feelings intensified when it comes like a thief in the night snatching from us, without a moment's warning, a man just in the full maturity and vigor of glorious manhood, from the center of a happy home, surrounded by a tender wife, dutiful children, loving friends and all those pure and sweet domestic joys that make life worth the living. The death of Mr. JANIS was very sudden and quite a shock to the whole community. He had been complaining of a slight cold on Saturday and remained home Sunday morning as a matter of precaution and up to a few minutes of his death was in his usual good spirits. At about 11 o'clock A.M. he was taken with a coughing spell and expired in a few moments, his death being caused, in the opinion of Dr. COX, his physician, by heart disease. Mr. JANIS came of one of the best known and most distinguished of our Creole families. His father Henry JANIS, was one of the best known and most respected of the old original French settlers. Mr. Jules F. JANIS was born in Fredericktown, Madison County, this state, in 1834, completed his studies at St. Vincent's College, Cape Girardeau, and moved to this place on 1856, being engaged in the merchantile business with L.B. VALLEE and afterward with Wm. F. COX, until about the year 1875, when he and Mr. O.D. HARRIS established the banking house of HARRIS and JANIS. Early in his life he married Mary BOVERIE, the daughter of John N. BOVERIE, one of the best known and most respected citizens of this place; his wife survives him with seven children. From its inception here he had been a member of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, a charitable association, whose object is to relieve the needy and suffering without the distinction of sect or race. The death of Mr. JANIS will be universally mourned by all who knew him. His genial ways, his sterling integrity, his sunny manner and kindly disposition won the hearts of all classes of society, and will cause him to be long remembered in love and kindness by his numerous friends and acquaintances. He has filled the position of Co. Treasurer of this Co. for the last six years and in every trust both public and private, he has been without reproach. By his death, the community has lost a public spirited and respected citizen, his friends a genial, loving companion, his wife a noble husband, his children an honored father. But to his bereaved family the blow must fall the heaviest. If it were possible for any words of ours to lighten the sorrow or assuage their grief, how gladly we would say them; but too well we know that mere words will not soothe "hearts that are breaking," that only the chastening influence of the Spirit Divine, and the soothing hand of time can soften the sorrow for the loved one who has gone before. We can but say to them: "There is no fireside, howsoe'er Loved and defended But has one vacant chair." "Thine is but the common fate of all, into each life some sorrow must fall." The funeral took place at 9 o'clock Tuesday morning from the Catholic Church and was, not withstanding the rain and mud, one of the largest attended of any for many years. The body was borne to its last resting place, in the new grave yard, Francis J. ZIEGLER, Leon YEALY, Henry L. ROZIER, Herman LELIE, O.D. HARRIS and Sef. THOMURE, acting as pall-bearers. As his weeping family and many friends and relations gathered around the grave, the scene was unusually impressive. Nature herself seemed to weep tears of mist and rain, as if sorrowing over the death of one of her noblemen, and many a manly face was turned away to conceal the starting tear, many hearts ached, many lips breathed forth a heartfelt prayer as the dull thud of the cold earth told that they had looked their last look on earth on their friend and relative.