Julius F. Ariail, 54, Rapides Clerk of Court, dies. Parish Official serving fourth term in office.
Julius F. Ariail, 54, clerk of court of the Ninth Judicial District since his election on January 16, 1928, died in Touro Infirmary at New Orleans at 7:30 o'clock last night, January 27, 1943, after an illness of about one year. At his bedside at the time of his death were his wife, his two sisters, Mrs. Thompson Bruton and Mrs. Heath Petrie, Mr. Petrie and N. K. Vance. The remains were returned to Alexandria in a Kramer Funeral Home ambulance. The funeral procession will leave the Kramer Funeral Home at 2:30 p.m. Friday and will proceed to St. James Episcopal Church where services will be held and from there to Greenwood cemetery were interment will be made.
Mr. Ariail was serving his forth term as clerk of court, having been elected in 1928, 1932, 1936 and 1940. His fourth term would have expired June 1, 1944.
Mr. Ariail, who was born in Alexandria on April 11, 1889, was one of the most outstanding Rapides parish residents of this generation. He always stood for everything that was good and honorable, and was a friend of the poor and the rich alike.
He attended the public schools of Alexandria, Sewanee Military Institute, Louisiana State University and Tulane. He worked as a stenographer for a firm of attorneys in his younger days, then as bookkeeper for the Rapides Drug Company. He was secretary to the late Congressman James B. Aswell for two years, and then was associated with the law firm of Blackman and Overton before entering public life.
Served as Deputy Clerk
Before his election as clerk in 1928 he served as deputy clerk from 1915 to 1921. Then for four years, until 1925, he was assistant tax collector. From 1925 to 1928 Mr. Ariail was in the abstract and title business.
He was the son of the late Julius F. Ariail, well-known attorney, and Jeanette Blackman Ariail, and grandson of the late Judge W.F. Blackman and Ellen Montfort Wells, and the great grandson of General Montfort Wells and Jeanette Dent of Wellswood Plantation.
On December 14, 1916, Mr Ariail was married to Miss Marie Murphy, the daughter of John Murphy and Noemie Wells Murphy, and the granddaughter of the late Governor Madison Wells. They have three sons, Julius F. Ariail, Jr., lately commissioned as a Lieutenant in the United States Army at Camp Wolters, Texas, John and Blackman Ariail.
Mr. Ariail was a Mason, member of the Oliver Lodge No. 84, A.F. and A.M., a member of the Kappa Alpha fraternity and at one time a vestryman in the St. James Episcopal Church.
Pallbearers were: F.J. Beaman, Pin Dyer, Jr., Grady Kelley, Isaac Wahlder, John Blackman, George French, Arial White, and Ambrose Rachal.
Julius F. Ariail, 54, clerk of court of the Ninth Judicial District since his election on January 16, 1928, died in Touro Infirmary at New Orleans at 7:30 o'clock last night, January 27, 1943, after an illness of about one year. At his bedside at the time of his death were his wife, his two sisters, Mrs. Thompson Bruton and Mrs. Heath Petrie, Mr. Petrie and N. K. Vance. The remains were returned to Alexandria in a Kramer Funeral Home ambulance. The funeral procession will leave the Kramer Funeral Home at 2:30 p.m. Friday and will proceed to St. James Episcopal Church where services will be held and from there to Greenwood cemetery were interment will be made.
Mr. Ariail was serving his forth term as clerk of court, having been elected in 1928, 1932, 1936 and 1940. His fourth term would have expired June 1, 1944.
Mr. Ariail, who was born in Alexandria on April 11, 1889, was one of the most outstanding Rapides parish residents of this generation. He always stood for everything that was good and honorable, and was a friend of the poor and the rich alike.
He attended the public schools of Alexandria, Sewanee Military Institute, Louisiana State University and Tulane. He worked as a stenographer for a firm of attorneys in his younger days, then as bookkeeper for the Rapides Drug Company. He was secretary to the late Congressman James B. Aswell for two years, and then was associated with the law firm of Blackman and Overton before entering public life.
Served as Deputy Clerk
Before his election as clerk in 1928 he served as deputy clerk from 1915 to 1921. Then for four years, until 1925, he was assistant tax collector. From 1925 to 1928 Mr. Ariail was in the abstract and title business.
He was the son of the late Julius F. Ariail, well-known attorney, and Jeanette Blackman Ariail, and grandson of the late Judge W.F. Blackman and Ellen Montfort Wells, and the great grandson of General Montfort Wells and Jeanette Dent of Wellswood Plantation.
On December 14, 1916, Mr Ariail was married to Miss Marie Murphy, the daughter of John Murphy and Noemie Wells Murphy, and the granddaughter of the late Governor Madison Wells. They have three sons, Julius F. Ariail, Jr., lately commissioned as a Lieutenant in the United States Army at Camp Wolters, Texas, John and Blackman Ariail.
Mr. Ariail was a Mason, member of the Oliver Lodge No. 84, A.F. and A.M., a member of the Kappa Alpha fraternity and at one time a vestryman in the St. James Episcopal Church.
Pallbearers were: F.J. Beaman, Pin Dyer, Jr., Grady Kelley, Isaac Wahlder, John Blackman, George French, Arial White, and Ambrose Rachal.
Julius F. Ariail, 54, Rapides Clerk of Court, dies. Parish Official serving fourth term in office.
Julius F. Ariail, 54, clerk of court of the Ninth Judicial District since his election on January 16, 1928, died in Touro Infirmary at New Orleans at 7:30 o'clock last night, January 27, 1943, after an illness of about one year. At his bedside at the time of his death were his wife, his two sisters, Mrs. Thompson Bruton and Mrs. Heath Petrie, Mr. Petrie and N. K. Vance. The remains were returned to Alexandria in a Kramer Funeral Home ambulance. The funeral procession will leave the Kramer Funeral Home at 2:30 p.m. Friday and will proceed to St. James Episcopal Church where services will be held and from there to Greenwood cemetery were interment will be made.
Mr. Ariail was serving his forth term as clerk of court, having been elected in 1928, 1932, 1936 and 1940. His fourth term would have expired June 1, 1944.
Mr. Ariail, who was born in Alexandria on April 11, 1889, was one of the most outstanding Rapides parish residents of this generation. He always stood for everything that was good and honorable, and was a friend of the poor and the rich alike.
He attended the public schools of Alexandria, Sewanee Military Institute, Louisiana State University and Tulane. He worked as a stenographer for a firm of attorneys in his younger days, then as bookkeeper for the Rapides Drug Company. He was secretary to the late Congressman James B. Aswell for two years, and then was associated with the law firm of Blackman and Overton before entering public life.
Served as Deputy Clerk
Before his election as clerk in 1928 he served as deputy clerk from 1915 to 1921. Then for four years, until 1925, he was assistant tax collector. From 1925 to 1928 Mr. Ariail was in the abstract and title business.
He was the son of the late Julius F. Ariail, well-known attorney, and Jeanette Blackman Ariail, and grandson of the late Judge W.F. Blackman and Ellen Montfort Wells, and the great grandson of General Montfort Wells and Jeanette Dent of Wellswood Plantation.
On December 14, 1916, Mr Ariail was married to Miss Marie Murphy, the daughter of John Murphy and Noemie Wells Murphy, and the granddaughter of the late Governor Madison Wells. They have three sons, Julius F. Ariail, Jr., lately commissioned as a Lieutenant in the United States Army at Camp Wolters, Texas, John and Blackman Ariail.
Mr. Ariail was a Mason, member of the Oliver Lodge No. 84, A.F. and A.M., a member of the Kappa Alpha fraternity and at one time a vestryman in the St. James Episcopal Church.
Pallbearers were: F.J. Beaman, Pin Dyer, Jr., Grady Kelley, Isaac Wahlder, John Blackman, George French, Arial White, and Ambrose Rachal.
Julius F. Ariail, 54, clerk of court of the Ninth Judicial District since his election on January 16, 1928, died in Touro Infirmary at New Orleans at 7:30 o'clock last night, January 27, 1943, after an illness of about one year. At his bedside at the time of his death were his wife, his two sisters, Mrs. Thompson Bruton and Mrs. Heath Petrie, Mr. Petrie and N. K. Vance. The remains were returned to Alexandria in a Kramer Funeral Home ambulance. The funeral procession will leave the Kramer Funeral Home at 2:30 p.m. Friday and will proceed to St. James Episcopal Church where services will be held and from there to Greenwood cemetery were interment will be made.
Mr. Ariail was serving his forth term as clerk of court, having been elected in 1928, 1932, 1936 and 1940. His fourth term would have expired June 1, 1944.
Mr. Ariail, who was born in Alexandria on April 11, 1889, was one of the most outstanding Rapides parish residents of this generation. He always stood for everything that was good and honorable, and was a friend of the poor and the rich alike.
He attended the public schools of Alexandria, Sewanee Military Institute, Louisiana State University and Tulane. He worked as a stenographer for a firm of attorneys in his younger days, then as bookkeeper for the Rapides Drug Company. He was secretary to the late Congressman James B. Aswell for two years, and then was associated with the law firm of Blackman and Overton before entering public life.
Served as Deputy Clerk
Before his election as clerk in 1928 he served as deputy clerk from 1915 to 1921. Then for four years, until 1925, he was assistant tax collector. From 1925 to 1928 Mr. Ariail was in the abstract and title business.
He was the son of the late Julius F. Ariail, well-known attorney, and Jeanette Blackman Ariail, and grandson of the late Judge W.F. Blackman and Ellen Montfort Wells, and the great grandson of General Montfort Wells and Jeanette Dent of Wellswood Plantation.
On December 14, 1916, Mr Ariail was married to Miss Marie Murphy, the daughter of John Murphy and Noemie Wells Murphy, and the granddaughter of the late Governor Madison Wells. They have three sons, Julius F. Ariail, Jr., lately commissioned as a Lieutenant in the United States Army at Camp Wolters, Texas, John and Blackman Ariail.
Mr. Ariail was a Mason, member of the Oliver Lodge No. 84, A.F. and A.M., a member of the Kappa Alpha fraternity and at one time a vestryman in the St. James Episcopal Church.
Pallbearers were: F.J. Beaman, Pin Dyer, Jr., Grady Kelley, Isaac Wahlder, John Blackman, George French, Arial White, and Ambrose Rachal.
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