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Am not related. May be of interest to someone who is. I have no further info but additional old newspaper extracts may be found at
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Vern D
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Transcribed by Dee Sardoc
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Stockton Daily Independent
Stockton, San Joaquin Co., CA
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>>Friday, 16 May 1862<<
DIED -- at San Andreas, Calaveras county, on Monday evening, May 12th, George Lewis SHULER, of consumption, at the age of 32 years.
DECEASED was a native of Middletown, Dauphin county, Pa.,; from which place at an early age he emigrated to Ottawa, Ill., and from the latter place, where his parents and relatives still reside, he came to California in the year 1849. He made his home in Mokelumne Hill shortly after his arrival in the State, and was for some 4 or 5 years honorably associated in public official business there, for a year representing the county in the Legislature, not brilliantly, but with sterling honesty, faithfulness and intelligence. It was the peculiar fortune of the deceased to be attached by hooks of steel to all his friends, and seldom to lose the love of one who had ever given him confidence. Perhaps no one ever lived or died in Calaveras county whose remains were followed to the grave by so great a number of those who respected him living and sorrowed over him in death. It was his unbroken faith and inflexible integrity that secured him these rare honors. At his own request his remains were conveyed from the residence of B.K. THORN, Esq., San Andreas, where he died, to Mokelumne Hill, where they were taken charge by a large body of the Masons, and on the 14th instant, interred with the honors of Free Masonry, of which Fraternity he was an accepted brother. To no one is the tender and immortal epitaph more application than to our deceased friend:
‘Here rests his head upon the lap of earth,
A youth to fortune and to fame unknown;
Fair science frowned not on his humble birth
And melancholy marked him for her own.
Large was his bounty and his soul sincere,
(Heaven did a recompense as largely send);
He gave to misery all he had -- a tear;
He gained from Heaven, -- ‘twas all he wished --
A friend.
No farther seek his merits to disclose,
Nor draw his frailties from their dread abode;
There they alike in trembling hope repose,
The bosom of his Father and his God.’
DEATH OF AN EX-EDITOR -- George L. SHULER, a representative of Calaveras county in the Assembly of 1857, and editor of the Calaveras ‘Chronicle’ in 1855, died at San Andreas of consumption on Monday evening, the 12th instant, and was buried at Mokelumne Hill on the 14th.
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