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OBITUARY NEPHEW OF
FAMOUS BOTANIST FOR WHOM REVERCHON PARK NAMED DIES AT DALLAS HOME
Fleury Paul Caillet, 67, child of old La Reunion and nephew of the famous
pioneer botanist, Julien Reverchon, died Thursday morning after requesting
that friends do someone a good turn instead of sending a funeral wreath.
Mr. Caillet was one of the city's early contractors and a son of one of the
full-bloused, wooden shod immigrants who pointed their ox wagons across the
Trinity to the West Dallas hills. and set up the old French Socialist colony in
1858. He died at the home at 4904 Lovers Lane where he had lived sixty-one
years.
Funeral services will be held at 4 p.m. Friday in the Sparkman-Brand Funeral
Chapel, and Mr. Caillet will be buried in the family cemetery.
Born After Colony Broke Up.
He was born Oct 31, 1871. The old colony had broken up more than a decade
before, and his parents had moved into one of the steep-raftered stone houses
which Frenchmen left from the colony.
When Victor Considine, protégé of the French Socialist, Fourier, had organized
his Dallas colony in France, Mr. Caillet's father had been one of the first to
come along. Also in that first band was an awkward, domebrowed young man named
Julien Reverchon, later to become known as a botanist as far as London for his
work with Texas plants, and for whom Reverchon Park was named. Julien Reverchon
and his father came to Texas alone, leaving the rest of the family in France.
Reverchon's sister, Eugene, joined them later, however. She and George Caillet
were married soon afterward.
Mr. Caillet spend the early years of his life in the West Dallas district. When
he was 6 years old his parents moved to a tract of land on the present Lovers
Lane district. He had lived there since. Contractor at
16
He became a contractor at 16 and followed that business until he retired
some five years ago. He build many of the early-day residences in the once
fashionable South Dallas district and along Ross Avenue..
Since his retirement he had spent much of his time fishing and raising flowers
on his farm near Lake Dallas.
Survivors are his wife, the former Laura Reihn,
whom he married thirty-nine years ago; five daughters,
Mrs. Shirley Welch,
Mrs.
Louise Dieterich, Mrs. Elizabeth Perry Caillet, Miss Margaret Caillet and
Miss
Marie Caillet; a son, Dr. O. Rene Caillet; a sister, Mrs. Eliza Elsby; a
brother, George Caillet, and six grandchildren.
Pallbearers at the funeral will be Dr. T. M. Kirksey, John Lively, Ernest Brown,
Shelby Gibson, Wade Vencil and H. P. Horsley. Submitted by
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