Adams County Pennsylvania Obituaries Extracted From The Gettysburg Compiler, Gettysburg, Pa., 1819-1824

1819-1824 Obituaries from the Gettysburg Compiler in Gettysburg, Adams County Pennsylvania.

IRWIN, Mr. Obituary

From the Harrisburg Oracle, Jan. 12.
Was found yesterday morning, near this borough, supposed to have frozen to death, the body of old Mr. Irwin, of Cumberland county. He has for a number of years mentally deranged, traveling through the county, sweating and toiling; and thought he possessed inexhaustible wealth in precious ores, in various parts of the country. [Gettysburg Compiler, (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania), January 23, 1822]

NASH, John Obituary

At Plymouth, Chenango county, NY on the 2d ult., Mr. John Nash. While hoeing in the field, he felt something sting his foot, and looking down observed a small spider running off it. He continued working that day and part of the following, the pain of the wound increasing; and red streaks reached as high as the knee, in which were hard bunches of a purple cast. The gangrene had already taken place. A physician was sent for, & Mr. N. was bled, which threw the poison over the wholesystem, and he survived only a few minutes. [Gettysburg Compiler, (Gettysburg, Pa.), Aug. 2, 1820]

STRONG, Hepsibah

Died at Lebanon, Conn., Miss Hepsibah Strong, aged 67 years. It is presumed that few cases have ever had a parallel with hers. When she was 19 years old, she injured, by a fall, the spinal marrow, in consequence of which, for the long space of 48 years, she has never walked, or been able to raise her head from the pillow; most of the time she has been unable to bear the least noise, or the light; and has gone through a scene of suffering, which nothing but Religion could have enabled her to have borne. She possessed in her youth a good understanding and a fine person, and was on the eve of being married, when the misfortune happened, which forever blasted all her earthly prospects. [Gettysburg Compiler (Gettysburg, Pa.), October 23, 1822]