Adams County Pennsylvania Obituaries Extracted From The Republican Compiler, Gettysburg, Pa., 1820-1824
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1820-1824 Obituaries from the Republican Compiler in Gettysburg, Adams County Pennsylvania.
ATTERSON, Robert, Obituary
Died at Philadelphia , on the 22d ult., in his 82d year, after a protracted illness. Robert PATTERSON, L.L.D., and for many years Director of the Mint. [Republican Compiler, (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania), August 4, 1824]
BAKER, Francis, Obituary
Francis Baker, Esq., late Editor of the Natchez Mississippian, on his way from Natchez, early last month, to New Jersey, was murdered near Mayslick, Kentucky, and his body found near the road 7 or 8 days after the murder was committed. Mr. Isaac Desha was taken up, on suspicion of having perpetrated the deed, and was to be examined. “The circumstances, says a Kentucky paper, which attach themselves to this mournful catastrophe are calculated to excite the deepest sympathies of our nature. The deceased was a valuable citizen of Mississippi; much respected as a man and as an Editor. The accused is yet in the bloom of youth; but a short time married, of high standing, and beloved by his friends and associates.” – Frank. Gaz. [Republican Compiler, (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania), December 15, 1824]
BONSALL, Mr., Obituary
Horrible Murder
On Saturday night last, four villains entered the store kept by an aged woman, on the road near Darby. They tied her hands behind her back and otherwise ill used her. A young man living in the same house, hearing the noise, went to the old woman’s assistance, but the ruffians severely cut him from the elbow to the wrist, and stabbed him so deeply in the side, that in attempting to draw out the knife, the handle came off and the blade was, by Dr. Shallcross, extracted with the assistance of a pair of pincers. The young man died soon after, having first given a relation of the circumstances and a description of the murderers with one of their names. The brutal threats of these ruffians to the wife of the man, whom they had just cut and stabbed, were, if possible, of a more horrible and revolting character than the deed they had done. Each of them made up a bundle and carried it off. We understand that they crossed the lower Ferry and came into this city early on Sunday morning. Information has been given to the Major, and the Police are actively and eagerly in pursuit of the four wretches who have thus disgraced humanity. We just learn that the name of the old woman is Mrs. Warner, and that of her son-in-law, who was killed, was Mr. Bonsall. – Dem. Press. [Republican Compiler, (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania), June 2 1824]
BOONE, Daniel, Obituary
Colonel Daniel Boone
The St. Louis papers announce the death, at CharetteVillage, Missouri, on the 26th of September 1820, of Colonel Daniel Boone, in the 90th year of his age. He was a native of Bucks county, Pennsylvania, whence her removed to North Carolina at 18 years of age. In 1775, he migrated to Kentucky and was the first settler in that state. He remained there until 1779, when he removed to the Osage river in Missouri. He was one of the most enterprising and intrepid men this country ever produced; delighted in perils and battles; braved almost alone, with enthusiasm and without dismay, all the horrors of Indian warefare; was a daring hunter, even to the age of 80; was frequently elected to the Virginia legislature, and possessed a vigorous, sound and discriminating mind. The Missouri legislature, on learning his death, resolved to wear mourning for twenty days, in testimony of their great veneration for his character and services. – Franklin Gazette. [Republican Compiler, (Gettysburg, Pa.), November 8, 1820]
BOWER, John Obituary
On Tuesday evening last, as Mr. John Bower (who resided near Halifax) was returning home, on horseback, in company with some of his neighbors; and riding with great speed, he was thrown against a tree and killed on the spot. The deceased has left a wife and 8 or 9 children to lament his sudden death. - Oracle. [The Republican Compiler, (Gettysburg, PA), Aug. 13, 1823 P.3]
BRONSON, Enos, Obituary
Died on Saturday the 13th ult, after a severe illness of about three weeks, Mr. Enos Bronson, formerly publisher of the United States Gazette, and of late years the Principal of the Academy of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the city of Philadelphia. [Republican Compiler, (Gettysburg , Pennsylvania) May 7 1823, P.3]
BROWN, Abraham Obituary
A most distressing circumstance occurred on Saturday evening, the 14th ult., in Bucks county, near Oxford, a few miles above Bristol. Mr. Abraham Brown, being in pursuit of a swarm of bees, had ascended a high tree after them, and laying hold of a limb which he thought sound, which unhappily proved decayed, it broke, and he fell about 40 feet to the ground, and was instantly killed. Mr. Brown was a valuable citizen, much respected and esteemed, and has left a widow and several children to lament this great misfortune. [Republican Compiler, (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania), November 3, 1824]
CABOT, George, Obituary
Died at Boston, on th 18th ult, the Hon. George Cabot, in the 72d year of his age. This gentleman was President of the Hartford Convention, which has just received its fair trial and formal condemnation by the People of Massachusetts. Mr. C. was, politics out of the question, a gentleman of the highest respectability. In his death, the community in which he lived, and his connections and friends in particular, have sustained a loss, which to the latter is irreparable. [Republican Compiler, (Gettysburg, Penn.), May 7 1823, P.3]
COLCORD, Ebenezer, Obituary
Died in Brentwood, N.H. Ebenezer Colcord, aged 98 years, 9 months and 14 days. He is said to have preserved the full vigor of his faculties until the last hour of his life. He was born in that part of Exeter which has been since incorporated as the town of Brentford, and has ever since resided on the farm previously occupied by his father. His memory, particularly of the incidents of the early part of his life, was very retentive. He had known six generations of the Gilman family in Exeter, and remembered the time when there was but one store in the place. That his strength was less impaired than is usual with persons of his age, may be inferred from the fact, that he mowed every summer, from the age of 14 to 97, and hoed corn in the year 1822, when he was more than 97 years old. [Republican Compiler, (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania), November 24, 1824]
COX, Paul, Obituary
Died, in Philadelphia , on the 11th inst. Capt. Paul Cox, in the 7?4th year of his age. He was born in the North of Ireland, and came to this country before he was twenty years old. In the American Revolution, of glorious memory, he was a decided but temperate Whig; and was engaged both by sea and land, as a good soldier in defending this country, which had become his by adoption and the tenderest ties of humanity. He continued to his last breath a firm friend of civil and religious liberty, of the American governments and people; and during life, had the satisfaction, besides filling other honourable offices in society, of given his vote at three successive periods, as an elector of the state of Pennsylvania, for the persons who were then exalted to the Presidency of the United States. [Republican Compiler (Gettysburg ,Pennsylvania), June 18 1823, Page 3]
DOBSON, Thomas, Esq., Obituary
Died on Sunday morning, the 9th inst., Thomas Dobson, Esq., for many years an eminent printer an bookseller of Philadelphia . [Republican Compiler, (Gettysburg ,Pennsylvania), March 19 1823 P.3]
FLOODY, Mrs. Walter Obituary
Suicide
On Sunday last, the body of Mrs. Floody, widow of Walter Floody, was found suspended by a silk handkerchief, to one of the rafters of the house in which she had resided. She is supposed to have been driven to this rash deed, in consequence of her poverty. She had three little children, the oldest who m is not more than six years, who were dependent upon her labor for their sustenance; and it is probable that their cries for food may have driven their unfortunate mother to this desperate extremity. She always bore the character of an industrious and peaceable woman and was highly respected by her neighbors. But she had once been in easy circumstances and misfortunes, in consequence, sat doubly heavy upon her. [Republican Compiler, (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania), June 16 1824]
FLOYD, William Obituary
Died on the 4th day of August, inst., at his residence in Western, in the state of New York, General William Floyd, in the 89th year of his age. Thus another patriot of the Revolution is gone! He was one of the remaining four; viz: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Charles Carroll, and William Floyd, who signed the Declaration of Independence. Gen. Floyd began early engaged in opposing the encroachments of Great Britain upon our rights and liberties, and ardently active in promoting the happiness and independence of his country, was chosen a delegate from the county of Suffolk to a Congress of the Colonies of North America, held at Philadelphia, on the 5th of Sept. 1774, of which he remained a member until nearly the close of the Revolution. On that memorable and trying day, the 4th of July 1776, when the Independence of America was declared while the British were upon his estates, and giving him a foretaste of the destruction that awaited him and all those who were pledging their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor in the support of that doubtful project, should it fail, we find him enrolling his name among those of the patriots who were willing to risk all that was personal to themselves, for the freedom of their country. After the close of the struggle and having passed the most active years of his life in various public situations, always enjoying the confidence and affection of his fellow citizens, he left his estate in Suffolk, and at the age of about 60, as if in the vigor of his years, took up his residence in the then wilderness, now the cultivated valley, of Western, in the county of Oneida, where he has passed the remainder of his days in retirement; retaining his usual relish for social enjoyments, his love of friends, his strength of memory, and all the faculties of his mind.
He has left an aged and worthy widow; also children and grand children and many relatives and friends to feel his loss. His fellow citizens and neighbors, who have for many years enjoyed the friendship and advice of a venerable patriot, will long hold him in affectionate remembrance; and his country will embalm his deeds and his character among those who have bestowed lasting blessing upon mankind. [Republican Compiler, (Gettyburg Pa.), August 22, 1821]
GOODWIN, John, Obituary
Died at Norristown on the 16th ult., Mr. John Goodwin, late of Arbington township, Montgomery county, in the 84th year of his age. The deceased was one of the worthies of the revolutionary war. He was frequently promoted to public trust, and discharged his duty to general satisfaction. He was crier of the several courts of Montgomery county, from the time they were first organized to the day of his death, a period of 10 years. [Republican Compiler, (Gettysburg, Pa.), August 11 1824]
HELMBOLD, George, Obituary
Died on Friday evening, in the 43d year of his age, Mr. George Helmbold, editor of the Independent Balance. [Republican Compiler, (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania), October 10, 1821]
KIDDER, Isaiah, Obituary
Hydrophobia: Isaiah Kidder, a boy belonging to Ipswich, in the employ of Mr. Gregory Stone, of Lincoln, died at the latter place on the 29th November, of hydrophobia. The circumstances attendant upon this case, as far as they have reached us, are as follows: About two months since, at the ususal time of driving cows from pasture, the lad left Mr. Stone's house to perform this service. While on his way he espied a raccoon at a short distance from him which ran immediately towards him, sprang over and fence and fastened upon his hand. The boy much frightened by the attack of the raccoon, screamed and ran towards home, dragging with him the furious animal which maintained his hold upon the boy's hand in spite of all his efforts to release himself. The cried of the boy brought to his assistance Mr. Stone, whose endeavors to release the boy's hand from the clenched jaws of the raccoon were unavailing, until he succeeded in cutting the animal's throat. The boy's hand which was badly mangled, was dressed as a bad wound, and the skin of the raccoon, which was remarkably large, was taken off and sold, from which it would appear that no suspicions were at the time entertained of the animal being rabid. Until within a few days of his death, it was expected the boy would experience no serious inconvenience from his hurt, but at once the symptoms of that terrible and distressing disease, hydrophobia showed evidently that he had become its subject and from the disease having taken over possession of the system, must also be its victim. [Republican Compiler, (Gettysburg, PA,), Jan 1, 1823]
LIND, John, Obituary
Died at his residence, in Hagerstown, on Monday afternoon the 14th inst., after an illness of about two weeks, the Rev. John Lind, Pastor of one of the English Presbyterian congregations of Greencastle and that of Hagerstown – one of the best of Christians and most amiable of men. [Republican Compiler, (Gettysburg, Pa), September 29, 1824]
MARKER, George, Obituary
Died on the 13th of May, inst., Mr. George Marker, a native of Germany , aged 100 years 6 months and 3 days. He emigrated to this country about the year 1751, and resided ever since in the neighborhood of Philadelphia. [Republican Compiler, (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania), May 21 1823 P.3]
McJIMSEY, Joseph A. Obituary
Died in Harrisburg on Thursday the 29th ult., aged 40 years, Mr. Joseph A. McJimsey, for many years clerk of the senate of Pennsylvania. [Republican Compiler, (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania), October 3, 1821]
McMICKEN, Charles, Obituary
Died in Warwick township, Bucks county, Pa., on the 24th of Dec. Mr. Charles McMicken, a respectable citizen of that county, who was born, lived and died on the same plantation, at the advanced age of 82 years. [Republican Compiler, (Gettysburg, Pa.) January 15, 1823]
MELISH, John, Obituary
Died on Monday night, the 30th Dec. at the city of Philadelphia , Mr. John Melish, Geographer, in the 52d year of his age. Mr. Melish was a native of Perthshire, in Scotland , but, being ardently attached to the principles of liberty he emigrated and settled in this country, in the year 1809. Since that period his labours have been eminently useful to his adopted country. His works in the sciences of geography and political economy are universally known, and their importance has been acknowledged by the highest characters in our country. [Republican Compiler, (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania), Wednesday, January 9, 1823 P.3]
MEYERS, Col. Samuel Obituary
Died at Harrisburg, on Saturday, the 20th inst., Col. Samuel Meyers, a member of the House of Representatives of this state, from the county of Lehigh, in the 34th year of his age. He has left a disconsolate widow and three young children to deplore the loss of a tender husband and affectionate father. [Republican Compiler, (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania), March 31 1824 P.3]
RAHM, Melchoir Obituary
Died at Harrisburg, on Tuesday the 31st October, Melchoir Rahm, Esq., one of the electoral candidates, in the 59th year of his age. [Republican Compiler, (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania), November 15 1820]
SCHAEFFER, Frederick George, Esq., Obituary
Died in the city of Philadelphia, on Wednesday, Nov. 5th, Frederick George Schaeffer, Esq., late Editor and Proprietor of The Federal Republican and Baltimore Telegraph; a native of Germantown in the county of Philadelphia. [The Republican Compiler, (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania), Nov. 19, 1823 P.3]
SMITH, John Obituary
Distressing Casualty - On Wednesday last, while Mr. John Smith was at dinner at Mr. Robert’s tavern, at Fosterville, he got a large piece of beef into his throat where it stuck fast, and before the cause of his distress could be discovered, he expired. Fredonia Censor. [Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pa.), December 1, 1824]
SMITH, John J. Obituary
Died in Philadelphia , on Sunday the 18th ult. Of a consumption, John J. Smith, in the 22d year of his age, son of Mr. Patrick Smith, late of Carlisle. [Republican Compiler, (Gettysburg, Pa.), May 5 1824]
SMITH, Samuel, Obituary
On Wednesday morning the 25th ult., Mr. Samuel Smith was found in the public road in Hereford township, frozen to death. He formerly resided near Sumneytown, Montgomery county. - Reading Chron. [Republican Compiler, (Gettysburg, Pa.), March 10, 1824]
SPAYD, John, Obituary
Died in the city of Philadelphia , on Sunday morning, the 13th ultimo, John Spayd, Esq., of Reading , son-in-law of the present governor of Pennsylvania . He had visited Philadelphia for the benefit of medical attendance. At a meeting of the members of the bar, held on the 14th ult., the Hon. Joseph B. M'cKean in the chair, as a testimony of their respect for the private virtues and professional attainments of the deceased, they resolved to attend, as far as the limits of the city, the removal of his remains for interment at Reading. [Republican Compiler, (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania), November 6, 1822, P.3]
THOMPKINS, Jonathan G., Obituary
Died at Scarsdale, Westchester county, New York, on Thursday morning, the 22d ult, in the 87th year of his age, Jonathan G. Thompkins, Esq., father of his excellency Daniel D. Tompkins. [Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pa), June 4 1823 P.3.]
THOMPSON, Charles, Obituary
Died on Monday evening the 16th inst., at his residence in Lower Merion township, Montgomery county, the venerable and much respected Charles Thompson, in the 95th year of his age. He was one of the most virtuous, steadfast, energetic and useful patriots of the revolution. Few names connected with the history of American independence deserve more honor than his, in reference both to his public and private merits. He enjoyed, as sole secretary of the revolutionary congress, the highest confidence of that body and of the country, and the personal friendship of the best and greatest of the Americans. He stood among them like the personification of probity, firmness and regularity. He possessed a mind naturally strong and perspicacious, which he enriched with various learning, ancient and modern, that became a constant source of gratification and employment to him in his retirement. The chief object of his old age was to prepare himself for the future life, and his friends and relatives have every reason to believe, that as a truly earnest, pious and practical Christian, he has gained the crown which he so perseveringly and worthily sought. [Republican Compiler, (Gettysburg, Pa.), August 25, 1824]
TRYON, Jacob G. Esq., Obituary
Died on the 12 inst., after a short but severe indisposition, at his residence on the Frankford turnpike, Jacob G. Tryon, Esq., High Sheriff of the City and County of Philadelphia, in the 34th year of his age. [The Republican Compiler, (Gettysburg, Pa.), Aug. 20, 1823, P.3]
WEBSTER, George Obituary
Died at Albany, on the 22d ultimo, George Webster, Esq, one of the Editors of the Albany Daily Advertiser, aged 61 years. Mr. W. was one of the founders of that paper, about 40 years ago. [Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pa.) March 5, 1823]
WILSON, James J., Obituary
Died at Trenton, New Jersey, after an afflicting illness of two weeks, in the 45th year of his age, James J. Wilson, Esq., Editor of the Trenton True American, and formerly a Senator of the United States. [Republican Compiler, (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania), August 18 1824]