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The Liberty Weekly Tribune 1847
DEATHS IN THE WEEKLY TRIBUNE, CLAY COUNTY, MISSOURI
The following death notices appeared in The Weekly Tribune, Liberty, Clay County, Missouri during the year of 1847. Some the deaths did not occur in Clay County. The date of publication is shown prior to the item(s).
Jan 2, 1847:
DIED - In Santa Fe, on the 10th of November last, of Consumption, James Hughes, Jun'r - aged 19 years.
The deceased was a Volunteer soldier, attached to the company of Capt.
Barbee, of Price's Regiment, and though but a youth, a more fearless, gallant spirit, never rushed to his country's standard.
At his residence in Ralls county, Mo., on Monday evening 21st inst., Joseph D.
Tapley, Esq., aged 47 years.
Jan 23, 1847:
In this county on the 20th inst., after a short, but severe illness, Frances A., consort of John Peters - aged 52 years.
With a firm belief, as death had kindly warned her that her life was drawing to a close, she yielded to the fatal stroke with the full assurance of a happy eternity; and sunk gently into the arms of death. She left a husband and children to deplore her loss, and great indeed, is the loss to them, for never was there a better wife, mother, friend or mistress, than she was, - she lived as she died - and all who knew her can truly say these words embrace much truth. As one who enjoyed many happy hours with her, and who has seen proofs of her kind and tender heart, both as a friend and a parent. I cannot but express my feelings and give this last tribute to the memory of a departed friend, with a consolation in the belief that she could exclaim with the Psalmist,
I shall behold the face
Of my forgiving God,
And stand complete in righteousness
Washed in my Savior's blood.
In Columbia, on the 11th inst.,. Mr. James H. Woods, aged 38 years.
Jan 30, 1847:
In this county on the 22d inst., Mr. Isham P. Miller, in the 27th year of his age.
At Bents Fort, on the 14th of August, Wm. Duncan, Volunteer in the Clay Company.
Feb 6, 1847:
Died, on Saturday last, the 27th ult., at the residence of Mrs. Allen, in this county, Margaret, daughter of Lieut. A.B. Dyer, of the U.S. Army, aged 15 months and 13 days.
She was a child of uncommon sprightliness, but that Providence, whose ways are inscrutable, thought it best to remove her from earth to Heaven before she had tasted of the bitter dregs of an unfeeling world.
To her mother, who was a witness of her sufferings, and death, let me say, that your loss is her eternal gain therefore grieve not, but prepare yourself to meet her in that sunny land where "sickness and sorrow, pain and death are seen and feared nor more."
To her fond, and doting Father, who is far, far away, oh, may it prove the arrow of conviction to his soul and lead him in the way of life everlasting.
"Tis better far, to die when young,
And live with God on high;
Than risk on earth the unruly tongue,
And then, without God to die.
Feb 13 1847:
In this county on the 30th ult., George T. Sullivan, aged 3 years and 3 months.
On Friday, the 5th instant, John Ewen Sullivan, aged 5 years and 1 month.
In Clinton County, on Tuesday the 9th inst, Robert Officer.
On Wednesday, the 10th inst., after an illness of two or three days, J.K.
Davidson.
Feb 20, 1847:
In this county on the 11th inst., Thomas Alfred, youngest son of Squire John Patton, of disease of the heart - aged 7 years.
Feb 27, 1847:
It is with feelings of melancholy regret that we receive the recent and painful intelligence of the death of Henry D. Anderson, who departed this life in Santa Fe, on the 28th December, 1846, aged 25 years. Mr. Anderson was a young man in the prime and zenith of vigorous manhood, and was one among the many gallant spirits who responded with promptitude and alacrity to the call made on this county for volunteers. It is a painful task at all times to record the death of a friend, but that task is more poignant, when we are called upon to lament a friend who has been summoned to his grave in a distant land, and in the midst of hostile strangers, without a friendly hand to mitigate the pangs of disease, or a sympathizing tear to soothe the last agonies of death. But Mr. Anderson, though he has been arrested by the voice of death far from his home, and his ashes now sleep in an enemies soil, yet his loss will be felt and mourned, by the many friends who were proud of his acquaintance in the county from which he had followed the standard of his country to vindicate her rights in an unknown land.
Mar 13. 1847:
In this county, on the 1st inst., Mr. Alexander McDaniel, aged 22 years.
Mar 20, 1847:
In this county on the 9th inst, of Pulmonary Consumption, Mary J., consort of Robert W. Hall - aged 24 years.
In this county, on the 8th instant, Van W. Brooks, aged about 34 years.
In this county on the 4th instant, George Carey.
Apr 3, 1847:
In this place on Sunday evening last, after a short Illness, George West.
Apr 17, 1847:
In this place on Thursday evening the 8th instant, Mr. N.H. Summers, aged about
21 years.
When death has robbed society of one of its brightest ornament; one who was pre-eminently endowed with all the noble attributes provocative of admiration, esteem, charity and reverence a respectable tribute is undoubtedly due to their memory. That this was the case of our lamented friend, Mr. N. H. Summers, no one who had the pleasure of his acquaintance will pretend to deny. The ardent friendship we had contracted for him, and our high veneration for his many excellencies and virtues while living, demand this last public testimonial of our regard, when laid in the dark and dreary sanctuary of the tomb.
Mr. Summer, is no more! He has been cut down by the ruthless hand of death in the flush of his brightest hope, and in the meridian of useful manhood; his ennobling qualities, his many virtues, his immaculate character, his exemplary and upright deportment are no longer living emblems - they have been shrouded in the damp and dismal mantle of the grave, and he has executed the final and irreversible mandate of his maker. "Hic transit Gloria mundi."
If but a few short days ago we could have interpreted the vigorous and athletic form, elastic gait, cordial welcome, affable and complacent manners as betokening long life, our friend would yet have been with us. Indeed stunned and enervated by the premature shock we can scarcely realize this sudden and melancholy dispensation of Divine Providence, and almost call in question the dreadful fiat of Heaven.
There is an instinctive commiseration awakened, when death stamps his signet on the shriveled and furrowed brow of hoary age tottering beneath the infirmity and decrepitude of exhausted years. And there is a transient gleam of chivalric heroism that, for a moment dissipates the melting grief experience for him, who has lose the victors chaplet, and ebbed the crimson flood of life on the battle field. But when death levels his fatal shaft at the vigorous and robust personage towering in the zenith of manhood's glory, and eminently gifted with those functions which adorn and embellish social life, it must excite the pathetic emotions and vivid sympathies of the most callous bosom.
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"dust thou art and to dust thou shalt return."
His obsequies were celebrated with the most honorable demonstrations of public esteem, and private friendship. We cannot adequately express our condolence for his surviving friends and relatives upon whom the blow has fallen with relentless anguish. We therefore commend them to Him who preserves the widow's tears, and shelter the orphan in the hollow of his hand. Peace to his ashes!
Apr 24, 1847:
In Springfield Mo., on the 6th inst., at his residence, after a short illness, Thomas J. Gates.
May 29, 1847:
In this county, on the morning of the 21st instant, Elizabeth Ann, wife of William Davenport, and eldest daughter of the late George W. Clay, of Mercer county Ky.
And affectionate daughter and devoted wife - she has left a large circle of attached friends and relatives by whom her memory will be long and fondly cherished. Having early given herself to the Redeemer - calm, resigned and tranquil, she met the last enemy in the assurance of a joyful immortality.
"Blessed are the dead, who die in the lord."
Clay co., Mo., May 28, 1847
Lexington, (Ky.) "Observer" please copy.
Jun 26, 1847:
In Ralls county on the 7th inst., Wm. O. Sexton, aged 14 years, youngest son of the late Isham B. Sexton of St. Louis
Aug 7, 1847:
In Platte County, on the 3d inst., after a long and severe illness, Mrs.
Elenora, consort of Harvy Talbott, and daughter of Edward H. Pence, Esq., of this county.
In the death of Mrs. T. a fond and confiding husband, and many warm and devoted friends have been bereaved. In justice to her memory, it may truly be said, that those virtues which commended the wife and daughter, shone conspicuously in her character and manner of life and endeared her to the hearts of all that shared her acquaintance. Mrs. T. was a member of the Missionary Baptist Church, and she ever honored her profession. But her spirit has gone to God, who gave it, and we feel grateful that we are permitted to say that she enjoyed the consolations of a pure faith - a faith which
"Looks beyond the bound of time,
When what we now deplore
Will rise in full immortal prime
And bloom to fade no more."
Aug 14, 1847:
In Callaway County on the 27th July in the 45th year of her age, Mrs. Ann Boyd, consort of Joseph Boyd.
Sep 10, 1847:
On Saturday night the 28th ult., on board the steamer St. Joseph, Mr. John C.
Young, of Clay county, while on his way home, from Kentucky. His corpse was brought to this place on Monday last and deposited in the new burying ground. -
Fulton Telegraph.
In the city of Lexington, Mo., on Sunday the 20th ult., after a very brief illness, Mary Alice, only daughter of Carey Peebels, aged three years.
Sep 17, 1847:
In this county on Friday the 10th instant, Washington Shaver.
In this place on Saturday morning the 11th instant, Wm. A. Thompson. He was a Volunteer in Doniphan's Regiment.
In this place on the 13th inst., after a short illness, Mrs.
Wood, consort
of Col. Wm. T. Wood, of Lexington, Mo.
In this county on Friday the 10 inst, Mrs. Roberts.
In Columbia, Mo., on Monday evening, September 9, 1847, at half past eight o'clock, Alice, infant daughter of Wm. F. and Mary J. Switzler - aged 9 months and 13 days.
Sept 24, 1847:
In this county on Saturday the 17th William Peters.
In Boone county after a long illness, on Wednesday 15th Miss Nancy Crocket.
In San Antonio Texas, Mr. John R. Bedford, formerly of Boone.
At the City Hotel, Cincinnati at 12 o'clock on Wednesday night Sept. 8th, after a lingering illness, in the 53d year of his age, in the calm triumphs of Christian faith, Col. John Carter Richardson, of Richmond, Ray county, Mo.
Oct 1, 1847:
At her residence, on the 21st inst. in the 43d year of her age, Mrs. Emily, consort of John Guitar, Merchant of Columbia; Mo.
In this county on Friday the 24th ult. after a short illness, Mr. William Tillery.
In this county on Thursday the 23d ult., Clay, son of Michael Arthur.
Oct 8, 1847:
In Boone county, on the 25th ult., Benjamin Franklin, son of Thos. and Cyntha Stone, aged 4 years.
Oct 22, 1847:
In this place on Thursday the 21st inst., George Thomas, son of John D. and Emily Fritzlen, aged 6 months.
Oct 29, 1847:
At his residence in this county on Sunday morning the 24th inst., Col. John Thornton - aged nearly 61 years.
Few men have left behind them a better name amongst these who knew them intimately. It may be said of him, of a truth, that he was emphatically, an honest man; and in the relation of a Husband, Father and a Master, no better man ever lived. He was one of the first settlers of Clay county, and for many years was its Representative in the Missouri Legislature; in which body hew was several times chosen Speaker. Like all other men, he had faults - these he did not attempt to conceal - but they proceeded not from the heart. In his political, as well as social relations, he advocated what he thought were the rights of the oppressed few against the assaults of the majority. He was never known to abandon a minority and take sides with the majority; but, on the contrary he sacrificed a political standing which, at the time, few other men in the State held, and threw himself into a weak minority. He followed principle, utterly regardless where it placed him. From this cause, he was sometimes accused, of being vacillating in his course. The writer of this believes, from a close, personal intimacy of many years, that his departed friend never thought of self in his political actions; but always had in view the good of his country. His devoted wife, his servants, and his neighbors will long feel his loss. The Masonic Fraternity of Liberty - of which body he was a member - attended him to his grave amidst a large concourse of his friends and neighbors. On his tombstone I would inscribe, Here lies the body of John Thornton; the kind husband, the tender and affectionate father; the good master, the friend of the poor and oppressed, the strong advocate of the laboring millions, the good neighbor, the honest man. A. Friend.
Nov 12, 1847:
In this county on the 3d, at the residence of his father, Albert McQuiddy, aged about -years. Mr. M. Was a volunteer in Doniphan's regiment.
Nov 26, 1847:
In Randolph county, on Monday the 15th Mr. Chilton B. Samuel. M.S. was a Volunteer in Doniphan's Regiment, and belonged to the Clay company.
In St. Joseph on Sunday evening the 14th inst., Miss Mary E. Dawson.
Dec 3, 1847:
In this county, on Wednesday the 1st inst, after a protracted illness, Miss Emma, daughter of Edward H. Pence - aged 18 years.
"Death loves a shining mark - a signal blow!
He calls his victims from the fairest fold,
And sheathes his shafts in all the pride of life."
It appears that the above language is but too true in this case, for had he searched the world he could not have found one possessed of more of the high and ennobling attributes which adorn and dignify, than did this young lady:
"None knew her but to love her,
None named her but to praise."
It is but a short time since the writer saw the deceased in all the freshness of youth; contributing, by her engaging conversation and sprightliness of manners to the pleasures of society. But time has crept by almost
imperceptibly. During its lapse an insidious disease has done its work of destruction, and she whose hopes were brighter than those of many of her associates, has been called away - too soon, alas! for her friends; but not too soon for her. Endurance of intense suffering without a murmur; a heart sensibly alive to all the sympathies of woman's nature; a soul at peace with all the world; a calm resignation to her fate, - these were all so many evidences that her departure from this world would be but her entrance into a purer and a better one. Her end was peaceful: and it is a delightful thought that she may be even now holding sweet converse in the "spirit land" with a dear sister summoned thither but a few months since.
The feelings that prompt to admiration of virtue in life have dictated this simple tribute to the memory of departed female excellence; but we have discharged a duty not so much to the dead as to those who survive. The former hath no need of praise. Its sweet and encouraging tones may not fall on the ear of the dead, or wake emotions in the slumbering heart. But those who knew the deceased will feel its power and own its truth. To such the death of their friend comes as a lesson of serious and solemn import. It teaches them that youth and beauty, and talent and love are no hindrances to Death; it reminds them of their own perishableness. and of the time when they too must be "buried out of the sight of their friends."
But it needs not these few lines to proclaim to the world the virtues of this once young lady - the surcharged heart will mingle its sorrows with her parents, and bear the record of her worth to eternity. She was universally beloved and admired; the spreading beauties of womanhood had just burst forth in nature's loveliest garb; the innocence of her mind did sweetly blend with her purity of action. A gentle spirit conscious of its influence, happy only in the midst of happiness; a light whose beams placed a kindred smile upon the lips of all around. Our memory will ever in its circle of events, stop and linger here, place before the heart her "sometime" form, and cherish goodness anew.
Sweet bud of earth! Though brightly thou
Hast bloom'd amid the flowerets here,
We would not mourn, since thouhast gone
To flourish in a brighter sphere.
A few short months, and with this flower
A sister plant in beauty bloom'd;
But death has laid them side by side
Within the cold and narrow tomb.
But they have found a richer soil,
A brighter sun, a sweeter sky,
And though the parent stalks are rent,
Yet for these flowers 'tis gain to die.
M.
Dec 10, 1847:
At his residence in this county, on Monday the 6th inst., David Mitchell, in the 50th year of his age.
Dec 31, 1847:
In this place on the 24th Ignatius G. son of G.L. & S.L. Hughes, aged 4 months.
In this county on the 15th inst. after a short illness of inflammation of the brain, Mr. Simeon Thomason, aged 22 years.
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