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Death of Kent Wright, Esq.Kent Wiuuiit, Esq., formerlyof Shoreham, in this county, died in * r| California, on Sunday the fth or 12th oft of March. Private letters to his friends sj.ii inform them that he had gone out to dq a mining location near Downievillc, *n 1 and standing upon a cliff accidentally °** 1fell at first some 25 feet on his head f°and shoulders upon loose fragments oft» trock-—from thence rolling and falling [• ,1another descent of somo 80 feet more an . to the foot of the precijiicc, ^ he re he jM was taken up senseless, shockingly to bruised and lacerated, £omo little uiu hope at the first was entertained of his recovery, but he died two or three *sl1 days aficr the fall.! eram . thed he California papers, in announc- 0!.j ing this sad occurrence, say that it dir has called forth general sympathy, Mr. *1' .' Wright having been long known there •„ very favorably, as an honorable and m» upright man, and having a large circlelt;of friends, by whom his loss is deerily felt, as well as by the community, in ex which his place cannot easily he filled. 1 *'The Masonic Lodge, of which Mr. t| \ Wright was a member, passed the fob y, lowing resolutions: 1 he
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Middlebury Register
Middlebury, Vermont, US
Wed, May 03, 1854
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