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OBITUARY.The subject of the following notice resi-j, ded for some time at Wilmington, in this j t county, and by his correct and amiable dc-16 portment secured the friendship and es-j f teem of the whole community. He was a g young man of splendid talents, both litera-if ry and scientific, and had he lived he would j. have risen to distinction both at the bar « and in the literary world.The following obituary sketch is from the Rockville (Indiana)Olive Branch:Wc have not been called upon, at any: time, to notice the death of an individual,1, ’ under circumstances more calculated to el- ,1 icil our sympathies, than those which at- * tended the death of Ewexezer C. Bishop, '■ who dicd in Rockville, at the residence ofDr. Tuly, on the 16th ult., about 5 o’clock, A. M. The deceased, as wc learn from some letters, appears to be a native of Connecticut—where most of his relations now reside. He had been in our town about a month previous to his death, having visited this section of the State with the hope of J improving his health, which had been declining fur some time, under a pulmonaryaffection. The day before his death- he♦wrote a most affectionate loiter to his sisters, and a few hours before his dissolution ho wrote the following lines—the last ! lt;thing he wrote: {|» ^“Solemnly and in tears farewell! . ! (Words cannot tell how my heart clings ; To thee.—Not what emotions swell ! i Amidst love’s deepest springs.” i i‘•They were found with the letter ad- , t dressed to his sisters. j •“His last hours were tranquil, and he', expressed his hope of immortality, anJ his I confidence in the merits 61 a Saviour. He ] only seemed to suffer an occasional pang, I when he realised that the hands of stran- s gers, in a strange land, were to perform 1 ihe last sad office—and what was more, ' that no friend of his youth—no brother, 1 sister, or mother would be present to pay the tribute of the heart, which they alone can feel. To his friends, we have it in,* our powor to say, that if his kindred were not present, his burial was attended by one 1 of the largest assemblies which wo havej witnessed on such an occasion.“The deceased was a member of the bar, and we understand has written considerably for one of the literary journals of the east. He was a young man, apparently about 25 to 26 years of age.” \
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Aurora Dearborn County Democrat
Aurora, Indiana, US
Thu, Nov 07, 1839
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