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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1850
Page
3
July 10 1850 reports in Wasmeron the Senate and House pausing for a solemn recess after President Zachary Taylor dies at half past ten PM. Milard Fillmore announces the death and takes oath. Congress plans burial measures and mourning actions.
Eulogies were delivered and mourning observed as Zachary Taylor was laid to rest with a grand civil and military procession. The 66 year old President lay in state in the White House East Room, coffin of black velvet and silver, the burial at Oak Hill with Old Whitey, the funeral car, and escorts under General Scott.
At Bethel Temple of Honor No 45 meeting July 7 in Clermont County a committee drafted condolences for the death of Dr Oliver Perry Griffith cholera stricken at his Bethel home on July 7 1850. Resolutions praise his virtue as physician and Christian citizen, express sympathy to widow and kin, note his ornamental role in the temple, order mourning attire and days, request copies to family counties papers and the medical society, and record the resolutions in temple minutes.
This ad warns against metals and poisons in many tonics and promotes Guysett's Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla as a safe blood purifier and life supporter. It urges avoiding drastic purgatives and urges timely use of mild restoratives to restore health, with Titus Stark & Co. in Batavia selling it.
On Tuesday last in this place the Rev. S. Morrow united Luvs Reve of Milford to Carwaixe Mount of this town. The writeup offers a cheerful account and long wishes for the couple. A second note records Ezra Srames’s marriage to Daas Burau of Batavia township on the 10th inst by James Perrine.
The notice records the death of a infant daughter of M D Meaney aged about three months at Bethel and references her brief life, peaceful death, and hoped reunion with the divine. It notes surviving family and expresses religious consolation for the loss.
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