Category Archives: Death

ODGEN, Robert (d. 1857)

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DIED — At Greenville, Louisiana, on the 6th inst., Judge Robert OGDEN, a native of Elizabethtown, N.J., in the 82d year of his age.  He graduated at Nassau Hall, Princeton, N.J., and prepared for the bar in the office of his uncle, Col. Aaron OGDEN, and in the law school of Judge REEVES. He married at Newbern, N.C., a daughter of Abner NASH, one of the Governors of that State during the Revolutionary war, and there formed an association in the practice of law with Gov. NASH, and who in later years became so distinguished as a jurist in Louisiana.  He afterwards, having pursued his profession for some years in Charleston, S.C., removed in 1821, to Louisiana.

Source:  Fayetteville Observer, February 19, 1857

YARBROUGH, Sarah Ann (d. 1857)

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DIED — At the residence of her father, in Chatham co., N.C., on the 20th of January, 1857, Miss Sarah Ann YARBROUGH, daughter of Joseph W. YARBROUGH, in the 11th year of her age.

Source:  Fayetteville Observer, February 16, 1857

 

WOMACK, Martha (d. 1857)

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DIED — In this vicinity, after three days’ illness, on the 13th inst., Mrs. Martha WOMACK, wife of Mr. John WOMACK, aged about 44 years. She left four children to mourn their loss.

Source:  Fayetteville Observer, February 16, 1857

MITCHELL, (Mr.) – (d. 1857)

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MURDER — We learn that a negro man, Laws, belonging to Mr. FRIES of this place, stabbed a free negro by the name of MITCHELL, at High Point, causing his death. LAWS is confined in jail. The affair originated in a quarrel about some work they were engaged in. – Salem Press.

Source:  Fayetteville Observer, February 16, 1857

MOSS, Mary T. (d. 1857)

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DIED — In Stanly county, on the 29th ult., aged 18 years and 7 months, Mary T., youngest daughter of Thos. L. MOSS.

Source:  Fayetteville Observer, February 16, 1857

SEATON, Gales (d. 1857)

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DIED — On Monday last, in Washington city, at the residence of his father, after a lingering illness, Gales SEATON, in the 40th year of his age, son of W.W. SEATON, Esq.

Source:  Fayetteville Observer, February 16, 1857

DEBERNIER, William (d. 1857)

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DIED — At the residence of Edward McCRADY, Esq., near Charleston, on the 5th inst., William DEBERNIERE, in the 60th year of his age – a native of Wilmington.

Source:  Fayetteville Observer, February 16, 1857

McDUGALD, John Gillespie (d. 1857)

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DIED — In Sampson county, on the 2d inst., John Gillespie, infant son of Col. J.B. and M.A. McDUGALD, aged 8 months and 19 days. “Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not; for of such is the kingdom of God.” – Mark x, 14.

Source:  Fayetteville Observer, February 16, 1857

RANKIN, Elizabeth (d. 1857)

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DIED — In Greensborough, N.C., on Tuesday morning February 3d, of paralysis, Mrs. Elizabeth RANKIN, wife of Wm. S. RANKIN, Esq.

Source:  Fayetteville Observer, February 16, 1857

GIBSON, Wm. (d. 1857)

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The Hillsborough Recorder states that John SHAW killed his son-in-law, Wm. GIBSON, in Alamance county, on Saturday last, by stabbing him twice and then breaking his skull with a stone. Both were drunk.  SHAW was a peaceable man when sober. He is in jail.

Source:  Fayetteville Observer, February 16, 1857