DIED — At his residence in Franklin county, 20th ult., after a lingering illness, James DENT, Esq., aged 57.  As a citizen, he stood high in the several relations of life, both public and private; as a Justice of the Peace, his inflexible and rigid adherence to justice, will be held in high estimation by all with whom he had intercourse; as a husband, he was loving and kind; as a father, tender and affectionate; as a master, humane and forebearing.  He has left a disconsolate widow, and seven children, with a large circle of friends and acquaintances, to lament his death.

Source: North-Carolina standard. (Raleigh, N.C.), 14 Jan. 1836. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85042147/1836-01-14/ed-1/seq-3/>