Amherst, NH Area Deaths Reported 27 Aug 1846

DIED.

In Goffstown, 19th inst., of brain fever, Mr. Oscar Little, merchant, aged 23.

In Hollis, Mrs. Hannah Rideout, aged 54.

In Boston, Harrison Gray, Esq., bookseller, 54.

In New-Ipswich, Dea. Abel Kendall, formerly of Leominister, Ms. aged 75.

In Peterboro,' Mrs. Ruth, relict of the late Mr. John Field, aged 94.

In Derry, Mr. Joseph Battles, aged 56, formerly of Lowell.

In Antrim, Mr. James Dunlap, 80.

In this town, 24th inst., Mrs. Susanna Stewart, aged 77, relict of the late David Stewart, Esq. Mrs. S. was among the very few remaining heads of families in this village, who were such thirty years ago. She had long been deprived of the general associations of life by infirmities which confined her to her home, where in the society of her children's, she enjoyed that peaceful serenity and equanimity of mind for which she was characterised. In the calm anticipation of the "end approaching," she looked forward with hope and peace to a better portion laid up for all those who put their trust in the merits of an allworthy and all prevailing Saviour. In usual health but a few days before her death, she was attacked with a paralysis which hastened her dissolution, and her entrance into the rest where are joys forevermore. Her memory will be deeply impressed upon the minds of her surviving children to whom she was greatly endeared.

In Concord, Miss Eliza Hardy, oldest daughter of Mr. Josiah Hardy, aged 26. Mr. Philip Ferrin, aged about 50. Capt. Samuel Davis, aged 63.

In Blackstone, Mass., August 13th, of consumption, Mr. Simeon W. Crooker, of Boston, formerly of Merrimac, N. H., aged 27. Mr. C. was a respectable young man, kind to all and greatly beloved where he was known. He has left a wife and child, who with numerous relatives and friends, feel deeply afflicted by this dispensation of Providence. He was a member in the Christian Church, and we trust that our loss in his gain.

In Peterborough, Mr. Samuel Edes, 93 years and 9 months, the oldest male inhabitant of the place, where he had resided 46 years. He was a native of Needham, Mass. On that memorable day of the Revolution, April 19th, 1775, he with a company of militia from that town, marched to oppose the British troops on their retreat from Concord and Lexington.

At his residence in Ossipee, 7th July, of typhus fever, Hon. Samuel Quarles---well known in this State as an able and efficient statesman, and as a man of unwavering integrity and universal benevolence. He was born in Wenham, Mass., but emigrated to New Hampshire many years since. He has been a representative and Senator in the State Legislature----was Councillor[sic] from 1814 to 1817---Judge of the Court Common Pleas in 1820---and twice served as Elector of President and Vice-President of the United States. A Whig of '76 and a Republican of the Jeffersonian School, he maintained his consistence through life, and died as he had lived, a patriot "without fear and without reproach."---- Dover Inquirer.

The Farmers' Cabinet, Amherst, NH 27 Aug 1846


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