“Obituary”
Date
6-20-1811
Newspaper
Natchez Gazette
Page and Column
Page 3, column 3
Newspaper Location
Natchez, Mississippi
Serial Number
117
Abstract
Obituary of Abijah Hunt who was killed in a duel in Natchez in June 1811. Possible connection to Eliza Bryant.
Transcript
From the Chronicle of June 12 OBITUARY. The thoughts which musing pity pays And fond remembrance loves to raise Your faithful hours attend-Still fancy, to herself unkind, Awakes to grief the softened mind, And points the bleeding friend." Died, in this city, Sunday, evening last, ABIJAH HUNT, esquire, aged 38. Monday evening his remains were conveyed to the grave amidst a concourse of citizens, and a diffusion of sorrow, we have never before witnessed in this territory. The period of the last twelve months, has called us to mourn the loss of many of our most valued and worthy citizens. The dispensation of Providence, that has added the subject of this notice to the fatal catalogue, will long be felt and lamented. Society could not have felt a more irreparable loss. To speak of his many virtues, as they present themselves to the mind, would be to draw a highly wrought but useless panegeric. To great energies of mind as a merchant and man of business, he added extended enterprise and persevering industry-his views in business were liberal and comprehensive-ever extended beyond the circle of individual interest.-All will remember how effectually these qualities have been exerted in promoting the interests of this territory-to no individual is its prosperity so much indebted, though he sought no offices or places of profit. The sphere of his own exertions and the circle of his own hospitality and active benevolence, were orbits beyond which he asked not to move. These virtues will be remembered; and in the breasts of many, who have felt their benign influence, raise monuments to his name, though frail and perishable, yet more enviable than columns of brass or marble. If he had forbles, (and who has them not?) let the mental of oblivion be thrown over them; for the bosom of the grave contain their possessor.
Recommended Citation
"“Obituary”" (1811). New Madrid Compendium Far-Field Database. 115.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/cas-ceri-new-madrid-compendium/115
