“Died at Asheville...”
Date
2-18-1812
Newspaper
Edenton Gazette
Page and Column
Page 3, Column 3.
Newspaper Location
Edenton, North Carolina
Serial Number
875
Abstract
Fictitious obituary for a victim of the New Madrid earthquake at Asheville, North Carolina.
Transcript
Died at Asheville, Buncombe County, on the 8th ult. Mr. Daniel Mathison, Tailor in the 48th year of his age, a native of Invershin, Sutherlandshire, Scotland. His death was occasioned by his falling in the street at the time of the late Earthquake; he being very corpulent, which he survived 23 days. He bore the first part of his illness with philosophic firmness; but when informed by the physicians that a mortification had taken place, his philosophy yielded to the triumphs of Region-He sent for a class leader of the Methodist-(a people he formerly hated even to persecution) requested him to pray, was converted, and for some time after, expressed his regret that he had not sooner known their ways of Grace. He died a firmly believing and truly penitent member of that Church, leaving a wife, 13 children, and an aged mother, to lament his loss-[The foregoing was communicated for the R. Register, from which paper we copy it; and is no doubt the production of some itinerant preacher]
Recommended Citation
"“Died at Asheville...”" (1812). New Madrid Compendium Far-Field Database. 857.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/cas-ceri-new-madrid-compendium/857
