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Marriage, Death, and Legal Notices from Early Alabama Newspapers: 1819-1893, page 53
September 30, 1840 Died on Wednesday evening 23 inst. after a very short illness, Mr. JOHN GRAY, JR. aged 20 years. October 28, 1840 Leaves have their time to fall And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath and stars to set but all are thine Thou hast all seasons for thine own, 0 Death." Died in this place on Wednesday morning late, Mr. JOHN D. MORAN aged about 24 years. Mr. M was a native of Ireland but had been a resident of this city for about three years and by his upright deportment and unassuming manners, had won the friendship and esteem of all who knew him. He was interred with military honors by the Wetumpka Borderers, of which Corps he was a member and his funeral services attended by a large concourse of citizens. New York papers will please notice. November 11, 1840 Died at her father's residence in this city of nervous fever, after an illness of twenty-six days, Miss LOUISA JANE, daughter of HENRY VAN BIBBER aged 15 years 7 months and 26 days. Selma Free Press please copy. Died - It is our painful duty to record the death of the REV. R. A. MONTGOMERY, late principal of the Female Academy. He died on the morning of the 9th instant after a painful illness of ten days. November 18, 1840 Died at his residence in this city on the 13th inst., of nervous fever, after an illness of twelve days, Mr. JOHN R. DUE (1812 peusemer) aged 48 years. Columbia S.C. papers will please notice. Died at Hayneville, Ala. on Wednesday evening the 4th instant of congestive fever after two weeks' illness, WILLIAM B. SAFFOLD, Esq. aged 27 years. November 25, 1840 Died in Forsyth on the 29 ult. ROBERT COLEMAN, Esq. aged 56 years. He was one of the earliest settlers of this city and still resided in the vicinity. He ever sustained the character of a worthy and enterprising citizen. February 3, 1841 Died in this place on Friday night the 23rd instant after a long and protracted illness, Mrs. ELIZA R. SMITH, consort of JUDGE E. T. SMITH in the 36th year of her age leaving a husband, three children and many relatives and friends to deplore her loss. The deceased was born in the village of Greenville, South Carolina and was the eldest daughter of GEORGE WASHINGTON EARLE, a name well known to many of our citizens and connected with some of the first families of that state. After her marriage, Mrs. S. removed with her husband to the period of their removal to this place in the autumn of 1837. With a disposition the most amiable with a mind highly cultivated by a finished education and the refinements of the accomplished society with which she had been associated, it is not strange that during the three brief years which she has resided among us, she had drawn around her a circle of friends and acquaintances who will long continue to cherish the pleasing recollection of her virtues, her accomplishments, her unassuming manners and the ardent and tender attachments of her friendship . In the month of August of the past year Mrs. SMITH became a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. During the few months which have elapsed since that connection her influence and the force of her example have been directed to adorn the doctrine of the Christian Religion. In the dispensations of an overruling Providence it does seem on some occasions at Last that lovely and gentle spirits are prepared by the sanctifying influences of God's grace for that heavenly home which a Saviour knows they will shortly occupy. Too good for each, that are first marked with the blood of Sprinklin and then beckoned away to the society of God and Angels. Though "Death has sadly triumphed" over the Mortal existence of our departed friend, his icy hand has not and cannot chill the ardent and enduring attachments of a disconsolate husband, and children, and friends, 53. - (3353)