Fulton County IL Archives Obituaries.....Melrose, James July 5, 1860
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Fulton County Ledger - July 10, 1860
Obituary for  James Melrose
Newspaper – Fulton County Ledger – Canton, Fulton county, Illinois
Date:  10 July 1860
Location of record:   Carlin Library,  Canton, Illinois on  microfilm

Tuesday Morning,  July  10,  1860

JAMES MELROSE

At Canton,  Illinois,  on Thursday the 5th instant, of complicated 
Bronchitis and Gastritis,  Rev. James Melrose departed from this
natural life to the spiritual world,  aged  46 years.  His funeral took
place in this city on Friday last at  2 o’clock PM.  The number of 
his friends in attendance was very large.  Rev.  Thomas Storry 
conducted the services.

Rev. James Melrose has been the pastor of the New Church Society
of Canton, Illinois for the last fourteen years,  in which office he was
highly esteemed as a truthful teacher of the doctrines of the New 
Jerusalem Church.  And in numerous families both within and without
the church he held and deserved the character of a beloved physician.

He was born in Northumberland county, England, September 19th,1813,
At the age of twenty-one he sought his fortune in the New World.
Arrived in New York in the year 1833 or ‘4 without friends or money.
He employed his time in study and lecturing upon various scientific 
subjects, the most prominent of which was the study of man – mental
and physical.  We find him thus employed until he had completed his
medical education.

In 1840 or ’41 he completed the practice of medicine, as an allopathic 
physician.  As a man,  he was hightly esteemed by a large circle of friends
by whom his loss with be deeply regretted.  A  good man has gone to the
spirit land.





Additional Comments:
Notes:  James Melrose was the son of  John Melrose and Susanna  Melrose of 
Felton, Northumberland, England.    Susanna died about 14 Aug 1815 according 
to the Felton parish burial register.  Her maiden surname is not noted in the 
death record and I did not find a marriage record in the Alnwick deanery 
records listings.
Timeline – age of 21   arrival at New York  would be the year of 1834..
Completed physician training in 1840 or ’41 age would be  27or 28 yrs old.
He married  Jane Leonora Thayer on 4 April 1848 at Canton. His age at date of 
marriage would be about 35  years.
A son,  James W. Melrose, was born about Feb. 23, 1847….    So  perhaps  Jane 
isn’t his mother.  There is another James Melrose marriage to Elizabeth F. 
Robinson listed in Greene county, Illinois, dated  4 July 1843.  James W. 
Melrose died in San Francisco on 14 Jan 1906 before the earthquake.
Jane married  Underhill Boynton on 20 May 1862.

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