Washtenaw County MI Archives Obituaries.....Root, Dr. Eleazer January 31, 1837
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The New York Evangelist Feb 1837
For the New York Evangelist
Died-At his residence in Bridgewater, Michigan on the 31 of January 1837, Doct. 
Eleazer Root in the 74th year of his age.
The deceased was born in Coventry, Ct., and lived in those days that tried 
men’s souls, was for a period, in the actual service of his country at the time 
of the Revolution.  He afterwards removed to the state of New York where he 
entered upon the practice of medicine in Canaan, Columbia Co., in 1788.  Here 
in his practice of 48 years embracing wide and extensive field, he had the 
pleasure of giving universal satisfaction.  It is believed that few men of his 
profession have enjoyed a large share of public confidence.  That he arose to 
no inconsiderable eminence in his profession may be whom from the fact that for 
several years he was president of the County Medical Society.
In the fall of 1834 he removed with his family into this country, where he 
entered at once into extensive practice and for skill and through acquaintance 
with his profession was fast acquiring a reputation surpassed by few, if any.  
Although he had passed his three score years and ten, he possessed up to the 
day of his sickness almost the mental and bodily vigor of youth.
As to mortality, his character stands irreproachable.  In early life he 
obtained a hope in the mercy of Christ, and had been throughout in the habit of 
secret prayer, but on his dying bed, to use his own language, had to mourn that 
he had not made a more public profession of his attachment to the cause of his 
Savior.  Through his sickness he manifested a great deal of composure and a 
perfect resignation to the will of God.  In conversation with him after the 
hand of death was evidently laid upon him, he remarked that he had no fear in 
trusting himself in the hands of his Savior, and that he felt to trust and 
rejoice in him.
Pierceville Feb 1837


Additional Comments:
Dr. Eleazer Root is the only Revolutionary War Veteran buried in Oak Grove 
Cemetery, Manchester Township, Washtenaw Co., Michigan.
He was born 28 Jul 1764 in Coventry, Conn.  His grave was marked by the 
Daughters of the American Revolution Sarah Caswell Angell Chapter, Ann Arbor, 
Washtenaw Co., Michigan in 1908


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