Craven County NcArchives Obituaries.....Stanly, Thomas 1813
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Raleigh Minerva
Friday, March 5, 1813
   It is our painful duty to announce the premature death of MR. THOMAS 
STANLY. In the bloom of youth and in the full promise of excellence, he has 
been summoned to his Eternal Home - not on the couch of disease which soothing 
relatives attend-not looking to Heaven from the death bed of fame-but a victim 
at the altar of Sanguinary Honour! The fatal catastrophe is understood to have 
arisen from an unfortunate controversy between the deceased and MR. LEWIS D. 
HENRY. Formerly classmates at College, since connected by congenial pursuits, 
long friends and intimates, they were yet unable to adjust a recent 
misapprehension consistently with their notions of propriety. A meeting took 
place on Sunday last within the borders of Virginia. The first discharge of 
the murderous weapons was instantly followed by the event-which has filled the 
breasts of many with the keenest anguish, and spread over our town one general 
gloom!
   Mr. Stanly died in the 23rd year of his age. He had passed through his 
academic and collegiate exercises with much advantage, was engaged in the 
study of the law, and expected in a few months to be called to the Bar. A mind 
acute and discriminating - a taste susceptible from usually serious, almost 
grave - a temper quick, but affectionate, and a soul that towered above 
meanness and abhorred dishonor - these in the fond estimation of his friends 
were certain pledges not merely of eminence in his profession, but of 
distinction as a man. But these, all these, have vanished, "like the 
insubstantial fabric of a visIon," and have left nought behind, but the 
lamentable reality of our loss! With feelings which defy control but 
exclaim, "May the God of mercy be merciful to his soul." - NEWBERN FEDERAL 
REPUBLICAN


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