Cumberland County NcArchives Obituaries.....Matthews, John  And Thomas July 1826
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July 12, 1826   North Carolina Journal
   DIED, on Sunday morning last, at 2 o'clock a. m., JOHN MATTHEWS, ESQ., of 
Fayetteville, in the 50th year of his age, after a protracted illness of 
indescribable suffering.
   MR. MATTHEWS was a native of Fayetteville, and through life sustained 
uniformly a character of unsullied purity, discharing the various relative 
duties with fidelity, and with honor to himself and usefulness to others. He, 
from time to time, filled several offices of trust and profit connected with 
the County or Town, and always to the entire satisfaction of the community: 
He, for the last two years, represented this town in the General Assembly and 
made a most useful and respectable member. He was an honest man, a kind 
neighbor, an affectionate husband and father, and a valuable member of society.
   He was interred on Sunday evening, with military honors by the Independent 
Company, of which he was a member, and which he formerly commanded: the great 
concourse of people which attended his funeral was an evidence of the general 
regret at his death, and of the sympathy felt for his afflicted widow and 
family. 
   His infant son, THOMAS, who had been long been ill, died a few hours before 
him -- it was an awful and admonitory spectacle to see Father and son 
stretched on the same bier and consigned at the moment to the silent grave.

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