CUMBERLAND COUNTY, NC - OBITUARIES - Kenith Murchison, 12 Mar 1836
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Fayetteville Observer
Fayetteville, NC Thursday March 24,1836

DIED
KENITH MURCHISON

Another Revolutionary Patriot gone to sleep with his compeers beneath
the silent clods of the valley.
Departed this life on the 12 in., Mr. Kenith Murchison, of this County,
in his 88th year of age, leaving an aged consort and a large circle of
relatives to mourn their irreplaceable loss.   The subject of this
obituary notice was a native of Scotland, from whence he came to North
Carolina about the year 1773 , where he was soon found by the aide of
his country defending her violated rights,liberties and repose, in which
he maintained an American spirit worthy to be embalmed by his country's
gratitude. As a Christian he was no less firm, having attached himself
several since to the Presbyterian Church , of which he was a pious and
devout member, and evincing by his moral deportment and humble walk that
he was one of Christ's and in death he showed the clearest evidence,
that beyond the grave, peaceful rest awaits the righteous: of him it may
truly be said, having received the spirit of the living God and it grew
and brightened until it shone forth in him the perfect man a  friend and
citizen . He was beloved and esteemed as a husband, tender and
affectionate, as a father kind and compassionate. If he had vices they
were enveloped in his virtues and hidden from those who knew him. During
his last sickness he maintained unshaken, that fullness and resignation
which alone characterizes the Christians, retaining his proper mind
until a few moments before his spirit fled unto the bosom of his God"