Franklin-Wake County NcArchives Obituaries.....Raboteau, J. S.  August 1838
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Aug. 24, 1838   Charlotte Journal
   It is with feelings of genuine sorrow, that we are called on to record the 
melancholy death of MR. J. S. RABOTEAU, of Franklin County, but recently and 
for the greater part of his life, an estimable citizen of Raleigh. He was 
returning from Louisburg home, a few days since, in a sulky, driving a mule, 
when it is supposed the animal became frightened, and starting to run within a 
quarter of a mile of his house, threw him out and injured him so badly, that, 
incapable of effort, he lay for many hours exposed to the scorching rays of a 
mid-day sun.
   We say supposed, because he was found as described, though he scarcely 
spoke, after being discovered. His remains were brought to Raleigh for 
interment, and were followed to the tomb by a large concourse of sympathising 
friends.
   MR. RABOTEAU  was about 72 years of age, but he was so regular and 
temperate a man in all things, as to be free in an unusual degree, from the 
infirmities incident to his age. Few persons have discharged in a more 
exemplary manner all the duties of life. Though retiring and unobtrusive, his 
virtue was of the severest kind. An inflexible integrity, a stern moral 
principle, an uncompromising adherence to truth and right, were its prominent 
characteristics. -- Raleigh Register

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