Mecklenburg County NcArchives Obituaries.....Smith, Franklin L.  July 6, 1837
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Aug. 4, 1837   Charlotte Journal
          DEATH OF FRANKLIN L. SMITH, ESQ.
   -- We regret to have to confirm the sad intelligence received last week of 
the death of our late esteemed fellow townsman, FRANKLIN L. SMITH, ESQ. He 
departed this life on the 6th of July, at Coffeeville, Miss., of congestive 
fever. On the 1st July, he was taken unwell, but was not very ill until the 
5th, when he was suddenly taken worse and continued on through the day, and 
died about sunnrise on the 6th. A few days before this melancholy event, he 
was in full enjoyment of health and bid as fair to live as many years as any 
of us, but he is now consigned to the silent tomb. The reception of the news 
of his death filled our citizens with gloom, for he was respected by the whole 
community. -- He had many friends but few enemies. MR. SMITH emigrated from 
this town last fall, and settled himself in Coffeeville with the intention of 
devoting himself to the practice of law, hoping to find that encouragement to 
laudable industry and perseverance, to which his talents entitled him, but 
which was withheld him by his native State, and was no doubt buoyed with the 
hope of passing many years of usefulness, but he has been cut off in the prime 
of life. He has left a young wife and one child, a widowed mother, whose pride 
he was, and a lrge circle of relations and friends.

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