Orange County NcArchives Obituaries.....Campbell, Catlet 1808
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Raleigh Minerva
Thurs., Sept. 8, 1808
   DIED, at Hillsboro', on Wednesday evening, the 31st ult., CATLET CAMPBELL, 
ESQ. He had been for several years past much debilitated, so much so as not to 
have the free use of his limbs, when most afflicted, he had been heard to wish 
a speedy termination of his existence. He was a man much esteemed, and his 
townsmen at the last election, had chosen him to represent them again in the 
State Legislature. During the election, he was taken suddenly ill, which was 
believed by his friends to be the effects of a large dose of laudanum, taken, 
as they have reason to believe, to put an end to his existence. From this, he 
soon recovered, but with the determination of making use of a more effectual 
method of ending his life.
   And on Tuesday, Aug. 23rd, he locked himself up in his room, and having 
placed himself before a king glass, deliberately cut his throat from ear to 
ear with a razor-being weak in the arm, he made as many as three attempts, as 
is evident by the marks before he cut off the principal veins of his neck. In 
a short time, after his door was forced open, and he was found weltering in 
his blood, and nearly exhausted. Physicians were immediately called, and the 
wounds sewn up. 
   It was nearly a day before he spoke, and he then expressed much regret that 
he had not completed his immediate existence. The wound nearly healed up, and 
he was for a short time apparently recovering, but the loss of between one and 
two gallons of blood had weakened him much, he was most of the time quite 
distracted, accompanied with a violent fever, seldom receiving any 
nourishment, and he died on Wednesday evening. He was a single man about 40 
years old.


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