Rowan County NcArchives Obituaries.....Ney, Peter Stewart  December 1846
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Dec. 24, 1846         Charlotte Journal
   DIED, at the house of O. G. FOARD, ESQ., near Cowansville, Rowan County,
 N. C., of Typhus Fever, PETER STEWART NEY, aged about 68 years. MR. NEY was a 
native of Scotland, where he received a liberal education: before the 
completion of which his father emigrated to France, which then became the land 
of his adoption. Possessing a disposition somewhat impulsive and adventurous, 
and remarkable for the tenacity to attachments formed, he, without hesitation, 
joined the Revolution of his adopted Government which was convulsing the whole 
of the European Continent, attached himself to, and shared the fortunes of, 
the then great mover of events -- Napoleon. Upon whose expulsion from France, 
he became himself an exile, and found a home upon our own genial soil. He bore 
upon his person the deep scars of many wounds, to testify his services in his 
country's armies which were directed by that too ambitious Corsican. He landed 
in Charleston, S. C., and after spending a few years in the upper Districts of 
that State, he became a citizen of this section of North Carolina, in which he 
has ever resided, and employed himself from choice,in the humble, though 
honorable vocation of school teaching; in which capacity he dispensed 
substantial blessings, and reared for himself a monument which gold could not 
buy. He possessed an intellect of the first order, highly cultivated and 
adorned, and remarkably stored with useful intelligence. His manners were easy 
and courteous, and his disposition social, communicative and generous to a 
fault. He commanded the high regard of all who knew hin; and his many virtues 
will live green in the memory of all who could appreciate them by having been
                                           ONE OF HIS PUPILS

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