Rutherford County NcArchives Obituaries.....Dews, Thomas Jr.  August 4, 1838
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Aug. 10, 1838   Charlotte Journal
   It becomes our painful duty to announce the death of THOMAS DEWS, JR., 
ESQ., Attorney-at-Law of Rutherfordston, who departed this life on Saturday, 
the 4th inst., aged about 30 years.
   The circumstances attending the death of MR. DEWS are truly  distressing. 
He was a candidate to represent Randolph County in the next Legislature, and 
was returning from the lower part of the county, where he had gone to attend a 
public gathering a few days previous to his death. On arriving within six 
miles of this, it was discovered that he was in a state of mental 
derangement. -- On the evening of his death, he started for home, as was 
supposed, but not reaching this that night, serious apprehensions were 
entertained by the citizens of our village, that some misfortune had befallen 
him, and immediately search was made for him that night in the neighborhood 
where he was last seen: his horse was found on the bank of Broad River near 
by, but no trace of its owner could be seen. On next morning search was again 
made, and melancholy to relate, he was found in the bottom of the river, 
having apparently been drowned the evening previous.
   He has left an aged Father and Mother, a brother, and several sisters to 
deplore a loss which to them is irreparable. --Ruthersfordton Gen.


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