Wake County NcArchives Obituaries.....Gales, Joseph, Senior 1841 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Carolyn Shank Carolynshank@msn.com January 12, 2008, 6:54 pm Sept. 2, 1841 Charlotte Journal DIED, in Raleigh, on Tuesday afternoon last, of paralysis, JOSEPH GALES SR., ESQ., in the 81st year of his age, the original Founder and Proprietor of the Raleigh Register and Father of the present editor. The deceased was a native of Eckington, England and emigrated to this Country with his family in the year 1795. He remained in Philadephia until 1799, and then removed to this City [Raleigh], of which he has been a resident ever since, with the exception of a few years that he spent with his older children at Washington City [D.C.]. -- Raleigh Register File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/wake/obits/g/gales505nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ncfiles/ File size: 1.2 Kb