Wayne County, NC - Obituary of Allen Whitfield, 1845

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Died, at his residence in Wayne County, NC on the evening of the 17th 
Inst., of Billious Congestive Typoid fever in the 55th year of his age,
Mr. Allen Whitfield.

The deceased was in attendance to his usual vocations on Saturday,
scarcely under any complaint when on that evening he had a chill, and
upon the subsidence of the consequent fever, his system sank into the
typhoid stage with violent symptoms of billiary congestion which
running its course rapidly, though he was aided by all that medical 
science and solicitous attention could bestow, terminated in final
dissolution in the short space of 25 hours. His nearest neighbors and
relations knew not a word of his illness till but a few hours previous 
to his death the suddenness of which tended much to heighten the blow
of affliction and heart-felt sorrow at his loss.

The deceased was a consistent member of the Baptist church, having
embraced christianity in the year of 1814, and in his last moments 
manifested the triump of christian principles. He was kind and affectionate
in his disposition, warm and generous in his feelings and so courteous
and correct in his deportment as to command the respect of all who
formed his acquaintance. He has left an amiable wife, seven fond children,
an aged father, and several relations and friends to lament his untimely
death. They have, however, to mitigate their berevement, by the cheering
assurance that their "loss will be his eternal gain."

"Thou art gone to the grave, but we will not deplore thee,
Though darkness and sorrow encompass the tomb.
The Savior has passed through its portals before thee,
And the lamb of his love, was thy guide through the gloom."

Source:
North Carolina Standard Newspaper
August 30, 1845

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