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Day
26
Month
August
Year
1844
Copyright
Public Domain
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JnLocke, Ingham Co, July 2Óth. Carolin: Lettick, only daughtér of Washington W. an Matiltla C. Ironr, aged t yenr and 27days. ALSO, On the31st July, Hkster, consort of Benjamin B.irney in the 57th year of her ngc. On Tuesday, August 13, at his rësi dence in the Township of Plymouth Philo Taylok, Esq. aged 57 years auc 4 months. Esq, Taylor was one of those pioneer: of the West who-first leaped the boundi of civilization and' penetraled the wilds of Michigan. He settled in the townshif in which he died in 1826, mét at the firsl ; meeting of its citizens, aided in its organ'ization, and for many years an active part in the transaction of its business. In his politica! career he ever received the encomium of unwavering fidelity and scrupuloua regard to the principies of jusand' honesty. A devoted Christian, he was alvvays active in the advancement of every moral enterprise designed to ameliorate the conditiön of man; he wrote, signed andcirculated the fi-rat temperance pledge, established the first temperance society that arose to cast its illuminating and restraining influence through the then almost unbroken wilderness of Plymouth. He wns a guardián to the needy, a father to the ratherless a friend to theed. But he lias gone, gone, lamented bi an almost unboundeJ circle of friends with not an enemy on earth- gone to hi rest. "I die," said he, "but I die ir peace-" For the last six months of hi illness, he was conscious of bis near ap proach to the grave, but he trembled net he dreaded it not, he manifestod no un seemly impatience of the hour, but was ready at any time to go. He thought the sooner the time arrived, the -soouer he would go home, the sooner he would meet his Savior and his carthly kindred thal thenseemed to beckon him away. When he called hia famiJy to his bed side and told them he was dying, it was with as much composnre as he would have told them of ihe slightest action of his üfe.- Without o sigh, without a groan, without a sfroggle, he breathed shorter and shorter, fainter and fainter, tilí hebreathed no more. His soul went out as does the morning star before the opening day, fading in the light of heaven. Long may we cherish his remembrance, and

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Signal of Liberty
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