The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1827-10-24

In Stockbridge, on the 18th inst Mrs. Eliza
beth Mason Pomeroy, wife of Thaddeus Pome
roy, Esq. and eldest daughter of the late Hon
Theodore Sedgwick, aged 50 years
In Dover, Vt. Mrs. Lucy Rawson, wife Of
Mr.. Secretary Rawson, aged So.
In Newfane, vt. 5th INST Mr. PeriE Raw
son, aged 81. He went into the field after din
ner, apparently well, where he was found dead
lie was soldier in the French and revolutions
airy wars, and was one of the heroes who met
! the British at Lexington and Bunkers Hill.
/ In Westmoreland, N. II. on the LIST inst.
Spencer l.. French, son of Capt Abiiah
French, aged years. His death was occas-
Toned by bean getting into his windpipe.
lie lived only ten minutes after the accident
occurred.
In Baltimore, on Friday evening, the 18th
inst. Hon. John Eager Howard, aged 70, a
distinguished patriot and hero of the reyolu-
ton, and gentleman universally respected
and beloved. tie was long known by the fiat
terlng appellation of q the hero of the Cow
pens At the Eutaw Springs, he was also
distinguished for his activity and bravery and
he was one of the many resolute officers who
acquired great praise for their courage at Bran
DIVINE and Germantown He was formerly
Governor of Maryland, and once received the
votes OF the federal electors for Vice President
OF the United States. The Baltimore papers
are dressed IN mourning on account of his
death His funeral was on Monday last, at
his residence, Belvidere, near Baltimore At
! his death he was President of the Cincinnati
| Society of Maryland, and, next to Gen. La
rayette' the senior living officer of the revo-
/ lutionary army.
! In Easton, Maryland, Maj. Gen. Perry Ben
! son, hero of the revolution. He was a gen-
tieman OF great bravery, and excellent private
character. lie was in the battles at the Cow
pens and Guilford Court House. In the con-
tinen'al army he bad the rank and commission
| of Captain
In Franklin county, (Ky.) Mr.. William Kel-
Ter, aged about IS years. This gentleman was
| remarkable for excessive corpulence, which
rapidly increased upon him for several years.
and finally caused his death. During the last
year OF his life, he increased in weight upwards
OF 100 lbs. Fire hundred and eightg-taro
pounds was found to be his weight three or
four weeks before his death His height was
about six feet.
In Twinsburgh, Portage county, (Ohio) on
! the 2lst ult. Moses and Aaron Wilcox, aged
oO The following are some of the singular
condolences which attended their lives and
death. They were twin brothers, born in Con-
necticut on the same day, and of the same
mother they were married on the same day.
their wives being sisters they hoped to have
experienced religion on the same day, and at
tached themselves to the same church, and on
the same day; they engaged in mercantile
business together, at BIiddletown, and failed
together; from thence they removed and set
! tied themselves together in this State at a
place which, from them, derived the name of
Twinsburgh; they were taken sick on the
same day, continued sick the same length of
time; they died the same day, and were buried
IN the same grave, and have left to their be-
reaved children the same rich Inheritance of
! an unsullied moral and christian character
The singular identity which pervaded the char
acter of these men, and the events of their
lives, manifested itself no less in their persons
During their youth and middle age, SO nearly
did they resemble each other, as to challenge
the most discriminating eye to distinguish
them. Employed in the early part of their
lives, in the neighborhood of each other as
school teachers, they were wont occasionally
to change schools, and always without any de-
lection, the part of the scholars, of the
change CIeareidnd Herald