Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1841-12-04
OBITUARY.

Died, At Corning. Painted Pos, Steube G. o.
State of New York, Mrs. MAar Couarprsur
born in October, l773-she departed this life Sep.
aember 9th, ls4l, and was, therefore, within one
',nen,h of being, 6s years old One Of the first
children Of white parents barn at Wyoming, of a
family that deeply suffered, herself sufferer, il
Seems fitting that something moro than the ordna
Ty notice should he t,ken Of her disease. Mrs.
CUuWTn,eHr the daughter Of Mr.. John Ab,
bot, one Of the earliest settlers in Wilkes. Barre
township, (Jac,b ,b's PI,ns.) The place of her birth
WIS the farm now owned aud occupied by Mr.
Robert Miner. On The fist of July, IT'S, her ia
tser being at work the flats, near the river.
heard the alarm gun at Wilkes Barre Fort, invoked
his oxN- anu fastened to pu, his family in
Tlace, At cast, oftenporary security The British.
the ssrages, ssdmsre savage Tories, were already
On the heights on the opposite side Of the river
Almost all the recn proper to bear arms being
Withdrawn ia Slss Conneciicut line, below the
mountains, in the Continental service, imperious
daty demanded ths every mai who could carry
gun should rally 10 ske standard raised by Coils
Butter and Dennison, fsf the defe nee of the valley
Promptly answering the cali, Mr.. Abbot joined the
little army, fought bravsly, witness ,d the mclan-
cholly oVeTthrow Of our pc qe hu, was one of the
few who escaped. At 6rS he se,ircJ. but he had
beautiful harvest ripening, and a large family
"hoiy depending thereon for sHbsstanCe he re
turned and enjcavord by praisc~othv exc tic MS, to
save al leas, portion ofthc abxRd1uce with hich
Heaven seemed To hsvc etosneE his INDUSTRY
Ambushed by the savageS Mr.. Abbot and Mr..
Isaac Williams, who was with him, were shot, to-
mahawked and scapcd (about a msae above HoI
ienback's Mill at the mouth Of Mil Creek.) His
house and barn were burnt--His widow and nine
orphan children, the Oldest Is, thc youngest an in.
fant, expelled, without food OF rainseat, but the
clothes they woic, and thus were froed TO beg ,he,
bread 10 Wyndham county. Connecticut, from
whence Mr.. A. had removed. Taen a t;tte girl
of years old Mary Abbot, the subject Of ,his no.
aice, accompanied the family on foot, 6s mles of
the 300 being aninha ahited and dicary wilderness.
The suti,rings sisd the sufferers of hose stecmy
days of war sGd voc, should not bc fue go,ra
Mary was taken by her uncle Joseph Abte, OF EL
lngton, with ~hss she lived To the age d evenly,
when she came back TO the Susquehauna--wss
married 10 Mr. IoR COPYRIGHT, a very woxhy
IMAM Of a very tesFeosi<e family. They occupied
for many years the hosse bull, on the ruins of
where she was horn Gbut burnt by tho cnemys-
,wanssse! kch os>e, iiesoIa,e family reassemblcd 1T
NNyeaitng, surrouIslsG by plen,y--she enjoyed
many years Of health and haFpincss. She has left
Il children. Mrs. Coualigh had but recently gone
RIO reside whh her son.in,lsU, Mr.. II. G. Phelps,
Latwhose house she Gied. Her disease was bilious
tteper. A member Of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, her faith and hope in salvation were cIe-r
and almost the las, worts -she uttered were the
teauiifui lines
Jesus con m,ke A6ying led
Seem soft downy ,plows are
>NorE.-- or the childien .dtby Mr.. A5bo and
,who fled on foot through the wilderness, il may be
regarded as interesting fact, that .i1 living
las, July, their united ages exceeding 400 years,
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