Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1847-10-13
THE GRAYE-WHERE SLEEP BOTH SIRE
AND SON

49,
AND SON
When the last call for volunteers was
made on Indiana, Edgar Derwin was the
first to enrol his name among the active up
holders of his counlry's standard. lie was
u daring, intrepid, athletic youth, knowing
no fear; patriot by intuition, endowed with
all mans most cnnobling feelings, though
manhood's threshold he had notyet crossed.
His father, vast verging towards LIES win
ter, heard his purpose with silent approval,
for, III truth, he felt a secret, satisfactory
pride at the patriotism so promptly evinced
by his son. Not so his mother She looked
to him as the prop of her declining years,
and prcsentiment audibly whispered to her
that he was about to leave her. never TO re-
turn. She nterposcd no obstacle to his re-
solve, though the tears that coursed down
her furrowed cheeks as she embraced and
blessed him while leaving, too plainly told
how acutcly painful to her was the separa-
ton. =
Young Derwin had proceeded no further
than MatamOras with his regiment, when
he was seized with a severe fit Of sickness.
Being unable 10 proceed, he was placed III
the hospital. Ills regiment marched on.
The captain of the company to which young
Derwin belonged, lost no time in informing
the father Of the sons illness, telling him at
the same time he need entertain no apprc-
tensions for his life, as his recovery might
be pronounced certain. This assurance
Notwithstanding, that letter, when il reached
the quiet western home of the sick young
soldier, proved to his fond parents a missivc
surcharged with sorrow.
The first burst of grief over, old Derwin,
prompted by the quick instincts of parental
affection, concluded that duty to his child,
living ON sick bed in foreign country
perhaps in grave made by strange hands
required more of him than unavailing fears.
He brushed them away, and ere the early
rays Of the mornings sun gilded the roof Of
his humble log cabin, he departed to seek in
Mexico the son he SO much loved-to sue
cor him if alive, and if dead, to transport his
corsc where it would mingIe with its native
clay-where he and his stricken wife might
i'll death lay beside il.
lie speeded on without impeachment till he
reached this city, and while here, waiting
for conveyance down the BraZos. he was
taken with the yellow fever. From the
boarding house where he was staying, he
was sent to the Charity Hospital, which he
entered on Wednesday of last week. His
case was Il severe one; it unsettled his
reason. All the imagnings of lis lcvered
brain had reference to his son. At one time
he Witnessed him in battle, doing deeds of
mighty daring, and he chcered him on. At
another time he saw him . manacled cap
tive, in a prison dungeon, and he would Of
fer large sum for his ransom. Again, he
would call on the MeXcans not to desecrate
his grave!
Skllul medical aid, and the watchfuI nur-
sing Of The Sisters of Charity, carried him
through the most violent stage ofthc disease;
if they did 30; snatch him from DEATH door,
they at least prevented him from stepping
over it. True. he was. his reason restored,
himself lingering OBS the confines of eternity,
as il were, when. about noon on Monday,
an emaciated youth was carried into the
same ward and placed in the bed beside him.
His glazed eve gazcd on the Young, emaci-
aled patient with intense anxiety. lie trem-
blingly looked and looked till it might be
said he had well nigh looked his life away.
He sprang from his bed; with a couvulsive
grasp he clutchcd the small paper label
which the porter had Just placed at the bed
head Of the recently arrived young patient,
and opening il III his tremuIous hand, he
read
Edgar Derwin, iun'r, Indian;.."
MY son y he said, and no more did he
say. for as he uttered the phrase. he fell and
expired. Young Derwin, who on account
OF his sickness had been discharged, was on
his return home. when he, too, was taken
by the epidemic, and hence the painfully sin
guIar coincidence Of this meeting between
father and son, and its tragic termination.
He soon, though not Immediately, recogni-
zed his father. The scene was too much
for his already shattered constitution; before
the bell of the cathedral tolled twelve that
nigh! he was 4 corpse. They now, though
not at their homestead in lndiara, sleep
where the mounful cypress and the death
burthened north wind chauas the last requi-
EN- DER the strangers grave \. 0. Delta.
70. 10 b P,e Cf.-The Philadelphia North
American tells the following stoy
The Shrewd device Of the carpenters at tie State
House in putting up label TO the effect that tie
workmen ate about 10 shuele tie rooi--asl 10
Questions WAS worthy o. all praise bit re are