Wilmington journal., 1873-11-07
81 E D.

In this city, October Goth, ROBERT ED
WARD, son of Rev. Joseph l.. and Georgie H.
Keen, a sed months ami IS days.
At the residence of his father, in Pittsboro,
\. C, on the 22nd inst, CLAUDE ASH
BURNE, eldest son of Claude b. and Matilda
NJ benson, aged years and months.
October. DR.. HENRY 7. HOWE, aged 42
years.
Near Rocky Point, New Hanover county, Oc-
tober 2sJ. 1873, Mr.. JOHN f. ROBITZSCH.
aged a years He was the son of Col. VIM. r Re
bitzsch, and the grandson OF the late Frederick
Kobitzsch, German who emigrated to this
country in 1907, and was renowned for genius,
learning, and fondness for science and horti-
culture. II ese qualities, united to refinement
and patriOti charact ristc of the talented,
social and liberal Robitz sch family in New Fl an
over. The deceased was a worthy representa-
tive of this excellent German blood, united to
good Amer can blood. He was uni, ersally pop
ular and much beloved. A devoted Baptist, he
was one of the brightest ard best Masons in the
State. One of the earliest volunteers in the
late war, no braver soldier shed his blood on
Virginia soil. lie was one of that gallant band,
raised in ana about Ellington in this county, and
which constituted Company "C' LIST regime MT
North Carolina Volunteers, in that terrific
struggle. He Was one of the few who survived
to tell OF the sacrifices and carnage which swept
nearly the whole company Oft, and whose bones
now bleach on the soil of that noble State,
which was the main battle ground. He was
shot through and through the right lung, and
still recovered as SO many did from similar
wounds The immediate cause of his death was
an abscess in said lung caused by an external
Injury received from The running Off the track
of a freight train he was in recently on the Will
mngtOn & Weldon Railroad. He leaves among
msny sorrowing friends and relatives, aged
father and mother, now bending like broken
reed under their heavy aff1iction. and also four
Iaotherless children who are helpless The large
concOurse which followed his remains to the
grave, united to the expressive sobs of sympa-
thy and sorrow and shedding of tears which SO
generally pervaded the sorrOwng com pany, at
tests the touching int rest which attaches to the
life and death of true man, good neghbor,
heroic soldier, useful citizen and a sincere
Christian. CON-
At her r6 sidence in Onslow county, the
2Sth inst, after short illness of congestion OF
the brain, MRS. SARAH ANN HENDERSON,,
relict of the late Thos Henderson, Esq, aged
q years and months She was devoted wife
and mother, a most excellent neighbor, kind
and charitable to all around her, to he poor, a
true and sv mpathetie friend, ministering lber-
ally to their necessities and guiding them In the
paths of virtue by precept and example. A
large circle of friends and relations mourn her
loss, but their loss IS her eternal gain. For
many wears a consists n member of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church, she had so lived up to
her profession that when called to give
count for the deeds done in the body, she had
no fears of the future, bit passed to her rest
sustained and comtOrted by the blissful assu-
rance of a glor Gus Immortality.
80 None knew her but to love her, nor named
her but to praise CON-.