Newberry Library - DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Isaac Stevens Metcalf (also to Antoinette B.P. Metcalf), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1852-1853

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Open book DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Isaac Stevens Metcalf (also to Antoinette B.P. Metcalf), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1852-1853

Title DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Isaac Stevens Metcalf (also to Antoinette B.P. Metcalf), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1852-1853

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1852-1853

Place United States

Subjects Bowdoin College, Brothers and sisters, DuQuoin Coal Company, Illinois Central Railroad Company

Format Business records, Correspondence, Diaries, Genealogies, Invoices, Manuscripts, Personal narratives, Records

User-Contributed Transcription 2d pageor at least, some principle of life that does not die with the senseless carcass. - There was a funeral here, last week of an old resident of the place, a physician of some note, formerly - for several years confined to his room by a painful disease in his feet. - one of them almost entirely consumed, - he suffered much - was an irreligious man, during all his sickness to the very last, cursing, swearing, complaining of his lot: he required his wife to sit up with him nights to read novels to him because he thought he could sleep better days than at night. The case seems very dreadful to me, all the circumstances of the funeral abhorrent to my feelings. He was a Mason buried with the 'honors of Masonry'; the mayor of Erie and all others of that order in the region being gathered, coming into church - the church he would never enter during life - with their staffs, badges of office, fanciful and gay regalias all having quite an air of pride at making so fine a display: - it was a melancholy sight. The sermon was by the Methodist clergyman was written, and finely too: - it was a happy effort, for so difficult a case, without saying anything offensive to the friends or others, he was faithful to the truth

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Archival Collection Title Isaac Stevens Metcalf papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection

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Call Number Midwest MS Metcalf Box 1 Folder 17

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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Unique Identifier NL11FDPN

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