This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: SHIPLEY Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JW.2ADI/2215 Message Board Post: Am not related but may be of interest to someone who is. I have no further info but you may find similar extracts from more old newspapers at URL: <http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php> Vern D ////////////////////////////////// Transcribed by Dee Sardoch <deesar@frontiernet.net> ////////////////////////////////// The San Andreas Independent San Andreas, Calaveras County, CA Saturday, 26 November 1859 ***************************** THE LATE HENRY SHIPLEY -- Mr. SHIPLEY, who for 5 or 6 years was connected with the press of this State, as editor of the Grass Valley 'Telegraph,' the Sacramento 'State Journal,' and the Marysville 'Herald,' and who committed suicide on Friday last, was buried at Sacramento on Saturday. The 'Standard' furnished the following account of the funeral and the sermon delivered on the occasion by Rev. O.C. WHEELER: 'The friends of the deceased assembled at the undertaker's rooms of Mr. TRUE, whence they moved up K street and along Tenth to the City Cemetery, where the Rev. O.C. WHEELER, who had intimately known the deceased from childhood, performed the last sad rites of Christian burial to the dead. He spoke earnestly and touchingly, and when he closed there was scarcely an eye that was not dimmed with tears.' [excerpts from the sermon]'A few years since, when dining at the house of deacon SHIPLEY, in Boston, this young man was there, spending his college vacation, under the roof and amid the blessings of pious parents, every way worthy of their noble son'at the end of his scholastic career he bore from the stage the rich honors of a prominent New England College'A spirit of enterprise and independence brought him to this distant land of excitement'Here he was at once found at a post of service. No position of idleness or life-destroying sinecure was suited to his tastes'A new occasion of interest, promising to eclipse even our own golden excitement arose at the North, in 1858. He hastened to share its toils and its triumphs. I saw and conversed with him on the way thither. [not specific where]'He arrived but just in time to see a few of the fragments of the bubble; it had burst and carried with it all his hopes. But, nerving himself anew, he again sat down to the editor's toils and soon breathed again his wonted aspirations. But an accident prostrated him; and though for a time he again became our companion, yet the sad consequences of that fall were not removed -- only postponed. In an unexpected moment he has gone from us'