A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > New York > Schoharie http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=723 Also visit our new sister sites: http://www.AncestorsOnTheWeb.com http://www.Genealogy101.com Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=45144 Submitted by: Gigimo Article Title: The Albany Gazette Article Date: February 23 1807 Article Description: Obituary of Jonathan DANFORTH. Article Text: Died, with an epileptic fit, on Thursday, 5th of February instant, in the county of Schoharie, Jonathan DANFORTH, Esquire, one of the judges of the court of common pleas, aged 54 years. He was interred in masonic order, on Sunday afternoon, at the town of Middleburgh, the place of his residence. No person had been of more essential benefit to the community than the judge, especially in encouraging the industrious of all avocations; he himself delighted in active pursuits, and generously rewarded those who excelled in that way. As a private citizen he was beloved by all; engaging in his manners, pleasant in his conversation and of an amiable disposition, he was capable of ingratiating himself into the favors of even the stranger. Ever solicitously anxious to preserve peace around him, he busily employed the happy faculty he possessed in uniting discordant opinions, in calming the bickerings and in removing those neighborhood animosities, too often cherished, and ever tend! ing to mar social bliss and interrupt domestic harmony. To the poor his benefactions were many, administering to them comfort, consolation and support; while he endeavored to reclaim the idle and vicious by recommending to them habits of industry and honesty. As a husband and father he was affectionate, humane, and peculiarly exemplary in introducing moral precepts in his family. I pass no encomium upon his memory to his acquaintances, to them he was known; far easier would it be to add a volume to the list of his virtues, than to detract the least from the purity of his reputation. He has left a worthy family to lament his loss, which is better felt than described. Nothing could be more poignant and affecting than bearing testimony to the closing scene; for notwithstanding the intense severity of the cold, so great a concourse of people was never before witnessed t a burial in this county, every eye appeared suffused in tears and every heart melted in grief. It was no! t a mother with her children alone left to bemoan the loss of their pr otector, but a community of children moaning the loss of their common parent. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NY-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com