The Times Batavia, Genesee Co., NY Tuesday, January 3 1843 DIED. In this Village this morning at six o'clock, after an illness of fourteen days, Mr. Eli Todd LEWIS, aged thirty years. His funeral will take place at the Episcopal Church on Thursday next at 2 o'clock P.M. Mr. LEWIS was one of those rare and choice spirits who move quietly and unosteniatiously through life, yet exerting a strong and abiding influence in promoting the cause of virtue, morality and religion. He was a living and bright example of christian excellence; and has left that enviable legacy of the good man--a character without reproach. To a temperament of singular equanimity and cheerfulness, he joined a mind well disciplined and stored with useful knowledge. The members of the Lyceum will long remember the series of excellent communications from his pen signed "A Mechanic," which excited so much interest and respect as to call forth a vote of thanks to their unknown author. His skill and industry as a mechanic: his trustworthiness, prudence and spotless integrity in all his intercourse with his employers, endeared him to them as their companion and friend. He was a communicant of the Episcopal Church: and as a Superintendent of the Sunday School his services were eminently useful, gaining the esteem and affection of the children, --and his death has occasioned a vacancy which cannot easily be filled in that department of christian labor. "As ye follow to the ground Where deep and cold, ye've made his bed, And "earth to earth" with muffled sound Shall crumble on his coffin lid; Dry up your tears that ye would shed While round his covering grave ye stand; 'Tis but the way the Christian dead Go forth to reach their Father land." *** submitted by L.C. Schmidt