Associate Reformed Presbyterian Death & Marriage Notices From the Christian Magazine of the South, the Erskine Miscellany, and the Due West Telescope, 1843-1863

It becomes our duty to announce the death of the Rev. Joseph McCreary of the Alabama Presbytery and William Watt, Esq. of Starkville, Miss., which occurred on the 23d of October on the Ohio River, a few miles below Portland. These brethren, in company with the Rev. James M. Young of Dalias County, Alabama; Rev. David Pressly of Starkville, Miss.; Rev. John Wilson and lady of Tipton, Tenn. and Wm. R. McCain, Elder of Mr. Wilson embarked on board the Lucy Walker on Wednesday afternoon, on their return from Synod, which had closed its session in Jessamine Co., Kentucky the Thursday preceding-and in less than an hour afterwards, the three boilers burst with horrific effect, dealing death and destruction around. …From a letter of Mr. Wilson (who escaped unhurt), in the Protestant and Herald, written the 26th October, at New Albany, Indiana, we learn the result of this awful catastrophe to our friends was–the death of Mr. Watt and Mr. McCreary, the former being killed instantly, the latter dying shortly after he was taken to a house–the infliction of wounds upon Messrs. Young, McCain and Pressly–the two former being badly injured, the latter having his hands boldly scalded. The wounded were taken by Capt. Durham to New Albany, five miles up the river on the Indiana side, where they were kindly treated by the hospitable citizens.

Departed this life in Jessamine County, Kentucky on Tuesday, the 15th of October last, Robert Gwyna, Senr. He was an elder in Ebenezer Church. … He was the father of a large family, every member of which he lived to see in connection with the church to which he himself belonged.

At her residence on Clear Creek, Jessamine Co., Ky., on Monday moming, November 19th, Mrs. Sarah January, relict of Ephramin January, in the 87th year of her age. She was one of the very few survivors of the first settlers of Kentucky. With her husband and father, Andrew McConnell and his family, she emigrated to Kentucky from Pennsylvania in the year 1780, descending the Ohio River to Louisville and located themselves for a few months in the Fort at Spring Station, about six miles from Louisville, and thence went to the Fort al Harrodsburgh, where they lived about one year, from which place they removed to the Fort at Lexington, where they lived until after the memorable battle of Blue Lick, in which her father was killed. She resided in the Fort at Lexington when the first in that Fort was born, (which child was the late Mrs. Robert Wickliffe, and daughter of Col. Todd, who also fell at the Bluc Lick Battle). In the fall of 1783, or spring of 1784, she removed to the farm on Clear Creek, thirteen miles from Lexington, where she resided up to the time of her death, a period of about sixty six years. At an early period she and her husband became [p.36] members of the Associate Reformed Church, located on their farm, called Ebenezer, (on ground given to and conveyed to the church by her husband) at the time under the care of Rev. Adam Rankin, and afterwards Rev. R. H. Bishop, D. D. … For nearly twenty seven years she was left a widow, her husband having died in 1823. She was the mother of a large family and reared eleven children, five sons and six daughters, all of whom have married and settled in three or four different states, and all are members of some branch of the Church of Christ.

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