Northampton County PA Obituaries and Death Notices
John Heckewelder
Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania)
February 12 1823 Page 3
We have to announce the death of the pious, learned and venerable John Heckewelder of Bethlehem. He died on Friday the 31st of January, at 6 o'clock in the morning, at the advanced age of seventy nine years. Had he lived until next month, he would have attained the age of eighty.
The Rev. John Heckewelder, having spent the greater part of his life among the Indian nations, was little known in this country, until our lamented Dr. Wistar, who was an excellent judge of merit, persuaded him to communicate to the world the immense fund of information he possessed respecting the history, manners and customs of the aborigines of our land. Wistar did nto live to see that work published, which has placed Heckewelder among the most interesting writers that his country had produced, but by means of its publication, its author became more generally known, and endeared himself to all who had the happiness of his acquaintance, not only by the knowledge that he possessed, and which he freely communicated to all who were desirous of it, but by all those excellent qualities of the heart which command love, esteem, veneration and respect. His religion was solid, his piety sincere, his modesty unassumed, and his benevolence unbounded. His loss will be felt and regretted by the country at large, whose literary fame he largely contributed to extend; but to those who were admitted to the intimacy of his friendship, and to that religious society of which he was the ornament and the pride, that loss is a misfortune which no words can sufficiently express.
We understand that Mr. Heckewelder has left some posthumous works, which will be published in due time. - Columbian Observer.
Frederick William Hutter
Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania)
January 5 1825
Died at Easton, Pa., on Tuesday the 21st ult. Mr. Frederick William Hutter, one of the Editors of the Easton Centinel, aged 24 years and 5 months.
Henry Hutter
Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania)
March 24 1824 Page 3
Died at Easton, on Monday evening, the 1st of March, Mr. Henry A. Hutter, one of the proprietors of the Easton Centinel, in the 24th year of his age, a victim of intense application to a business unusually unfriendly to health and comfort. The deceased was eminent for all the qualities that constitute an amiable man; unobtrusive in his manners, of exceedingly persevering and industrous habits, and uncommonly attentive to the discharge of all his social duties; in consequence of which, his departure attaches to it a much larger share of regret, than is generally conceded to such occurrences
Philip Petena
Star and Banner (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania)
November 9 1849
Death From the Bite of a Rat
Philip Petena, a young man, died a few days ago, near Easton, Pa., from the effect of a bite of a rat. About two weeks previous the rat bit him in the chin. His face afterwards became very much swollen, and notwithstanding the prompt appliance of every remedy that his physician could suggest, he died in the greatest agony.
Mrs. Trumphaor
Gettysburg Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania)
July 17 1822 Page 2
From the Susquehanna Democrat
July5
Another Accident
We learn that a Mrs. Trumphaor of (?)Lausanne township, Northampton county, near the Beaver Meadows, was lately shot under the following circumstances:
Some of her children discovered a Rattlesnake in the bushes near the house, but in such a situation that it could not be got at with a stick. Mrs. Thumphaor got a rifle from the house for the purpose of shooting the snake; but by this time it had changed its situation so as to enable her to get at it with a stick; she laid the gun across a log and killed the snake; and in attempting to take up the gun, she caught it by the muzzle and drew it towards her, when the lock was caught either by the log or a bush, and the ball passed completely through her body. She then sent her two eldest children after her brother, and returned into the house, when she took up her infant about eight weeks old, sat down in the cradle and sucker her child. In about two hours her brother arrived, and found her still sting in the cradle with the child in her arms, and two of her other children engaged in wiping away the blood from the wounds in her sides. She appeared to be quire sensible, and told her brother that she should die in three hours from that time, and that in three years he would die by a similar accident. She did die in three hours; but whether her prediction respecting her brother will be fulfilled or not, time only can disclose.