The Macomb Journal, page 2
November 28, 1872
Dust to Dust.
Last week we gave a simple announcement of the death of Geo. W. Damron, which occurred in Monmouth a few house before we went to press--the telegraph announcing the event. Mr. Damron was one of McDonough's Pioneers--a class that are fast disappearing from among us, before the relentless sickel [sic] of death. The deceased was, at the time of his death, in his 86th year. He was born in Buckingham county, Va., in 1786--moved to Kentucky in 1805, and from thence to McDonough, settling a few miles west of this city, in 1835. Two years later he moved to his city, which has been his home since. He wife died in 1846. Two, only, of his children survive him : Mrs. Robinson, of this city, and the wife of D. R. Hamilton, formerly of Prairie City, now of Monmouth, and with whom he was visiting at the time of his death. Father Damron was one of those few men who never grow old, either in spirits or physically. Until within eighteen months, he retained all the vigor of early manhood, and it is only a few months since his health begam to fail and the sear and yellow leaf of life came on.
The Macomb Journal, page 2
November 28, 1872
Dust to Dust.
Last week we gave a simple announcement of the death of Geo. W. Damron, which occurred in Monmouth a few house before we went to press--the telegraph announcing the event. Mr. Damron was one of McDonough's Pioneers--a class that are fast disappearing from among us, before the relentless sickel [sic] of death. The deceased was, at the time of his death, in his 86th year. He was born in Buckingham county, Va., in 1786--moved to Kentucky in 1805, and from thence to McDonough, settling a few miles west of this city, in 1835. Two years later he moved to his city, which has been his home since. He wife died in 1846. Two, only, of his children survive him : Mrs. Robinson, of this city, and the wife of D. R. Hamilton, formerly of Prairie City, now of Monmouth, and with whom he was visiting at the time of his death. Father Damron was one of those few men who never grow old, either in spirits or physically. Until within eighteen months, he retained all the vigor of early manhood, and it is only a few months since his health begam to fail and the sear and yellow leaf of life came on.
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Age 86y
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