Post by Melissa on Aug 11, 2004 18:51:12 GMT -5
Contributed by Craig Nelson, a Jeter/Lockett cousin.
Henry Jeter
Bedford County, VA
Obituary listed in Lynchburg, VA newspaper
THE PRESS
Lynchburg, August 10, 1821
(communicated.)
DIED --- At his residence in the County of Bedford, on the 6th inst. Captain HENRY JETER, aged 77 years, after a torturing illness of nine weeks which he bore with unexampled fortitude. --- As a neighbour he was kind and affable, and to the poor an unremitting friend.
[Note 1]: This transcription copied verbatim from the original document shown in
The Jeter Mosaic, published by Arcadia-Clark, second printing.
[Note 2]: Composition, spelling, grammar, and punctuation as in the original document.
[Note 3]: The terminology "on the 6th inst." above is an abbreviation of "on the 6th instant";
which means on the 6th day of the current month.
Henry Jeter
Bedford County, VA
Obituary listed in Lynchburg, VA newspaper
THE PRESS
Lynchburg, August 10, 1821
(communicated.)
DIED --- At his residence in the County of Bedford, on the 6th inst. Captain HENRY JETER, aged 77 years, after a torturing illness of nine weeks which he bore with unexampled fortitude. --- As a neighbour he was kind and affable, and to the poor an unremitting friend.
[Note 1]: This transcription copied verbatim from the original document shown in
The Jeter Mosaic, published by Arcadia-Clark, second printing.
[Note 2]: Composition, spelling, grammar, and punctuation as in the original document.
[Note 3]: The terminology "on the 6th inst." above is an abbreviation of "on the 6th instant";
which means on the 6th day of the current month.
