Joseph Gabriel Du Ponceau Garesché (often known simply as "Gabriel Garesché") was one of 2 sons of Gabriel Garesché and Louisa Frances Duponceau Garesché, and the grandson of the renowned, linguist, jurist and philosopher and Revolutionary War officer, Peter Stephen DuPonceau.
According to "In Search of Peter Stephen Du Ponceau" by Wm. A Tieck:
"Late in 1828, the "most promising" of his [Mssr. Duponceau's] two grandsons, Joseph Gabriel Du Ponceau Garesché, died at Mount St. Mary's Seminary near Emmitsburg, Maryland, at the age of nine, a blow which 'bowed [him] down to the ground' once more."
There is an account of his death in the Life of Cardinal McClosky: the Cardinal, a seminarian at the time at Mount St. Mary's Co11ege, Emmitsburg, Md. wrote in his note book:
"Gabriel Garesehé [sic] died on the day after All Saints, Sunday, November 2, All Souls Day, 1828. He died about six o'clock: in the morning of the bilious, after a sickness of about ten days. He bad been here but a couple of weeks. The first news received by the boys of his death was at Mass, All Souls Day. He was not buried until the fourth. He was carried to his grave by six of the largest boys. Twelve Philadelphians immediately fo11owed. These and all the other boys had crepe around the left arm, which they wore for some days. When the dirt was just about to be thrown on the coffin, his nurse sent by his grandfather, Mr. du Ponceau, arrived with letters. She came for the purpose of nursing him during his last illness."
Other notes on his demise from Mt St. Mary's at Emmitsburg, MD website:
"On the 2nd of November, 1828, a boy aged nine years died in the infirmary. He was Gabriel Duponceau Garesché , and we find some touching notes regarding his last moments in M. Brute's handwriting. The child had a nurse named Biddy Boyd, who came to see him and care for him in his illness. It was very touching. They were all very kind to the child and to Biddy, and Father Brute's letter to the father on the boy's death affected him so much that he could not answer for a long time. Some one wrote:
"Of all the flowers that look up to Heaven. How soon have the loveliest sunk to the tomb!"
http://www.emmitsburg.net/archive_list/articles/history/stories/som/17.htm
Interred Nov. 4. 1828.
According to "In Search of Peter Stephen Du Ponceau" by Wm. A Tieck:
"Late in 1828, the "most promising" of his [Mssr. Duponceau's] two grandsons, Joseph Gabriel Du Ponceau Garesché, died at Mount St. Mary's Seminary near Emmitsburg, Maryland, at the age of nine, a blow which 'bowed [him] down to the ground' once more."
There is an account of his death in the Life of Cardinal McClosky: the Cardinal, a seminarian at the time at Mount St. Mary's Co11ege, Emmitsburg, Md. wrote in his note book:
"Gabriel Garesehé [sic] died on the day after All Saints, Sunday, November 2, All Souls Day, 1828. He died about six o'clock: in the morning of the bilious, after a sickness of about ten days. He bad been here but a couple of weeks. The first news received by the boys of his death was at Mass, All Souls Day. He was not buried until the fourth. He was carried to his grave by six of the largest boys. Twelve Philadelphians immediately fo11owed. These and all the other boys had crepe around the left arm, which they wore for some days. When the dirt was just about to be thrown on the coffin, his nurse sent by his grandfather, Mr. du Ponceau, arrived with letters. She came for the purpose of nursing him during his last illness."
Other notes on his demise from Mt St. Mary's at Emmitsburg, MD website:
"On the 2nd of November, 1828, a boy aged nine years died in the infirmary. He was Gabriel Duponceau Garesché , and we find some touching notes regarding his last moments in M. Brute's handwriting. The child had a nurse named Biddy Boyd, who came to see him and care for him in his illness. It was very touching. They were all very kind to the child and to Biddy, and Father Brute's letter to the father on the boy's death affected him so much that he could not answer for a long time. Some one wrote:
"Of all the flowers that look up to Heaven. How soon have the loveliest sunk to the tomb!"
http://www.emmitsburg.net/archive_list/articles/history/stories/som/17.htm
Interred Nov. 4. 1828.
Joseph Gabriel Du Ponceau Garesché (often known simply as "Gabriel Garesché") was one of 2 sons of Gabriel Garesché and Louisa Frances Duponceau Garesché, and the grandson of the renowned, linguist, jurist and philosopher and Revolutionary War officer, Peter Stephen DuPonceau.
According to "In Search of Peter Stephen Du Ponceau" by Wm. A Tieck:
"Late in 1828, the "most promising" of his [Mssr. Duponceau's] two grandsons, Joseph Gabriel Du Ponceau Garesché, died at Mount St. Mary's Seminary near Emmitsburg, Maryland, at the age of nine, a blow which 'bowed [him] down to the ground' once more."
There is an account of his death in the Life of Cardinal McClosky: the Cardinal, a seminarian at the time at Mount St. Mary's Co11ege, Emmitsburg, Md. wrote in his note book:
"Gabriel Garesehé [sic] died on the day after All Saints, Sunday, November 2, All Souls Day, 1828. He died about six o'clock: in the morning of the bilious, after a sickness of about ten days. He bad been here but a couple of weeks. The first news received by the boys of his death was at Mass, All Souls Day. He was not buried until the fourth. He was carried to his grave by six of the largest boys. Twelve Philadelphians immediately fo11owed. These and all the other boys had crepe around the left arm, which they wore for some days. When the dirt was just about to be thrown on the coffin, his nurse sent by his grandfather, Mr. du Ponceau, arrived with letters. She came for the purpose of nursing him during his last illness."
Other notes on his demise from Mt St. Mary's at Emmitsburg, MD website:
"On the 2nd of November, 1828, a boy aged nine years died in the infirmary. He was Gabriel Duponceau Garesché , and we find some touching notes regarding his last moments in M. Brute's handwriting. The child had a nurse named Biddy Boyd, who came to see him and care for him in his illness. It was very touching. They were all very kind to the child and to Biddy, and Father Brute's letter to the father on the boy's death affected him so much that he could not answer for a long time. Some one wrote:
"Of all the flowers that look up to Heaven. How soon have the loveliest sunk to the tomb!"
http://www.emmitsburg.net/archive_list/articles/history/stories/som/17.htm
Interred Nov. 4. 1828.
According to "In Search of Peter Stephen Du Ponceau" by Wm. A Tieck:
"Late in 1828, the "most promising" of his [Mssr. Duponceau's] two grandsons, Joseph Gabriel Du Ponceau Garesché, died at Mount St. Mary's Seminary near Emmitsburg, Maryland, at the age of nine, a blow which 'bowed [him] down to the ground' once more."
There is an account of his death in the Life of Cardinal McClosky: the Cardinal, a seminarian at the time at Mount St. Mary's Co11ege, Emmitsburg, Md. wrote in his note book:
"Gabriel Garesehé [sic] died on the day after All Saints, Sunday, November 2, All Souls Day, 1828. He died about six o'clock: in the morning of the bilious, after a sickness of about ten days. He bad been here but a couple of weeks. The first news received by the boys of his death was at Mass, All Souls Day. He was not buried until the fourth. He was carried to his grave by six of the largest boys. Twelve Philadelphians immediately fo11owed. These and all the other boys had crepe around the left arm, which they wore for some days. When the dirt was just about to be thrown on the coffin, his nurse sent by his grandfather, Mr. du Ponceau, arrived with letters. She came for the purpose of nursing him during his last illness."
Other notes on his demise from Mt St. Mary's at Emmitsburg, MD website:
"On the 2nd of November, 1828, a boy aged nine years died in the infirmary. He was Gabriel Duponceau Garesché , and we find some touching notes regarding his last moments in M. Brute's handwriting. The child had a nurse named Biddy Boyd, who came to see him and care for him in his illness. It was very touching. They were all very kind to the child and to Biddy, and Father Brute's letter to the father on the boy's death affected him so much that he could not answer for a long time. Some one wrote:
"Of all the flowers that look up to Heaven. How soon have the loveliest sunk to the tomb!"
http://www.emmitsburg.net/archive_list/articles/history/stories/som/17.htm
Interred Nov. 4. 1828.
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