Died Phillips Ferry, Pike Co., Ill September 12, 1822 Age 50y Removed to Kossuth Cemetery in September 1887 - Father of Rev. D.G.Cartwright
James Cartwright was a Baptist preacher. In 1822 he left his home in New York and came west to look after some land which he owned on the Military Tract in Illinois. While at Griggsville, Ill. he was taken sick and died, and was buried by strangers. But his grave was not forgotten. Sixty-five years later, his grandson, W. H. Cartwright, of Mediapolis has his bones brought here and laid by the side of his wife, who died here in 1850. Thus father and son, the one unknown to all this people, and the other, for many years a familiar face and figure, going in and out before the people, in the service of his Master, are permitted to rest together, with the wives of their youth, in our beautiful city of the dead.
from Yellow Spring and Huron by J. W. Merrill, Mediapolis, 1897, published by the author, p. 326.(courtesy of pmfrench)
James Cartwright was a Baptist preacher. In 1822 he left his home in New York and came west to look after some land which he owned on the Military Tract in Illinois. While at Griggsville, Ill. he was taken sick and died, and was buried by strangers. But his grave was not forgotten. Sixty-five years later, his grandson, W. H. Cartwright, of Mediapolis has his bones brought here and laid by the side of his wife, who died here in 1850. Thus father and son, the one unknown to all this people, and the other, for many years a familiar face and figure, going in and out before the people, in the service of his Master, are permitted to rest together, with the wives of their youth, in our beautiful city of the dead.
from Yellow Spring and Huron by J. W. Merrill, Mediapolis, 1897, published by the author, p. 326.(courtesy of pmfrench)
Died Phillips Ferry, Pike Co., Ill September 12, 1822 Age 50y Removed to Kossuth Cemetery in September 1887 - Father of Rev. D.G.Cartwright
James Cartwright was a Baptist preacher. In 1822 he left his home in New York and came west to look after some land which he owned on the Military Tract in Illinois. While at Griggsville, Ill. he was taken sick and died, and was buried by strangers. But his grave was not forgotten. Sixty-five years later, his grandson, W. H. Cartwright, of Mediapolis has his bones brought here and laid by the side of his wife, who died here in 1850. Thus father and son, the one unknown to all this people, and the other, for many years a familiar face and figure, going in and out before the people, in the service of his Master, are permitted to rest together, with the wives of their youth, in our beautiful city of the dead.
from Yellow Spring and Huron by J. W. Merrill, Mediapolis, 1897, published by the author, p. 326.(courtesy of pmfrench)
James Cartwright was a Baptist preacher. In 1822 he left his home in New York and came west to look after some land which he owned on the Military Tract in Illinois. While at Griggsville, Ill. he was taken sick and died, and was buried by strangers. But his grave was not forgotten. Sixty-five years later, his grandson, W. H. Cartwright, of Mediapolis has his bones brought here and laid by the side of his wife, who died here in 1850. Thus father and son, the one unknown to all this people, and the other, for many years a familiar face and figure, going in and out before the people, in the service of his Master, are permitted to rest together, with the wives of their youth, in our beautiful city of the dead.
from Yellow Spring and Huron by J. W. Merrill, Mediapolis, 1897, published by the author, p. 326.(courtesy of pmfrench)
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