The following obituary appeared in the October 23, 1847 issue of the Raleigh Register. Robert Freeman CRENSHAW was the 5 year-old child of Dr. Wm. M. CRENSHAW, late of Wake County. Robert died of congestive chill in Tarboro, NC.
Category: Obituary
CAMBRELENG, Ann (d. 1847)
The following obituary for Mrs. Ann CAMBRELENG appeared in the September 8, 1847 issue of the Semi-Weekly Raleigh Register.
BANKS, Mary (d. 1847)
The following obituary for Mrs. Mary BANKS, wife of Gerard BANKS, appeared in the November 24, 1847 issue of the Semi-Weekly Raleigh Register. Mrs. BANKS was 73 years old at the time of her death.
BATTLE, William Horn (d. 1879)
On the 14th inst. Hon. William H. BATTLE departed this life, full of years and honors. He was undoubtedly one of the purest public men in any age or country, and one of whom our State had just cause to feel proud. Elevated to the Bench so far back as 1840 and for so many years prominently before the public, he ever maintained a character of spotless integrity, and unsullied purity. Eminent as a jurist, learned in the law impartial in its administration, he lived honored by his fellowmen, and dying has gone to receive his eternal reward.
ASHE, Rosa Hill – (d. 1898)
Raleigh, NC, Jan. 10 — Mrs. Rosa Hill ASHE died here last night at the home of her kinsman, Capt. S.A. ASHE. She was born in this city March 9, 1816, and was the daughter of William H. HILL and Eliza K. MARSHALL (the latter being the first white child born in Raleigh). She was a kinsman of Chief Justice MARSHALL. William H. HILL was the son of Hon. William H. HILL and Eliza ASHE, daughter of Gen. John ASHE, whose home was at Hilton, near Wilmington. November 21, 1837, Miss HILL married her cousin, Thomas H. ASHE. They had one child, Dr. Alexander S. ASHE, who died in 1866. Her husband died in 1859. About 1869 Mrs. ASHE became matron of the Home at Wilmington and remained there until 1875, when she came here. She leaves two sisters – Miss Lossie HILL and Mrs. Fannie D. WADDILL.
Source: Norfolk Virginian Newspaper, 10 Jan 1898; pg. 8. Available via ChroniclingAmerica.gov.
SNELLING, W.N. (d. 1911)
Raleigh, May 22 — W.N. SNELLING, prominent citizen of Raleigh, died at his home here Sunday, aged 70 years. He was a brave Confederate soldier and a successful business man, not having been activly engaged in business, however, for a number of years. He has held a number of important offices in the city government, including a commisionership on the the commission to manage the Raleigh dispensary in the interim between open saloons in Raleigh and statewide prohibition. He was a prominent Mason. He leaves a widow and one child, the latter being Mrs. T.H. HICKS. The funeral was held at 5 o’clock this afternoon.
Source: Greensboro Daily News, 23 May 1911, pg. 1
YARBOROUGH, Edward (d. 1862)
Died, in Raleigh, on Friday last the 28th, Col. Edward YARBOROUGH, the well known proprietor of the Yabrorough House.
Source: Hillsborough Recorder, 2 Apr 1862, pg. 3.
