George Graham Bright

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The Daily American Telegraph
31 March 1852
George Bright, sixteen years of age, son of Hon. Jesse D. Bright, died at madison, Indiana, lately of typhoid fever.

Information from Death Certificate Age 16? Yr. 2m 5 d Nativity - Indiana (no cause of death shown) C. Vail, Undertaker (Death Date on certificate shows March 21, 1885). Was George relocated in 1885? Burial date looks like March 25, 1852.

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Madison Daily Madisonian March 22, 1852

OBITUARY

Departed this life, on Sunday, the 21st inst., at the residence of his father in this city, George Graham Bright, son of Hon. Jesse D. and Mary E. Bright, aged sixteen years, two months and five days.

The funeral will take place on to-morrow, at 10 o'clock, from the residence of his father on Third street. The friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend.

It is very seldom that the hand of Death disappoints hope and blights affection, in a greater degree than it has done in the removal of this amiable and promising youth. Natural goodness of heart, in a wide and comprehensive sense, with unusual cheerfulness and buoyancy of spirits were among the prominent points of a character that endeared him to a large circle of relatives, and rendered him a favorite associate to those whose years and pursuits were similar to his own. His innate sense of propriety and obedience to it, stamped his manners with the mark of good-breeding and rendered him a dutiful son, an affectionate brother, and a faithful and respectful pupil His intellectual qualities were many degrees above the standard of mediocrity. He appreciated the value of knowledge and realized pleasure in the pursuit of it; and had made attainments such as to qualify him to enter creditably upon a course of collegiate study the present spring. But the fond hopes for the future that were forming in his own mind and the fonder ones that were centering upon him in the minds of others, have given place to the gloom of disappointment, and the bitterness of death! A physical constitution and form to which nature had given unusual compactness and vigor as well as comeliness seemed almost a pledge of security against early death, while the severity of the stroke is further aggravated by the fact that at an early period of his short illness, his reason became clouded, so that he was not able to express his feelings in view of the great change before him. And now he is no more. His sun has gone down before it reached its meridian; and while Affection garners up with zealous fidelity the imperishable memory of one so lovely in his life. Faith looks upward and says though with tearful eye-"He doeth all things well."

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