Obituary from The Daily Missouri Republican, 
July 16, 1858

Edward Dorsey

Mr. Edward W. Dorsey died at his residence in Pike county, Missouri, Saturday, the 10th July, 1858.  The disease was erysipelas, and proved fatal in the course of a week.  Mr. Dorsey was born in Anne Arundel county, Maryland, October 8, 1795.  He lived on his own farm in Pike about 22 years.  He was not only respected, but loved by all who knew him.  A neighbor who knew him long and intimately said, "He was the first to go to the house of affliction, and the last to leave it."  Being loved and confided in by his neighbors, he was a mediator and peace-maker among them, and thus, as far as any one man could be, he was a bond of their union in social life.  He was an exemplary member of the Protestant Episcopal Church.  With an humble mind, he seemed to remember faithfully his baptismal covenant; and as, so far as man can judge, he lived in the house of his God and Saviour, we are justified in the hope that he died in Him and is blessed.  To his friends and neighbors and family, his past life is an ever living sermon of Christian faith and Godliness.  It is the consistency of Christian life with the precepts of the Scriptures which affords one of the strongest evidences of the origin and truth of that religion.  He was the Senior Warden of St. Mark's Church at Bowling Green, and was buried with the service of that Church, in his own family cemetery on his farm.  This testimonial is conscientiously and cordially offered by his Pastor.

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