Genealogy Pages for Northern Middle TN
Obituary for Rolfe ELRIDGE, Esq.
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person's obituary from the Nashville Union and American, Tuesday 06/24/1873: The Clarksville Chronicle of the 21st Inst. says: We are pained to announce the death of Rolfe ELRIDGE, Esq., which occurred at Palmyra on the 17th inst., of cholera morbus. He was an honest, intelligent gentleman, and one of the magistrates of the county at the time of his death. He will be sadly missed by the community in which he lived. Several deaths have occurred on the south side of the Cumberland river, at the mouth of Barton's Creek, about 18 miles from this city, from cholera morbus. |