Frank N W Burton Obituaries

    ©  Kathy Duncan, 2022

At long last, two obituary/death notices for Frances Nash Williams Burton have turned up. Although he died in Rutherford County, Tennessee, both notices appear in his previous state of North Carolina, where the Burton family had been long established.

One notice, published in The North Carolina Star, provides his death date of 17 June 1843:

The other notice, published in the Raleigh Register and North Carolina Gazette, provides additional information about his educational background. I knew that he graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1799, but did not know that he was the valedictorian.