Anson Fairchild
Submitted by Daryl Polley 22 August 2019
New York Gazette, 11 November 1817
Cincinnati-Oct 24-A singular and melancholy circumstance occurred
last week in the neighborhood of Newport Ky. in the death of Anson Fairchild. On
Friday he went into the woods with his gun, for the purpose of exercise and
amusement and did not return.
His friends becoming uneasy in consequence of his absence, set out in search for him on Saturday, which was continued until Sunday, when he was found dead in a sitting posture, leaning against a tree, with his head reclined in his hand, his elbow on his knee and his gun leaning by his side.
There was no appearance of anything like a struggle. He had been for some days previous, complaining at times, of his head, but nothing very serious. What adds to this instance, to the distress naturally occasioned to friend and relatives, by such a dispensation of Providence, is the peculiar distress of a younger wife to whom he had been married but a few days.
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Campbell County marriage records show that Anson Fairchild married America Gillet on 9 October 1817.