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wednesday,, October 8, Is45.
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DEATH OF WILL A. JEFPREYS, ESQ.


We have this week to perform the melancholy
duty of announcing the death Of WILLIAM A..
JEFFREYs, Esq, Senator from Franklin county
He expired al his residence on Friday morning
last after an illness of about twenty days, of bilious
fever. The deceased was 9 lawyer by profession,
having studied in this City a few years since un-
der the direction of the Hon. William Fl. Hay
wood, Jr Soon, after coming to the bar he was
appointed by the Magistrates County Attorney for
Franklin, the duties of which office he discharged
up TO his election as Senator with frmncss, i'm
partiality and ability + Last year he was elected
by the feeholders of franklin to the State Senate,
and was, perhaps, the youngest member in that
distinguished body r'a 1l g


AS man Mr.. Jcffreys was remarkable for can
dor, honesty, and decision Of character. In the
circles of private life he was obliging and amia-
bic, and man had firmer or more devoted friends
At home, surrounded by his affectionate family,
upon whom more than all others this heavy blow
has fallen, he was all that we see in good hus-
band and in an induIgenl father. Asa politician
he had the fullest confidence in the integrity and
virtue of the people, and was at all times and un-
der all circumstances their honest champion and
servant. franklin county never sent to the Le-
gislature Representative more patriotic or one
truer 10 all her interests than he was But his
bold and manly eloquence is hushed; and the loss
is not merely that of his patty, but the whole
State has suffered in the extinction Of so promising
an intellect He has been cut off ere the great
work of his enlightened life had been fairly CON-
mcnced. Many regrets and sorrows follow him
to his long repose.