"DIED,
In this place, on Saturday the 30th ultimo, Malinda Knapp, wife of John R. Knapp, Sr., Esq., aged 56 years, 9 months and 30 days.
Mrs. Knapp's decease was produced by the epidemic now prevailing in this place; her illness was of but few days duration, but of very distressing character, and was endured by the deceased with unmurmuring... resignation. She had been for many years an exemplary member of the Christian (Presbyterian) Church, and her character was adorned in an eminent degree, with the highest Christian virtues..."
"DIED...
In this place, on Monday the 31st ultimo, Russell A. Knapp, aged 21 years, 4 months and 7 days.
In this dispensation of Divine Providence, this community is called upon to lament the loss of one of the brightest ...a young partner is left to mourn the premature departure of an affectionate and noble husband, with whom she had but just started upon the rugged journey of life...
The deceased was afflicted with some contagion with which his mother died, as mentioned in the foregoing notice, and of an illness but a few days duration.
The deceased was a young man of extraordinary promise. Nature had been singularly profuse in endowing him with great moral and intellectual qualities... May that good and just Being, who "tempers the wind to the shorn lamb," be a father to the widow and the orphan....
He developed the extraordinary quality of his mental faculties at a very early age, as the editor of a newspaper, which he commenced when only 17 years old, and conducted with a prudence and ability that a man of twice his years might have been proud of... He was attacked eight or nine days since with the epidemic prevailing here, which is supposed to be Small Pox. His mother died on Sunday evening at about seven o'clock, of the same disease, and on Monday evening at about the same hour, his noble spirit was wafted to the spirit land."