A warning voice from a watery grave!, or, A solemn proof of the uncertainty of life and importance of an early preparation for death! : in the instance of the melancholy and untimely fate of the much esteemed and lamented Miss Sophia W. Wheeler, who was one of the many unfortunate victims who perished by the awful conflagration on board the ill-fated steamboat Lexington on her passage from New-York to Stonington, Jan. 13, 1840 / [by C. Weild].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weild, C.

Series:

Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926.

Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Steamboat disasters--Long Island Sound (N.Y. and Conn.).

Steamboat disasters.

Fires--Casualties.

Fires.

Steamboat lines--Passenger lists.

Steamboat lines.

Death--Religious aspects.

Death.

Shipwreck victims--Biography.

Shipwreck victims.

Lexington (Steamer).

Wheeler, Sophia T., 1821-1840.

Wheeler, Sophia T.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (24 p. ) ill. ;

Other Title:

Warning voice from a watery grave!, or, A solemn proof of the uncertainty of life and importance of an early preparation for death!

Place of Publication:

New-York : Printed for the publisher by Sackett & Sargent, 1840.

Notes:

"Miss Wheeler was but 18 years of age, of respectable connexions, and for her strict piety and amiable disposition, deservedly beloved by all her acquaintance, and was on her return to the east from a visit to the south with not only the fond expectations of soon meeting her friends, but (agreeable to a previous engagement) of being united in marriage in one week from the evening of the awful disaster! Truly may it be said that "in the midst of life we are in death!""

"'Sister spirit come away!'"--P. [2]. In verse.

Attributed to C. Weild.

List of the names and residences of the victims of the Lexington disaster: p. 19-20.

Reproduction of original from The American Antiquarian Society.

Sabin no. 101453.

Contains:

Sister spirit come away!

OCLC:

10