Obituary of Nathaniel Vannoy

Submitted by Larry Cockerham

Hello cousin. I noticed you had an entry posted on the Wilkes Co. site concerning Nathaniel Vannoy which stated that his grave site is unknown. He is in the Springwood Cemetery in downtown Greenville, SC.

Obituary, Nathaniel Vannoy, August 1, 1835, The Greenville Mountaineer

Died. In this place on the 26th ult., after a short illness produced by the measles, MR. NATHANIEL VANNOY, in the 87th year of his age. The deceased was a man venerable for his years and exemplary life. He was a native of North Carolina and the first person born in the western part of that State. He served with Daniel Boon [sic] in several of his early expeditions into the wild West. He also was a soldier of the Revolution. For the last fifty years of his life he had been a member of the Baptist Church. There are few men who have lived to so great an age, and there are none who can look back on their past lives, and see less to regret. He had spent his days in perfect peace with the world, and had never, since his youth, either given or received a blow in anger from any human being. With a happy consciousness of having spent his time well in this life, he cheerfully resigned to meet his God in another. To him, death was stripped of all its terrors. He viewed his approaching dissolution with as much calmness as an ordinary man would his transfer from one home to another. He left upwards of two hundred descendants to lament his loss, and emulate his exemplary conduct as a man, a friend, and a Christian.

This extract of the obituary of Nathaniel Vannoy was supplied to me in 2002 by cousin William Burns of Houston, Texas. LDC

Larry D. Cockerham
6112 Stillmeadow Dr.
Nashville TN 37211
lcoc@bellsouth.net

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