REFN: 21368
John Stearns Abbott Obituary, Detroit Daily Free Press 9-28-1852
"DIED: At his residence in Springwells, near Detroit, on Sunday, the
26th o f Sepember inst. at about 7 o'clock in the morning of apulmonary
consumption , John S. Abbott, Esquire, aged thirty-eight years and two
months.
The sub ject of this notice was born in Tolland, in the state of
Connecticut, on the 22nd of July, 1814. He entered Yale College earlyin
life, and graduated at that institution, bearing the reputation of an
honest man, and of a good ripe scholar, at the age oftwenty-five---He
soon after entered the celebrated la w School of the late JudgeDaggett of
New Haven. Having completed his prepar atory studies and fittedhimself
for the laborious duties of the profession, he came to Detroit, wherein
1835 he established himself in practice, and whe re until within a few
months of his death, he continued unceasingly, and to t he manifestinjury
of his health, to pursue it. He was a sound and well read lawyer: he
early required and always sustained a high reputation at he Bar: andwas
esteemed and respected by his associates for his talents and for his
honorable and upright bearing. In 1845 he married Lucy Maria,daughter
of William Woodbridge, Esq. (late Governor of Michigan) whom he has
now---in th e morning of her life---with three beautiful andinteresting
children, thus e arly left to deplore this sudden and fearful
bereavement. But it was the han d of God: Who can stand against it?
For the last two or three weeks of his lif e, the deceased appears tohave
given up all hopes of his recovery and calmly and deliberately set
himself to the work of preparing himself and his affai rs for that
catastrophe which was destined so soon to close his earthly caree rand it
is a source of great consolation to the writer of this brief notice,and
especially to his distressed family that, (so far as human evidencecan
verify it.) he died a sincere and devoted Christian---with a placidityof
m ind which the Christian alone can feel---and happy in his confidenthope
of a blessed immortality.
Springwells, Sep. 27, 1852"

• Married: 31 MAR 1845 in Detroit, MI ³

1. William Woodbridge Abbott b: 17 FEB 1848 in Detroit, MI
2. Henrietta Lucy Abbott b: 4 DEC 1850 in Detroit, MI
3. Juliana Trumbull Abbott b: 7 FEB 1846 in Detroit, Wayne Co., MI

1. Abbrev: David (Woodbridge) Edgar Woodbridge Historian
   Title: David (Woodbridge) Edgar Woodbridge Historian
2. Abbrev: The Woodbridge Tree.FTW
   Title: The Woodbridge Tree.FTW
3. Abbrev: Whitehead tree.FTW
   Title: Whitehead tree.FTW