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Note: N421 The Montgomery Advertiser (Montgomery, AL), 27 January 1864
Died at his residence in Montgomery County, Alabama on Sabbath, September 27th, 1863, Dr. Nicholas L. Meriwether, in his eighty-second year.
To say that by his death we had lost a valued and much esteemed citizen, would be but the universal sentiment of all who knew him; but to those of us who knew him intimately, that expression will not convey the loss we feel we have sustained by his death. He was a man of no ordinary character, being possessed of mind of extraordinary powers, which was highly cultivated by much reading and a judgment capable of sifting the true from the false, we felt that we could go to him for advice on any subject, and get an answer with arguments that would carry conviction of the correctness of his decision.
Few physicians have followed the profession with so much ardor to such an age as he did - taking the latest and best medical journals of the day up to the end of his life., reading them with great care, and from his fine perception and analytical mind selecting all that was useful, and applying them for the benefit of his numerous patients, who are ready now to testify the great benefits they have received from his treatment, and the unbounded confidence they had in his professional skill.
He was a man of great charity; having devoted a large portion o f his life, labor and money to the practice of medicine for the benefit of his neighborhood, very rarely if ever making any charges for his services. Being one of the earliest settlers in this county, and physicians very scarce, he was forced into the practice; and once having commenced, his success was such he could never retire from it, even if his great love for "doing good to his neighbor" had not prompted him to its continuance.
His turn of mind was such that it enabled him to succeed at anything he undertook. The writer has often been entertained examining specimens of his mechanical execution, both in wood and iron, which he had brought to great perfection.
The example of such a man has a happy influence, not only in his own family, but in the neighborhood that may be so fortunate as to have him as is plainly exemplified in this instance. He raised and settled six sons around him, having been so fortunate as to have lost only one child. The loss of such a father cannot be realized by the outside world. To them and his estimable and afflicted widow, now confined to a bed of illness, we ______ our heartfelt sympathy.
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