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Note: HISTORY per Dan (dbettsj@msn.com): *Note: His funeral was attended on the 6th by an immense concourse, who came from neighboring towns to testify respect and cast the last look upon that countenance which had so often led and cheered them on in the various works of philanthropy.
Event: Heart attack Illness 4 APR 1849 Torrington, Litchfield County, Connecticut
Note: The following is from a communication from Deacon Thomas A. Miller to "Brother Burleigh," and printed in the "Republican" news paper: "Died, on the 4th of this month, of an affection of the heart with which he had been troubled a number of years. He dropped dead in his barn in the morning.
Event: representitive in Conn. Legislator Elected MAY 1815 Torrington, Litchfield County, Connecticut
Event: History/pers APR 1849 Sharon, Litchfield County, Connecticut
Note: General Chas. J. Sedgwick, historian, of Sharon, Conn.; who served as aid on the staff of General Tuttle, in a letter to the Comp., says: "He was a man of remarkably fine personal appearance, a splendid rider and particularly fond of fine horses. His influence was large in the town and county, and considerably so throughout the northern part of the state."
Event: History/pers BET 1831 AND 1835 Torrington, Litchfield County, Connecticut
Note: In the Torringford centennial. by Rev. Samuel J. Mills, Gen Tuttle is spoken of as having placed in 1831 an organ in the church for which thanks were voted by the society in 1835.
Event: History/pers APR 1849 Torrington, Litchfield County, Connecticut
Note: The following is from a communication from Deacon Thomas A. Miller to "Brother Burleigh," and printed in the "Republican" news paper: His virtues were numerous, his philanthropy enlarged, which only those who knew him best could appreciate. Eye quick to perceive, heart to feel, and hand to relieve the wants and woes of his fellow men; ready to enlist in any effort for the amelioration of suffering humanity. With an indomitable energy, he would surmount and overcome the most formidable obstacles. He was one of the first to enlist in the temperance cause, and threw himself into that reform when there was nothing to gain but abloquy and reproach. He ever remained firm and undaunted in this cause. Only a few hours before he was struck down he was engaged in devising plans for its advancement. His efforts and untiring zeal in the cause of emancipation are too well known to the public in this state to need a delineation. For many years and until his death he was President in this state of the Litchfield County, Anti-Slavery Society, and if I am not mistaken, was at the time of his death, President of the Connecticut State Anti-Slavery Society. His house was a refuge for the fugitive, and his purse and team were often employed to help him forward to a place of safety. No man watched with more interest the advance of his cause in this and other lands.
Event: Army/General Military Branch 1828 Torrington, Litchfield County, Connecticut
BIRTH/DEATH:
Connecticut, Deaths and Burials Index, 1650-1934
Name: Major General Urie Tuttle
Birth: abt 1779
Death: 4 Apr 1849 - Torrington, Connecticut
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