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after his native city; the main thoroughfare, Carson street, being named after a friend of his, an old sea captain, living in Philadelphia.[1] He is buried at Pittsburgh, S. S., where his grave is marked by an urn erected by the Free Masons, of which order he was a prominent member, being an officer in Ohio Lodge No. 113, the second regular lodge in Pittsburgh.[2] No issue. "Ideas at the interment of Mrs. Bedford, the wife of Doctor Nathaniel Bedford of Pittsburgh, July 9, 1790." "Whether the spirit, doth survive The body; and doth live, In the Elysium of the Greeks, Or Heaven of which the Christian speaks I know not; but, if there be, Such immortality[3] to thee or me, Fair shade; this thing call'd death, And the mere stoping of the breath, Not being to oblivion brought, Is a light matter in the scale of thought, And not the proper subject of a tear." "Why then such shape of Melancholy here, And chrystal distillation of the eye? Is it because the form that there doth lie, Was passing pleasing in her life, And none so fair and virtuous doth survive?" "Fair ladies, I will not say none; Nor even with the dead induce comparison? But this will say; The soul that animated that same clay, Was wise and Good, With every excellence, endued, That could the sex exalt: Without a foible or a fault:" "Uncensur'd and uncensurable; Her exit answerable: For pure as Innocence and love, She felt the will of Jove, With proper fortitude complied And like an unstain'd lily drop'd her head and died." Gazette Publications: H. H. Brackenridge, pp. 278–9.

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1. History of Allegheny County. Phila., L. H. Evarts & Co., p. 140; also Pittsburgh Directory for 1826, p. 9.
2. Allegheny County's Hundred Years, by George H. Thurston, p. 310.
3. "The despondent mind will doubt at times; but where there is hope, there must be faith."