MAPLES, WILLIAM C. "Died—At the residence 
of his sons, in Madison County, Ala., on 
the 26th ult., WILLIAM C. MAPLES, in the 
81st year of his age. He was a native of 
Virginia and was one of the Guard, at the 
age of fifteen years, on Dan River, when 
the battle was fought at Guilford Court 
House. He emigrated to East Tennessee in 
the year 1796, and served as a volunteer 
in the war of 1812; and emigrated to Ala-
bama in the year 1833. He had been a member 
of the Baptist church for the rise of fifty
years; he was a faithful and useful member
of that society, and filled the office of 
a Deacon and Clerk for the church for a num-
ber of years; he was esteemed as a father in 
the Gospel; a tender husband and an affectionate 
father to his children; an agreeable and obliging 
neighbor. He departed this life in the triumph 
of a living faith—'In the hope of that eternal 
life which God, that cannot lie, promised before
the world began.' He has left a numerous train 
of connections, scattered almost from the Atlantic
to the Pacific Ocean. 

"The Athens, Tenn., and Lynchburg, Va., papers are requested to copy." 
The Democrat, (Huntsville), November 17, 1847.