Gettysburg Compiler
(Gettysburg, Pennsylvania)
October 23, 1822 Page 3

Died at Lebanon, Conn., Miss Hepsibah Strong, aged 67 years. It is presumed that few cases have ever had a parallel with hers. When she was 19 years old, she injured, by a fall, the spinal marrow, in consequence of which, for the long space of 48 years, she has never walked, or been able to raise her head from the pillow; most of the time she has been unable to bear the least noise, or the light; and has gone through a scene of suffering, which nothing but Religion could have enabled her to have borne. She possessed in her youth a good understanding and a fine person, and was on the eve of being married, when the misfortune happened, which forever blasted all her earthly prospects.