Loss of the Minerva, The

DESCRIPTION: "O, Thou who reignest enthroned on high," the singer reports losing the one she "valued far the rest above." They had been married just four years. He is lost at sea; none of his crew survived. She recalls their time in Europe, and asks God's help
AUTHOR: Ebenezer Easton? (source: Eckstorm/Smyth-MinstrelsyOfMaine)
EARLIEST DATE: 1926 (Eckstorm/Smyth-MinstrelsyOfMaine)
KEYWORDS: husband wife ship death disaster
HISTORICAL REFERENCES:
1829 - Loss of the sealer Minerva and her captain Samuel Hadlock, leaving his wife, formerly the Prussian lady Dorothea Albertine Eilhelmina Celeste Russ, a widow (source: Eckstorm/Smyth-MinstrelsyOfMaine)
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Eckstorm/Smyth-MinstrelsyOfMaine, pp. 286-289, "The Loss of the Minerva" (1 text)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "The Death of William Gilley" [Laws D5] (subject: the Minerva loss)
NOTES [71 words]: The pseudo-King-James language of this is so thick I was tempted to tag it "foreignlanguage" (since we don't have a keyword "gibberish"; one wonders if Mrs. Hadlock, not being a native speaker of English, would even understand its combination of false archaism and pomposity). The amount of sermonizing in this thing far exceeds the actual information about what happened. Sad that the event didn't get a better memorial. - RBW
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