Daniel Dunbar Jr was a youth of fine promise a diligent and attentive scholar and a very neat letter writer He was not very strong and in the fall of 1838 he was sent to St Mary's River Fla where his cousin Asaph Dunbar was operating a saw mill He stayed until spring He died of appendicitis on May 28 1839 Here is an anecdote That forenoon his little sister was left in the room with him for a few moments The sunlight falling through the leafage of the crabapple tree flecked the counterpane with light and shade as the breeze gently stirred the boughs Daniel's eyes rested on the rippling shadows He knew that he was dying and he said This is a beautiful world In a few moments I shall have fathomed the deep mystery Just then others entered and the little sister crept away Daniel died that afternoon (North, Catharie M. History of Berlin Connecticut. -- New Haven : The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Company, 1916, pp. 149).