Clotilda's notice of death appeared in the Brooklyn Eagle, Monday, January 28, 1850, p.2

DIED

   On January 27, at Brooklyn, Mrs. Clotilda Shuttleworth, wife of Captain W.L. Shuttleworth, U.S.M., in the thirtieth year of her age; and on the 21st of March, William Rodman Shuttleworth, aged five months. The following lines are from the pen of the bereaved husband and father:

The stroke of Death that blanch’d her cheek
   Dimm’d not her brilliant eye;
But wild and fitful flashes told
   That her last hour was nigh.

Her raven hair in tangled locks
   Out o’er her pillow flung—
Long tresses soft as flossy silk—
   in mazes all unstrung.

She wakes now from lethargic sleep
   And cries in accents wild—
“Where am I? Ah! my husband, dear,
   Bring, quickly, bring my child.”

She clasped the Babe, then softly then,
   Beamed her dark eyes with love;
“Querido Mio, must we part?
   My own chiquillo dove.”

“My Husband guard our precious Boy
   Through infancy and youth;
As I would teach him, so must thou,
   The love of sacred truth.”

Then smiled she as a saint would smile
   While kneeled her husband there,
And vowed to make her slightest wish
   His future theme of prayer.

And now her long dark lashes close
   O’er orbs yet purely bright;
Her breathing faint and fainter grows—
   Her soul hath ta’en its flight.

The infant, with its Mother’s look,
   Imbibed her nature too;
And ‘though we watched it hour by hour
   Still weak and weaker grew.

And it hath joined his parent now,
   In realms where dwelt the blest—
In the same grave where sleeps she, there
   Her Babe lies on her breast.

And oh! how bright the ideal gleam
   To the bereaved one given,
That Wife and Child, with angels pure,
   Still smile on him from heaven.

The Catskill Cemetery picture above was taken by author, 2008.

The source for the poem above by William Louis Shuttleworth: Home Journal (1846-1856). New York: Apr 6, 1850. Vol. 15, Iss. 217, p. 3; Proquest: American Periodical Series Online.

Clotilda's death record gives her cause of death: List of Deaths and Interments in the City of Brooklyn, during the week ending February 2d, 1850, Brooklyn Death Registers, 1847-1853, Brooklyn (New York). Board of Health.. Microfilm of original records in the Municipal Archives, New York, New York. FHL MF 1315321: Register of deaths 1847-1853, 1857-1858, p.9: Clotilda S. Shuttleworth, age 29, cause of death: consumption, buried Green Wood.

Sources for other biographical information come from census and other records and can be found in the descent reports for William Louis Shuttleworth and Dr. John Brosnaham.