Lamenting his unexpected precipitation into eternity

A possible 4th great-grandfather (I am not fully confident in the documentation at one generation), Samuel Martin (1785-1855) shows up peripherally in the Kentucky Gazette in Lexington, Kentucky, Friday, March 09, 1827.

Elizabethtown, Kentucky,  February 21.

MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.

With feelings of sympathy and regret, we record a most melancholy transaction which took place in this town, on Monday night the 5th inst.

A considerable number of gentiemen, as we are informed, were sitting around the fireside of Samuel Martin, esq. conversing in a jovial manner, about the Presidential election, &c.--when Mr. Joseph Stockman, a respectable merchant of this place, observed that he should hereafter credit goods to the friends of Jackson only. Upon this, Capt Isaac C. Adair, also a respectable inhabitant of this place, who was standing on the opposite side of the fire, approached Mr. Stockman and struck him several blows, while the latter was then sitting in his chair; they were then separated. After a slight altercation, the Captain made a second attack, and struck several blows, when they were separated the second time. Mr. S. observed that he discovered he had no chance there, and taking his hat he walked towards the door, to which he was pursued by Capt. Adair who kicked him just as he reached it; at this time, as is supposed Mr. Stockman stabbed him with a double bladed pen-knife, in the left side nearly opposite the heart.

Capt. Adair then observed that he was stabbed, and soon became sick and pale and in about ten or twenty minutes, he expired.  He has left an amiable wife and several children, to lament his unexpected precipitation into eternity.  

This should be an awful and durable warning on the subject of passion.  Intelligencer. 

Jovial conversations could, back in those days, turn pretty sharply apparently.