He was an auditor for Virginia for more than forty years.
He died on 1 Jan 1859, in Richmond, resulting from a railway accident at the Richmond station. He was buried at the Shockoe Hill Cemetery.
Sources
[1] The Cabells and Their Kin: A Memorial Volume of History, Biography, and Genealogy Alexander Brown January 1, 1895 Houghton, Mifflin & Company: Parent, Child page 347, 348
[2]The History of John Francis Deane Brown and Members of his Family in Virginia, Montana, and California, in Relation to the Harrison, Reade, Cary, Digges and Cabell Families of Colonial America. By: Albertina Brown Parker, daughter of John Francis Deane Brown. Missoula, Montana, 1963.
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