Calhoun County AlArchives News.....Newspaper abstracts for JUNE 1879 June 1879 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: C Gravelle tealtree@comcast.net September 11, 2006, 5:48 pm The Jacksonville Republican June 1879 NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS FROM "THE JACKSONVILLE REPUBLICAN", Jacksonville, Calhoun County, Alabama for JUNE 1879 NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, June 7, 1879 STATE OF ALABAMA Calhoun County Probate Court Special Term, June 3nd, 1879 This day came R.T. Johnston, C.G. Morgan and J.J. Young and filed in court their petition in writing under oath; and also a paper purporting to be the Last Will and Testament of William Johnston, deceased, and moves the court to admit said Will to probate and to grant to the said R.T. Johnston, C.G. Morgan and J.J. Young letters testamentary under said Will. It is thereupon ordered that the 1st day of July 1879 be set for hearing the said application and that notice be given in the Jacksonville Republican, a newspaper published in said county for three successive weeks prior to said day as a notice to: Wm. E. Edwards Mary E. Hill Carrie Compton Inis Compton Elizabeth J. Cooper Carrie R. McGee; who are heirs- at- law and next of kin of the deceased and who are non- residents of the state of Alabama, to be and appear at a special term of said court to be held at the court house of said county on said 1st day of July 1879 and show if any thing they have to allege why said Will should not be admitted to probate. L.W. Cannon, Judge of Probate --- LOCAL News Married, at the residence of the bride's father, Tuesday, the 3rd inst., by Rev. E.T. Read, Mr. Joe Nisbet and Mrs. Flora Spivy. --- Mrs. Cobb, wife of Mr. Nattie Cobb, died at her home in Choccolocco Valley, Sunday, June 1st. Her disease baffled the skill of her physicians, and after a brief illness she passed from the sorrows of this world to the joys of another better and brighter. --- Robt. Martin, one of the oldest settlers of this county, died at his home near Peeks Hill, Wednesday the 21st ult. Mr. Martin was a good man in all the relations of life and leaves behind many sorrowing friends to mourn his loss. Thus has passed away another of the old landmarks of Calhoun, a representative of her earlier history. --- Died at his home near White Plains, Wednesday the 28th ult., Wm. Johnston. Mr. Johnston was one of the oldest settlers of this county, a man of unsullied character and of great worth. He was very old and his death was more the result of failing powers than any specific disease. He was buried by the masonic fraternity and the people of his section attested their love and respect for him an unusually large attendance at his funeral. One by one the old pioneers are passing away. It will be hard to find men who can well fill their place. --- Died at his home near Oxford of typhoid pneumonia, Sunday, June 1st, John Yoe, one of the first settlers of Calhoun. In the earliest recollections of the writer, Mr. Yoe was a citizen of Jacksonville. Here he married and remained until he moved to his place near Oxford, which he has since occupied. With him passes away another one of the links that connects the earlier history of our county with the present. During life Mr. Yoe was regarded as a substantial citizen and a good man, thoroughly reliable in all his financial transactions, and his death is a loss to the county and community in which he lived. His afflicted family have the deepest sympathy of many relatives and friends in this place. --- The venerable Allen Elston is no more! He died at his home in Choccolocco Valley, Wednesday the 21st, from the effects of old age rather than any specific disease. At the time of his death he was in the 76th year of his age. He was one of the pioneer settlers of Calhoun county and for over forty-two years occupied one place of residence. Mr. Elston was one of the substantial men of the county, beloved for amiable qualities of head and heart by all who knew him, and universally respected throughout the county. Peace to his ashes. --- The obituary of Rufus Burns and resolutions of Oxford Lodge on the death of John Yoe will appear next week. --- The aged grandmother of Rufus Burns, whose tragic death by a fall from his buggy we noticed last week, was stricken with paralysis when viewing the corpse of the loved one, and has since died. --- Uncle Jimmy Mohon has got five hundred dollars in money that says he can beat any man in this congressional district in a fifty yard foot race, one dash. He is seventy-one years old and will admit parties to the race from seventy years up. --- We received a pleasant visit from our little friend Nora Wyly who has recently returned from Selma where she has been attending school. Nora won the high distinction of being one of four in a class of forty who received the highest honors for scholarship and deportment. --- RUN AWAY - - - Tommy Coggins, a lad of about ten or eleven years of age, blue eyes, light hair, sallow complexion and rather heavy set, has run away from his home. He was bound to Col. Sheid of this county about four years ago in middle Tennessee and may be making his way back there. Col. Sheid requests all persons who may know of his whereabout to write to him (Sheid) at Alexandria or Jacksonville, Ala. --- ALABAMA News A Mr. Fritts who was moving from Loudon, Tenn. to MIssissippi, while passing through Marshall county, attempted to pull his gun from the wagon when it exploded and killed him instantly. His family sorrowfull returned to their old home. --- An Indian recently came to Guntersville from the Cherokee Nation and informed Mr. Patterson that some Indian mounds on his place contained deposits of silver and lead. One of the mounds was opened and the Indian's story was verified. There is great excitement. --- Cicero D. Hudson, an able lawyer of Randolph county, and a very old man, died in that county May 24th. --- Wm. Wagnon who was tried with his brother Ham Wagnon, for the murder of Smallwood in Etowah county at the late term of the circuit court is now a raving maniac. Ham Wagnon was sentenced to the penitentiary for one year but Wm. Wagnon, the one who has lost his mind, was acquitted. The mental anxiety endured during the trial is supposed to be the cause of his misfortune. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, June 14, 1879 LOCAL News We learn that Mr. William Weir is rapidly improving in health since going to Cleburne county and breathing that pure air and drinking that wholesome water. --- Died, last Friday night, Mrs. George Williams, living three miles south of this place of dropsy of the heart. The stricken husband, father, mother and sisters have the sympathy of our community. --- RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT IN THE DEATH OF JNO. YOE, by Hartwell Lodge No. 101, Oxford, Ala. Whereas, God has called from our midst Bro. Jno. Yoe, who was a member of this Lodge; and whereas another link in our mystic chain has been broken, and whereas another home was been made desolate, and a wife's and children's hearts have been stricken with sorrow, it is becoming in us to give expression to our feeling, therefore; Resolved, that while we cannot fathom the depths of that Providence which cut down our Bro. in his strength and bereft his family of his persence, support and counsel, we know that what He doeth is right. He is too wise to err and too good to do wrong. We therefore bow in meek submission to his will. 2nd; that in the death of our brother, Hartwell Lodge has lost a faithful and honored Mason, the community a worthy citizen, his family and kind husband and father. 3rd; that his famiy are entitled to to the sympathy of the Lodge which is hereby extended them in the spirit of the principles of our institution. 4th; that we wil emulate the virtues of our deceased brother and throw over his faults the mantle of charity. 5th; that we will wear the usual badge of mourning for 30 days. 6th; that a copy of this preamble and resolutions be furnished the family of the deceased and the Oxford Record and Jacksonville Republican with the request that they be published. 7th; that this preamble and resolutions be spread upon the Minutes of this Lodge and that a blank page be dedicated to the memory of Bro. Yoe. Thos. H. Barry Jno. F. Graham T.L. Robertson, Com., Hartwell Lodge No. 101, Oxford, Ala., June 3rd, 1879. ---- OBITUARY OF RUFUS BURNS Rufus Burns was born Dec. 11, 1863 and was killed May 25, 1879. Only sixteen, in the bright beautiful morn of youth, before he had reached the full fruition of physical and intellectual manhood, leaving only the memory of his noble virtues, and high natural abilities to illustrate the splendor of those accomplishments, which promised to crown his life in the future. Intelligent, manly brave, just as his feet were approaching the threshold of useful citizenship, the reaper death struck him down and a representative boy of Calhoun was no more. Above his mangled remains bent an aged grandmother, upon whose head the winds of eighty winters had silvered the golden hues of youth, and where the scalding tears were dried upon her furrowed cheek, her spirit, too, has left its decayed tenement to join the loved one in its flight beyond the unclaimed continents to the undiscovered bowers of the summer land above. "Age and beauty unite in realms of eternal love, Years, months and days are but one in that life above." W.W.W. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, June 21, 1879 LOCAL News Miss Genie Lockett, daughter of our former townsman Col. S.H. Lockett who has won high distinction in the service of the Khedive of Eygpt, is the guest of Mrs. B.F. Wyly. --- Dr. Burke who is a fine chemist and has had considerable experience with mineral waters, says that the medicinal properties of our Sulphur Springs are superior to any in the state and their mineral strength equal to any of his knowledge. This could be made a most delightful watering place. --- OBITUARY OF MRS. E.A. TAYLOR Died, at Concho mail station, Tom Green county, Texas on Thursday morning, May 15, 1879, Mrs. E.A., wife of Col. F.C. Taylor, aged 54 years. Thus unexpectedly has passed a most estimable lady; one who was beloved by all who had ever met her and probably no lady in west Texas had so large a circle of acquaintances and friends as she. The remains were followed to their last resting place by a large concourse of relatives and friends. The bereaved husband and relatives have the heartfelt sympathy of all who know them. Mrs. Taylor was a sister of Dr. B.S. Evans of of White Plains, Ala. --- IN MEMORIAM OF JOHN WRIGHT EVANS John Wright Evans, son of Dr. B.S. and Emma C. Evans was born June 26, 1877 and died at their residence in White Plains, Ala., April 15, 1879 aged 1 year, nine months and 15 days... --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, June 28, 1879 LOCAL News Mr. F.C. Taylor of Concho Mail Station, Texas, one of the largest mail contracters in the United States, died recently at that place. His devoted wife had died just but a short while previous. We published her obituary last week. --- Died, on the 26th inst., after an illness of but four days of congestion of stomach and lungs, Kiziah, relict of Samuel B. Hudson, deceased. The sudden death of this good woman has cast a gloom over our entire community. Her Christian virtues, her sorrows under the Providence of God begat for her a sympathetic friendship in every heart. She was a most devoted mother and lived in and for her children alone, and her last prayer was to be spared, God willing, to live for them longer. They have lost in her the best friend they will ever look upon again this side the grave. But a few days ago she was in the bloom of health to all appearance. Now she is dead. What a lesson to the living, to remind them of the uncertainty of life! Let us all so live, that when your summons comes, we may, like her, be fully prepared to meet it calmly and with perfect trust. --- DEATH OF MAJ. WIGGS We are pained to announce the death of Maj. A.R. Wiggs of Huntsville who died in that city last week of consumption. He established the Huntsville Independent before the war but retired from that journal before the breaking out of the war and made a tour of Europe and Asia. On his return he published a book known as "Hal's Travels" which gave him reputation as a writer of more than ordinary ability. He was again on the editorial staff of the Independent a few years ago and later on the staff of the Huntsville Advocate, which termininated his brilliant newspaper career. Maj. Wiggs was a graceful writer and was an honor to journalism. He was a particular friend to the writer and often gave us words of cheer through his paper. He was a friend to the young men and they held him in high estimation for his sterling qualities of head and heart. He was buried by the Knights of Honor, to which organization he was a member and his wife will get two thousand dollars from that order. His bereaved family have our heartfelt sympathy in their sore affliction. He is quietly sleeping that "sleep that knows no waking" in the "silent city of the dead", but we will revere his memory and drop a tear of sorrow. Requiecsat in peace. Scottsboro Citizen. (Maj. Wiggs was an uncle of Mrs. Otterson Smith and Miss Alice Wiggs of this city.) --- File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/calhoun/newspapers/newspape1092gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 13.9 Kb