Calhoun County AlArchives News.....Newspaper abstracts for FEB 1880 February 1880 ************************************************ 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 14, 2006, 8:30 pm The Jacksonville Republican February 1880 NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS FROM "THE JACKSONVILLE REPUBLICAN", Jacksonville, Calhoun County, Alabama for FEBRUARY 1880 NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, February 7, 1880 ALABAMA News Mr. Martin Hale died recently in Cherokee county, aged 70 years. --- R.H. McKelvy, better known to the survivors of the 16th Alabama Regiment as "Dick" McKelvy, fell dead near Moulton last week. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, February 14, 1880 LOCAL News We are pleased to note the fact that Mr. J.L. Kirby of this county has returned from Atlanta, after a month's stay, with his eyesight greatly improved. He had become almost totally blind. Now he has hopes of seeing as well as ever. Even under so short treatment as he has had, he feels like a new man. --- Seaborn Whitehead died at the residence of Mr. A.T. Martin, near White Plains, the 5th inst., aged 60 years. An old citizen writing us on the subject says, "He had been living from house to house in Choccolocco Valley since 1844 and while he did no one harm, helped many along with their business. He was originally from North Carolina. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, February 21, 1880 LOCAL News Sarah Adeline Sappington, sister of Dr. C.C. Porter of this place, was born June 24, 1828 and died the 2nd day of February 1880 near Paint Rock, Jackson county, Ala., and was brought to this place by her sorrowing children and buried in the family burial ground here. Her school associates, teachers and friends will at once call to remember her superior talents and high religious and social worth. In God's providence it was her lot, like that of many of her peers to pass through the crucible of a life of toil, privation and sorrow, and finally sickness and death. Her last words were "Tell my brother and sister to met me in Heaven." Her sorrowing relatives have the heartfelt sympathies of our entire community. --- Mrs. McAuly, wife of the lamented J.C. McAuly, died at her home near Alexandria, Thursday the 12th inst. of pneumonia and was buried in the family burial ground at this place the day following. As the officiating clergyman remarked in the delivery of the funeral sermon, "to those who knew Mrs. McAuly, it was needless to recite her christian virtues. " Her whole life was an illustration of the sweetest graces of character that adorn the earnest follower of the Master and her influence for good will live after her. May God temper the affliction to the now doubly orphaned children. --- Mrs. Renfro, wife of Mr. Thos. P. Renfro of this county, died at her home Tuesday the 17th inst. of bronchial affection, after a long illness and was buried in the family burial ground at this place the day following. The annoucement of her death, though not unexpected, fell with a shock on this community where she was so well known and beloved and her worth was understood and appreciated. Thoroughly domestic, she found her chiefest social joys in the sacred precincts of the home and to know her thoroughly and appreciate the loveable traits and sweet influence of her character, one had to visit her at that home. A visit to that kindly home, over which she presided with such sweet grace and motherly kindness was a boon, and many's the happy day the writer has spent under her roof. A humble, devoted christian, she bore the suffering incident to her distressing affliction for years with a patience and calm resignation remarkable. Though a constant sufferer, she always gave more thought to the happiness and comfort of others than she did to self, and exemplified in her life the unselfishness which Christ taught and enforced by His example. Her only surviving son, Hon. J.M. Renfro, reached Jacksonville in time to attend her funeral and as the strong man, who had faced death a thousand times without blanching, bent beneath his weight of sorrow and gave vent to his grief over the grave of an idolized mother, the most tender chords of sympathy being touched in all who witnessed the scene. The aged husband and daughter and son have the heartfelt sympathies of our entire community. --- ALABAMA News We learn from the Abbeville register that a man by the name of Henry Newton, residing near Beulah in Henry county, poisoned his wife last week by giving her some strychnine in a dose of salts. She died about three hours after the poison was administered. The cause for this act of infamy is said to be that Newton's mother-in-law refused to give him certain cows that she had promised, until he had made a home of his own. He had only been married about six months. When he saw that his infamous work had succeeded, Newton escaped and has not been heard from. The citizens of this community are greatly enraged at the most horrible and dastardly crime ever perpetrated. There was not the shadow of excuse for it. The young wife is represented to have been a lady of loveable disposition, confiding nature and highly esteemed by all who knew her. The people the community where the crime was committed are in the highest condition of resentment and threaten to lynch the murderer as soon as he can be secured. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of February 28, 1880 SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY Under and virtue of an order of the Probate Court of Calhoun county, made on the 10th day of February 1880, the undersigned, as Executor of the Last Will and Testament of John J. Henderson, deceased, will sell, for cash to the highest bidder at Jacksonville, on Tuesday the 9th day of March 1880 the following described personal property to wit: An unsettled interest in the firm of Henderson & Cothran, merchants at Guntersville, Ala. 1 note on Monroe Williams (colored) 1 note on Prince Morgan (colored); both amounting to about $50. 1 note on E.G. Reaves for $15. 1 note on W.W. Ashley for $10. W.J. Jordan, Executor --- STATE OF ALABAMA, CALHOUN COUNTY Probate Court, Special Term Jan. 17, 1880 Lucinda Hall, deceased, Estate of This day came R.E. Lewis, administrator of said estate and filed his statement, accounts and vouchers for a final settlement of his administration. It is ordered that the 16th day of Feb 1880 be appointed a day on which to make such settlement, at which time all persons interested can appear and contest the making of such settlement if they think proper. L.W. Cannon, Judge of Probate --- HOMESTEAD NOTICE 195 U.S. Land Office at Montgomery, Ala. January 17, 1880 Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has filed notice of his intention to make final proof in support of his claim and secure final entry thereof at the expiration of thirty days from the date of this notice, viz: Meredith Lokey, Homestead Entry No. 5370 for the west half of NW qr of Section 28, Township 16 South, Range 12 East and names the following as his witnesses, viz: William S. Wiliamson and John Thrasher of Cleburne County, Ala. Pelham J. Anderson, Register --- HOMESTEAD NOTICE 185 U.S. Land Office at Montgomery, Ala. Jan 17, 1880 Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has filed notice of his intention to make final proof in support of his claim and secure final entry thereof at the expiration of thirty days from the date of this notice, viz: Andrew G. Huckeba, Homstead Entry No. 5478 for the W qr of NE qr of Section 26 and W qr of NE qr of Section 23, Township 13 South of Range 11 East and names the following as his witnesses, viz: Wilson P. Howell and Thomas J. Ezzell of Cleburne county, Ala. Pelham J. Anderson, Register --- HOMESTEAD NOTICE No. 232 U.S. Land Office at Montgomery, Ala. Feb. 14, 1880 Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has filed notice of intention to make final proof in support of a claim and secure final entry thereof, on Tuesday, March 30, 1880 before the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Calhoun county, viz: Mary C. Buse, formerly Mary C. Mead, Homestead Entry No. 5953 for the Southwest quarter of Northeast quarter of Section 32, Town 13, South, Range 8 East and names the following as witnesses: David Seiber, Susannah H. Mead, Amanda Littlejohn and John C. Seiber of Jacksonville, Calhoun County, to prove settlement and cultivation of the above described tract of land. Pelham J. Anderson, Register. --- HOMESTEAD NOTICE No. 186 U.S. Land Office at Montgomery, Ala. Jan. 17, 1880 Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has filed notice of intention to make final proof in support of a claim and secure final entry thereof at the expiration of thirty days from the date of this notice, viz: Mary A. Malone, widow of Woodley B. Malone, Homestead Entry No. 5488 for the Northeast qr of Northeast qr of Section 25 and Southeast qr of Southeast qr of Section 24, Township 13 South of Range 11 East and names the following as her witnesses, viz: Wilson P. Howell and Elisha F. Pitchford of Cleburne County, Ala. Pelham J. Anderson, Register --- STATE OF ALABAMA Calhoun County Probate Court, Special Term, Jan. 6. 1880 This day came J.Y. Henderson, guardian of Precious L. Wagnon, formerly Precious L. Satcher, and filed his account and vouchers for a final settlement of his said guardianship. It is ordered that the 3rd day of Feb. 1880 be appointed a day on which to make such settlement, at which time all persons interested can appear and contest the said settlement if they think proper. L.W. Cannon, Judge of Probate --- LOCAL News Mr. Jeter, who has invented valuable agricultural implements, has moved into town and will occupy the same residence with his brother who recently moved to this place from Georgia. They will jointly push the sale of the Jeter patents. --- IN MEMORY OF MRS. ELIZA ANN JEFFRIES In memory of Mrs. Eliza Ann Jeffries, who under a sudden attack of pneumonia, fell asleep in Jesus on the 14th of Feb. 1880 at the residence of her son-in- law Prof. W.P. McKeller, Childersburg, Ala. Mrs. Jeffries was the daughter of Thomas and Eliza Ann Anderson, was born in Edgefield Dist., South Carolina, Jan. 15, 1807, therefore at her death was in her 74th year. In 1830 she was, upon the confession of her faith in Christ, immersed and joined the Baptist church at the Lester Springs, Edgefield Dist. South Carolina. On the evening of the 12th of November 1833 she was married to H.L. Jeffries by Rev. Chas. D. Mallory. In 1840, preferring to take the bible and the bible alone for her rule of faith and practice, she with her husband united themselves to the Christian Congregation known as Disciples or the Church of Christ, in Augusta, Ga. in which connection she lived in faith, hope and love, until she passed into that divine rest prepared for the people of God. Her pure piety and implicit trust in Christ as her Savior, her love for God her heavenly father, her knowledge of, and love for the word of God, especially the New Testament, made her ever cheerful and happy. Her kindness of heart, social character and ever readiness to excuse, forgive and cover the faults of others, together with her patience, meekness and gentleness, was indeed remarkable and won the love and admiration of all. Dear friends, in our musing, do we apprehend what a glorious event it is for the pure in heart to die. Our Mother, who had long been our guardian angel, changed worlds, and when the sunlght of the eternal world fell upon her brow, we saw in her placid face, the radiance of a smiling angel; when we looked into her tender eyes and gazed upon her smiling countenance, we saw as others did, that her mortal garments had waxed old and feeble, but it was not to us a symbol of decay, for in her long past and within and beyond, we recognized her in all her beauty, loveliness and eternal happiness. Her long life with its youthful romance, its prosaic cares, its quiet sunshine, as well as its trials and troubles, was culminating to its close and as the end drew near, all clouds, fogs, and mists rolled away, she stepped forth with oil in her lamp, accompanied by angels and entered into the brilliancy of God's eternal son. Oh, then we felt that it would be selfishness to weep and could but join in congratulations, for her life was beautiful and her death triumphant. Beside her couch we sat and traced with loving fancy the new life then opening before her, yea, with tears and smiles we recognized it. Doubts never appeared in our view, for from earliest childhood, we have no memories of her inconsistencies, in word or in deed, to that of a true christian. Throughout the last day she said but little, but her serene and happy countenance gave abundant evidence that angels were taking her to their companionship. Without a sign or the move of a muscle, she resigned her worn out body to us. While her immortal soul clothed in the bridal garments which she had woven, washed and made white in the blood of the Lamb, joined the Bridegroom and entered Heaven. Sweet Mother. She is breathing vernal zephyrs now, and with every breath a spring like life and joy are wafted through her being. Mother, beautiful and beloved, some sweet embryo of joy fills the chambers of our hearts, as we contemplate the scenes with which you are becoming familiar; which greatly consoles your aged husband and devoted children. ---- File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/calhoun/newspapers/newspape1100gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 13.9 Kb