Calhoun County AlArchives News.....Newspaper abstracts for MARCH 1880 March 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, 10:30 pm The Jacksonville Republican March 1880 NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS FROM "THE JACKSONVILLE REPUBLICAN", Jacksonville, Calhoun County, Alabama for MARCH 1880 (NOTE: There are several missing pages and issues of the newspaper on the microfilm roll for March 1880) NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, March 6, 1880 STATE OF ALABAMA, Calhoun County Probate Court, Special Term, March 1, 1880 Elizabeth Brown, deceased, Estate of; Final Settlement This day came S.D. McClellen as administrator of the estate of Elizabeth Brown, dec'd, and filed his statements, and accounts for final settlement of his administration. It is ordered that the 31st day of March 1880 be appointed a day on which to make such settlement, at which time all persons interested can appear and contest said settlement if they think proper. L.W. Cannon, Judge of Probate --- ALABAMA News A little child some fourteen or fifteen months old of Mr. J.W. A. Dees near Abernathy, came very near being drowned recently. Its mother having missed it, at once began a search when, to her horror, she found the little one in a mud hole lying motionless on its face. Its head was almost entirely covered with mud and water. The mother picked it up and carried it the house, a distance of about fifty yards, during which time she could not discover any signs of life. Thinking of the way she had heard her mother tell how she knew a drowned person brought to life, she laid her little child on a hill side with its head down the same and commenced to turn it to and fro , when it emitted water through its mouth and nostrils, and at once, to the mother's great joy, began to struggle for breath. We are pleased to say that the child has entirely recovered and is now as pert as ever. The Cleburne County Clarion. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, March 20, 1880 STATE OF ALABAMA, Calhoun County Probate Court, Special Term, March 9, 1880 This day came J.D. Hollingsworth, guardian of J.P. Hollingsworth, Andy Hollingsworth, Adelade Littlejohn, Abel Hollingsworth, Daniel Hollingsworth, Willie Hollingsworth and Edward Hollingsworth, and filed his accounts and vouchers for a final settlement of his said guardianship. It is ordered that the 6th day of April 1880 be and is hereby appointed a day on which to make such settlement, at which time all persons can appear and contest the said settlement if they think proper. L.W. Cannon, Judge of Probate --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, March 27, 1880 THE TIMES THAT TRIED MEN'S SOULS The Cherokee Advertiser is republishing from its old files of 1861, reminiscences of the war. In its last issue we find the following letter from Manasas, written by a brave boy who believed that "one of our men can whip ten Yankees" and that "we will conquer them" but at a great cost of life. What sublime heroism! " It will cost a great many lives, perhaps mine, but we will whip them." Bold boy, if you outlived the war, you were entitled to your country's gratitude, even if the cost for which you fought was "lost". Manassas, Va., July 23, 1861 (Letter from Thadeus Freeman) Dear Father, Mother, Brother and Sisters, I embrace a few leisure moments this evening to write you a few lines to let you know how I am and how I am getting on. As for my part, I have no room to grumble; my health is good and has been ever since I left home. The last letter I wrote to you all, I told you that I would write to you again after we had a fight with the Yankees. We left Richmond the 19th of July for this place, landed here on Sunday morning and halted about one hour. We then started to the field of battle. We marched 5 miles to a place called Bull's Run where we met about 10,000 Yankees. We had a hard fight, the battle lasted seven hours amd men fell on both sides. As for myself, I never got hurt. A musket ball struck me on the knee, it never hurt me. Two of our men were killed on the field, Tom May and Jesse Heat; Jesse Stone wounded; Wesley Jennings was shot in the head, not hurt much; a cannon ball knocked Pickney Briggs down, never hurt him much; M. Rochell was shot in the abdomen, he was not hurt much; Lieut. Johnson was killed dead, was shot through. I helped to carry him about one hundred yards. We had to throw him down. Col. Hampton was wounded slightly and many others I will not mention. The whole country is laid waste here, the people have left their homes, the fences torn down from around the corn. Some places you would see hogs in pens fattening, the people all gone and fine gardens of cabbage and Irish potatoes all laid waste. I thought I knew something about the destruction of the war but I never knew anything about it. I can't say any more to you all. Tell Mr. Sedberry, Hogan has landed here. H.C. Johnson stayed all night with me a few night ago. I expect Hogan Sedberry was in a fight last Saturday. I have not heard from them yet. We will start up to Alexandria tomorrow morning. I will get a chance to see all the boys from Cherokee county. Kid Johnson was glad to see me as if I had been his father, no prouder than I was to see them. I felt rejoiced when I met them. I get plenty to eat, having good and sugar and have been faring well before we came up here. I can't say how we will fare now since we have got among the Yankees. One of our men can whip ten Yankees. We will conquer them, I believe, but it will cost a great deal of trouble and a great many lives. As for my part I never expect to get back home, but I intend to kill all the Yankees I can. We have taken a great many prisoners, they are fine looking men. You hear a great many say that the Yankees cannot fight but you need not believe it, they have brave men among them. I will close. Give my love to all the folks and receive the same yourselves. Direct your letters to Manassas Junction, Va., care of Capt. Gay, Hampton's Legion. Thadeus Freeman ---- File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/calhoun/newspapers/newspape1101gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 6.5 Kb