Calhoun County AlArchives News.....Newspaper abstracts for JAN., FEB., MAR. 1881 1881 ************************************************ 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 17, 2006, 2:14 pm The Jacksonville Republican 1881 NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS FROM "THE JACKSONVILLE REPUBLICAN", Jacksonville, Calhoun County, Alabama for JANUARY 1881 , FEBRUARY 1881 , MARCH 1881 NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, January 1, 1881 LOCAL News Mr. "Cap" Wilson has sold his interest in the store of Wilson & Hammond and bought the Livery Stable of Mr. J.D. Hammond. Mr. Wilson will also give up the hotel Jan. 1st to Mr. Reavis who will take charge. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, January 8, 1881 STATE OF ALABAMA, Calhoun County Chancery Court This day came Abner H. Borders, surviving executor of the Will of John Borders, dec'd, and filed his account and vouchers for a final settlement of said estate. Thereupon it is ordered by the Register, under and virtue of a descretial rendered in said Chancery Court that Tuesday the 1st day of February 1881 be set as the day and time for making said settlement, 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 all persons concerned, to appear at my office on the 1st day of February 1881 and contest the said settlement if they think proper. This 7th day of January 1881. Wm. M. Hames, Register. --- DEATH OF AN ALABAMA VETERAN Decatur, Ala., Jan. 3rd The venerable Captain John T. Rather died at the rsidence of his son, Gen. John D. Rather in Tuscumbia at 8 o'clock this morning. Had he lived until next March, he would have been ninety years old. His remains will be interred tomorrow at Somerville, Morgan county, where, in the vigor of young manhood, he was first married to Miss McClelland, sister of Gen. W.B. McClelland of Talladega and subsequently to Miss Roberts, and where the dust of both of these deceased companions rest. Between their graves a space was left for his burial. In life they were united and in death they are not divided. For more than a half century, Capt. Rather was an exemplary member of the M.E. Church, South, and died in the communion and confidence of the same. Though residing in Colbert county at the time of his death, we feel that his good name and unsullied character properly belongs to Morgan. At Sommerville he settled more than sixty years ago, and with his own hands built the first rude cabin that was erected in that place. He belonged to and is part of the early history of this county. From 1820 to 1834 he represented in the lower House of the General Assembly and in 1835 was elected to the Senate. Here, where he lived so long and was so well known, he was universally esteemed and today his praise is upon the lips of all. His advanced age had brought the usual bodily infirmities, but in spirit he never got old. He was affable, cheerful and highly sociable in his intercourse with all classes. Gen. John D. Rather, President of the Alabama Senate, was his only child. --- NOTICE TO CREDITORS Probate Court of Calhoun County, Ala. Estate of Booker Goodlett, deceased Letters testamentary under the Last Will and Testament of said decedent, having been granted to the undersigned on the 3rd day of January 1881, by the Hon. A. Woods, Judge of Probate Court of Calhoun County, Ala., notice is hereby given that all persons having claims against said estate will be required to present the same within the time allowed by law, or the same will be barred. Samuel Goodlett Selina Goodlett Jan. 8, 1881 ---- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, January 15, 1881 LOCAL News We are pained to learn that Dr. Calhoun of this county has again lost his reason. He was carried to the Insane Hospital this week. --- IN MEMORIAM OF SAMUEL K. BORDERS Died in Oxford, Ala., Dec. 26, 1881, after a somewhat protracted illness, Samuel K. Borders, aged 58 years, eleven months and fourteen days. He was born in Jackson county, Georgia, January 12, 1822 and during his early youth attended school at Pennfield, from which he went to enter the University of Ga., at Athens where he graduated with honors Aug. 1, 1843 at the early age of 21. While attending college he professed conversion and joined the Baptist church, of which he continued a faithful and devoted member to the hour of his death. After leaving college, his father having moved to Alabama, he read medicine in Jacksonville, Ala. with a view when he should have mastered the profession of moving to Mississippi to practice, but his father being opposed to his leaving him, gave him a farm adjoining his own and insisted upon his occupying it. On March 19, 1851 he was united in marriage to Miss S.M. Williams of South Carolina, who, with seven children, six daughters and a son, survives him. And thus we have been called upon to chronicle the departure for that long "bourne whence no traveler returns" of another of our purest and best citizens. No stain rested upon the bright and shining escutcheon of his career. Though quiet and unobtrusive, his life shone resplendant with the celestial virtues of profound piety, true filial devotion and broad philanthropy. The golden rule of inspiration was the unerring square by which he shaped all his actions. He died as he lived with the blessed Shekinah of faith streaming upon him and illuminating with its electric effulgence the dark vale of shadows. When the hour of final dissolution was drawing near and the gray haired minister bent over him to catch a last expression as to his prospects for a happy immortality, with the calm fight of heavenly assurance lighting up his pallied countenence he whispered "all is well." "He knew that soon his eyes must close, In death's long, pulseless spell, yet calm in faith's serene repose He whispered "all is well." Tho' filled with pain and sore distressed, no murmur from him fell, He realized that God knows best, and felt that all was well. O precious gift of heavenly power, its raptures can tell, To know in death's dark lonely hour, that all with us is well. On Sabbath morn, sweet day of rest, His spirit soared to swell, that white washed throng redeemed and blest, In Heaven, where all is well. " How fitting he should take his leave at sweet Christmas tide, while the resurrection bells were ringing. Though sad, doubly sad to the weeping ones around the peaceful, happy hearthstone, where so long his precious presence had diffused a holy and benign influence; his absence lends one more harp to the grand orchestra of the skies, and another white robed minstrel when the loved ones left behind shall cross the swelling flood to sing the glad chorus of " welcome home." B.D.W., Oxford, Ala., Jan. 10, 1881 ---- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, January 22, 1881 ADMINISTRATOR'S SALE As special Administrators of the estate of John Hill, deceased, we will sell on Feburary 14, 1881 the personal property of said deceased, to wit: 1 mare 1 mule corn fodder D.C. Turner; John A. Cobb; Special Administrators ---- LOCAL News On the night of the 16th inst., Miss Nora C. Wyly, daughter of John M. and Amelia C. Wyly of this place, died in Selma, whither her fond parents had carried her, in the hope of improving her failing health. Her remains were brought back to Jacksonville on the 17th and on the morning of the 18th, in the presence of a large concourse of weeping friends and relatives, all that was mortal of the lovely flower, was committed to the tomb, there to wait the summons that shall awake the dead and bid her arise. Her grief stricken parents have our sincerest sympathy and we would say to them, sorrow not as those without hope, for "there is hope of a tree that will be cut down, it will sprout again and the tender branches thereof will not die." Though she has been cut down in this golden day, yet may we not say that the light she shed on her pathway "will shine more and more til the coming of the perfect day." From "The Selma Times" newspaper - - - Died on the night of the 16th of January 1881, in this city, after an illness of several weeks, Miss Nora C. Wyly, the accomplished daughter of John M. and Amelia C. Wyly. She was born at Jacksonville, Ala., on July 23, 1864. She was a young lady who made friends wherever she was known, being of a lovely disposition and whose every act during her life was that of a meek and humble christian. She was a communicant of the Episcopal church and one of the most devoted of its members. She breathed her last in the hope of a blessed rest with the great Savior of mankind. We extend to the bereaved parents not only our most heartfelt sympathies, but assure them that they have the sympathies of our entire community, in whose hearts there is a sad void, occasioned by the loss of their darling daughter. The remains were taken to Jacksonville yesterday afternoon for interment. The Selma Times ---- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, January 29, 1881 ALABAMA News John Williams, a grocery keeper at Golightly's Springs, Madison county near the Tennessee line, was assassinated on the night of the 16th inst. The assassins lodged thirty-six buckshot in his body, killing him instantly. --- LOCAL News Just as we go to press, we have the sad intelligence of the death of Mr. T.J. Morgan of Oxford. Also by an Omaha paper, the notice of the death of Amos Laird, well known to the oldest citizens of Calhoun county. --- Married, Sunday morning January 23rd at St. Luke's church in this place, by Rev. Mr. Smith, Mr. H.W. Graham of Montgomery and Miss Lizzie Hoke of Jacksonville. Immediately after the ceremony the fortunate bridegroom left for his home with his fair young bride, whither the warmest wishes of a host of friends here for their happiness have followed them. Mr. Graham is well known to our people and universally popular. He has captured one of the most beautiful and fascinating of Jacksonville's fair daughters and this forms but another tie to bind him closer to our people. We hope that he may some day find it profitable and pleasant to make Jacksonville his home. --- Married, January 25, 1881 at the residence of Hon. Alex Woods by Hon. Alex Woods, the Rev. Benj. D. Turner to Mrs. Jno. Mead, formerly Miss Mary S. Clay, daughter of the late Edmund Clay. We congratulate the young bride in the possession of a gentleman of such sterling intregity and of such high christian character, and also the gentleman on the acquisition of a bride so fair and prepossesing as Mrs. Mead. We wish both a long and happy life. --- Married recently at the residence of the bride by Rev. Mr. McLean, Mr. Carter Boozer and Mrs. Ellen Sisson, both of this county. We received notice of the marriage but cannot give dates. The newly married pair have our warm wishes for a long and happy wedded life. --- DEATH OF AN OLD CITIZEN Mr. James Gidley, one of the first settlers of Calhoun county, died at his home near this place, Saturday the 8th inst., at the extreme age of eighty- three years and some months. In all the relations of life Mr. Gidley was a true man. He settled at or near the place at which he died before some who are now men in the meridian of life were born and during that long time he has been respected for his virtues and honored for his patriotism and fidelity to what he believed to be correct principles. With him passes away another of the old landmarks of the county. We sincerely mourn his death and tender his stricken family our heartfelt sympathy. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of FEBRUARY 5, 1881 LOCAL News All the prisoners in the Jacksonville jail, save one, who refused to go, made their escape last night about eight or nine o'clock. The jailor and family were absent we learn. We have not learned the particulars. --- SILVERSMITHING - - - I annouce to the citizens of Calhoun and adjoining counties that I have located in Jacksonville for the purpose of conducting a silversmithing business. Work to be done on reasonable terms. I have had seventeen years experience as practical workman in the profession. E.S. Burgner --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, February 12, 1881 STATE OF ALABAMA, Calhoun County Probate Court, Special Term, Feb. 3, 1881 This day came J.J. Wilson and J.C. Wilson, administrators of the estate of Craven Wilson, deceased, and filed their account and vouchers for a final settlement of their administration of said estate. It is ordered that the 11th day of March 1881 be hereby appointed a day upon which to hear and pass upon said acounts and make said settlement, and that notice thereof be given by publication in the Jacksonville Republican, a newspaper printed and published in said county, as a notice to all persons interested in said settlement, to be and appear at my office in the court hosue of said county on the 11th day of March 1881 and contest said settlement if they think proper. A. Woods, Judge of Probate --- LOCAL News Married on the 6th inst. by the Rev. E.T. Read, Mr. George W. Dalton to Miss Ann G. Grogan, at the home of Mrs. E. Grogan, all of this county. May the happy couple have fair sailing and prosperous breezes to waft them over life's sea. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, February 19, 1881 LOCAL News Married on the 15th inst., at the residence of Dr. G.C. Williams, Mr. Jno. H. Flemming to Miss Fannie Williams, by Rev. T.A. Kerr. All of White Plains, Ala. That peace and happiness may be their lot is the wish of their sincere friends. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, February 26, 1881 LOCAL News Married, at the residence of the bride's father Robert N. Warnock in Oxford, Ala., on the 17th day of February 1881, Sam'l H. McClelan to Miss Nannie A. Warnock. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, MARCH 5, 1881 ANOTHER OLD CITIZEN GONE Died on the night of the 26th ult., Mrs. Sarah Forney, in the 81st year of her age. Mrs. Forney was the mother of our honored Representative from this congressional district, Mr. Wm. H. Forney. She had been conscious of her approaching dissolution for some time and looked forward with the christian's exultation until the summons of the departure should come. She, with her family, settled in Jacksonville in the fall of 1835. But few remain who were here at that time. Like autumn leaves, one by one, "they have fallen to enrich mother earth." The surviving relatives have our deepest sympathy in this sad hour to them. --- OBITUARY Entered into rest on the evening of the 26th of Feb. 1881, Mrs. Sarah Forney, widow of Jacob Forney, whom she married at Lincolnton, N.C., the place of her nativity. She was the oldest child of Daniel and Barbara Hoke and was born Sept. 17, 1800 where in the course of life and its sad vicissitudes she has wept, over the grave of a kind husband; the loss in battle of a brave boy and the lingering decay of her eldest child. But in every event of life whether grave or gay, and God had also blessed her in many things, hers was the same "meek and quiet spirit." Her very presence by the sick in hours of anguish, brought twith it a halo of restfulness and repose. An unpresuming faith in Christ, a sweet childlike humility, upon these graces was her life constructed. And now that she is gone, purified by much late bodily suffering, in the ripeness of her years and in the beauty and sanctity of her good example, leaving for all, children, children's children, kinsmen and friends, the memory of a useful, godly life, a sweet humility and lovely womanhood. "Here is no place for tears, nothing to wail or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt, dispraise or blame; nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so peaceful." ---- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, March 12, 1881 LOCAL News A new post office named Bera, with E.J. Haynie as postmaster, has been established in Beat 4 near the residence of H.W. Kennedy. --- The cotton factory at Anniston is in full blast and turning out an excellent article of thread and cloth. --- Oxford and Calhoun county lost an excellent citizen last week in the death of Dr. S.C. Williams. He died suddenly and the intelligence as it spread, both shocked and pained his large circle of acquaintances. Dr. Williams was one among the old citizens of Calhoun. He had an extensive practice and was highly respected. He was that character of a man whose death is as much a public calamity as a private affliction. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, March 19, 1881 HOMICIDE About ten o'clock Saturday night last, J.W. Spratlin was shot and killed near Cross Plains in this county by James Neighbors. Spratlin was shot through the head and died after living fifteen hours. The difficulty occurred at a disreputable house and whiskey appears to have been the cause of it. Both Neighbors and a young man who was with him fled the country, we understand. All parties connected with the affair are said to have been under the influence of whiskey. The evidence before the coroner's jury went to show that young Neighbors was stricken by Spratlin before he shot him. --- STATE OF ALABAMA, Calhoun County Probate Court, Special Term, Feb. 28, 1881 This day came C.C. Porter, executor of the estate of John P. Montgomery, deceased, and filed in court his account and vouchers for a final settlement of said estate, as to the personal property thereof. It is ordered by the court that the 22nd day of March 1881 be and the same is hereby apointed the day upon which to hear and pass upon said account and to make said settlement, and that notice thereof be given for three successive weeks in the Jacksonville Republican, a newspaper published in said county, as a notice to all persons interested, to be and appear before me at my office in the courthouse of said county on the 22nd day of March 1881 and contest said settlement if they think proper. A. Woods, Judge of Probate --- ANNUAL SETTLEMENT NOTICE State of Alabama, Calhoun County Probate Court, Special Term, March 5, 1881 This day came Lawson Carpenter, executor of the estate of Henry Fitz, deceased, and filed his account and vouchers for an annual settlement of said estate. It is therefore ordered that the 2nd day of April 1881 is hereby appointed the day upon which to audit and pass upon said account and make said settlement, at which time all persons interested can appear before me at my office at the court house of said county on the 2nd day of April 1881 and contest said settlement if they think proper. A. Woods, Judge of Probate --- HOMESTEAD CLAIM No. 696 Montgomery, Ala., March 7, 1881 Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has filed notice of intention to make final proof in support of a claim and that said proof will be made before the clerk of circuit court of Calhoun county at the county site on Friday 29th of April 1881, viz: Sarah J. Monk, widow of Silas Monk, homestead claim No. 4424, for the southeast 1/4 of northeast 1/4 of Section 26, township 15 south, range 8 east. She names the following witnesses to prove continuous residence upon and cultivation of said land, viz: Joseph Reidinger, James R. Reidinger, Elijah Y. Hurst and John P. Reidinger, all of Anniston, Ala. Pelham J. Anderson, Register. --- LOCAL news The case of the state against R.H. Wynne and C.O. Wynne, charged with the killing of Alex Jones some ten or twelve years ago, was taken up Wednesday and at this writing is still going on. --- Died, at his residence near Anniston, on the 3rd day of March, Waldron N. Smith, son of A.R. and Eliza Smith. He had been married about fifteen months at the time of his death and was in the 24th year of his age. About a year ago his health began to fail and he soon realized that it had gone into Consumption. He bore his sufferings with great fortitude and prior to his death professed religion and died in the christian faith. --- TRIBUTE OF RESPECT IN THE DEATH OF STEPHEN C. WILLIAMS Whereas, God, in his wisdom has seen fit to remove from our midst to his eternal home, on the morning of the 3rd int., our brother and Master of the Lodge, Dr. Stephen C. Williams. Whereby, another link in our mystic chain has been broken; another home made desolate; a devoted wife and affectionate childrens hearts stricken with the deepest sorrow; and this community deeply deplores the loss of a valuable citizen. Resolved 1st; that while we cannot fathom the reason of that Providence who deprived our brother of this life and bereft his family of his presence, support and valuable council, we know that He doeth all things well and that "all things work together for good to them that love the Lord." Resolved 2nd; that in the death of our brother, Hartwell Lodge has lost a faithful and honored presiding officer, the community a worthy citizen, his family a a kind husband and affectionate father. Resolved 3rd; that his family are entitled to the sympathy of this Lodge which is hereby extended to them, in the spirit of the principles of our order, and that we will endeavor to eumulate his virtues and throw the mantle of charity over his faults. Resolved 4th; that we wear the annual badge of mourning for thirty days, and that a copy of these resolutions be furnished the family of the deceased. Resolved 5th; that this preamble and resolutions be spread on the minutes of this Lodge and published in the Jacksonville Republican and Oxford Record, and that a blank page be dedicated to the memory of Stephen C. Williams, Worshipful Master of Hartwell Lodge No. 110. W.F. Hanna D.P. Gunnels, Committee ---- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, March 26, 1881 STATE OF ALABAMA, Calhoun County Probate Court, Special Term, March 11, 1881 This day came Solomon H. Bean, administrator of the estate of David E. Hawkins, deceased, and filed his account and voucher for a final settlement of said estate. It is therefore ordered that the 22nd day of April 1881 is hereby appointed the day upon which to examine and pass upon said account, and make final settlement, at which time all persons interested can appear and contest said settlement if they think proper. A. Woods, Judge of Probate --- STATE OF ALABAMA, Calhoun County Probate Court, Special Term, March 22, 1881 This day came Jonathan Phillips, one of the administrators of the estate of Joseph Phillips, deceased, and filed his account and vouchers for a final settlement of said estate. It is therefore ordered that the 18th day of April 1881 is hereby appointed a day upon which to adut and pass upon said account and make said settlement, ast which time all persons interested can appear and contest said settlement if they think proper. A. Woods, Judge of Probate --- LOCAL News The jury in the case of the state vs. R.H. Wynne and C.O. Wynne, charged with the killing of Alex Jones, some ten years ago, returned a verdict of " not guilty". This has been on the docket for many years and has been no inconsiderable expense to Etowah county from which it was transferred and no small inconvenience and trouble to witnesses. The only witness for the prosecution, Mr. Martin, came here from Lineville and remained several days before he was called, at no small expense and inconvenience to himself. The witnesses as well as the defendants are relieved that the case came at last to the docket. --- File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/calhoun/newspapers/newspape1112gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 24.0 Kb