Calhoun County AlArchives News.....Newspaper abstracts for APRIL, MAY, JUNE, JULY, AUG. 1884 1884 ************************************************ 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 27, 2006, 6:55 pm The Jacksonville Republican 1884 NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS FROM "THE JACKSONVILLE REPUBLICAN", Jacksonville, Calhoun County, Alabama for APRIL 1884, MAY 1884, JUNE 1884, JULY 1884, AUGUST 1884 NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, APRIL 5, 1884 LOCAL News Mr. C.H. Francis, formerly of this place, but for years a member of the firm Francis, Cobbs & Co. of Montgomery, has removed to Birmingham and is engaged in the shoe business in the firm of Francis & Co., of which firm he is a member. We wish Charlie a most abundant success in his new field of enterprise. --- The Talladega papers announce the death of Mr. N.D. Criswell who moved from here to Talladega. "Cris" was a gallant Confederate soldier and a genial, social and kind hearted man. May the sod rest lightly on his breast. --- Dispatches of April 2nd tell of another fearful cyclone which this time swept over parts of North Alabama, Tennessee, South Carolina and Indiana, doing great damage to property and resulting in a fearful loss of life. In Madison county, Alabama several persons were wounded. Mrs. White and her mother-in-law were killed and a baby was carried several miles and deposited in a tree, where it was found alive. ---- PEEK'S HILL News Mr. E.W. Wessen died Monday morning the 31st ult. at 8:30 o'clock at his home in this neighborhood with bronchial affliction. He was an intense sufferer for several months past. Thus has passed away another of Calhoun's old settlers. ---- BERA Community News Miss Annie Claton, late of Carroll county, Ga., died after 5 months' sickness at her brother-in-law's, Mr. Henry Costley, on March 31st of Consumption. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, APRIL 12, 1884 LOCAL News Mr. John A. DeArman called Tuesday and showed us the model of the bed he has recently patented. It is a most ingenious and useful invention and will no doubt secure him a fortune. We learn that he has sold the right to Canada for $10,000. and has been offered $10,000. for the United States which he has declined. The Purveyor-General of the Army talks of adopting it. --- By the Will of Miss Lydia Weir which has just been published, we learn that Mr. Harper is the Executor and that the bequests are as follows: First, after payment of her debts and the distribution of one thousand dollars to a couple of her former slaves, she requires the family burial grounds to be put in suitable condition, and the remainder goes to the erection of a church building in Jacksonville, under the direction of the trustees of the M.E. church of this place. If the property brings what it is worth, this bequest to the church will amount to over five thousand dollars. ---- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, APRIL 19, 1884 LOCAL News We learn with regret that Mr. J.W. Wilkerson, father of S.R. Wilkerson of this place is lying at the point of death at his home in Nancy's Creek valley. He is about 80 years old. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, APRIL 26, 1884 LOCAL News Mr. J.H. Wright, formerly of this place, but who has been living in Texas for many years, is back in the country with his family on a visit to relatives and friends. He will remain two weeks or more. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, MAY 3, 1884 DEATH OF REV. H.H. McLEAN The sad intelligence that this talented young minister of the gospel was dead reached this place on last Sunday. He wa a son of Rev. J.H. McLean of Oxford, Ala., and a brother of Mrs. J.P. Word of this place. About a year ago, if we mistake not, he accepted a call by a church extended him in Virginia near the James River, below Richmond, and has ever since resided in that state. He was a young man of fine talents, and his short ministerial life was marked with much promise. His illness was protracted and his death not unexpected. He leaves a widow and many friends and relatives to mourn his early death. The many friends of his father sympathize with him in his sad afflictions, losing as he does a son and a grandson within the same week. The Shelby Sentinel ---- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, MAY 17, 1884 LOCAL News Maj. J.T. Stone and family will move to Jacksonville in a few days to make this place their permanent residence. Maj. Stone is Superintendant of the Broken Arrow coal mines and a most estimable gentleman. His wife and daughter spent last summer here and made many friends who will be glad to receive them as permanent residents. Maj. Stone bought a very handsome place here last summer. --- Mr. G.C. Morgan and family will move to Florida in a few days to stay for an indefinite period. Both he and his amiable wife have attached themselves to many warm friends here during the years of their residence and the good wishes of our people follow them to their new home in the land of flowers. --- Married, at the residence of the bride's father Dr. B.S. Evins of White Plains, by Rev. W.R. Kirk on Thursday the 15th inst., Mr. James M. LeGrand and Miss Carolina Sumpter Evins, all of this county. The marriage ceremony was followed by a most sumptuous dinner, such as only the deft skill of the famed housewives of that valley of plenty, and refinement can provide. It was during this meal that we learned that the name of the bride was given her from the fact that she was born the day Fort Sumpter surrendered, a circumstance that will ever deny her the special privilege of the ladies to grow younger as the years go by. After dinner, the bridal party, amid warm farewells, left for the home of Mr. LeGrand at Weaver's. ---- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, MAY 24, 1884 JENKINS News C. Watson celebrated his 83rd birthday anniversary the 11th. He says he has never been confined to his bed by sickness since he can remember, has not drank a cup of coffee in over 20 years and never drank of quart of whiskey in his life. ---- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, MAY 31, 1884 LOCAL News Married, May 15, 1884 at the residence of Dr. J.C. Cason in Broken Arrow, Ala., by Rev. S.P. West, the Rev. C.S.D. Lasseter of the North Alabama Conference and Mrs. Mary E. Martin of Grantville, Ga. --- MORRISVILLE News Mrs. Ingram, a widow lady, died a few days ago. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, JUNE 7, 1884 LOCAL News To be married today, by the Rev. E.T. Smythe at Weaver's Station, Mr. James Ledbetter of Anniston to Miss Ida, daughter of the late David Draper. We extend our most hearty congratulations to the groom and his lovely bride, wishing for them a long life of pleasure and usefulness. The Oxanna Tribune, the 4th. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, JUNE 14, 1884 LOCAL News Mr. James Dothard, an old citizen of this county and Cleburne county, died at his place five miles south of Jacksonville on Tuesday last, after a short illness. Many years ago, James and William Dothard were citizens of Jacksonville. They afterwards moved to the eastern part of the county where they had large land interests that were cut off into Cleburne when that county was formed. Of late years, James, the deceased, has lived in this county at one of their places. He was a man of great energy and of generous, open character and his death will be deplored by a large circle of friends. His remains were brought to Jacksonville on Wednesday and interred. ---- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, JUNE 21, 1884 LOCAL News Married, in the Methodist church in Broken Arrow, Ala., on June 8, 1884 by the Rev. S.P. West, Mr. Thos. L. Harvey, formerly of Calhoun county to Miss Mollie S. Alverson. ---- MIDDLETON News Mr. James Peek was drowned in Cane Creek a few days ago. Thus our neighborhood has lost another one of its good citizens. He leaves a wife and two little children. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, JUNE 28, 1884 LOCAL News Died, at his home in Choccolocco Valley, near White Plains, the 17th inst., Elisha Hyatt, an old and prominent citizen of this county. He was stricken with paralysis in 1881 and was an invalid to the time of his death. Mr. Hyatt came to Calhoun about the year 1836. He had been a constant member of the Methodist church over 30 years. He was an honorable, upright and good man and his loss will be deeply felt by the community in which he lived so long. ---- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, JULY 5, 1884 STATE OF ALABAMA, Calhoun County Probate Court, Special Term, June 27, 1884 PROBATE OF WILL This day came William M. Hyatt, and filed in court a paper in writing purporting to be the Last Will and Testament of Elisha Hyatt, deceased, and also his petition in writing and under oath, asking that said paper in writing be admitted to Probate and Record as the true last Will and Testament of said Elisha Hyatt deceased. It is therefore ordered by the court that the 28th day of July 1884 be hereby appointed the day upon which to hear and determine said application and for the probating of said Will. And that notice thereof be given by publication for three successive weeks in the Jacksonville Republican, a newspaper published in said county as a notice to: James Hyatt of Kossiusko, Miss.; And to all other peresons interested, to appear at my office in said courthouse of said county on the 28th day of July 1884 and contest said application if they think proper. A. Woods, Judge of Probate ---- Mrs. J.W. Whisenant and children reached Jacksonville Saturday from Florida. Mr. Whisenant and family went from here to Florida some years ago. This is their first visit to their old home. Miss Minnie who was a little girl when they left has grown to be a most attractive young lady. Their many friends here are glad to greet them. Mr. W. remains in Florida. --- PEEK'S HILL News Mrs. L.H. Vice died Sunday night. --- Mrs. Emma Martin of Gadsden is now on a visit to her mother Mrs. Finch; also Miss Sallie Martin of Alexandria Valley is the guest of Mrs. Finch. --- OXFORD News Capt. Robt. Draper of Texas and father of our genial townsman T.M. Draper, has been visiting relatives and friends in this section. He left this county when a young man to try his fortune in the far west. The frost of years is on his hair but his form is unbent and his step elastic. He has been a success. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, JULY 12, 1884 LOCAL News Mr. Walter Driskill of Chattanooga is in Jacksonville visiting his parents. ---- Mrs. Terhune accompanied by her son and daughter is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Alexander of this place. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, JULY 19, 1884 JENKINS Community News Our community has been made to mourn by the death of Mrs. A.M. Andrews and we extend the bereaved husband and children our most heartfelt sympathies. --- We learn that Mrs. C. Boozer is in very bad health. --- LOCAL News Died, July 13, 1884, Mrs. Rachael McElrath, aged 75 years, 6 months and 13 days. Obituary next week. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, JULY 26, 1884 MORRISVILLE News Mr. John Trammel, an old resident of Calhoun county, died the 16th inst. with the dropsy. One by one the old pioneers continue to go. --- Mr. J.M. Wilkerson happened to a very serious accident yesterday. He was cutting down a tree and a large piece of timber fell on him. It mangled his leg badly and broke both bones between the knee and ankle joint. It is not yet decided whether amputation will be necessary or not. --- LOCAL News Will the writer of Mrs. Rachael McElrath's obituary please furnish us manuscript copy again. The obituary was mislaid last week and cannot be found. Mrs. McElrath was a reader of the Republican forty years or more. She was a most excellent lady and her death is mourned by a large circle of friends. --- Lewis Wollum, the small colored boy who accidentally shot himself with a self cocking pistol at Alexandria recently, was brought to Jacksonville where his mother and grandmother reside and buried here. He was a servant of Dr. Crook and was left in possession of his room to clean it up. He began handling one of the pistols of the Doctor and probably not knowing it to be a self-cocker, pressed the trigger while the pistol was pointed at himself. This is the theory of his mother. --- OXFORD News A wedding last week was that of Jas. Cunningham and Miss Ida Stuckey. Quite a number of invited guests were present and a number of valuable gifts were bestowed by friends of both. We wish them a long and happy life. --- Mr. J.F. Graham returned from Tuscaloosa on Monday last with his father Mr. Harris Graham whose mind became impaired some time ago and who has been in the Asylum for some weeks. He did not improve as expected and hence he was brought back home. The unfortunate man and his family have the sympathy of all our people. --- OBITUARY OF O.P. ANDERSON The subject of this obituary is the death of O.P. Anderson who was born in Monroe county, Tennessee, February 20th (year not given) and removed to Calhoun county, Ala., in his eighteenth year; marrried in 1844 to Miss Rebecca A. Tatum and moved to Gordon, Claiborne Parish, La., in the year 1866; and died on Friday, June 13, 1884 in the sixty-fourth year of his age. He leaves behind him a widow and six children, three sons and three daughters, to mourn his loss. He was a consistent member of the Methodist church for many years. He died as he had lived, a christian man, a devoted husband and a loving father; a neighbor that was ever ready and willing to assist the needy and comfort the sick and distressed. There was no citizen that was more respected than Perry Anderson by all who knew him. But a good man has gone to that great beyond to take his place among the seraphism of happy spirits, basking in the beautiful light of his Father's countenance, awaiting to welcome wife, children and friends to that celestial happiness. Mourn not his loss but peace to his ashes. A friend. ----- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, AUGUST 2, 1884 LOCAL News Mr. George W. Rountree, residing near Cross Plains, had the misfortune of losing his residence by fire last Sunday morning about two o'clock. We learn that it is supposed to have been the work of an incendiary. Mr. Rountree has been a hard working man all his life and not being in good health at present, this loss falls the more heavily upon him. ---- IN MEMORIAM OF MRS. JUDA FORD Mrs. Juda Ford, relict of Benton Ford, quietly breathed her last at the resisence of her son A.G. Ford near Weaver's on July 19, 1884. Her maiden name was Berry and she was born in Culpepper county, Va., on Feb. 14, 1792 and was at the time of her death ninety-two years, five months and five days old. At the age of eight she moved with her father's family to Rutherford county, N.C. where she lived until twenty-four years of age, when she was united in marriage with Benton Ford when they settled in Chester county, S.C. and there lived until 1844 when with her husband and children she removed to Benton, now Calhoun county, Ala., where she continued to reside until her demise. She united with the M.E. church when about sixteen and remained a consistent member of the same for about fifty-five years, when she went with her husband to the Primitive Baptist where several of her children had gone before. Here she remained until the time of her death, but never fully renounced the church of her choice in early life, in which she had spent the strength of her womanhood. Hers was a life of exemplary virtue and piety, fully demonstrating that "the path of the just is a shining light that shineth more and more unto the perfect day." In her life and death we are made to say " let me die the death of the righteous and let my last end be like his." She died as she had lived, leaning upon the strong arm of her Savior, saying just before she breathed her last, "God has blessed me through life and He will not forsake me now." The deceased leaves behind a large number of relatives, children and grandchildren, great grandchildren and many friends to mourn her departure. Her humbly pious life and triumphant death she points all to the Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the world, and as a beacon light beckons us on to our Father's house where there are many mansions prepared for those that die with their trust in the Lord. W. M.E., July 29, 1884. ----- LOCAL News Mrs. Wm. White of Dallas, Texas is in Jacksonville visiting her sister Mrs. W.H. Forney. --- Died, in Meridian, Bosque county, Texas on July 15, 1884, Mrs. Sue R. Hanna, wife of W.V. Hanna, who moved to Texas last January from Calhoun county, Ala. --- Mrs. Jno. W. Gidley died at her home near this place after a long illness, Wednesday, July 29th and was buried here Thursday. Deceased was a most estimable, christian woman, beloved by all who knew her in life, and mourned by many friends now she has gone to her reward. The bereaved husband and orphaned children have the warm sympathy of this community. ---- Wednesday, Mrs. Granville Nunnelly, living near this place, visited Mrs. Jno. W. Gidley who was then lying at the point of death. She (Mrs. Nunnely) was taken sick on that day and died Friday morning after an illness not exceeding forty-eight hours. Deceased was the daughter of Jacob Reynolds and used to go to school in this place, where she made many friends, who will be grieved to learn of her sudden and fatal illness. Mr. Nunnelly has the sympathy of all in his profound affliction. ---- IN MEMORY OF MRS. RACHAEL McELRATH The subject of this sketch was born in Spartanburg District, S.C. on the 1st of January 1810. She was happily converted and joined the Presbyterian church at Nazarath in Spartanburg District, over fifty years ago. She died at the old family homestead in Calhoun county, Ala., July 13, 1884. After forty years sojourning in Calhoun, she now resigns and passes away. She had well nigh reached her three score and ten, over two thirds of which had been devoted to the service of God, as a consistent member of the church. Of the personal character of this mother in Israel, many womanly gifts and graces were harmoniously blended, but the crowning glory of her early womanhood was her fervent piety; a piety which lent a charm to every feature, gave a modulated softness to every tone and radiated through her whole life. Although reticent and unobtrusive, she was firm, earnest, and sincere and exerted a silent but potent influence for good upon all with whom she came in contact. As a wife she was all that a fond and doting husband could want, finding her greatest pleasure in doing his will. She was a fond conscientous painstaking mother whose greatest care was to impress the saving truths of Christianity upon the minds and hearts of her children. In her death, all classes are bereaved, the poor and destitute have lost a kind and judicious benefactress, the community an unselfish neighbor, society one of its brightest ornaments, and the church a useful member. He who in love and wisdom has assigned her to service and marked the end from the beginning, saw that her work was done, and affectionately bade this trial worn child come home to rest. Trials and suffering through grace and patience had wrought in her a perfect work and her lovely spirit purified in the furnace of affliction, lightened of its fleshy load, gladly winged its flight from the scenes of woe and care to the blissful realms of endless days, where she roams happy and free in the garden of God. "Then, star by star declines, Till are are passed away, As morning high and higher shines, To pure and perfect day. " B. ---- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, AUGUST 9, 1884 THREE WHITE MAN HANG FOR ARSON Scottsboro, Ala., Aug. 1st George Smith, Asbury Hughes and Geo. Hughes, all white and under twenty-five years of age, were hanged here at one o'clock today. They were convicted of burning the house of Henry Porter on Sand Mountain. It was the first instance of the death penalty being enforced for arson in the first degree in this state. They were all baptized just before they left jail. Geo. Hughes tried to inflame the crowd by a speech from the jail house window and succeeded in creating considerable feeling. Geo. Smith and Asbury Hughes also made short addresses from the jail window, both denying their guilt, the former confessing to other crimes. They mounted the gallows with a firm step. At one o'clock the drop fell and they died with but few struggles. ---- LOCAL News Married, on the 17th ult. at the residence of Mr. Robert McCain by the Rev. Geo. D. Harris, Miss Lou McCain to Mr. George Northcut of the East & West Railroad. --- Mr. W.H. Mangham, a one legged Confederate soldier, has been among our people this week getting up a subscription for the purchase of an artificial limb and he has been quite successful. He is well recommended by his neighbors. The fact that he did not enlist from this state bars him from any relief under the act of the Alabama Legislature. It seems to be a case where the charitable and patriotic may well exercise their benevolence. He asks us to return thanks to our people for their liberality. ---- MORRISVILLE News Mrs. Margaret Abney died at her home on the 2nd. She has been an invalid several years. She leaves a husband and four children. The grief stricken family has the heartfelt sympthy of the entire community. --- Mr. J.M. Wilkerson who was so unfortunate in getting his leg broken is still in a very critical condition. --- EXECUTOR'S SALE As Executor of the estate of Lydia A. Weir, deceased, and under authority vested in me by the Will of said decendent, I will offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash in front of the courthouse door in the town of Jacksonville on Monday the 11th day of August 1884, the following personal property: One lot Silver Tableware One Leather Trunk and Two Valises One Telescope One Unabridged Dictionary One Pair Gold Rimmed Spectacles One Thermometer and Barometer C.D. Harper, Executor of the estate of L.A. Weir, dec'd. ---- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, AUGUST 16, 1884 OBITUARY OF MRS. VIRGINIA C. HYATT Mrs. Virginia C. Hyatt, nee Gibson, was born in Lincoln county, North Carolina, October 20, 1843; was married to Elisha Hyatt in Oct. 1862; was converted and joined the Methodist Episcopal Church South at White Plains, Ala., in 1863, under the ministry of G.C.A. Bridges, at which place she remained a member until her death, which occurred March 11, 1884, aged forty years, four months and twenty-one days. Sister Hyatt was a quiet, unassuming, unpretending woman; her household affairs were well directed and kept for the comfort of her husband, who enjoyed the neatness and order of the home, which was the result of her painstaking care. She acted upon the principle that a well kept home was a better expression of piety than more ostentacious professions. She had suffered affliction for about twenty years. For a year before her death, her sufferings were at times intense. These she bore with patience and accepted them and her death in the spirit of submission and of reconciliation to the Divine Will. Nothwithstanding her personal afflictions, she was doubly afflicted in the helplessness of her husband for nearly three years. But she has passed from the sufferings of the "present time", we trust, to the home and rest of the good. ----- OBITUARY OF ELISHA HYATT Elisha Hyatt was born in Chester District, South Carolina, July 20, 1819; was first married to Nancy Williams; married a second time to Virginia C. Gibson, who preceded him to the future world a little more than three months. He was converted and joined the Methodist church about thirty-five years ago. He was paralyzed on one side May 1, 1881 and again on the other side in March 1882. Notwithstanding this, he lived over until the 17th of June 1884, aged sixty- four years, ten months and twenty-seven days. Mr. Hyatt was industrious and economical. He loved his friends and enjoyed their society. His disposition was naturally cheerful; candor and frankness characterized his intercourse with men. We visited him often during his three year affliction. He enjoyed religious conversation and prayer. He desired to live but submitted to the appointment of God in his affliction and death. We laid him to rest in an Oak Grove on the crown of a hill in front of his residence to await the last triumph of God that shall awake the dead "and bid the sleeper rest." Peace to his dust. W.R. Kirk. ----- MORRISVILLE News Mr. J.M. Wilkerson had his broken leg amputated on the 5th, and he died the 8th inst. His death is sincerely regretted by all of his acquaintances. --- E.G. Morris and Sons have got their wheat Mill in operation again and are ready to accomodate the public in the line of good flour. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, AUGUST 23, 1884 A PREACHER'S HONEYMOON BEGINS WITH AN ONSLAUGHT FROM THE BRIDE'S RELATIVES The Atlanta Constitution has the following particulars of an occurrence in Cleburne County, Alabama on August 12th: Sunday morning, Rev. Robert Hardin was assaulted in the public road, near Mr. Abe Hooper's mills, while riding in his buggy, by three men, Dock Wallace, George Argrove and Jacob Fuller, and was severely cut with a knife. Hardin had been to Squire Anderson's and married, and was going to his appointment at Union Hill and had his new wife in the buggy with him. There seems to have been a strong hatred of him by the bride's relatives, viz; Argrove, her brother, and her stepfather Thomas Wallace and his son by a former marriage, Dock Wallace, and his son-in-law Fuller. They had been making threats for three or four days and warning Hardin to leave the country or they would kill him, and Sunday morning, when they found that the couple had run off and married, they set out to find them and met them as above stated. Argrove seized the groom's horse by the bridle and peremptorily ordered him then and there to turn about and leave the country. He attempted to remonstrate with the men, but Dock Wallace ran up to him and struck him three times with his knife, inflicting three severe wounds on his right arm and shoulder. One gash was nearly eleven inches long, nearly severing the arm at the shoulder, the second cut was on the wrist and the third at the elbow. He was striking at Hardin's throat and breast, but Hardin kept his body turned so the arm received the blows. The bride seeing they were trying to murder her husband, jumped out of the buggy and ran and Wallace then ran after her and threw a stick at her. He then caught her and dealt her two blows with his fist on the back of her head and neck. Mr. Thomas Bentley and Mr. Sam Shumate, coming in the road and hearing the cries of distress, ran up, when the men desisted and turned back up the road whence they came. Bentley and Shumate took Hardin to Mr. Abe Hooper's and sent Hooper after Dr. Camp of Edwardsville, who came about three o'clock and sewed up the cuts and dressed it. He took eleven stitches in it. ---- File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/calhoun/newspapers/newspape1123gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 27.8 Kb