Cleburne County AlArchives News.....Newspaper Notices for JANUARY 1905 January 1905 ************************************************ 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: Candace Gravelle tealtree@comcast.net October 12, 2004, 10:04 pm The Cleburne New Era NEWSPAPER NOTICES FROM " THE CLEBURNE NEW ERA" for JANUARY 1905 NEWSPAPER issue of JANUARY 7, 1905 REV. T. HARVEY HOWLE DEAD; BURIED WITH MASONIC HONORS Sad and sorrowful to the family and friends of Rev. T. Harvey Howle, was the ushering in of this bright new year. For on the early morn of the last day of the old year, a day in which itself suggests the melancholy whisper that all things are passing away, this brave old Confederate soldier, this exemplary citizen who has received honors at the hands of his people, this kind husband, loving father and christian minister was called to his final reward. His death, though sad, was not unexpected as for many weeks his rapid and sure decline foretold this final bereavement. His burial in the Heflin cemetery took place on Sunday the first day of the new year. His body, followed by a large concourse of sorrowing friends and relatives was borne to the M.E. church where appropriate services were conducted by Rev. Jno. A. Scott, the aged pastor and brother-in-law of the deceased. Here the Masonic fraternity of which Rev. Howle was an active and honored member, took charge and amid imposing ceremonies consigned the body to it's final resting place in the silent city of the dead. Judge Tate of Anniston, a cherished friend of the deceased, was master of ceremonies and most impressive was the manner in which he conducted them. The ladies of the Order of the Eastern Star of this place united in paying this last rite to one who was at one time it's patron. With beautiful floral offerings and renewed expressions of sympathy for the bereaved family, the sad concourse turned away to leave this good old man, freed from all earthly pain, sleeping the sleep of the Just. "Tis well for us all some sweet hope lies, deeply buried from human eyes; and in the hereafter, angels may roll the stone from its grave away.". ____ H.C. Jordan and family of Clack, have moved to Heflin. We extend them a cordial welcome. __ NEWSPAPER issue of Saturday, January 14, 1905 Rev. John A. Scott, an aged and reputable citizen and a highly honored and respected minister of the gospel, reached his seventy- third year on Tuesday. He is today well, hearty and vigorous. His life has been a blessing to mankind. In a conversation with him on Tuesday we gathered the following sketch of his biography. He said: " Today, seventy-three years ago in South Carolina, a little curly headed boy was born in the world that made it better or worse. That little boy grew up to be a man and just think of the number of palpitations of the heart, the vibrations of this pulse that have been heating his funeral march down the track of time so long. He knows from experience, proof from trial that life is real and not a glittering generality, and from the cradle to the grave life bristles with great possibilities. He said " I am in sight of the distant hills of a better world and in enraptured visions through the perspected lense of inspiration can almost sweep the eternal shores....." Brother Scott has been a regular pastor of churches since the war. He has preached to the church that ordained him thirty-five years in succession. He has preached at Heflin a number of years, preached at Bowdon, GA ten years, preached in Tennessee while at Union University, preached one year in Texas and in other places. He continued by saying, "I have been without a home, have had a home, have one now; I have in measure raised thirteen children; one of my own and twelve orphans with out father or mother. He said further while old and gray headed he had with him the sweet memories of his youthful days and was going to carry them to his grave. He said, "I can see the swing of a bat, the bound of the ball, the victory won and lost on the playground in my boyhood days." These happy memories are still with him and throw upon his life their flash-lights, strowing his path with many flowers and skirting it with many joys. These joys have recently been augmented by the benefactions conferred upon him in the way of christmas and birthday gifts by Mrs. D.D. Perryman, Miss Lola Hunnicutt, Messr. Morgan, Harvey Davis, Porter, Harris, Judge Carruth, Brooks, Drs. Williams and Hughes and others. He asks the blessings of god on them and their life and especially during 1905. ___ LOCAL NEWS Mrs. Hood, a sister of Mr. Jno. Shelnutt of Anniston, having visited friends and relatives in Bowdon, GA on her return hom epaid a hsort bisit to Mrs. Enos Moore. __ Mrs. T.H. Howle, has left her friends and relatives and gone to Anniston where she will in the future reside with her son Virgil Howle. __ H.D. Landers is still ill with lagripe. He has lived to an advanced age and nearing his sunset in life. His long and useful life has been a benefaction to us all. ___ DIED - - L.D. Penny, an aged and repuputable citizen who lived on his farm about four miles east of town has finished life's work and now sweetly rests on the blissful shores of eternity. __ NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, January 21, 1905 DIED - - Mrs. Laura Neal Owens, wife of J.A. Owens, on the night of January 15th. A little more than seven years ago she became his happy bride, now she has left him sorrowing and to him the most previous of all pledges, two bright and now motherless boys. Mrs. Owens was only thirty-two years old. On the evening of the 17th, in a casket on which rested a pyramid of lovely flowers, the last tokens of sorrowing friends, her body was borne to the Methodist church. The funeral services by Rev. J.A. Scott assisted by pastor J.W. Tucker were appropriate and impressive. She was laid away amid the silent sleepers in the Heflin cemetery. __ DIED - - Ed.G. Almon- - - A short while ago when the relatives and numerous friends of Ed Almon bade him a cheerful and hearty adieu as he returned to his duties as flagman and special conductor on the L & N, it was little dreamed that the last "goodbyes" had been said and that his homecoming would be the pall and pier and the long funeral train. With the circumstances of his untimely departure and the foul manner in which he met death, our readers have already been made familiar through the Birmingham papers. Yet the saddest and most pathetic phases of his unfortunate murder, in it's heart rendering effects upon his devoted parents, brothers and sisters, are features stil remaining, yet not to be described. The shock to his friends and last but not least the wail of the young and tender heart of his promised bride who is now crushed and stunned at his cruel ending of plighted faith and spoken vows present other features that add horror to the sadness. On Monday the 16th, the body prepared for shipment by the embalmers was shipped from Birmingham to Heflin over the Southern. A large concourse of sorrowing friends followed the remains to the Methodist Church where the funeral services were conducted by Rev. J.A. Scott. After the sermon the entire audience filed by to take a view of the face of the promising young man whose untimely death had cast such a gloom over all and to add to the pathos of this scene the last to linger at his open casket was his old black nurse who with streaming eyes looked long upon the face of the boy she had nursed, then with uplifted hands and sobbing with bitterness returned to her seat in the rear of the building. Sad as all this, sadder still was the scene when with tears of father and mother, there mingled the tears of the beaituful girl who too, had come to take a farewell look at the face of him who had become a part of the dreamful vista of her future. Ah well, it is sad beyond words. Our sympathy goes out to the bereaved ones and we pray that through resignation, the weight of this affliction may be bravely borne. ____ DIED - - L.D. Penny, one of our beloved and esteemed citizens of Cleburne county, was born in South Carolina on December 6, 1824. He moved to White county, GA where he spent most of his life except two years in California; moved to Cleburne county in 1883 where he spent the remainder of his life. He joined the Baptist church in boyhood days of which he became a deacon. He was a lover of Sabbath school and of all institutions fostered by god's people. He had at his death $135. for the orphans home. He raised one child, Mrs. White, one stepdaughter and four orphans. L.D. Penny was a speciman of godliness from his salvation to death. He bore in his daily walk evidences of bible religion that saves the soul and reforms the life. In his death a brighter star has been plucked from our religious sky and gone to shine amid grandeurers greater than earth had to give. It was sad for child, relatives and friends to take a last look and say goodbye... His wife preceded him to the good world and doubtless was waiting at the beautiful gate to clasp hands with him to whom she plighted her vows in womanhood prime. Jno. A. Scott ____ LOCAL NEWS J.M. Wallace, a former Cleburne county boy, who has been at Belltown visiting his sister, Mrs. J.T. Glasgow. returned to his home in Lillian, Texas the latter part of last week. Mr. Wallace moved to Texas thirty-nine years ago but the love of his native home is still with him. ___ NEWSPAPER issue of Saturday, January 28, 1905 DIED - - The death angel came and claimed for its victim, Mrs. E.R. Hallman of Oswalt, Alabama. Sister Hallman was born in Leiton (?) County, South Carolina on December 10, 1839; departed this life December 29, 1904, aged 65 years and 19 days. This marks the life of one of the best women in our county. She joined the Methodist Episcopal church south in early life and lived a consistant member in the fullest sense of the word. The writer has known her for many years and never heard one person speak an evil word of her. She was loved by all who knew her. She left her only son, E.C. Hallman who has the sympathy of all who know him as he is an invalid. Sister Hallman was deeply pious. She was reared by christian parents and was herself religious from childhood. It was one of her joys in her life to entertain in her home all ministers of the gospel. Her son, brother, relatives and friends know where to find her. Angus. J. McEarchern ____ Mrs. Fielding Mapp and little daughter Dorstley of Atlanta are the guests of Mrs. S.H. White. __ Harvey E. Davis is visiting his afflicted brother F.B. Davis near old Davistown. __ Rev. John M. Evans and wife were visiting relatives in Heflin on Tuesday. "Uncle John" has lived a long and useful life and his unblemished character and influence for good will be a star that will shine and illuminate the pathway of his now young friends. Bro. Evans is about 79 years of age and for fifty long years he has been preaching the gospel and pressing foward glad tidings of peace on earth, good will to men. ___ For Sale - - Two milk cows and two yearlings for sale at a bargain. J.C. Hicks __ File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/cleburne/newspapers/gnw186newspape.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 11.6 Kb