Madison County AlArchives News.....Various Items of Genealogical Interest September 14, 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: Kenneth Stacy klstacyfamily@aol.com November 7, 2006, 9:44 am The Huntsville Weekly Democrat, 14 September 1881 September 14, 1881 PERSONALS Hon. Joseph Wheeler and Daniel Webster Speaks have formed a law partnership, with their offices at Courtland. Mr. D. L. Love has returned from Boston, Mass., where, he tells us, he consummated an agreement to build a $300,000 cotton factory at Vicksburg, Miss., and expects to leave here in a few days, for Vicksburg, to meet the Boston and Vicksburg subscribers to stock, to make the preliminary arrangements for building the factory. He says, he, also, secured $10,000 more of subscription for the Corinth cotton factory, and expects to have that in operation soon. Hon. E. S. Hammond, Judge of the U. S. District Court for West Tennessee, has been in our city for several days. He left for his home in Memphis, yesterday. Mr. H. R. Banks and wife, who contributed so much to the pleasure of other visitors to Johnson’s Well, the past summer, left the Mc Gee House, yesterday, for their home in Charleston, S. C. Mrs. Kate D. Thompson, left here last week for Jackson, Tenn., to resume her position as art teacher in the Methodist Institute of that city. Mr. George Mason, of Athens, was in our city on Saturday last. Dr. Samuel J. Withers, of Mooresville, was in Huntsville on Monday. Rev. W. W. Kone, the venerable father of Rev. W. Franklin Kone, arrived in our city from Dennison, Texas, on Monday last. We welcome to our city Mr. W. B. Jones of Charlottesville, Va., who arrived here yesterday to take a position in a grocery store. He is a brother of Mrs. Thomas Jamar. Dr. N. D. Richardson, of Athens, is in our city. Mr. Robert L. Pulley returned from Blue Ridge Springs, Va., last week, so much improved in health that he looks like a new man. We congratulate him and his family on his recovery. C. L. Clanton has returned to Montgomery. Mrs. Clanton is still here. ==========O========== A New Hope correspondent of the Guntersville Democrat says: “It is thought by experts that we will make more than half a crop of corn, but will not make half a crop of cotton. Three of the soldiers of the war of 1812 died near here recently, to wit: John H. Tabor, aged 92, Bryant Cobb, aged 88, and William Benson, aged 86.” ==========O========== A sister of ex Senator Conkling – Mrs. Steele – has been, for the past twelve years, employed in the custom service, at the port of New York, as a searcher of female passengers, suspected of having smuggled goods concealed on their persons. ==========O========== Funeral of a Faithful Servant Sunday night, Eliza, the wife of Peter Chapman, (both formerly - for about fifty years - the Negro slaves of Gov. Reuben Chapman), died, aged about 82 years. Yesterday, a long procession of colored people, headed by members of Gov. Chapman’s family, followed the body to its last resting place. Such touching affection of former slave-owners for their freed slaves, who were faithful, is not unfrequent. Yet, it is difficult to make Northern people believe it. The old slave-owners are really the best friends the negroes have. ==========O========== DIED DOUGLASS – Near Norfolk Landing, Miss., September 15, 1881, after a few days’ illness, Major ED. E. DOUGLASS, formerly a citizen of Madison county, Ala., and U. S. Marshall for the Northern District of Alabama, for several years after the war between the States. ==========O========== Administrator’s Notice --------------------------- LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION, upon the estate of Emma Pate deceased, were granted to the undersigned on the 26th day of August, 1881, by the Hon. William. Richardson, Judge of the Court of Probate for the County of Madison, State of Alabama. Notice is hereby given that all persons, holding claims against said estate, are required to present the same within the time required by law, or they will be forever barred. All persons indebted to said estate are requested to make prompt payment. H. L. Clay Adm’r of Emma Pate dec’d. Sept. 7-3w. [Transcription Note: The above Administrator’s Notice appears to be the same as Emma Tate published Sept. 7, 1881. It is repeated in subsequent editions of this paper as Emma Pate.] ==========O========== State of Alabama, | Court of Probate, Madison County, | Sept. 9, 1881. ------------- Estate of N. A. Bostick dec’d. ------------- Petition to Probate Will. This day came James H. Walker, who is named as Executor of a certain instrument in writing, purporting to be the last will and testament of N. A. Bostick deceased, late a resident citizen of the County of Madison, State of Alabama, and presents to the Court said last will and testament with a petition in writing duly verified by oath, asking and praying that said instrument in writing, be declared to be and established as the last true will and testament of said N. A. Bostick deceased: It is ordered by the Court that the 7th day of October 1881, be and is appointed a day on which to hear, consider and determine said petition: and that notice, of the filing of the petition, the nature of the same and the times appointed for the hearing thereof, be given to Aneel C. Bostick and George M. Bostick, who resied in the State of Tennessee, by publication, for three successive weeks, in the Huntsville DEMOCRAT, a newspaper published in this county; at which time, all persons interested can appear and contest the same, if they see proper to do so. WILLIAM RICHARDSON, Sept. 17-3w. Judge of Probate. ==========O========== State of Alabama, | Court of Probate, Madison County, | Sept. 13, 1881. ------------- Estate of Missouri W. McCalley dec’d. ------------- Petition to Probate Will. This day, came M. T. Russell, who is named as the sole divisee and distributee in a certain instrument in writing, purporting to be the last will and testament of Missouri W. McCalley deceased, late a resident-citizen of the County of Madison, State of Alabama, and presented to the Court her written petition, together with said last will and testament; seeking and praying that said instrument in writing, signed by Mrs. M. W. McCalley and dated the 13th day of July, 1881, be admitted to probate, as the last true will and testament of said Mrs. M. W. McCalley deceased: It is ordered by the Court that the 7th day of October 1881, be and is appointed a day on which to hear, consider and determine said application, together with the proof submitted in support of the same; it is further ordered, that notice of the filing of the petition, the nature of the same, and the time appointed by the Court for the hearing thereof, be given, by publication for three successive weeks, in the Huntsville DEMOCRAT, a newspaper published in this county, to Lula Jounson, who is the wife of _______ Corlin, both of whom reside in the town of Henrietta, in the State of Texas; at which time, all persons interested can appear and contest the same, if they see proper to do so. WILLIAM RICHARDSON, Sept. 14-3w. Judge of Probate. ==========O========== Administrator’s Notice --------------------------- LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION, upon the estate of Texie M. Lawler deceased, were granted to the undersigned on the 14th day of September, 1881, by the Hon. William. Richardson, Judge of the Court of Probate for the County of Madison, State of Alabama. Notice is hereby given that all persons, holding claims against said estate, are required to present the same within the time required by law, or they will be forever barred. All persons indebted to said estate are requested to make prompt payment. John Lawler Adm’r of Texie M. Lawler dec’d. Sept. 14-3w. ==========O========== Mr. John Johnson of Troy, Ala., was shot by his son David and instantly killed, on Sunday night last. Mr. Johnson was under the influence of liquor, and maltreated his wife and children. The neighbors made an ineffectual effort to get him to desist, when he threatened their lives and they left the house. He then began whipping his wife and children, and went into the yard for a fence rail, and returned to the house. As he entered, his son fired upon him with a pistol, killing him instantly. No arrest was made of young John, and it is thought, none will be made. – Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer. ==========O========== CLASSIFIED & MISC. NOTICES PRIVATE SCHOOL -------------- MRS. J. WITHERS CLAY’S SCHOOL will open August 30th. She will teach the usual English branches; and also the French Language, Vocal Music and Instrumental Music on the Piano and Guitar, at prices to suit the times. E. S. JOHNSON has just returned from New York and Boston, having purchased a Large and Attractive Stock of Fall and Winter Goods, which he offers at unusually low figures for Cash. Give him a call, and you will be pleased with his prices. School Notice MISS KATE ERSKINE will re-open her School on Wednesday, August 31, 1881, at her residence on Franklin Street, assisted by Mrs. M. W. Steele. The Fall Session of D. B. YOUNG’S School for Boys, Franklyn Street, begins Wednesday, Aug. 331. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/madison/newspapers/variousi1154gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 9.7 Kb