Randolph County AlArchives News.....Newspaper Abstracts for APRIL 1899 April 1899 ************************************************ 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 June 6, 2005, 12:33 am The Randolph Leader April 1899 NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS FROM "THE RANDOLPH LEADER", Roanoke, Randolph County, Alabama for APRIL 1899 NEWSPAPER issue of Wednesday, April 12, 1899 WELSH News This section of our county was made sad last Saturday when the news spread that Rev. John Cumbee was dead. He was a Baptist landmark, serving many years in the ministry. He perhaps left more friends who sincerely mourn his loss than any one that every lived in this section. He leaves several children. We extend sympathy to the bereaved. __ WEHADKEE News The sick of our community have about all recovered except Mrs. A.J. Hester, who has been sick for the past three months. __ LOCAL News Mrs. J. Floyd Collins of Thomasville is visiting her parnets Mr. and Mrs. W.H. Purcell. __ Z.J. Wright and son Fred returned Thursday from a visit to Texas. Mr Wright's mother returned with them to spend some time. __ Mr. J.P. Seroyer Sr. returned home yesterday after a visit of several days with his son John and other relatives at Roanoke. He is 80 years of age. __ Invitations have been issued to the marriage of Rev. George Thomas Harris, pastor of the M.E. Church, South, at Wedowee, to Miss Jessie Moore Ligon. This event will occur at the home of the bride's parents, Dr. and Mrs. W.M. Ligon at Oakfuskee, April 19th. __ AN AGED MINISTER DIES May people throughout this section were saddened to learn of the death last Saturday of Rev. John Cumbee, an old an honored minister of the Missionary Baptist Church. This event occurred at the deceased's home near Stroud. The interment was in the cemetery at Fredonia Sunday afternoon, the services being conducted by Rev. Mr. Upshaw of this city. Mr. Cumbee had been in failing health for the past year or so, but was sitting up in his room till within a few minutes before his death. He leaves quite a number of children, all grown and several of them married. They inherit from him the priceless legacy of a good name. Mr. Cumbee had long been prominently identified with the interests of the Baptist church in east Alabama, and in him all good causes found a faithful friend. The fruits of his long and consecrated life will be gathered through all the years to come. ___ NEWSPAPER issue of Wednesday, April 19, 1899 LOCAL News We regret to report the death near Welsh last Thursday of Mrs. J.H. Dennis. __ This community was very much saddened at the death last Saturday evening of Jesse W. Chaffin, a student who boarded at W.T. Tenant's. He had roseola and replapsed. His remains were taken to his home at Lamar for interment Sunday. __ NEWSPAPER issue of Wednesday, April 26, 1899 ROCK MILLS News A child of Mr. and Mrs. John Wood died near this place last Saturday. __ Mrs. Lula Edwards, after spending some time here as the guest of her mother Mrs. George Matthews, returned to her home in Texas last week. __ Mr. George Breed and Miss Annie Jones of this place, were married at Franklin last Saturday morning. __ WEHADKEE News Uncle Bale Lee, one of our oldest citizens, was taken very sick last week but we are glad to note is better. __ WELSH News It is again that death has come among us, this time it was Mrs. John Dennis. She had been sick for several months. She was a member of the Baptist church for many years. She died Thursday and her remains were interred in Bethel Cemetery Friday, the funeral services being conducted by Rev. A.S. Brannon. She leaves a husband, five children and several brothers and sisters to mourn her loss. To the bereaved ones we extend our sympathy. ___ LOCAL News Mrs. Emma Stewart is sick. __ T.M. Swann and Miss Emma Carlisle left yesterday to attend the marriage of Mr. Thomas J. Lovvorn to Miss Pollie Ridley, which event occurred at 11 a.m. at the home of the bride at Ridley, Ga. Their future home will be at Newell, this county. ___ Sam Holt, the fiendish murderer and assailant who destroyed the home of Alfred Cranford near Palmetto, Ga., some days ago, was captured near Marshalville on Saturday night. He was carried to Newnan, was identified, and then confessed his crime. In open daylight on Sunday afternoon a large crowd of unmasked men tied the negro to a sapplng and after saturating his clothing with kerosene, burned him to death. Such vengeance is horrible and tragic. __ Mr. J.O. Thompson of this city showed us Monday two antique curiosities in the way of Bibles. Both came from Germany; one was 393 years old and printed in German text; the other was 309 years old and printed in Latin. Through worn and faded they were clearly legible, to those proficient in German and Latin tongues. The backs were of wood and were eaten through by insects. Mr. Thompson was preparing to express the books to a friend who will doubtless highly prize a gift so rare. ___ In the early part of the week the home of Mr. and Mrs. J.C. Hornsby was blessed by the addition of another heir. This is the seventh son (though one died in infancy) and we trust he will live to fill the old superstition of making a doctor and one of much renown. __ Mrs. B.E. Satterwhite has been right sick but is convalescing. Her husband is expected to return from Florida on Saturday. __ Mrs. W.C. Lane was taken quite sick Monday but recovered sufficiently for her husband to leave today for the district conference to which he is a delegate. __ IN MEMORY OF JESSE W. CHAFFIN On the 15th day of April in the 21st year of his life, Jesse W. Chaffin crossed the boundary line between the seen and unseen. He was orphan, having at the age of five months lost his father and at five years lost his mother. His childhood and earlier youth were spent in the home of his grandfather W.R. Smith near Lamar, Alabama. Of his immediate family no one is left but one, an older brother in Texas. Jesse spent some years in Texas where he joined the Missionary Baptist church in 1896. For the past year and a half he had been a student in Roanoke Normal College. Upon his return from the west he brought his church letter with him and joined the church at Providence near Lamar, retaining his membership there until his death. His body was taken back there by loving friends and laid to rest. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. W.H. Wright in the presence of a large concourse of people. These are the bare facts in the life of a young man who just as he was ready to step across the threshhold into manhood's estate, was called to lay aside the hopeful prospects of a happy life and answer that summons which, sooner or later, comes to us all. But perhaps unseen and unknown to man, there were other facts back of these, the heart longings of an orphan boy, the faithful performance of duty in the face of sickness and disease, the uncomplaining spirit throughout his last illness, the shadow of that death which he deemed himself certain to meet ere he should pass from his young manhood; these lend a sadness and a pathos to his life and to his early death. Away from home and kindred, without the loving touch of sister or mother, surrounded by school mates and teachers, gently, quietly, calmly, he breathed his last. Faithful friends had done for him what they could doing his last illness. Those with whom he boarded had ministered lovingly to him, and had done what they could to relieve his sufferings. During the long hours of the night they watched beside his body and they furnished the sad escort from Roanoke to his final resting place. He sleeps beside his mother. A few inches of earth separate all that remains upon earth of them... Written by Leon M. Stevenson ____ File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/randolph/newspapers/newspape558gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 8.3 Kb