Randolph County AlArchives News.....Newspaper Abstracts for DEC 1913 December 1913 ************************************************ 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. Teal Gravelle tealtree@comcast.net November 16, 2005, 12:03 am The Roanoke Leader December 1913 NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS FROM "THE ROANOKE LEADER", Roanoke, Randolph County, Alabama for DECEMBER 1913 NEWSPAPER issue of Wednesday, December 3, 1913 MR. KYLE LOSES LEFT ARM This community learned with regret Saturday afternoon that Mr. Reuben Kyle had suffered the misfortune to have his left hand and forearm mangled in a corn shredder at his country home two miles east of town. Medical aid reached him within a few minutes and it was found necessary to amputate the injured limb which was done about two inches below the elbow. Mr. Kyle withstood the trying ordeal heroically and is now doing as well as could be hoped. Mr. Kyle is one of the most public spirited and enterprising citizens in the community. While his friends sympathize with him in his loss, they realize that nothing can daunt a man of Kyle's energy and grit. ---- LOCAL News Mrs. Goodwin, who resided in Roanoke some months ago with her son H.L. Goodwin, died Saturday at her home near Stroud, as a result of a fall received some weeks before. The interment was at Standing Rock Sunday afternoon, after services conducted by Rev. Mr. Edwards. --- MALONE News Dec. 1st Arthur Daniel moved his family to Winston County last week. --- Ben Stone and son Willie went to Tennessee last week to look for a home. --- ABANDA News Oscar Stephens and wife of Oklahoma are visiting the former's parents near here. --- WADLEY News Nov. 30th Mr. Jim Kilgore and daughter Miss Grace of Rock Mills are visiting the former's mother, Mrs. Amanda Kilgore. --- Mr. Tom Hodge of Anniston has moved his family to Wadley. --- BACON LEVEL News Dec. 1st J.A. Crouch and wife have moved back from LaGrange to their old home place. --- Mrs. Margaret Hudson is spending some time with her daughter Mrs. John Pullen who is dangerously ill at Standing Rock. --- LOCAL News R.E. Moore has moved back to this county from Bartlett, Texas. --- Mrs. W.F. Hughes and two children will arrive today from Niles, Kansas to visit relatives in this section. --- Mr. and Mrs. W.S. Dunkin will arrive tomorrow from Shreveport to spend some days with the family of D.S. Dunkin. --- Our Corbin correspondent writes us of the death of Mrs. Phoeby Huey on the 22nd of November and of the marriage on the 30th of Charlie Wilson to Miss Ila McManus and Marvin Benefield to Miss Pearl Broach. --- Mrs. Mattie Rodgers and daughter Mrs. Sims Wright of North Randolph are visiting Mrs. W.S. Green. --- T.L. Mann and wife of Albertville were the guests of the family of the former's brother, W.J. Mann, a few days since. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Wednesday, December 10, 1913 BACON LEVEL News Dec. 8th Quite a number from here attended the funeral of Mrs. John Pullens at Standing Rock on Sunday. It was conducted by Revs. W.E. Faust and J.F. Rudisill. --- MALONE News Dec. 8th Lon McDaniel and family moved to South Georgia last week. --- Mr. M. Johns, an aged citizen living near here, died Friday night. Interment took place at Forester's Chapel Sunday afternoon. --- FOR SALE One acre lot of Sallie Smith, colored, with two room house, good well and orchard, located on Seymour Hill in Roanoke, Ala. Apply to S.T. Smith, agent, Standing Rock. ---- WEDOWEE News H.T. Burns and Burns Parker have gone to Temple, Texas on a prospecting trip. --- BROUGHTON News Dec. 8th Pool Hodges died at his home at Radney's Chapel Friday night. Interment was a Concord on Sunday. Pool was a nice young man. He leaves an aged father and a host of relatives and friends to mourn his departure. --- LOCAL News Joe Rucker, the adopted son of Rev. and Mrs. J.W. Rucker, fell and broke his right arm while roller skating on the pavement last Thursday. --- Mrs. Beulah E. Grubbs is spending some week with her parents Mr. and Mrs. J.L.B. Taylor near town. --- NEWSPAPER issue of Wednesday, December 17, 1913 DR. DAVIS DIED TUESDAY; WILL BE BURIED HERE The news of the death of Dr. S.J. Davis, which occurred in a sanitarium at Tuscaloosa, was received by telegram here yesterday and will be read with regret by the many friends and acquaintances of the deceased throughout this section. Dr. Davis had practiced medicine in Rock Mills and Roanoke, and also at Albertville. He belonged to a prominent east Alabama family and notwithstanding his physical afflictions, he led an active life. The remains will arrive in Roanoke today. At 10 o'clock Thursday morning funeral services will be conducted from the home of the daughter of the deceased, Mrs. Wm. Engelhart. The interment will be in Cedarwood cemetery, where the remains of the parents of Dr. Davis were interred many years ago. ---- MRS. PRENDERGAST DIED LAST FRIDAY IN ROANOKE In the death of Mrs. A.E. Prendergast, which occurred at the home of her daughter Mrs. O.D. Slay at an early hour last Friday morning, Roanoke loses one its oldest and best citizens. The deceased had been in feeble health for a long while; the end came peacefully and now she is at rest. Mrs. Prendergast was in her seventy-eighth year and had been a resident of Raonoke about a quarter of a century. Her husband died at Cedartown, Ga., about thirty years ago. Two daughters, Mrs. O.D. Slay and Mrs. J.H. Crisler, with other relatives, mourn the departure of this mother good and true. Saturday morning at 10 o'clock funeral services were conducted at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Slay by Rev. E.M. Glenn, pastor of the deceased, assisted by Rvs. J.W. Rucker and C.C. O'Neal. The interment was at Cedarwood. Many sympathizing friends attended. ----- CARD OF THANKS We wish to use your paper as a medium through which to express our sincere thanks to Dr. Liles, Mr. F.P. Nichols and each of our friends who so kindly administered to our dear mother, Mrs. Agnes Elizabeth Prendergast, through her illness and death. May God bless you all. Mr. and Mrs. O.D. Slay Mr. and Mrs. John Crisler ----- WADLEY News Dec. 15th Mrs. William Hand of Tifton, Ga., is visiting Mrs. Preston Hand and Mrs. J.T. Fuller. --- LOCAL News C.W. Cunningham has moved to Cullman County where he has bought a farm. --- Mr. H.M. Mickle who has been a subscriber to The Leader all of it's life, was a welcome caller at this office some days ago. He has rented his home place to W.J. Orr and he and his wife will soon make their home with their daughter Mrs. Geo. W. Stevens. --- The Leader has just had a note from Rev. G.H. Bailey, one of the best citizens of North Randolph. He had the misfortune to lose his wife some while since. She was a good, true woman and has entered into rest. --- Engineer John Ray is still confined to his home as a result of a shake-up received last week when his engine collided with a switch engine in Opelika. --- M.L. Ellington and wife of Autauga County are visiting relatives in this vicinity. --- R.W. Pate arrived with his family last week from Addison. They will make their home again at his old place a few miles west of town. --- Mr. and Mrs. W.R. Anderson announce the marriage of their daughter Pauline to Mr. Ollie Brown Yates, the marriage to take place Dec. 26th at noon, at the Baptist church. The Lineville Headlight --- Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Hodges have issued invitations to the marriage of their daughter Miss Eunice to Mr. Curtis Poor, the ceremony to occur at their home on Route 5 at 2:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon, Dec. 21st. --- WEHADKEE News Dec. 9th Mrs. T.J. Green is quite sick. --- Travis Alsobrook and wife will leave soon for Winston County where they will make their future home. --- Dec. 16th - - - A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Will Webb last Sunday and died Monday. --- G.F. Hamilton of Calhoun county is visiting relatives in this section. --- LOCAL News The remains of Browning Wilson who died in Talladega were brought through Roanoke Sunday and carried to Chapel Hill for interment. Rev. S.L. Dobbs accompanied the party and conducted the services. --- S.D. Lewis and wife of Wehadkee celebrated their 32nd marriage anniversary yesterday. --- NEWSPAPER issue of Wednesday, December 24, 1913 PATTERSON - DELOACH MARRIAGE Last Wednesday afternoon, at the home of Mr. J.H. DeLoach, his daughter Miss Eula was married to Mr. Hugh Sanford Patterson. Rev. E.M. Glenn officiated. The bride and groom left immediately for their home near Stroud. --- A ROMANTIC MARRIAGE Last week, Miss Minnie Still, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A.T. Still, went to visit her brother in LaGrange. There she was met Thursday afternoon by a devoted lover in the person of Mr. E.H. Fowler, and soon they were wed, the affair being a surprise to her family and friends in Roanoke. Mr. and Mrs. Fowler will reside in Bullochville, Ga., where the groom is a prosperous young farmer and worthy citizen. ---- GOOD WOMAN IS CALLED FROM SUFFERING TO REST WHEN THE SPIRIT OF MRS. W.F. USSERY TOOK ITS FLIGHT After long and weary waiting, Mrs. W.F. Ussery was called from her sufferings here to the rest that awaits the good, beyond the bounds of life "where we lay our burdens down." An an early hour Sunday morning the spirit of the devoted wife and mother broke the bands that bound it to the tenement of clay and left to weep beside the mortal remains a husband, a daughter, Mrs. J.P. Seroyer, a son Gordon C. Ussery and many other relatives and countless friends. These had watched patiently, tenderly over her through long months of wasting illness, following her with longing eyes and helpless hands to the river's brink. By every token possible, friends sought to show their interest and sympathy. A large concourse was present at the Baptist church at 10 o'clock Monday morning to attend the funeral rites. Beautiful flowers and other evidences of love were to be seen. The songs, the prayers, the eulogies touch every heart. The pastor, Dr. Rucker, was assisted in the service by Dr. Dobbs. Mrs. Ussery's life had touched not only her family, her church, her community for good, but also blessed the lives of many traveling men to whom she acted the part of a gracious host all through the years she and her husband were engaged in the hotel business in Roanoke. Mrs. Ussery was a woman of great energy and was noted for her large hearted charity. She was for thirty-five years a loyal member of the Baptist church but her good deeds were not limited by denominational bounds. This was beautifully attested in a personal experience related by Dr. Dobbs in his tribute of respect paid to the dead. In deeds of mercy, in words of cheer, in the lives of loved ones, she lives, and though her tired body rests, her works abide. ----- FIVE COUPLES MARRIED Last Sunday was marrying day in Lowell, this city. Among those whose names we learned in this connection are the following: Elmer McCarley and Miss Claude Ferguson Lon Brown and Miss Fannie McCarley Jordan Kelly and Miss Mattie McKinnon Lon Kelly and Miss Eliza Bailey Tom Bailey and Miss Bertha Hand ---- WADLEY News Dec. 22nd Mr. Jim Liles and Denson Liles of Paris, Kentucky, have come home to spend Christmas. --- LOCAL News Mrs. Gauntt, an elect lady, is in a dying condition at the home of her daughter Mrs. P.A. Hurst in this city. --- Evelyn Causey, the six year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R.M. Causey, died in Birmingham on Monday of scarlet fever. This is the last of their three children to die. C.D. Manley went over Tuesday to attend the funeral. --- W.P. Smith of Camp Hill was in Roanoke on Sunday and Monday, being called by the death of Mrs. W.F. Ussery. --- Clarence Green is spending ten days with his aunt Miss Vivian Green in Birmingham. --- BACON LEVEL News Dec. 22nd Mrs. A.B. Jones has returned from Franklin where she has been attending the bedside of her mother who continues quite feeble. --- R.L. McCarter visited relatives here Sunday and Monday. He was accompanied home by his uncle, D.M. McCarter who will make his home with the former's father. --- We are sorry to note that Z.T. Ussery was stricken with paralysis on the left side Saturday night and is in a very serious condition. Note from editor: Later - - Mr. Ussery died at ten o'clock Monday night. Burial at Bacon Level Tuesday afternoon. --- (NOTE: The newspaper issue of December 31, 1913 is missing from the microfilm roll for Dec. 1913.) 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