Randolph County AlArchives News.....Newspaper Abstracts for FEBRUARY 1896 February 1896 ************************************************ 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 January 12, 2005, 8:38 pm The Randolph Toiler NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS FROM "THE RANDOLPH TOILER", Wedowee, Randolph County, Alabama for FEBRUARY 1896 NEWSPAPER issue of Thursday, February 6, 1896 WEHADKEE News Col. M.T. Almond of Texas, Georgia was here last Friday on business. __ Prof. R.E. Weathers visited his father's family near Taylor's Cross Roads Saturday and Sunday. __ "Uncle" Hiram Forbes is very low with measles at this writing. Hope he soon recovers. __ Mr. G.E. Lee and Miss Mittie Reed were united in marriage on Sunday the 26th ult., at the bride's home in Beat 11, with Rev. W.R. Avery officiating. __ NAPOLEON News Mr. Jack Doolittle is convalescent this week. __ NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, February 13, 1896 CLACK News Mr. Jim Lipham who has been very ill, is improving. __ Mr. H.C. Jordan's family are down with the measles. __ HAYWOOD News Mr. T.H. Sledge is all smiles this week. They say it is a boy. __ PEACE News Mr. R.R. Tomlinson had a corn shucking Saturday night and had about 125 bushels of corn chucked which was only a small portion of his crop of corn. Mr. Rufus Canady told all at the shucking that he has a new remedy for the grip. Anyone can get it by calling on Mr. Canady. __ Mr. J.P. Bailey came very near getting his mare downed Saturday. His wife started to a neighbor's house and stopped at a branch to water the mare when the mare became entangled in the mud and brush and fell with her ind parts on a high back and her head in the water about knee deep. Mrs. Bailey called for help with all her might and her husband and the writer reached her in time to save the mare. __ Last Friday morning, most unexpectedly, the home of Mr. and Mrs. Chris. Harrington was turned into sorrow by the death of their little girl Fannie, about four years old. She had been ailing but was not considered dangerously so, but before they barely knew it she was dead with that dangerous disease, croup. She was a sweet little girl and will be greatly missed by the family. __ NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT State of Alabama, Randolph County This day came C.B. Nichols, administrator of the estate of W.E. Knight, deceased, and filed his accounts, vouchers and asks that a day be set for final settlement of his administration. It is therefore ordered by the court that Wednesday the 4th day of March 1896 be set to hear and pass on said accounts and vouchers and all persons interested can appear and contest the same if they think proper. A.J. Weather, Judge of Probate __ NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, February 20, 1896 SUSAN EVANS, AN OLD WOMAN LIVING ALONE IS THE VICTIM; MURDER MOST FOUL On Sunday night last, Susan Evans, a woman near sixty years of age, living alone some three miles southwest of Wedowee, was most brutally murdered. Her body was found some distance from her house by Anderson Moon, colored, who reported the matter to the authorities. The body was robed in night clothing with a calico dress drawn around the shoulders and the skull was crushed, apparently with a rock or some blunt instrument. Suspicion at once was pointed to Ike and Len Clifton, two young brothers whose habitation is down on Corn House Creek, they having been heard to make threats against the old woman at different times, and against one of whom an indictment was pending for having beaten and abused her several months ago. A warrant was issued for their arrest and Deputy Sheriff Traylor brought them in and lodged them in jail Monday night about 8 o'clock. Meantime, J.P.D. Murphy, Esq., summoned a jury and held an inquest over the remains, getting up all the evidence possible bearing on the tragedy and the jury's verdict charged the Cliftons with the crime, the evidence it is said, being considered conclusive of their guilt. The Clifton boys, it is alleged, habe borne a bad reputation and a goodly number of infractions of the law of various kinds have been ascribed to them. The old woman was a peculiar character, living on her own little farm all alone making her own living and it is said bothering nobody. It is presumed the grand jury have the case under investigation. __ WEHADKEE News Mr. W.A. Whitaker and wife of LaGrange, GA visited relatives in this community last week. __ Mr. Brit Walker and Miss Lula Fincher eloped to Franklin, GA on the 7th inst. and were happily married. __ OBITUARY FOR J.L. CUMMINGS and family " Have pity on me, o' ye my friends for the hand of god hath touched me." Doubtless Job never felt the above language more forcibly that we have since December 22, 1895 for on that date Death entered the once happy home of our brother, J.L. Cummings and took from his embrace the previous form of his darling boy Jimmy, aged 8 years 7 months and 7 days; and on January 6, 1896, his daughter Mrs. E.P. Abbott, aged 22 years, 2 months and 22 days, died after a short illness. But to us hers was a beautiful life. She possessed that meek and quiet spirit which so beautifully characterizes a child of god. She was good and kind to all and a love for the peace and welfare of her neighbors formed a striking trait in her character. In her eyes deceit was loathsome but she delighted in faithfulness. She was a member of the Missionary Baptist Church. Her death was a great shock to her father, who was very low at that time and he died January 10, 1896, aged 45 years, 10 months and 5 days. He was married to Miss Sarah Baker May 5, 1870 with whom he lived peacefully and happily until death and who still survives to mourn the loss of a dear husband and children. Death to him was not a cruel monster but a golden key to unlock the gates which lead him into endless joys; but what an unwelcome guest it was to those who loved him so dearly. He was a member and a Deacon of the Congretational Methodist Church. Baley, his second son, age 20 years, 2 months and 28 days, died February 4, 1896. Baley was truly a noble speciman of manhood, so courteous and kind, so loving and careful of his poor afflicted widowed mother, who is left to mourn for husband and children. The ways of Providence are so mysterious to us and the questions constantly forces itself upon us, why was Baley taken and so many of us left that could have been better spared? However we feel that we have no right, neither do we wish to call into question god's dealings with us, for we are sure that he doeth all things well. They all died of typhoid fever, although they had skilled physicians and good and patient nursing it seemed to be the will of an all wise god to take them to himself. So we may employ the language of Job and say, "the lord giveth and the lord taketh away." And while their remains lie in the silent tomb to await the resurrection, when the time comes for the mortal to put on immortality, they shall awake in his likeness and shall be satisfied for they will see him as he is. Then we would like to say to the bereaved, cheer up, for the evidence that gave them hope to meet them where parting is no more. May the blessed lord comfort us and reconcile us to this sad bereavement. ____ NEWSPAPER issue of Thursday, February 22, 1896 HAYWOOD News Mrs. Lula Washington has been visiting her parents at this place. __ Mr. Perry Bailey received a letter from the Texas boys. They say they are well satisfied. __ GRABALL, ALA., News Mr. James Creed and Mrs. M.E. Waters were somenly united together in the holy bands of matrimony on the night of the 15th inst., at the residence of Mr. Sam Creed, his son. The old man's age is somewhere about 60 and the bride is about 50. ___ File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/randolph/newspapers/nw117newspape.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/alfiles/ File size: 8.2 Kb