Randolph County AlArchives News.....Newspaper Abstracts for JULY 1896 July 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 20, 2005, 7:16 pm The Randolph Toiler NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS FROM "THE RANDOLPH TOILER", Wedowee, Randolph County, Alabama for JULY 1896 NEWSPAPER issue of Friday, July 3, 1896 LOCAL News Mrs. Martha Slay of Roanoke is the welcome guest of her father and two brothers, Messrs. B.J. and R.H. Ford this week. __ Mr. Will Parish and wife and children accompanied by Mrs. Parish's father, Dr. White, passed through Wedowee en route to their home in Anniston. __ DEATH OF DR. CHARLES D. BILBRO Letters from relatives in Texas to Miss Erin Callahan announce the death of her maternal grandfather, Dr. C.D. Bilbro, who passed away at the home of the only surviving member of his immediate family, Mrs. Leila Teat, in Hillsboro, Texas, Thursday June 18, 1896 in the 89th year of his age. The name of Dr. Bilbro will sound familiar and will readily be recalled to memory by many old citizens of east Alabama, he having spent nearly forty years of active and useful professional life in Chambers County where hew as a leading and honored citizen, eminent in the medical profession and in the councils of the Methodist Church of which he was a lifelong and devoted member. In early life, he located in Fredonia, where he practiced his profession for 17 years, his practice covering a large portion of both Chambers and Randolph counties and becoming so heavy that his health became impaired and he was forced to move to a more thickly settled locality to escape the labor it required. Hence he located at Oak Bowery, where he built a beautiful home and surrounded it with all the comforts and luxuries which the cultivated tastes of himself and family could suggest, and enjoyed the blessings of prosperity and happiness till the war terminated in the destruction of his property. In 1870, he moved with his family and elder son-in-law, Col. A.M. Maddux, to Texas, where misfortunes came to him thick and fast and crushing. Every member of his family, one by one, including Col. Maddux, preceded him to the grave in the space of a few years, save his youngest daughter, and he was afflicted with a malady which prevented him from practicing his profession several years before his advanced age became a barrier to his usefulness; but notwithstanding all this, his steadfast faith in this savior of men was never shaken and the proud, yet amiable spirit of the knightly and cultured gentleman was never crushed, but bore him above his afflictions to the end. Dr. Charles D. Bilbro was born in Virginia on November 19, 1807, but moved with his father's family to Georgia when a youth. He received a collegiate education and was graduated in medicine at the Louisville Medical College. He was married in his young manhood to a Miss Hudson of Louisville, the Rev. Dr. Lovick Pierce (who had received him in the church) performing the ceremony. He was a college mate of the late Bishop George Pierce, whom he met for the last time a few years before the Bishop's death, when he was visiting in Texas. Perhaps no man living at the time of his death had been longer a mmeber of a christian church or more devoted to its interests, its institutions and its teachings. The prayers which fell from his lips, whether at the family altar, at the bedside of the afflicted or in the congregation of worshipppers, sounded like inspiration and no sinner ever heard them without being made conscious of his sins, while they drew christians nearer to god and gave them a brighter hope of heaven. There was rejoicing in the celestial city when the gates opened wide to admit the great soul of this grand old patriarch. ____ NEWSPAPER issue of Friday, July 10, 1896 LOCAL News Mr. Tom Snelgrove of Boaz was in town this week. __ Mr. Lewis Heaton of Brockville was in Wedowee Sunday to see "his best". __ Four prisoners in jail put a dash of snuff in the eyes of Homer Willoughby on Sunday night about dark and then made a successful dash for liberty. The escapees were Len Clifton, charged with murder, and a white man named Bonds and two negroes charged with minor offenses. Clifton and Bonds stopped Tuesday night at the house of Chas. Freeman, colored, about four miles from town, who, making an excuse that he was going out to secure some meat for their supper, notified Messrs. Henry Camp, Bud Bradley and others, who arrested them. They were returned to jail Wednesday morning. __ GRAHAM News The preliminary trial of Shelly McIntyre, which was set for trial before Squire McCarley Saturday, charged with assault with intent to murder with a pistol, was continued until July the 18th, on the part of the state. __ James L. Kaylor has the materials laid down to erect an elegant dwelling on the spot where his former one stood which was destroyed by fire a few days since. __ Matt Wiggins and James Ferrill we learn have wagered a small amount on which could make the most wheat to the amount sowed. Wiggins sowed three bushels and Ferrill one. We will report the crop of each next week. __ CHRISTIANA News Health of our town not so good this week. Mr. W.H. Latham's family are mostly sick. He has one child that is dangerously ill and the other two children and his wife are very sick. __ Mr. W.L. Cofield and Miss Siddie Foster were happily united in the sacred bonds of matrimony on the 25th of June at the residence of the bride's mother. Rev. T.M. Linley officiated in the marriage ceremony. __ WEHADKEE News There is some sickness in our neighborhood. Mr. J.A. Green and wife are both confined to their room with typhoid fever. The former is improving but the latter is very low at this writing. Travis, the son of Mr. C.A. Alsabrooks is also very low with fever. __ Miss Sarah Mathews has accepted the school at Midway for the summer term and will begin teaching next Monday. __ NEWSPAPER issue of Friday, July 18, 1896 LOCAL News A colored prisoner named Frank Tyson is sick in jail with the typhoid fever. __ Mrs. Bowman and two children are boarding at the jail in order to be near the husband and father during his incarceration. __ Mrs. McKay accompanied Mrs. R.H. Ford to High Shoals on Saturday to visit Mrs. Stitt, Mrs. Ford's sister. This was Mrs. McKays first vacation since she has been postmaster. They had a good time and returned Sunday. __ "Uncle Jerry" Pittman, a well known colored man living near Graham, was killed by lightning on Monday. He was standing close to the rear end of the house when stricken. One foot was torn off and death was instantaneous. It is said an old lightning rod which was "out of fix" was on the house. __ Mr. and Mrs. J.S. Prescott lost their beautiful home by fire on Friday night of last week. When discovered shortly after midnight the entire rear end of the building was in flames and Mr. Prescott barely had time to get out with his wife and children after being awakened. Everything was lost except a few articles of household goods hastily taken out of the front room. The cause of the fire is a mystery and will probably never be known. Mr. Prescott had some insurance which will probably cover about half the actual loss but it will take a long time to replace the beautiful trees and shrubbery and many conveniences of the home. __ KAYLOR News Mr. H.M. Daniel and wife of Villa Rica, GA are visiting in this community at present. They report good crops in Georgia. __ Mr. Gabe Daniel met the horse swappers in Carrollton the first Tuesday and fetched back a new horse. __ NEWSPAPER issue of Friday, July 24, 1896 LOCAL News Frank Joiner, a colored man confined in the county jail for a minor offense, died last night about 11 o'clock of Typhoid Fever. __ NEWSPAPER issue of Friday, July 31, 1896 DEATH OF A GOOD WOMAN Mrs. Lizzie Thrasher is dead! The sad news having reached this place on Thursday morning. Mrs. Thrasher had been in bad health for several days and last Sunday morning at the home of her husband in Daytona, Fla., she breathed her last. Mrs. Thrasher was the wife of Mr. A.T. Thrasher, for many years a resident of Edwardsville. The deceased was a sister of our fellow townsmen, J.C. and J.T. Gibbs. Mrs. Thrasher was a devoted wife and loving mother. She was a member of the M.E. Church. We extend to the bereaved husband our heartfelt sympathies in this his sad bereavement. The above was copied from the Cleburne Plowboy of the 24th inst. Mrs. Thrasher was also a sister our our esteemed fellow citizen, Mr. H.A. Gibbs and the sad news of her death will be received by regret by many readers of The Toiler. ___ LOCAL News Miss Susie Carr a charming young lady from near Newell, is visiting Miss Alice Willoughby. Miss Alice returned last Friday after a two week visit to her sister Mrs. Walker near Newell. __ Mr. A.T. Messer's little boy Osborne has been sick about four weeks with slow fever but he is thought to be improving. __ File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/randolph/newspapers/nw122newspape.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/alfiles/ File size: 9.5 Kb