Carroll County GaArchives News.....Newspaper abstracts for NOV. 1881 November 1881 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: C Gravelle http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00023.html#0005680 March 31, 2007, 11:09 pm The Carroll County Times November 1881 NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS FROM "THE CARROLL COUNTY TIMES", Carrollton, Carroll County, Georgia for NOVEMBER 1881 NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, NOVEMBER 4, 1881 LOCAL News Joe Latimer, a young colored man well known in this community where he has been driving a dray for several years, died last Tuesday. ---- Mrs. Tucker left last Wednesday morning for Marietta where she will make her home in the future. ---- B.F. Wilder left for his home in Saline county, Arkansas last Monday. --- Uncle Jimmie Westbrook, one of our best known citizens, moved the first of the week to his farm in Haralson county. ----- Mr. Garrison from Rusk county, Texas, father of James G. Garrison who formerly went to school here, has been on a visit to relatives in this county. ----- NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, NOVEMBER 11, 1881 NEIGHBORHOOD News Mr. John C. Shugart of Marietta is dead. He was 72 years of age. ----- We regret to learn from the last issue of the Franklin News, of the death of Dr. T.A. Gillespie, at one time editor of the News. About a year ago Dr. Gillespie sold his interest in the paper and joined the Georgia conference and was assigned to the Heard circuit. He died on Sunday, October 30th. ----- LOCAL News Married by the Rev. Wm. Brooks at the residence of the bride's father, on the morning of the 6th inst., Mr. Oscar Bledsoe and Miss Mattie Baskin. All of Carroll county. ----- At the sale of the personal effects of the late Wilson Stallings on last Saturday, a pair of dog irons were sold which were said to be 102 years old. They had been in the family of Mr. Stallings 42 years. ----- WHITESBURG News Mr. R.G. Strickland, one of our clever young men, left Tuesday morning for Fort Smith, Arkansas to try his fortune. We wish him success and health. He said he intends as soon as he gets located to subscribe for the Times. It is a great pleasure for any man leaving his old home and friends to read weekly his home paper. ----- Jordan Holland, colored, died suddenly last Friday night. ---- Mrs. Asa Phillips and Mr. Aaron Bearden who lived toward Carrollton from this place, have died since last Friday. ----- STRIPLING'S CHAPEL News We mentioned in our last writing the illness of Mr. Jesse Murrah's father and mother. His mother we learn, is dead. ----- NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, NOVEMBER 18, 1881 NEIGHBORHOOD News Douglas county boasts of a citizen who claims to be the first man of Lee's Army to drive an ordinance wagon in the territory of the enemy during the late war. His name is Baliss Richardson. It was during the memorable Gettysburg campaign. ----- LOCAL News Mr. Sol Williams and family and his son-in-law, S.N. Sparks and family, left Thursday morning for Pike county, Arkansas. ---- We regret to learn that Mr. James R. Griffin, living four miles south of Carrollton on the Franklin road, is very low with the fever. ----- Mr. A.J. Cheeves formerly of this county, but now living over in Alabama not far from Bowdon, will have a sale of his perishable property on the 28th, preparatory to moving to Texas. ----- WHITESBURG News Mr. George P. Roberts expects to move to Dallas, Paulding county, Georgia. ----- A difficulty occurred at the factory Monday between Mr. Brewer and Mr. Gentry. We have not learned the cause of it, but it is said that Brewer drew a knife on Gentry, and Gentry struck Brewer over the head with a club axe. ----- BUFFALO News We have some sickness in our community. Uncle Johnnie Wyatt has been very low but is convalescing. ---- J.H. Dunson is having a severe attack of chills and fever. ---- Robert Nixon, son of A. Nixon, is suffering very much from a gash cut in his foot with an axe. ---- J.W. Bonner is talking of going to Arkansas in a week or two. HIs father B.W. Bonner is also going to move out there this Fall. ---- A great many of our citizens are going to move this winter. Tommie Williamson is going to north Georgia. S.L. Byrd is going to Alabama. G.P. North is moving to town, and George Brown is moving to Alabama. ----- KILLING NEAR VILLA RICA In Douglas county last week, two miles from Villa Rica, J.W. Gann was killed by W.J. Kilgore, deputy sheriff of Douglas county. Kilgore attempted to arrest Gann on a charge of assault with intent to murder, and Gann resisting, Kilgore shot him. The verdict of the coroner's inquest held over the dead body justified Kilgore in the shooting. ------ NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, NOVEMBER 25, 1881 REUNITED AFTER EIGHTEEN YEARS SEPARATION The Marietta Journal When Mr. Elijah Walraven enlisted in the Confederate Army in 1863, he left behind him a beautiful young wife and three children. When he returned home at the close of the war, his wife and three children were not to be found. He learned that she had been persuaded, when the federals occupied this country, that her safety was in going North. For years, no tidings came of her whereabouts and not knowing whether she was alive or dead, he instituted proceedings for divorce, which was granted. Mr. Walraven married a worthy lady in this county who bore him one child and she died. In the meantime, his first wife, learning of the divorce and marriage of her husband in Georgia, began to receive matrimonial proposals and married a northern man, who after a brief married life, died. Not desiring to live alone, she married the third husband, a Mr. Beckner. He sickened and died. One child, the result of this union, was left her. Her three grown children by her first husband grew up and married well off and they opened correspondence with their father. Last February their father paid them a visit to their home in Indiana. While there, he met the wife of his first love. The meeting was a joyous one and old times were talked over and mutual explanations made. The result was that they became re-engaged. Mr. Waldraven returned to his home in Kennesaw in this county and according to agreement, Mrs. Beckner arrived at Kennesaw last Thursday. There she was met by Mr. Walraven, who had the marriage license ready, and forthwith the happy couple were reunited after a separation of eighteen years. J.L. Hughes, J.P. performed the ceremony. Certainly truth is stranger than fiction, and the whirlwind of time brings around some strange events. It is the wish of Mr. Walraven's friends that his last marriage may be happier than his first and never again be broken. --------- NEIGHBORHOOD News Mr. J.M. Scott of West Point was found dead in his bed Thursday morning of last week. Strong drink, it is thought, was the cause of his sudden death. ---- William Hill, an old citizen of Heard county, died at his home at Liberty Hill on the 11th inst. ----- Mr. C.S. McElwreath of Douglas county died on Sunday, Nov. 13th. ----- IN MEMORIAM OF J.M. MITCHELL Died at his residence near Villa Rica, Georgia on the 24th instant of heart disease, Mr. J.M. Mitchell, in the 60th year of his age. He was a native of South Carolina. His parents moved to this county when he was quite a child, and settled near Villa Rica and he claimed Carroll county as his home ever since. Mr. Mitchell was a noble and warm hearted gentleman, a good citizen, a kind husband and true friend, beloved and esteemed by all who knew him. He passed away very calmly and serenely, without the apparent pangs of death, from this temporal, to that spiritual mode of existence just beyond the threshold of human life. To his bereaved wife and relatives we tender our sympathy and condolence. ----- LOCAL News Married, at the residence of the bride's father Mr. John Morgan, on the evening of the 16th inst. by the Rev. W.B. Costly, Miss A.A. Morgan to Mr. G.W. Fleming, all of Carroll County. ----- Mr. W.A. Eady, living in the eastern part of the county, had a yoke of oxen in town last Saturday, which on being weighed, tipped the beam at 2,380 pounds. ----- G.W. Carr, we learn, will run a blacksmith and wood shop in town and also a farm in the suburbs. ----- WHITESBURG News Mr. S. Bridges died near Rotherwood, at a good old age, last Tuesday. ----- STRIPLING'S CHAPEL News Mr. A.A. Tomlin and family left last week for Nevada county, Arkansas. ---- Married on the evening of the 10th inst., at the residence of the bride's father, by Rev. J.C. Burnam, Mr. General Driver to Miss Mary Nail. ----- It is again our sad and painful duty to chronicle the death of one of our best citizens, Mr. James R. Griffin, who took sick some two weeks ago and died last Saturday the 19th inst. at 2 o'clock p.m. He was a just, upright and honorable man, in all the relations he sustained in life. He had as the basis of his character the principle of Godliness. He was a devout christian and an acceptable member and deacon of the Missionary Baptist church. We all knew him and loved him, and feel deeply our loss, together with the bereaved family. The burial services were conducted by Rev. J.F. Sprewell on Sunday evening to a large audience at Oak Grove church. He leaves many friends and a large family to mourn his loss. May God bless the bereaved family. ------ File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/carroll/newspapers/newspape2130gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 9.8 Kb